let s get right to it. at this hour, adding to the horrific humanitarian crisis in ukraine, filthy water putting people at risk. plus, in just under 60 minutes, john durham set to testify in front of the house intelligence committee. expect a lot of questions about his scathing report on the fbi and doj s handling of the trump russia probe. the judge sets a date for former president s trial in his classified documents case. and the breaking news that charges filed against the president s son, hunter biden, mean he ll plead guilty to federal tax charges as part of a plea deal with prosecutors. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with that plea deal for hunter biden. ken dilanian joins us now. my understanding, ken, is the judge still needs to approve this so what happens next and what more can you tell us about the terms of this deal? that s right. we expect hunter biden to appear in the coming days at this courthouse behind me
out the second largest failed bank in u.s. history we re going to have the latest on this developing financial crisis. tell you what, it was a crazy weekend. yesterday, the white house working along with people across the financial industry, doing everything they could to stop a meltdown. yeah. and it looked in the early afternoon like that meltdown was coming they understood that china s markets were going to be opening at 8:00, 9:00 at night, and they had to get things lined up before then so the asian markets didn t collapse, which would cause u.s. markets to collapse this morning it was touch and go, as you know. yeah. because we were on a lot of calls yesterday afternoon. it was touch and go for quite some time. it looks like, for now, they ve stemmed the bleeding but this, for a while, was looking like it could spread much like 2008. absolutely. meanwhile, mike pence finds the courage to speak out on donald trump, but only behind closed doors and off camer
Support for territories throughout the region, addressed it through sanctions, Military Force posture, do what we have to do to protect ourselves our troops. Nobody is turning away from that threat or their historic and sustained support for these territory groups. John, just a followup to what peter asked, two questions, i assume when the president said aid is not getting fast enough to gaza that hes not critiquing our efforts to get it there. And without Hanging A Hook On who is responsible, is he saying that more can be done from our end . Is there more that can be done to get the aid to them . I think he was referring to actors in the region. And then the second question, for many years you are going to meet with the Australian Government and they have supported the release of Julian Assange. We have not done so saying there were National Security reasons. For the reasons that he has been charged are basically the same efforts that many reporters use, so is there any Change Of Hear
i would distinguish between two things. first, cuba has been and will probably be in an expanded sense intelligence gathering base for china. as you said, been known for three or four years. it s not something we welcome but it s not a radically new development. what would be different and destabilizing is a chinese military presence in cuba. what this training facility would be hard to say if it s simply a training cubans as opposed to stationing chinese military personnel. it would be less concerning. but the pure intelligent spying as pegt of this cuban operation is not new and i think is not a front burner issue.
talking. the united states is still, by far, the more powerful of these two countries, has hundreds of military bases all over the world. china has got one with 2,000 chinese military personnel there. the last time china invaded a country was 1979 in vietnam, and it got a bloody nose it withdrew. we need to keep things in perspective here my concern is not so much with the biden administration but with the rhetoric in his town. it s becoming warlike. it is bipartisan there is no peace faction in washington as you used to have with the business lobby the expectation of war can sometimes create its own reality. this is not a situation where america should be feeling weak when you feel strong, when you feel a sense of resolve, then