i m katie phang in for chris hayes. tonight a development in the department of justice classified documents case against donald trump. it comes in the form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant, wall teen nauta. today, his lawyers try to get the first hearing in the documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing scheduled to take place this friday, july 14th. they are claiming in this that the date just doesn t work, because now does lead, lawyer is scheduled to begin a trial for another client in washington d.c. this week. notably, that client is federico klein, former trump appointee at the state department who faces several charges in connection with his participation in the violent insurrection on january 6th. walt nauta s lawyers argued in the motion today that his local florida counsel cannot appear on her own because she just joined the case last week. these delays w
partially correct. if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invadingef ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less aboute nato and somehow starti this war s would make that happ, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine there were 30 i countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country. and now as of tonight we know that sweden is going to join natoat as well. sweden said months ago that they wanted to join, but this is something that really until today looked like it couldn t happen and that s because for a new country to join nato, it has to be a unanimous decision. all the nato countries have to agree with h the decision, if o country doesn t agree it doesn t happen. and inre the case of sweden it s an original nato it was a nato w member, a single nato country,in turkey, that said no. they saidid finland was okay
is it true or just a trap for the ukrainians? it comes as ukraine is reeling from the deadliest missile strike in months tonight. plus, the head of a software company hired by trump to investigate voter fraud tells me he found nothing. now the doj is talking to him. and robert f. kennedy jr., whose own family members won t vote for him as president because of his antivaccine views, is polling at nearly 20%. what s behind that surge? let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, they re gone. those are the words of one man who just barely survived the deadliest strike in ukraine in months. at least 23 people were killed. these are the newest pictures we have where russian rocket slammed into an apartment building. translator: those were our neighbors. there is no way they survived. a grandmother, daughter and two grandkids live on the ninth floor. they re gone. a mother and daughter lived on the seventh floor. they are gone. those innocent
overrespond. i hope it doesn t happen again former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul with his assessment of the russian confrontation of the u.s. drone over the black sea we ll have much more on the diplomatic implications of the incident just ahead. plus, some republican lawmakers are pushing back on comments from ron desantis about russia s invasion of ukraine with comparisons to neville chamberlain. things got tense between ari m melber and donald trump s lawyer an interview that s incredible revealing in many ways a little later on morning joe. it s wednesday, march 15th we have the host of way too early, jonathan lemire, david i ignatius mark mckinnon. first, we start with the new information that we re learning about a collision that occurred yesterday between a russian fighter jet and an unmanned u.s. surveillance drone over the black sea. the united states european command reports around 7:00 local time yesterday two russian jets began to track the drone
twenty first, an israeli intelligence firm, isi, noticed something unusual at olenka air base. satellite imagery detected a , quote, unusual presence of forty one sixty russian strategic bombers there on sight. now, these are strategic supersonic bombers that are designed to carry nuclear weapons. you re seeing the satellite images from owling air base on your screen right now. then just days ago on september twenty fifth, israeli intelligence spotted three more russian strategic bombers at alinea. these were two ninety five turboprops. they re one of the oldest nuclear capable missile platforms in russia s arsenal. prior to august. the jerusalem post reports there were no strategic bombers at alinea. now, as of this week, there are at least seven . ukraine is now well within the range of both bombers. in related news, the deputy head of ukraine s intelligence just determined that there s a , quote, very high risk of imminent tactical nuclear strikes on ukraine. now,