european powerhouse is revealing she has taken a drug test, giving in to calls from fellow lawmakers after online videos showed her partying. i m joe fryer in for hallie jackson. with me this hour is nbc news correspondent josh lederman in dnipro, ukraine, and a member of the council on foreign relations, former state department adviser and author of nuclear nightmares. josh, let s talk about this aid and what s happening in ukraine, what can you tell us about this latest round of funding as tensions skyrocket around that nuclear plant? this latest batch of funding, joe, will be a little under 800,000, including a thousand javelin antitank missiles as well as more ammunition as well as additional howitzers for the ukrainians to use. perhaps the object that get the most attention is more than a done eagle drones, the first time the united states has provided those spy drones to the ukrainians. they re made by boeing and can fly at low altitude to avoid detection by russian
it is making preparations to close its 800-mile-long border with russia. i will talk with the finnish foreign minister about what he thinks putin s next move will be. but first here s my take. ron desantis was on media the other day. our country is currently facing a great threat, he began. i assume with inflation soaring, gas prices so sky-high, and the economy in danger of slowing down he would hit hard on those themes, but these bread-and-butter issues were not mentioned anywhere in the email. a new enemy has emerged from the shadows, he continued, that seeks to destroy and intichl date their way to transform state and country that you and i would hardly recognize. as you might by now have guessed, this enemy is the radical vigilante woke mob. some of this is a clever affront by desantis to tap into the base of the republican party and outflank donald trump on the kinds of issues that propelled trump into the republican nomination in 2016. and the recent new hampshire poll
fbi agents are facing an increasing number of threats as republican leaders stay mostly silent about the danger dangerous rhetoric coming from the right. plus, a preview of liz cheney s primary in wyoming where maga supporters seem to punish here for telling the truth about donald trump. i m tiffany cross in tonight for joy reid. we begin with significant developments and a number of investigations involving former president donald trump. today a federal grand jury investigating the january 6 report has subpoenaed eric hirschman for documents. this makes him the third lawyer along with white house counsel pat sill loney and patrick sylvan. their testimony was featured throughout the january 6th hearings. what this means to donald trump according to andrew weesemen that there is no question that trump is the target of the federal january 6 probe. he added, correct move here, lock people into the grand jury. meanwhile in georgia, have the investigation into trump s alleged
full-throated embrace of the big lie of the his efforts to steal the election for donald trump were knot nothing short exhaustive. he was in regular communication with trump after the election and led the charge to create a slate of so-called alternate electors. mastiono attended the rally on january 6th and spent thousands of state senate campaign dollars to busing true believers for the event. he s been subpoenaed by the house january 6th committee over his involvement with the fake elector scheme. in short, he s a full-barone coup-supporting threat to democracy running for governor of the keystone state where the governor appoints the secretary of state meaning that he could set up a nightmare scenario in 2024. mastiano s hand picked secretary of state could just toss out as many votes as are necessary to hand the election to trump or desantis or whoever the republican nominee, is even if they lose the involvement after all, we learned this week that trump lawyer john east
The amanpour. Hour. Heres where were headed this week it took a sickening video of violence for Sean Diddy Combs to finally admitted it and apologize for abusing his then girlfriend. I think a lot of assets, survivors will recognize our perpetrators in him, but a week later, we redirect the spotlight squarely onto survivors with an incredible panel of women on both sides of the pond and there are so many women, men, and children who are watching this and i just want them i want them to know that they are not alone, then the dean of columbia Journalism School, jelani cobb, on balancing Freedom Of Speech and security and fighting disinformation in a critical Election Year we havent come to any real conclusions about what should be done with disinformation, plus, how the sudden death of irans president could reboot its relationship with them america, moving towards the more middle gives more room for the United States to engage your on. Also, this our israeli author and public intellectua