on this monday night. good a thing, i m alison menendez in for stephanie ruhle. ukraine has now been fighting russia s unprovoked invasion for nearly three months. today, vladimir putin was trying to defend his war, this was victory day in russia, when the nation celebrates victory over nazi germany. it is russia s biggest holiday, and during today s observance, is putin tried to justify the war, with false claims of nazis and ukraine, and so-called aggression towards russia. amid the images of troops marching information, and the military hardware on display, putin did not declare a new offensive in ukraine, i did not declare victory. we he offered up his own message to the kremlin we today, a senior u.s. defense official called russian efforts on the battlefield, incremental and somewhat anemic, despite, that rich russia continues to hammer ukraine with airstrikes, this weekend being used as a shelter. 60 were said to be killed, msnbc s news says the biden tonight
this is the sunday show. this sunday we begin with a secret diplomatic trip to a war torn country. house speaker nancy pelosi let a small congressional delegation on an unannounced trip to ukraine. meeting with president volodymyr zelenskyy, and spending three hours on the ground in the capital city of kyiv. it is a strong show of support from the united states. pelosi is now the highest ranking u.s. official to visit to the ukrainian capital since russia s invasion. we believe that we are visiting you to say thank you. for your fight for freedom on any frontier freedom and that your front is a fight for everyone. but our command is to be there for you while this work is done. we as the delegation continues on to polling, the russian foreign minister is warning that any weapons shipments is, quote, fair game as russian forces continue to pound the besieged nation. a glimmer of hope this morning news agency was reported that nearly 40 civilians were successfully evacuated
the nation s top diplomat and top military leader make the highest level american visit to ukraine since the russian invasion began, meeting with president zelenskyy and bringing new promises of support. admiral james stavridis will join us this morning on this extraordinary wartime visit. and the latest developments from the battlefield. plus, a live report from france. incumbent president emmanuel macron defeats his far-right challenger. that was close. what d he get, mika? 58.5% of the vote. i just nobody could have predicted that. everybody said this race was tight. two weeks ago, it was neck and neck. this was going to be close. who could have predicted that margin of victory? i think it is nonsense. i always hear that le pen is going to beat macron, then he wins by 89 points. our offtrack morning joe betting site is putting the over/under, despite this propaganda from lamestream media that it is going to be a close race, our bookies, and you can co
about accountability and how the slow prosecutions of the insurrection are now moving forward with new and damning evidence that are spilling out into public view for the first time including texts from oath keeper militia members about how they plan their own security for trump allies who might have helped stage a coup. that includes roger stone, alex jones and the previously convicted trump aid michael flynn. now these details matter because, remember, top government officials already have security or secret service protection. but the doj is probing and congress is investigating a sedition conspiracy that s literally what it s been charged as. that means part of the literal goal was to et create either a parallel government or overthrow the election with a coup. this was the kind of stuff that sounds intense or, treatment or dramatic. you might at one point in history feel like you were being paranoid talking about this. and yet, i m telling you about things that are in th
dictator like putin? and how a few seconds of video led to a conspiracy theory? all fixated on a nurse said to have died because of a covid shot. the doctor who has been digging for the truth joins us. this is american voices. let s kick off tonight with what s going down in my home state of texas. it s a level of political theater that you will pay for. and as i tweeted this week, it s yet another example of why governor greg abbott is simply just bad at his job. on friday, he reversed course, repealing a costly order he put in place in the name of border security. it required full inspection of commercial trucks crossing into texas from mexico. as you can imagine, it didn t go well, backing up traffic and disrupting an already strained supply chain. some truckers say they have to wait more than 30 hours because of that abbott stunt. he s already repealed it, but don t forget the facts, abbott deliberately chose to appease his pace by way of unnecessarily creating a