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live inside ukraine after new that a russian invasion could be imminent. and we ll also go inside the biden administration s new plan to provide free covid tests and n95 masks to millions of americans. but we start this morning with that breaking news out of new york where new court filings show the state attorney general letitia james turning up the ahead on former president trump, and his daughter ivanka. james says her office has uncovered a lot, quote, significant evidence, unquote, that trump and the trump organization repeatedly misled the value of his assets to obtain economic benefits and tax deductions. in some cases, misstating values by hundreds of millions of dollars, but the office has not reached a final decision on whether the evidence merits legal action. joining me now nbc s ken dilanian, and former federal prosecutor and legal affairs columnist for politico. good morning, gentlemen. boil this all down for us, ken. what does this motion tell us ab ....
this breaking news, pete, but we re topping out the hour and i want to go back and lay out the the bare facts here. the arrest of the head of the oath keepers and a number of other rioters with seditious conspiracy, this suggests the doj is closing in on some of the people who they say were in fact organizing what happened on january ofth and leads us to suggest it was supposed to go even farther than it did. right, that s the key question after reading this indictment. it s one that we may have to wait for these trials to get an answer to, which is, was there a well-developed plan before these people came to washington to actually enter the capitol and try to stop the vote by intimidating members of congress right in the capitol while they were working. but the big news, as you say, stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, has been charged with seditious conspiracy. the interesting thing about that is that there were 19 other members of the accused members o ....
sweeping change on election rules. not all voting rights advocates welcome the presidential visit. some dismissing it as a photo op. they say they want action, not speeches. we have one here live in a second. it s all happening as on capitol hill we have just heard from senate majority leader chuck schumer who said he s ready to take action as soon as tomorrow to change that senate rule that requires 60 votes to move legislation forward. i m hallie jackson in washington along with our nbc news team. we have a busy one for you this afternoon. mike memoli is posted up in atlanta with the president. sahil kapur is on capitol hill, and we re joined by tia mitchell for the atlanta journal constitution. mike, let me start with you. a lot of optics here. president biden had a full day, a full afternoon meeting with the king family, visiting, as we expect, ebenezer church. to satisfy voting rights advocates, this has to be more about more than optics. that s the message his ....
we re going to get an update as the markets close out a roller coaster week. i m hallie jackson in washington on this friday afternoon with our nbc news team, carole lee covering the white house, matt bradley in ukraine, courtney at the pentagon, also joined by jason beardsley, national executive director of the advocacy group the association of the u.s. navy. carole, start with you, with the first lady s first day in east europe, it s a busy and significant stretch for her overseas now. it is. the first of a four-day trip and she started in romania where she visited with u.s. troops serving them dinner and bringing them ketchup, learning there was a ketchup shortage there and so she brought gallons of ketchup to them, apparently very well received, and she also read to some children of service members there. there was a moment where she was reading with a service member and her son. i think we have that if we can take a listen. the end. and nathan, thank you for yo ....
of the house foreign affairs committee talks about his recent meeting with president zelenskyy. overnight, comedian dave chappelle was attacked on stage while performing at a comedy festival in los angeles. we ll bring you the very latest. and we begin this morning with a continuing firestorm over the unprecedented leak of a draft opinion in which a majority of justices on the u.s. supreme court appear ready to overturn the right to an abortion, granted by the roe v. wade decision, nearly 50 years ago. a handful of protesters are still in front of the u.s. supreme court this morning. as they have been since politico first published the draft opinion roughly 36 hours ago. protests were also held last night until cities across the country from new york to chicago to phoenix. the supreme court has confirmed the document published by politico is authentic. but it stressed, this is not the final decision which will likely be issued in late june or early july. chief justi ....