Thanks you for joining us this hour. Theres a lot going on. Fiona hill is going to be joining us live tonight. Fiona hill, of course, with senior director for russia and europe at the National Security council during the trump presidency, which means she had a somewhat terrifying Front Row Seat to some of the weirdest things and the u. S. President has ever tried to get away with. Fiona hill is here tonight, as there have been dramatic developments today about the informant who provided the central allegations at the heart of Congressional Republicans efforts to impeach President Biden this year. This informant today was sent to jail indefinitely by a federal judge in california. He is in jail awaiting trial. Prosecutors arrested and indicted him a week and a half ago, alleging that his statements to Law Enforcement about President Biden and his family not only were lies, but this man had been fed lies and disinformation about President Biden by Russian Intelligence. Despite those ties
former president s reaction and what it means for his campaign good day i m andrea mitchell in washington with what we are learning about the historic indictment of a former president and frontrunner for the 2024 presidential nomination. the indictment is currently under seal a source with direct knowledge of the court proceedings says prosecutors are not expected to ask a judge to unseal it today two sources familiar with the matter say the indictment has approximately 30 counts of charges related to document fraud. one of trump s lawyers told savannah guthrie that the former president is expecting to travel to new york tuesday to surrender to authorities and be arraigned. do you expect the president to voluntarily surrender will he come for his arraignment? we are working out those logistics right now. absolutely he is not going to stay in mar-a-lago we will face it. we will be successful, i m sure. he is currently expected to appear before a judge sometime tuesday
today s show i thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, mike pence creating new legal problems for donald trump just days after the former president s arrest and arraignment in new york. pence now reversing course and deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order to testify in the special counsel s appropriate into the january 6 insurrection. my interview with kevin mccarthy at the reagan library getting his reaction to the trump indict mement in indictmet do you worry he could lose the general election because of this and the other investigations that are potentially more serious? if someone wants to play with indictments, it helps him to campaign better. i look at his numbers. i m not sure if the democrats think this is helping in a manner what i know, it hurts the nation what he says about china as china reacts today his decision to forge a bipartisan approach to the relati
just maybe things in this country would snap back into something resembling a pre-trump normal. dangerous elements of the far right would crawl back into their dark caves and corners that want harm done to the foundations of our most prized institutions, relentlessly maligned for years under donald trump would repair themselves. maybe even overnight. simply because trump is no longer the person sitting behind the resolute desk. sadly it appears that any of those hopes were in vain. more proof this afternoon that the destruction he left in his unhinged wake, the moral wrought he spread quietly continues to spread to this day inside some of our most important and revered institutions. considering chilling new reporting in today s the new york times, cataloging attacks on the fbi. the piece centers in part on a somewhat dishonest effort by a group of former agents calling themselves the suspendables. they wrote a letter earlier this month of accusing the fbi from discriminatin
t minus 15. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ignition. full power. and liftoff. go crew 5. stage one alpha. copy, one alpha. equal is pitching down range. stage one propulsion is nominal. nominal power and telemetry. stage one throttle down. stage one throttle up. stage one bravo. copy, one bravo. you have seen the space launch. tom costello is is standing by. it looked like it was picture perfect. spacex is pulling it off. this is crew 5 on board. four astronauts, including one russian cosmonaut on their way to the international space station. this is the sixth spacex flight. as we look at all things are perfect. the crew members here are the commander [ no audio ] the first female native american ever to go into space. we have got anna, the first russian to go on an american spacecraft in 20 years and russia s only female cosmonaut. we have the pilot and a japanese astronaut on his way to the station. this is going to be a five-month mission. they are go