it s noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. pacific. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at one of two hearings considering whether to hold him in contempt of congress. we will talk to one of the lawmakers who was in the room when hunter biden walked in. new reporting on former president trump s plans to speak tomorrow at the closing arguments for his $250 million civil fraud trial. andrea mitchell will join us live from tel aviv where she sat down for an interview with secretary of state antony blinken. why he believes hostage negotiations with hamas could soon resume. we begin with breaking news from capitol hill. this morning hunter biden made a surprise appearance at a house oversight hearing on aa resolution to hold him in contempt of congress. republicans slamming hunter biden for showing up. you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. what are you afraid of? you have no
would be israel s responsibility to do it. this is something again that we have talked about extensively. look, we have made real progress over the last couple of months in opening up new entry points. there are still bottlenecks. we are working through all of them. we are getting i think more entry points open. we are going to get one of the things we need to see is better deconfliction. they want to be safe in doing this. all of this was on the agenda today and something we are focused on. secretary blinken talks about what arab leaders, the saudi leaders have promised to do. we have more of my interview coming up next. stay with us. my frequent heartburn had me taking antacid after antacid all day long but with prilosec otc just one pill a day blocks heartburn for a full 24 hours.
important. it s not lost on anyone for us to send a message that we are there in person, that we support ukraine. and to mark the really historic victory that the ukrainians achieved in defending you. and the fact that kyiv still stands, much against the wishes and the names of the russian military. the current u.s. ambassador, i believe, slovakia s been nominated to the post in ukraine, if i m not mistaken. i m a crazy, or is it weird that it s taking this long to nominate an ambassador? it certainly does take time, sometimes longer than we would expect to go through the validation process to get an ambassador. but we ve had a career official in place who s had the right conversations, and significant high representation to the ukrainian government, and don t forget, president biden talks directly to president zelenskyy all the time. secretary blinken talks to his counterparts, and there s been no shortage of conversations between the ukrainian and the u.s. governments are bracing
and to mark the really historic victory that the ukrainians achieved in defending you. and the fact that kyiv still stands, much against the wishes and the names of the russian military. the current u.s. ambassador, i believe, slovakia s been nominated to the post in ukraine, if i m not mistaken. i m a crazy, or is it weird that it s taking this long to nominate an ambassador? it certainly does take time, sometimes longer than we would expect to go through the validation process to get an ambassador. but we ve had a career official in place who s had the right conversations, and significant high representation to the ukrainian government, and don t forget, president biden talks directly to president zelenskyy all the time. secretary blinken talks to his counterparts, and there s been no shortage of conversations between the ukrainian and the u.s. governments are bracing or levels. one of the announcements over the past few weeks is $700
ukraine, that s something that we would not announce in advance. but we do continue to be in close contact with the ukrainian government at very senior levels. the president talks regularly with president zelenskyy. secretary blinken talks with his counterpart. and the national security adviser at the white house, jake sullivan, talks nearly every day to the senior adviser to president zelenskyy. while we are not on the ground in ukraine right now, we are in close daily contact with our counterparts in the ukrainian government. well, those other leaders face the same security risks. and by the way, other diplomatic teams have been returning to ukraine. france among them. and u.s. diplomats still not here. why is the u.s. behind on this? why isn t it leading the way? look, every country has to make its own security assessments. i will say we continue to assess the situation on the ground in ukraine. obviously we want to be back in ukraine. we want to have a diplomatic presence there