Putin threatens war. As starmer meets biden to discuss ukraine, what would 3 harris or Trump Victory mean for the west . And its succession for real as the Murdochs Head to court over what happens after Rupert Murdochs death. Hello and welcome to newsnight, the place to be this Friday Night for insight and illuminating interviews on a day when tensions between russia and the west appear to be escalating. As we speak, sir keir starmer s meeting with President Biden to discuss the next steps in the war in ukraine. So, what does the future looks like, for ukraine and the west, after the us election in november . On our transatlantic panel tonight, were joined by the Journalist Michael Wolff whose Book Fire and fury inside the trump White House is seen by many as the definitive work on the former president. Alison phillips, who was the Mirrors Editor in chief until earlier this year is here. And also with us, john ryley, editor of Sky News for 17 years. Welcome to you all and john, in term
If you go after me, im coming for you. Those are the words donald trump posted in all caps on truth social yesterday, just one day after his latest arraignment for election interference. Saturday, august 5th, im ali velshi. We begin today with the very latest its criminal indictment of donald trump. In a court firing late last night, we have proof that the Justice Department is taking this language from defendant trump very seriously. The special counsels team cited trumps truth social post in request for the judge to impose a protective order to prevent the former Vice President from making public any Sensitive Information turned over by the prosecutors. Quote, such a restriction is particularly important in this case, because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys, and others associated with legal matters pending against him. In response, trump spokesperson put out a statement claiming that the post is quote, the d
unprecedented. i believe it s also unconstitutional well, this is all unprecedented. meanwhile, fresh off his arraignment in new york, the former president is doing th one thing we have seen him d consistently, attack, attack attack today he called on republica lawmakers to defund the doj an fbi, until they, quote, come t their senses trump s legal team is no staying silent either. here is his defense attorney earlier today. after seeing that indictment, and knowing what the law i regarding federal election campaigns, i don t think we re getting close to a - on this case it s going to fall on it merits, on legal challenge well before we get to jury trump s allies in the house are also keeping the pressur on manhattan da alvin bragg. after we ve seen all that yesterday, i think people thin it s even more politically tha we thought this case never should hav been brought, and what shoul happen, now it get dismissed we re not going to stop o this nothing changed. we
for a democratic president. oh, i see. i know what you mean. and we ll have the latest developments from eastern europe as allies are at odds in sending tanks to ukraine. germany was going to block the tanks, now they re talking about letting poland send tanks. it looks like the tanks are going to be going to ukraine. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it s monday, january 23rd. with us the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. mike is here for the morning, that s if he doesn t, you know. the irish good-bye with the jacket on the back of the chair. we ll see you in a few minutes. we re going to get to all of these stories. we have an awful lot to talk about. ambassador bill taylor is going to be talking about ukraine. let s talk first, though, about nfl playoffs. first, jonathan lemire, i ll go to you. there are two quarterbacks that did very well. patrick mahomes gutted it
mccarthy is scrambling to gain the votes he needs to be speaker even after making major concessions this weekend, it still might not be enough. the suspect in the machete attack on three police officers in times square,vestigators dis handwritten diary. what it says. plus this. eight and a half years for the organizer to kidnap and kill me, that s a significant sense. we have gretchen whitmer s reaction to the sentences handed to the man who plotted to kidnap her. hear what she told our own kaitlan collins. let s begin in washington. house republican leader kevin mccarthy will be taking the race for speaker to the floor officially tomorrow in what could be the most dramatic house speaker election. he s made a number of concessions so try to get the number of votes to succeed nancy pelosi. will we see the first floor fight as it s called in 100 years. let s turn to harry inton. what do you think? let s talk math. right now the gop s 2023 majority is 222, seats majori