risk for both the west and russia. joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent, ali, and from kyiv, kelly. ali, president biden s going to meet with. sean: zelenskyy today. he s clearly not happy. that s right. he was here, he was addressing a massive crowd of supporters all waving ukrainian flags and he wasn t happy. he was talking about nato that doesn t waste time. he was very clear about that. he says they have to be decisive in their actions. yesterday, he tweeted that it was absurd that they were not giving a clear path to nato s membership. so this is clearly upset president zelenskyy and this was not the quantum leap he had hoped for nor the rest of kyiv hoped for. clearly, these issues are going to be front and center with his meeting there, but he has to tread a very careful line. the united states is the biggest financial and military contributor to ukraine and president zelenskyy can t overlook that. so i don t think he s going to try and alienate preside
city we must be consistent morally around these legal issues. absolutely and also on politics nation this weekend, sorry, rev, yeah, you have joe that does it for i have the star of my mornings, and everybody, i just tee that up because i want everybody to watch his special monday night. we have to say our apologies to ana cabrera that does it for us this morning, ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now thank you so much for being here, and happy friday it is 10:00 here on the east coast. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york as we come on air, the 2024 presidential field has never been in sharper focus. three sources now telling nbc news that president biden is expected to announce his white house bid as early as this tuesday. another source familiar with the planning says top advisers have been sending signals in recent days to, quote, get ready. why now? is the timing more about superstition or strategy and what might it mean for the republican fistfight be
Working in lockstep to protect against china what do you expect him Prime Minister kishida to say hes going to be addressing congress what are you expecting him to highlight . Prime minister kishida has been a very vocal advocate when it comes to the role of the russian invasion in ukraine and what it could mean to other countries, specifically in east asia, Prime Minister kishida has really coined the phrase, ukraine today could be east asia tomorrow. And by that he means that if there is not a strong response from western countries to the russian invasion of ukraine, then countries like china could take away the message that perhaps they could take aggressive actions and take over other countries or other territories like taiwan Prime Minister kishida is really going to try to send that message the underlying message there is that he Hopes Congress will pass but a us aid package to ukraine, and that he really hopes to see that come through. And secondly, foreign minister kishida is g
involved. senator richard blumenthal at a hearing today about the merger of the pga tour and saudi-backed liv golf. the attendance of 9/11 families who were shocked. they called the deal, quote, sports washing and labeled pga officials paid saudi shill. joining me, the golf channel s rich lerner. what did he mean when he was talking abouthypocrisy? a little more than a year ago commissioner jay monaghan of the pga said members of our tour will never have to apologize for being members, the not so subtle infence being that you do have to apologize if you re a member of the liv tour backed by an oppressive regime that silences critics, that murdered jamal
according to two sources familiar with the matter hunter biden has said a review would show he handled his affairs legally and appropriately. no charges have been brought last month the attorney general making this pledge about the hunter biden case overseen by a trump appointed u.s. attorney in delaware. it s not restricted in his investigation in any way reporter: republicans taking aim at the biden administration. we surely are curious to see if this is being slow walked no comment from the justice department or the irs, but the white house says the president is keeping an appropriate distance he believes in the rule of law. he believes in the infence of the justice department reporter: hunter biden raising his public profile recently even in the face of gop-led investigations against him in ireland with his father earlier this month. i m proud of you. reporter: hunter biden s attorney telling nbc news it appears this irs agent has committed a crime by sharing privat