Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Robert mueller is not. See you in a bit. Here onset for another day, dan goldman, an msnbc legal analyst along with our pal nbc News Reporter carol lee. It is less hot than it has been all week. You picked a good day to be here. Dan, let me start with you, if you look at what each side wants, they are both looking for leverage. And the sticking point, one of them seems to be this idea much an in person interview. What is the framing behind that . The trump team wants questions on collusion only and special counsel wants to hear about it all. I think Rudy Giuliani is trying to figure out a way to drum up some leverage because ordinarily the witness of the defendant or target or subject does not have the leverage, the prosecutor does. And but because bob mueller is not talking and Rudy Giuliani is, hes able he has the whole Public Domain to make all of his arguments, even though as
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Three-goal deficit for a 7-6 overtime win against the caps. time for the weather, and let s go to meteorologist michelle grossman with the forecast. she s standing at the big board at 30 rock, how is it going? it s looking a little unsettled in spots. especially in the west, we re looking at that area of low pressure moving very slowly. it s bringing more rain, the potential for more flooding and snow in the higher elevation. that s going to push into the great basin and portions of the rockies. gusty winds could add to power outages. further to the east and northern plains, and parts of the upper midwest, we re looking at another system. we could see a foot of snow in spots and further to the east, ohio valley, parts of the carolinas, we ll see rain as we go throughout today. today looks like a flood risk throughout the southwest into the west. march warm up today. we re looking at temperatures well above normal. pm storms in portions of the upper midwest, the ohio valley and portio
Easter. a priest walked the line of orthodox christians sprinkling holy water on them and offering easter baskets to some of the children. the contrast with vladimir putin who marked the day by attending a service at christ the savior cathedral in moscow. and a message from inside of the theater in kyiv, a message directed at putin and the russian people. in it he said, quote, russia was offered an easter cease-fire but the orthodox world has seen that easter means nothing to the russian invaders. for them, it is just a red date on the calendar which requires special words and special behavior. but not what is called faith. and not what is called christian kindness. let s go to the national security analysis clint watts at the big board at 30 rock. clint, thank you so much for
China around covid, there are worries there will be more restrictions there. that is going to tamp down demand and create more supply chain problems an the like. so that is a little bit of what is creating this moment that we re in. again, it is a short-term moment. but long-term i think the betting line is things will get harder, not easier, at least in the short-term. and regarding twitter, it looked like at the end of the day, elon musk gave the twitter board an offer they may just not be able to refuse. tell us about it. it is a fascinating turn in the soap opera. i think a lot of people were counting him out. i had great skepticism that he would want to put up his own money or get the financing. he appears to have the financing. board was skeptical of the transaction but i think we re at poib where there was no white knight, they looked and there were a lot of calls made to others to come in and nobody wants to buy it at this price of $54.20. they started talking this
For him. let s talk about that with nbc news national security analyst clint watts. he s at the big board at 30 rock. so, clint, the sergeant put it very well by abandoning the attack, by still having all these soldiers chained down in mariupol, putin has lost time, he s lost momentum, and he s lost troops. he just doesn t want to lose more troops. so these troops remain locked down in mariupol. while we have the campaign going on in the donbas. give us an update on both of those regions. yeah, joe, just to give you some perspective on how dire the situation is, if you look at mariupol, this city is completely surrounded. this is russia out here, close to the border. the sea of azov totally controlled by the russians at this point. they also have a bridge that goes over this is muth into crimea. it s a very possible situation at least for the ukrainians to