katy tur. good to be with you, i m katy tur. vanishing trial dates and an admitted affair, lots of news on the array of criminal and civil cases against donald trump, developments that tell us what the next nine months are going to be like. in d.c., jack smith s election interference trial has disappeared from the federal court calendar. what does that mean? in new york, allen weisselberg is back in talks with prosecutors, according to the new york times. this time over a perjury plea deal. and georgia d.a. fani willis admitted to a quote personal relationship, what does her private life mean for the rico case against donald trump and his codefendants, joining us with the answers is justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, new york times investigative reporter, suzanne craig, her 2016 reporting focused on donald trump s taxes and earned her a pulitzer prize. also with us, nbc news investigations correspondent, tom winter, and msnbc legal analyst, lisa rub
here, instead resulted in what antony blinken himself, the secretary of state called a clearer path ahead. that does not mean that a solution is within grasp or within sight. i would say, far from it. it is still hard to conceive of how some kind of compromise or understanding can be made without one side or the other being forced to climb down on very in the case of russia, maximalist demands, that it has made loudly, publicly, and repeatedly. and in the case of the u.s., demands that it s called non-starters. so difficult to see how this situation could resolve itself, but significant that the diplomatic process lives on to see another day. and i will note, clarissa, that you and i rr talkare talkit this, it certainly takes a lot of attention away from the human rights situation, something you have covered extensively in russia. alexei navalny remains in prison, well over year, and again, we are talking about this.
orban, the prime minister of hungary, one of his closest friends in the nato alliance, by the way his closest friend, let s be clear about that. and he said something sing song-y like a few other russian officials said. he said on the one hand, the united states, the biden administration and nato rejected his central demands in his draft treaties and that s true, they did, rightfully so, many my view, but he also, as you just quoted there, hinted at the possibility of further negotiations. that s something sergei lavrov said just a few days ago of a call-in show on a radio program for about 90 minutes where he hinted he said there s a grain of rationality or something like that in the american proposal. categorically rejected, by the way, the nato one, but he said there s a grain of something that we can work with there, but they still haven t met our maximalist demands, so, you know, half full or half empty, i m not sure, but better than just categorically saying, we re disappoint
expressed by the ukrainians ahead of these talks, after them i spoke to a senior ukrainian official who had knowledge of the talks and he said, look, our impression was that sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister, he came to listen to the talks, to these to this meeting. he didn t come to offer any compromises. this is what he said, it takes two to tango, but lavrov was not allowed to dance at this meeting. and so this was never, from the russian and the ukrainian point of view, going to be the point at which a deal was done. but at least that process, you know, if we can draw a silver lining around this, at least that process it seems is still, you know, in theory, going to continue. yeah, russia s been coming at these talks with these huge maximalist demands, the y ukrainians have been saying we need to stop the fighting and allow people to get out, some really basic demands now. matthew chance in kyiv, thank you very much.