to u.s. military planes and trying desperately to climb onboard, incidents in which some people died. despite those scenes, afghans and some of our allies are getting out. between 700 and 800 people were evacuated last night with more than 3,000 people evacuated in total since the fall of the afghan capital, kabul, some in astonishing conditions. check out this stunning photo showing hundreds of people crammed into a u.s. military plane headed to qatar. u.s. officials said yesterday they d be prepared to take more than 20,000 afghans who are candidates for special immigration visas. the state department said today that 2,000 holders of those visas have been relocated so far. but the new york times points out there are tens of thousands of afghans national who risked their lives to assist the u.s. military and thousands are stuck in a years-long backlog to receive their visas. more than 300,000 have been affiliated with the american mission over its two decade presence in th
something that might have been accomplished in another phone call. they ve already spoken by phone a number of times, but it was clearly important to this president who, yes, has been conducting foreign policy for 50 years, but who is only now, as president of the united states, in control of that foreign policy, an important opportunity to speak directly and look directly and to speak directly to president putin about all of this. i will say based on what we were talking about before, there are some issues from putin that you respond to proactively, there are some you maybe wait for a question to respond, and there are some things you ignore. he ticked through a number of issues right at the top. first and foremost, human rights. he asked a question about alexey navalny if he was killed under his watch. there were certainly things that had to be brought up proactively as well and is more to digest as we learn what happened behind the scenes. andrea, how will putin take bid
documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we ll tell you who s about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we re taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin s aggression. as for biden, we ll be meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy whose attendance had been in question until late today. both expected to be on the agenda and top the agenda. also today. turkey dropped objections to sweden becoming a member, and stockholm in turn appears to be supporting turkish membership in the european union. according to turkey s state run news agency. complete the succession to nato is a historic step that benefit
military? one single senator is so determined to make a point about abortion, he s blocking the pentagon s most senior promotions. that republican is here with me in just moments. also tonight, i have some new reporting inside donald trump s thinking regarding the special counsel s january 6th probe. i m kaitlan collins and this is the source. tonight, the window until the first votes are cast in 2024 narrowing and trump headed to trial, is there still time for a viable alternative to emerge? ron desantis is still number two in the gop race. he s trailing trump by more than 30 points in most polls. so what is the florida governor s strategy? what is he doing to turn things around? blaming the media. the media does not want me to be the nominee. i think that s very, very clear. if you look at the people like the corporate media, who are they going after? pretty clear that the media does not want me to be the candidate. i think that they ve tried to tik create a narrative
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language, demeanor, facial ex-expressie expre expresses, anything like that? paul manafort was staring bullets at rick gates, his former protegee. who worked for him for ten years. started for him as an intern. and gates was not looking at manafort. gates does not look in manafort s direction, even though they re about ten feet apart. he s talking to the jury. manafort is glaring at him. manafort has been an active participant in his defense. he s taking notes. he s talking to his lawyers. holding a pen. but gates is not engaging with his former mentor, ilanian outs courthouse. we ll check in with you throughout the afternoon. let s bring in jill winebanks. mimi roker is with us, former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. and michael steele, former rnc chairman. all of them msnbc contributors and analysts. mimi