and simon schuster, and nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is with me on set. talk to me where we are in this moment and why the speech could be critical. you ve been on the front lines for months. ukraine is trying to do everything it can to stay relevant, to keep the attention on ukraine. ukrainian money, and weapons and wants sanctions to be maintained on russia. i think many are watching. some nations seem to be wavering, maybe it s time to strike a deal. maybe it s time to bring putin back in the fold. perhaps ukraine should give away some of its provinces in exchange for peace. and ukrainian officials are trying to counter that narrative, saying we can t stop. putin is not going to stop even if we cut off part of our country and give it away to him. this leads to greater appetites of dictators. there s a tremendous desire from president zelenskyy personally to make sure the world continues to focus on ukraine and stay with ukraine. do you get a sense
August. that s according to a new court filing. it comes as georgia prosecutors unveiled that 11 republicans are targets in their criminal investigation. joining us now is blayne alexander in atlanta. also with us is barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney in michigan and nbc legal analyst. walk us through the giuliani development. this is a court filing that just came out in the last hour or so. in the filing that was hosted by the fulton county district attorney, she says a judge has ordered rudy giuliani to come down to fulton county, atlanta, georgia, and testify before a special grand jury. and we have a date. it s going to take place on august 9th. we understand that giuliani was ordered by a new york judge to appear in a separate hearing to show kaz why he shouldn t have to satisfy the subpoena. why he shouldn t have to testify. according to the judge, giuliani did not show up for the hearing. that prompted the judge to issue
Last couple of days? it is a lot. a whole bunch of things have happened. i think the giuliani development is particularly notable. he obviously knows a lot of information that the committee does not have access to. he was a key member of trump s efforts to lobby state level officials to try to reverse the outcome. anyone in the trump legal team or in the broader orbit of the team, potentially has invalid testimony for the panel. a pressing question is, can the panel in giuliani reach accommodation in the next week or two or do investigators say, too bad, you dragged it out for too long we will hold you in contempt. if they take this step, which they clearly say they are willing to take, it will compound a host of legal problems that giuliani already faces. he is facing tons of lawsuits in relation to the lies that he spread about the outcome.