donald trump in a defamation lawsuit. we ll explain why the doj is backing off its previous position. plus two months worth of rain in two days. vermont is just starting the recovery process from that disaster. we ll get an update from one of the state s top lawmakers. all right, good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 12th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we begin with the major developments out of the nato summit in lithuania. the alliance says it will invite ukraine to join but only when allies agree and conditions are met. the group did not give a time line or details on what those conditions might be. vague wording is in line with what president joe biden said last week, calling a pathway to membership for ukraine, quote, premature while it is at war with russia. as the new york times points out, it appears the president and like minded allies have prevailed over poland in baltic nations that wanted a formal invitation for ukraine t
we know that s one of the reasons why he s on the supreme court. i think this is tantamount to sticking a dagger in our back. we will gun to see a kind of segregated higher education landscape. we re going to see that become wider and wider. what s next, gay marriagesome. is this leading to no women in colleges soon? who knows? [laughter] no women in colleges. we can dream. i joke. [laughter] and biden wasn t done sobbing, running over to the safe pace of msnbc. i find it just so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people. do you to worry that that without court reform this conservative majority is too young and too conservative, that they might do too much harm? i think they may do too much harm. i think that some of the court are beginning to the realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways that it hasn t been questioned e in the past. he ended that interview the only way he knows how, but with by awkwardly shuffling off th
there will likely now be multiple investigations. paula newton is joining us live from halifax. and what will investigators focus on now? reporter: they will focus on whether or not this was a catastrophic event that entailed just one thing going wrong or if this was multiple things given the strain on that vehicle. remember, we had heard that there were quite a few successful expeditions to the titanic wreck, was there stress put on the titan which then because it was largely unregulated wasn t tested going through the motions. you ve had so many people weigh in on this and one is james cameron who he himself has been to the wreck of the titanic and other deep sea explorations. listen to him now. i think there is almost a surreal irony. the titanic sank because the captain took it into an ice field on a moonless night with poor visibility after he had been repeatedly warned by telegram, by are a during t b are a during the day that that is what was ahead. and so a p
wild video out of los angeles, chairs deputy opens fire after driver repeatedly rams into his patrol car. welcome to albion brand-new hou of america s new room. i am. a deputy attempts to start traffic stop at. video shows the suspect intentionally colliding with th sheriffs car pushing it onto th sidewalk for the white suv back up and plows into the driver side the patrol car several times where the deputy fired more than a dozen shots at the suspect who is describing the violent scene during a press conference yesterday. the suspect vehicle which wa a white trailblazer at the intersection at a high rate of speed at which time he began doing donuts in the intersection . the suspect vehicle collided into our patrol vehicle with th deputies still inside. this all unfolded around 4:3. the officer approaching what seemed like every teen situatio that very quickly took a different turn. look at this, the driver of the suv had been driving at high speeds and performing don
prigozhin came to an end as suddenly as it started. so that is video of prigozhin s wagner mercenaries shooting in the air as they pulled out of the city of rostov-on-don saturday. earlier the kremlin said it cut a deal with prigozhin to stop the march of his forces to moscow. but not before an apparent clash between wagner and russian troops which was followed by a fire at this oil refinery, now extinguished. under the deal, the kremlin says wagner troops will not face legal action but they ll sign new contracts with russia s defense ministry. moscow will drop its charges against prigozhin, who will go to belarus. wagner s leader said he agreed to that in order to avoid bloodshed. here he is. translator: therefore, realizing all the responsibility for the fact that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our columns around and leave in the opposite direction to the field camps, according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where prigozhin is r