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of personnel news dimension right off the top, it s good news. ownership say congratulations to alex wagner. who is going to take over the slot that is now msnbc prime. this is just announced today by msnbc. it is great news. in terms of me, nothing about what i m doing is changing. i am gonna be doing monday nights, from here on out, plus, i will be here for big news events, like i have been, things like a genuine 60 rings, and the big supreme court decision on friday on roe v. wade. nothing that i am doing is changing at all, but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting mid august, it s gonna be alex wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday, at 9:00 eastern. so, congratulations to alex. everybody here thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things that have been stuck with me on in recent weeks and months, that won t change. but alex is taking over that msnbc prime spot. great news. great ....
i m going to be doing monday nights from here on out. plus i ll be here for big news events like i have been. things like the january 6th hearings. the big supreme court decision by down roe v. wade. nothing that i m doing is changing at all. but it is great news that starting late this summer, starting may august, 20 alice wagner in the chair here tuesday through friday night at 9:00 eastern. so congratulations to alex, everybody thinks this is great news, myself included. again, you re still stuck with me for all the same things you ve been stuck with me on. in recent weeks and months. that will change. but alex will be taking over that prime spot is great news. it s great that the certainty, great to know that it s her, just want to mention that right off the bat. but hey, speaking of the january 6th hearings. i need to tell you i was wrong. we were all wrong. or at least things change to make a strong after the fact. you will remember that we have the two blockbuste ....
appearance. the sudden scheduling of the hearing suggests she will tell more than during her previous four taped depositions, clips of which were played last week, including the revelation that after the riot, a number of republican congress members had sought pardons from the white house. s had sought pardons from the white house. her boss, mark meadows, appears to be a central figure for the committee s investigation. first turning over his text messages, including the ones he received during the january 6 insurrection from top republican lawmakers, media figures and trump family members, like donald trump junior, marjorie taylor greene and a text chain between top trump white house officials including jared kushner. earlier this month, the department of justice declined to charge meadows on a context referral from the full house. it was made in december on the grounds that meadows abruptly changed course and refused to cooperate with the committee. andrea, this is ....
6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. w ....
number one finland borders with russia. then you have sweden, follow the waterways, a key access to the baltic sea. this is what vladimir putin did not want. he thought four years ago it would split nato. some might object. others might say we don t want to spend the time, the resources on this. this is a diplomatic victory for president biden, it is a snub at vladimir putin. putin didn t want nato expanded along russian borders. that is exactly what they re getting with this movement for finland and sweden. as you know it has an 800-mile border joining nato. it can t be overstated how significant that is when you look at what putin was trying to accomplish and what, in fact, he was getting right now. it is also significant as caitlin was noting that the biden administration, european officials didn t necessarily expect this was going to happen today. so the fact that they were able to pull this off is significant and president biden was engaged diplomatically on this ....