figure volunteers for a committee interview. plus, senator chris murphy on where america stands as a russian threat to ukraine continues and how donald trump s chosen governor virginia is already doing his best to make his boss proud. glenn gets in there, virginia to lower taxes to all the things that we want a governor to do. all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes the anti-vaccine movement has been coming out in washington, d.c., this weekend as almost 2000 americans are still dying every single day from covid. and all data we have access to says the vast overwhelming of geordie of them are unvaccinated several. thousand people showed up to the march from the washington monument, the lincoln memorial, with a call to defeat the mandates and america homecoming. the parallel conspiracy theory that crosses ideological lines with both the right and the last. speakers of the rallies range from two of course members of america s most famous dem
appears to have bogged down into a protracted conflict. fighting intensified in the country s east. russian missile strikes and shells continuing to fall on ukrainian cities including the capital of kyiv. where the first u.s. congressional delegation to visit ukraine, met secretly with president zelenskyy in kyiv. this weekend. the group s leader our speaker nancy pelosi, with strong words for russia and its president putin. do not be bullied by bullies. if they are making threats, you can not back down. that is my view of it. we are there for the fight. and we cannot fold to a bully. the democrats will comes as congress considers president biden s request for 33 billion dollars in aid to ukraine. and russia suggests that shipments of western weapons streaming into ukraine are fair game for its military. the latest on russia s more that s coming up. and later, the emotional true story of our nation s first black secret service agent pardoned last week by president biden
mariupol. trey yingst is in kyiv tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. there are new concerns tonight about the fate of ukrainian soldiers and civilians in the port city of mariupol as people across this country try to get out of harm s way. thousands of ukrainians flee their country each day as the russian invasion continues. many will now be offered refuge by the united states. we have already welcomed tens of thousands of ukrainians to the united states. and today i m announcing a program unite for ukraine. a new program to enable ukrainians seeking refuge to come directly from europe to the united states. president biden announcing a program that will fast track ukrainian asylum claims for those who have a u.s. sponsor. already, more than 10% of the ukrainian population has fled the country according to the united nations. with increased fighting along the eastern front, that number is expected to rise significantly in the coming wee
politicsnation. tonight s lead, no defense. the bill that funds out military heads to the senate, under a cloud of controversy. after some house republicans used the normally bipartisan legislation, to advance their culture war agenda. abortion restrictions for service members were stripped away, as we re efforts to diversify and grow our military, at a time it s leaders say they desperately need recruits. the bill ultimately passed yesterday, an hour ago, but, not after several republicans made defendant or backtracked on comments that brought race into the defense conversation. one gop congressman kept office healths for speech thursday, using a term, that never that always evokes jim crow. i ll ask a black member of the house armed services committee, who was there on the floor, for his reaction in just a minute. meanwhile, a true national road global security threat is being ignored by the right. extreme temperatures, and weather on the rise, due to climate change, with c
alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden