our russia editor steve rosenberg reports vladimir vladimirovich putin. at the kremlin, it was pomp with a purpose. ..to remind russians who is still in charge around here. waiting for vladimir putin, 2,500 soldiers and guards and the defence minister the wagner mutineers wanted sacked. having survived the rebellion, it was time to say thank you. translation: you defended - the constitutional order, the lives, security and the freedom of our citizens. you have saved our motherland from upheaval. in fact, you have stopped a civil war. in fact, the reality was rather different. the wagner soldiers, who had been cheered on the streets of rostov, had only stopped their rebellion after the kremlin did a deal with them, promising not to press charges against them and their leader, yevgeny prigozhin. still, kremlin spin is presenting this as a triumph for the president. the mutiny by mercenaries was a major challenge to vladimir putin s authority. but, the uprising is over, and now
Governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden will be on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon be the first state to classify apportion pills as controlled, dangerous substances. Well go through the legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is friday, may 24th. We made it to friday. It was in doubt there for a while. Thank goodness. Im jonathan lemire. Im alongside the bbcs katty kay. We are in for joe, mika, and willie. Good friday morning, katty. Yeah, news flash, donald trump knows how to put his trousers on. I think that is worth waiting for friday for. We now have that at least. I suppose we can put it in the appropriate context later, or we leave it out there like that and make people wonder just what he was talking about. Hanging, yeah. With us to dive into this important story, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and Associate Editor of the washington post, and msnbc political analy
Violated that order seven times, seen as Marshall Cohen hello, and joins me now so marshall, what can we expect . What are we going to be learning over the course the next few days as the historic trial gets underway. Yeah, heavy dose of history in new york city. This has this is an Election Interference case going back to 2016. Their indictment frames this as a scheme to falsify Business Records that Hush Money Payment to Stormy Daniels routed through Michael Cohen reimburse through the Trump Organization according to the prosecutors, they say that trump and his company basically cooked the books to hide this payment in violation of new york state law. A lot of legal experts are saying its a terrible idea for donald trump to take the stand that he would only hurt himself in doing so. But who else could we expect to see up there . Hes been sort of playing with some fire here in the last few days saying that he wants to do it. He did testify in some of those civil trials earlier this ye
something gop lawmakers will not agree to without changing policy at the u.s. southern border. this hour, 31-year-old texas mother kate cox taking her health care into her own hands, traveling outside of her home state to get the emergency abortion procedure that her doctors say she needs, as a ruling from the state supreme court says she does not qualify for a medical exemption under their law. international aid groups say 18,000 people are dead in gaza. that includes more than 7,500 children. a situation the groups describe as apocalyptic. the u.n. again assembly is expected to vote overwhelmingly for a cease-fire to allow more aid to get in and hopefully hostages to get out. the u.s. stands alone on the security council, days ago vetoing it, causing criticism around the world. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. ukraine s president zelenskyy is on a high stakes miss in washington, trying to break the gridlock blocking aid for his country in its wa