we hope you are doing well. from all of our colleagues across the network of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, icu at the end of tomorrow. of today, i saw down with former secretary of state presidential candidate hillary clinton and we covered a lot of ground. we talked about conflicts overseas in the middle east and in ukraine. we talked about donald trump s legal jeopardy and the utter chaos and the republican party. chaos that, by the way, it s in full display tonight. with the senate now scrambling to find a path forward after republicans killed their own bipartisan border legislation in order to appease donald trump. for weeks, republicans have insisted that they would not pass aid for israel in taiwan, as well as urgently needed funding for ukraine unless democrats agreed to have new border policies. just to put this all into perspective for, ukraine is facing some of its biggest challenges since this war began. russia has ramped up missile strikes across the co
good evening, my friend. we have a big news making interview tonight. we will get right into it. today, i saw down with former secretary of state presidential candidate hillary clinton and we covered a lot of ground. we talked about conflicts overseas in the middle east and in ukraine. we talked about donald trump s legal jeopardy and the utter chaos and the republican party. chaos that, by the way, it s in full display tonight. with the senate now scrambling to find a path forward after republicans killed their own bipartisan border legislation in order to appease donald trump. for weeks, republicans have insisted that they would not pass aid for israel in taiwan, as well as urgently needed funding for ukraine unless democrats agreed to have new border policies. just to put this all into perspective for, ukraine is facing some of its biggest challenges since this war began. russia has ramped up missile strikes across the country, as ukraine has been forced to ration muniti
fatigue and morale issues, and in thele meantime republicans a playing politics. they are playing politicwise the vital resources ukraine needs to defend its democracy from invaders. the democrats agreed to work with republicans and to craft a bipartisan bill to increase border security measures in exchange for that aid. but then donald trump came out against the deal. he did not want to hand president biden a victory on trump s favorite campaign issue, which is drumming up fear about what s happening eaautothe bord. and so today republicans voted to kill their own bill in the senate. the finaln vote was 49-50 with all but four republicans voting against r it. after that stunning defeat democrat chuck schumer put a second bill on the floor. it strips out the border stuff and juste funds aid to israel d taiwan and ukraine, which is what the democrats wanted in the first place. 58 voted to advance that bill. that is just shy until the 60 they need for final passage. now the sen
jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we re going not going to the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november s election. in which if he s the nominee the next court could ask to put the case on pause until the next presidential contest is decide. and should trump win that election the case will go away entirely which is to be clear and we all understand including the people on the supreme court exactly what he wants. although i have to say it is stel unknown if trump will be allowed to meaningfully delay thi
opportunities to advance a political agenda, a radical political agenda he said that here in manhattan the scales of justice are being weighed down by politics, and they are but only today an america being rich, being powerful, even being president of the united states does not intitle you to violate the law with impunity. the republican-led house judiciary committee travels to new york city for partisan political theater. we ll is much more about this grievance-filled hearing in just a moment house speaker kevin mccarthy was also in new york talking about a plan to raise the debt ceiling but his proposal was messing several key details. and we have the latest from eastern europe following a rare trip out of russia by president vladimir putin good morning, and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, april 18th i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. following a two-week recess congress was back in session yesterday. but instead of legislating