that is all in on this tuesday night, evening rachel. good evening chris, thank you my friend, much appreciated. thanks very much for joining us tonight, it s sort of feels like the news is about the fate of democracy, but it is split screen news. on one side of the screen we ve got the world stage, where the hole leader of the free world thing felt like less of a mantra, less of a gauzy concept, and more like a nuts and bolts job description for the u.s. government. today, the u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin convene him s meeting of dozens, literally dozens of countries, from all around the world in support of ukraine. we all start today from a position of moral clarity. russia is waging a war of choice to indulge the ambitions of one man. ukraine is fighting a war of necessity, to defend its democracy, its sovereignty, and its citizens. but the stakes are reach beyond ukraine, and even beyond europe. russia s invasion is baseless, reckless, and lawless. it is an affro
less of a mantra, less of a dossier concept, a more relaxed nuts and bolts job description for the u.s. government. today the u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin convened a meeting of dozens, literally dozens of countries from all around the world and support of ukraine. we all start today from a position of moral clarity. russia is waging a war of choice to indulge the ambitions of one man. ukraine is fighting a war of necessity, to defend its democracy, its sovereignty, and its citizens. but the stakes are reach beyond ukraine, and even beyond europe. russia s invasion is baseless, reckless, and lawless. it is an affront to the rules based international order, it is a challenge to free people everywhere. as we see this morning, nations of good world will from around the world stand united in our resolve to support ukraine. my trip to kyiv, rainforest my admiration for the way that the ukrainian armed forces are deploying these capabilities. ukraine clearly believes that i
americans are applying engine flay failure and flames where the pilot issued a mayday call, and safely return to the airport in columbus, ohio. last thursday, flynn responded to another american flag that took off from charlotte, north carolina. the fda is investigating both instigates. this is us for us, we have cnn prime time with michael mesh. anderson, thank. you tucker doubt. i m michael smerconish from new york city tonight. it s been a chaotic day for the media. sources say former nbc universal chief dashiell is accused of sexual harassment by a cibc anchor. don lemon and cnn parting ways. disney laying off more workers. but the stunning headline today, tucker carlson is out at fox news. these stories, these networks are all very different situations. but in terms of fox, reports show the ouster could be for variety of reasons. carlson disparaged leadership and text messages. he s accused of us hostile and sexist confinement, he continued to downplay january 6t
hold it against the defendant for not testifying in his own defense the judge, though, has push back on the defense s efforts to add more language to the jury instructions that would be more favorable to 100, for instance, the idea that he would he didn t knowingly violate the law, which is something that defense is really all about. and they also wanted to they also want to make the argument that hunter biden did not think he was addicted to drugs when he bought that gun? in october of 2018? that s the reason why we re here and why hunter is facing these three federal charges that could send him to prison if he is convicted, but it s you pointed out, we could very much have this case in hands of the jury today if a hunter biden does not testify and john, i mean, the fact that we re here we had about ten witnesses. i think i was to ten witnesses or four-and-a-half days of testimony on the part of the by the prosecution s this case really is what the jury is going to be co