president was in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin defending the russian leader. we ll take you there live. also, right now, wild weather coast to coast from tornados in chicago to flooding in the northeast, and more than 100 million americans under the thumb of a historic heat wave. we have your forecast. plus, setting the stage for another hollywood strike, first writers, now actors, what it could mean for all your entertainment. good morning, it s 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin in helsinki where we are just minutes away from a joint press conference with president biden and the president of finland, nato s newest member. let s go there now with nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba. walk us through the presidents day there in finland so far. reporter: well, ana, this is really a historic cap to a week of critical meetings for president biden overseas, and he s here in finland m
let s start with this video which shows the incident. you can see the plane here circled. it disappears out of view for a few seconds and then you can see the impact. now, we have verified this. everything in the video is consistent with what we know about the area and the weather this morning in the belgorod region. that was the moment the plane going down about 20 seconds into the video. we see this this smoke plume. could this be a sign that the plane was hit by a missile? well, experts we ve spoken to think, yes, it could be. the open source defence intelligence company believes that this smoke cloud may hint at the use of surface to air missiles. they also told us it could be a warhead detonating near the plane. another expert, mark hansen from the centre for strategic and international studies, has said that this is consistent with an aircraft being shot down. this smoke plume, he says, is consistent with an explosion. so there s that. the governor of belgorod said that
it s monday 12th june. mps who have been investigating whether borisjohnson misled parliament about covid lockdown parties are meeting today to conclude their inquiry. mrjohnson has already seen a copy of their report and he resigned as an mp on friday describing the common s privileges committee as a kangaroo court. our political correspondent damian grammaticas reports. this is what the privileges committee has been looking into. borisjohnson attending pandemic parties. at one he broke the law and was fined. did he lie to parliament? will the prime minister tell the house whether there was a party in downing street on the 13th of november? prime minister. mr speaker, no, but i m sure that whatever happened, the guidance was followed and the rules were followed at all times. for almost exactly a year, the seven mps on the privileges committee, a majority of whom are conservatives, have been investigating his conduct. last week, they sent him notice of the findings. certain t
lawrence: third hour of fox and friends starts brian: i think now. lawrence: let s do it. all i want for christmas is a good tan take me to the ilands and put my feet in the sand. sing silent night with the palm trees blowing. don t you think it s a pretty good plan. all i want for christmas is a real good tan. carley: how about that for a country song, i love that. you are looking at our all-american christmas tree and santa flying around new york city. before that, did you see lake worth, florida, so beautiful, sun peeking through the crowd. it looks religious and spiritual it was so gorgeous. folks in that area, you are going to get a suntan for christmas. lawrence: i can t get enough of that fire, around the fire with family. carley: a lot of people will celebrate like that. brian doesn t seem impressed by it. brian: i like the fire, i love the song until i am here for a tan. great message about mentoring, hey, christmas time, get a tan. lawr
jenkins in washington on the search for common ground. peter doocy on a pitch to force a deal and a patriotic millionaire, what they re pitching to get a deal. how we make ends meet. because we re far from doing that, aren t we? let s get the very latest from griff jenkins in washington with more on this spending show down. griff? happy tax day, neil. it appears a dangerous game of chicken is being played with the world s largest economy. speaker mccarthy has outlined a proposal to raise the debt limit for one year in exchange for caps on future spending, clawing back unused covid funds. the devil is in the details. the legislation is still being crafted as note all of mccarthy s members of his own party are on board yet. watch. i think we ve got a lot of specifics to work out. but directionally, we re getting closer as a team to a proposal to the senate. i m encouraged by the discussions we ve had today. ultimately it s about the math. mccarthy has 222 republicans and