Cohen prosecution team, he today if they detail more of the russia. Syria and the middle east, the evidence that they also say they iran is around the edges of this detailed last week there were president s decisions, how have ten search warrants, over 50 have. I know youll be all over thing. Im unclear what the president they affected that . Is going to say they have diminished our that when this starts. Tom winter from new york. Influence to zero. Thanks to him, thanks to all of we no longer have a seat at the you for watching this hour of table. I see our very good ambassador, msnbc live. Krig melvin in new york, im heading to the white house as Jeff Jeffreys who is working on the president is getting ready this. To speak. Frankly, this is a low point for thats our top story, hallie. U. S. Influence in the region. Busy news day. Look, i get it, everyone gets msnbc news headquarters in new york city. It. As hallie mentioned, any moment we want to, quote, get out of now President Trum
president sees this as one of his accomplishments, the cohesiveness of nato, what he has to do is sell it back home. and tell americans how important he is. and he s got a lot of other issues as we will talk about, most notably the economy. and that s not an easy job. no question. one thing that struck me here is the seriousness with which european officials, u.s. officials described the threat from russia, not just to ukraine, but to the nato alliance itself. they do not speak of an attack on nato allies as a theoretical. they speak of it as something they have to defend against potentially and do so today. as we have been mentioning, there is clearly an enormous amount on the president s domestic plate right now, and he s certain to face questions. he ll certainly want to focus on events here in madrid, he ll face questions on the overturning of roe v. wade, on the shrinking economy, how does he get to those questions today? i think that s the careful line that he s going to have
0 morning. as you know, conferences such as this can often be more talk than action. this one actually has some deliverables. the expansion of nato, welcoming finland and sweet sweden, gettir turkey s opposition, a significant expansion of forces on the eastern flank. i wonder as you look at this, evan, the president, central to these negotiations, has this been a success for president biden, has it been a success for nato? i think they re feeling that things are a lot better than they were predicted to be. it is worth reminding people just a couple of years ago you had a u.s. president talking about withdrawing from nato. the french president macron was talking about nato as being brain dead and here we are today, it was predicted at the beginning of this war that russian forces could be in kyiv in three days. that didn t happen because of the heroics of the ukrainians and because of this really unexpected coherence among nato. which was the product of diplomacy. now, four months in
want to make sure that we are standing by our nato partners and that he fully understands the consequences should he incur again. the u.s. is now out of afghanistan. removed all the troops, about to get out of iraq. what do you say to american families that are watching or the u.s. public who are saying why should the u.s. potentially get involved in some sort of military confrontation in europe right now? the answer to that is the nato alliance itself. an article 5 commitment which says an attack on one is an attack on all. it would be a nice reminder that remember that on 9/11, the first time that article 5 commitment was employed by nato, it was in our defense on 9/11 when nato aircraft started flying some surveillance and reconnaissance missions over our own skies. they came to our defense using article 5 on that very tragic day. and we have an equal commitment to the alliance.
they ve been called alarming, the islamic state fighters. what, if anything, does it say to you that so many senior troubling, some even say that s lawmakers on capitol hill seem to have been completely taken the ball game on impeachment. off guard by the decision? we ll dig in on that. indeed. there s part of me that at least let s dig in with nbc s kristen wants to celebrate a moment in welker at the white house, nbc s which lindsey graham and bernie erin mclaughlin is in turkey sanders are in agreement on near the border with syria. kevin baron, executive editor of something. nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell defense one, joel ruben former both get it. it s hard for me to understand deputy assistant secretary of state and now president of the why the president seems unwilling to go along with the washington strategy group. kristen, i ll start with you. entire leadership team in at this point do we have any indication of what the president washington, what our allies are telling h