united states. they are in a lot of trouble. the trump campaign has put them in this trouble. when they need to do is coming very quickly and say everything they, no and cooperate. they need to get lawyers, and they need to be very careful about what they say, and that they are completely and totally honest. i think italy has really hit the nail on the head for the stage of the investigation that is important for the viewers to realize. that is that january six committee is asking questions they know the answers to. they know what happened. they know because they have the text records. they have the emails. they have the documents. the documents from the supreme court, they have the testimony, and a list, and they know the answer of what happened. so, the train is leaving the station kind of period type people are going to come in and tell the truth, or they are going to end up indicted. so you mentioned the text record. let s bring you in, rick. the 16 committee report that
putin s goals is to bring nato apart. that is what he is trying to do. that is why he is testing article five of nato. that is why he has all these troops there. so i think that the west has to stay united. even if, you know, we are not united on every aspect of what president biden would like us to do, by the way you heard president zelensky of ukraine today say look, i do not think that it is as eminent as the americans say. i do not want to scare you cranium people, because this may not happen. in general, the administration is doing a good job keeping it all together. let s see what happens next. we will have to leave it there. katie, cynthia, rick, thank you for your time. i appreciate it. coming up, the president tries moving his agenda forward, and one of our next guest says he is blown away from the republican parties shamelessness and response. our
what we are able to hear what he says. just before we run out of time, we need to turn to rake and bring in ukraine. the white house is making a major effort, rick, to get european allies on board, keep them on board in this latest standoff with russia over ukraine. you worked in the state department in 2014 when the original invasion up, and the crimea annexation, barack obama s approach. how different is the situation now in terms of how european and nato allies are responding? are they showing more unity today than they showed in 2014? i think the biden administration has done an excellent job of hurting the cats of nato and our european allies. the difficulty is that it france feels a little different than england does, but what s the biden administration has done in general, anthony blinken has done in particular, it s just a untouched with european allies. so not tried to leave too much room between the u. s. and nato. and because one of
allies and partners have offered russia a path away from crisis, and toward greater security. vladimir putin spoke by phone with french president macron today and continue to insist that any further expansion in europe by the u.s. and nato would be unacceptable. as for ukraine, it reports its president is not happy with the biden administration after the administrations emits warnings about an attack, saying that such warnings needlessly spread alarm. with that, let s bring in our lead off guests on this friday, night katie bennett, justice department reporter for the new york times, cynthia for the civil rights division of the justice department, on rick for a secretary of state of public despondency in public affairs in the obama administration. and former managing editor of time magazine. thank you for joining me this evening. katie, what more do we know about how this trump electors plan was supposed to work, and who in the former president circle might have been involved in the
asked congress to hold mark meadows in criminal contempt includes this quote. mr. meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent effort to encourage republican legislators and certain states to send alternate electors upon which one member of congress and knowledge was highly controversial, and to which mr. meadows responded, i love it. mr. meadows responded to a similar message by saying, we are, and another such message by saying, yes have a team on. it, break earlier this afternoon my colleague nicole had this reaction. have a listen. i have worked in the white house, and they worked on, campaigning with the chief of staff says that i love it, we are and have a team on it, it means that we are running from the top. rick, you are someone who has worked at the high-level of administration representing the u.s. abroad, what s strikes to about these latest revelations about mark meadows s it is just appalling. we have been focused on the violence of january 6th