Antony blinken is meeting this morning with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. Blinken arrived in kyiv early tuesday, local time, on an unannounced Diplomatic Mission to reassure ukraine it has american support as it fights back increasingly intense russian attacks. His visit comes less than a month after Congress Approved a long delayed foreign assistance package that sets aside 60 billion in aid for ukraine. During this mornings meeting, blinken told zelensky the new Weapons Package is already arriving and more is coming, stressing, quote, thats going to make a difference. Zelensky, in turn, thanked the u. S. For the latest Weapons Package. Fierce battles are taking place near the border in eastern and northeastern ukraine, with outgunned and outnumbered ukrainian soldiers trying to push back the significant Russian Ground offensive. Speaking sunday, blinken said, quote, if putin thinks he can outlast ukraine, outlast its supporters, he is wrong again. Us Secretary Of State Anton
To join us with reaction to Michael Cohens testimony but, first, jug head is in a jam. Thats to the focus of tonights angle. Laura The Big Moment In Court today was supposed to be the playing of a taped conversation that Michael Cohen recorded between trump and himself back in 2016, yeah. 8 years ago where they could be heard talking about how they would buy the rights to karen macdougalls story. And on the tape cohen can be heard explaining to the then president ial candidate his plans to form an llc through which he would finance the purchase of the rights to that womans story. We know what happened, okay, get rid of this. Its so false what they are saying, such bull [bleep] laura its all bull today as well. None of the hype amounted to anything. None of it proved anything. Lets break it down for you. Remember, in this case the state has to prove that the trump organizations internal bookkeeping records were not only falsified, okay, but they also were falsified to the extent that tr
me going and i think you all. i hope you have a relaxing few days. we will see you. velshi starts now. it is sunday june 9th. with less than five months ago since the 2024 presidential election, anxiety is running high about the prospect of donald trump s return to the white house. his bow to exact retribution against enemies, especially in the wake of his historic criminal conviction, has raised fears he could abuse the powers of the presidency and that he could further erode democracy with another four years in office. americans are not the only ones experiencing this anxiety. many of our allies abroad are feeling similarly apprehensive about trump s possible return to power, and they are sharing those concerns about how he could destabilize democracy in the united dates and abroad. trump took an isolationist stance during his first four years of office and signals during his current campaign that he would take a similar approach during a second term. his admiration f
associated with the enthusiasm of sports, i think about the brazilian iconic yellow jersey. it was being used by bolsonaro to try to use it in association with his campaign, with his incumbency and going on. and now some fans have taken to wearing the blue, less iconic version of the jersey. you think about the brazilian soccer team uniform, you think about the yellow, and this notion of politicians trying to almost hijack symbols for their own self-serving purposes, it s something that s not necessarily unique to just this game. no. and it has happened before. and i think it s a shame because, you know, tom, you re right. i think a lot of us, the world sees sports as a place to kind of say, ah, okay. let s just have some fun. let s let go. but it s not new that sometimes, a lot of times, the passion gets in the way and becomes the thing that then goes to whether it s
already started calling for another coup. and a post on his twitter knock, off truth social trump demanded the quote termination of the constitution so that he could be reinstated as president. once, again falsely pushing claims of election fraud. former president took an oath to uphold the constitution, now calling for it to be suspended purely for self serving purposes. joining me now msnbc contributor, former watergate prosecutor jill wine-banks. co-host of the hashtag sisters in law podcast and author of the watergate girl book. and political investigations reporter at the guardian, hugo lowe. it is good to see you both. and i know we are not surprised anymore, i know that sometimes he says these things in order to get attention. in some ways i m sort of less interested and him and what it means about him that he is going for the suspension of the constitution than i am interested in living gullible moot where the political figure says out loud is taken