Antony blinken is meeting this morning with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. Blinken arrived in kyiv early tuesday, local time, on an unannounced Diplomatic Mission to reassure ukraine it has american support as it fights back increasingly intense russian attacks. His visit comes less than a month after Congress Approved a long delayed foreign assistance package that sets aside 60 billion in aid for ukraine. During this mornings meeting, blinken told zelensky the new Weapons Package is already arriving and more is coming, stressing, quote, thats going to make a difference. Zelensky, in turn, thanked the u. S. For the latest Weapons Package. Fierce battles are taking place near the border in eastern and northeastern ukraine, with outgunned and outnumbered ukrainian soldiers trying to push back the significant Russian Ground offensive. Speaking sunday, blinken said, quote, if putin thinks he can outlast ukraine, outlast its supporters, he is wrong again. Us Secretary Of State Anton
To join us with reaction to Michael Cohens testimony but, first, jug head is in a jam. Thats to the focus of tonights angle. Laura The Big Moment In Court today was supposed to be the playing of a taped conversation that Michael Cohen recorded between trump and himself back in 2016, yeah. 8 years ago where they could be heard talking about how they would buy the rights to karen macdougalls story. And on the tape cohen can be heard explaining to the then president ial candidate his plans to form an llc through which he would finance the purchase of the rights to that womans story. We know what happened, okay, get rid of this. Its so false what they are saying, such bull [bleep] laura its all bull today as well. None of the hype amounted to anything. None of it proved anything. Lets break it down for you. Remember, in this case the state has to prove that the trump organizations internal bookkeeping records were not only falsified, okay, but they also were falsified to the extent that tr
the midterms, dried the election narrative into 2020 and it s the same kind of folks that were behind the women s march, correct? yes, some of them are absolutely involved in organizing this. in the group itself, that group is not just spending the money they were raised on this particular march. they ve also said they re going to spend a going forward on other lobbying. laura: very interesting. we should be all excited because george clooney and his wife and his two children are coming because he wrote a check there if they just sold company i think he may personally 500 know enough of that, not a bad payday so he wrote a $500,000 check, chump change, for this group. he s going to be there, so they will have a celebrity push much like the women s march. this is all part of an organizational effort to drive the political narrative, correct? that s absolutely right. it s not just george clooney either. it s also oprah winfrey donating half a million dollars, there
the midterms, dried the election narrative into 2020 and it s the same kind of folks that were behind the women s march, correct? yes, some of them are absolutely involved in organizing this. in the group itself, that group is not just spending the money they were raised on this particular march. they ve also said they re going to spend a going forward on other lobbying. laura: very interesting. we should be all excited because george clooney and his wife and his two children are coming because he wrote a check there if they just sold company i think he may personally 500 know enough of that, not a bad payday so he wrote a $500,000 check, chump change, for this group. he s going to be there, so they will have a celebrity push much like the women s march. this is all part of an organizational effort to drive the political narrative, correct? that s absolutely right. it s not just george clooney either. it s also oprah winfrey donating half a million dollars, there certainly a lo
the rollout and that debacle of the system now working? richard, i think it is a good start for the obamacare. whether it turns around perceptions, i m not sure yet. there s a long way go. we don t know the final numbers, obviously. today is the deadline. those are on the cue after the administration said they ll let them keep going. we ll see how many young people are signed up. there s a number of big questions coming. and how the program actually works as people visit their doctors and have the health insurance. i think it is something the administration is trying to ride the new momentum. trying to make sure that people have a more positive feeling about it. i think better than the alternative which is what you saw in the fall. if you saw leading up to this the president and others in the cab innocent were focussed on this in a way they be more or less. evidently the celebrity push they had put out there seems to be working at least in term of getting the excitement and as it t