zelenskyy. the ukrainian president is set to meet with president biden and the entire senate in hopes of securing critical funding to fight off russian forces. plus, special counsel jack smith is taking his prosecution of donald trump all the way to the supreme court. we ll explain why smith is petitioning the highest court in the land. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israeli troops continue to hunt for the leader of hamas in southern gaza, but top officials there are now signaling an escalation with another terror group. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, december 12th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in washington where today ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is state side for the third time since russia launched its full-scale invasion back in february of 2022. zelenskyy will meet with president biden at the white house to discuss his country s needs on the battle
person. you can come over here and relax in the chairs in between commercial breaks and you know, or do the long opening from here. we re all open to that. i have to say, the chairs look so comfortable that i can t possibly imagine ever being in one. i m so stressed when i m on tv, i m essentially levitating. so i could never. you don t seem that way ever. acting. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. it was june 1942, which means obviously, we are in the thick of it in terms of world war ii. june 1942, in a german submarine, a german u-boat, turned up in the hamptons. a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in amaganst which is in long island in the hamptons in new york. this german nazi submarine drops off four guys. four saboteurs. and we know that they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft launched from had submarine. once they hit the beach, they buried the raft. the
on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thanks to your home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. so it was june 1942, which means obviously we are in the thick of it in terms of world war ii. june 1942 in a german submarine, a german boat turned up in the hamptons. a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in which is on long island, in the hamptons, in new york. this german submarine drops off for guys, for saboteurs. we know they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft that was launched from the submarine once they hit the beach, they buried the raft, they also buried what they brought ashore with him which was a big cache of explosives and that leaders. and then they got away. so that was mid june 1942, a few days later, four days, later another submarine turned up elsewhere on the american
a german u-boat turned up in the a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in long island in the hamptens in new york. and this german nazi submarine drops off four guys, four saboteurs. and we know they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft that was launched from that submarine. once they hit the beach they buried the raft. they also buried what they brought ashorebu with them, whi was a big cashe of explosives and detonators. and then they got away. that was mid-june 1942. a few days later, four days later another nazi submarine turned up elsewhere on the american east coast. this time it was in just outside jacksonville, florida. and again another german submarine, a german u-boat turned up offshore and dropped off another four guys, four more trained saboteurs. these were germans who had previously spent time living in the united states andnt they kn how to assimilate here. but they had in the meantime been brought back to nazi germany for speci