the moment, i cannot say a lot about the ukrainian reaction and the response to what happened. so for the ukrainian defence ministry has not confirmed that this military aircraft could have been downed by the ukrainian forces suit no confirmation from their side. ukrainians say this has asked for comments from the general staff, the defence ministry. the general staff replied that for now, they don t have enough information and they still have to try to find out what happened there. of course, the prisoners of war and the issue of swaps is one of the most sensitive and difficult things and issues of ukraine now. thousands of ukrainian military are still in the russian community and there was an expectation that new groups of prisoners could have happened but again, military intelligence that is in charge of these swaps of prisoners of war said that for now, they are not ready to provide any official statement or confirmation or denial whether any prisoners were scheduled. to
Reviewing it. We are also expecting additional comments from the white house. The Daily Briefing happens a little later this hour with john kirby, so we will get new information we expect then. The other big story were following, just about 15 minutes, testimony will resume in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It has been quite the morning. The jury spent it hearing from jeffrey mcconney, a former Top Executive at the Trump Organization. He handled the reimbursements to Michael Cohen for paying off Stormy Daniels. There are a pile of documents were seeing for the first time, including these checks. If youre familiar with Donald Trumps signatures, those are checks that were signed by donald trump himself after an explanation about the difference between a trust, which was an account for the company, and a, essentially, private account for donald trump. Well, mcconney detailed how he kept notes and Bank Statements related to cohen stored in a locked door and how the Hush Money Checks had t
And they are doing things, i don t think aren t anybody s interests. and they become a party of no. and they want somebody that doesn t know much. that would say no, and that will block any progress effect economically. a little late, culturally, and really the conscience of a nation has come in and helped us i think. and what i was running for congress, all day the day that i was the one day i had and we still had a 72% turnout. and we got about 15% of the white but. and it was inconceivable, but it means that we have good
Without comment to nbc news on the reason for his appearance, but this comes right after a federal judge reportedly ordered the pair to provide additional testimony, rejecting donald trump s claims of executive privilege. how significant would youhow siy this development is, what do you think we all need to stop speculating? i think it s a huge development, because these are the people that had direct conversations with trump about the documents at mar-a-lago. what had to go, they made negotiations with. them as well as the run up to what was going on to overturn the election. these are direct conversations with trump. that s what we re missing from them and from pants. who still doesn t have the guts to do what he supposed to do and testify in front of a grand jury. he s left his staff out there to hank. right. recognize that they can testify and one ground jury, in the
And when he knew it. i want to know what kelly knew and when he knew it. and i want to know what the president knew. and i want to know why he was allowed he, porter, was allowed to have documents. why jared kushner, who still doesn t as far as i know still have a security clearance, why are they looking at our top secret documents. steve, there is a little bit of rhetorical gamesmanship happening from the white house where they say well, they re on a temporary security clearance, and the permanent hadn t come back yet. but that s probably not true. what probably is happening is a recommendation is being made that they cannot get, they cannot achieve that level security clearance. so they keep them on a temporary so the president doesn t have to go out on a limb and issue a personal waiver for them, right? a couple of things, chris. when i served in the bush white house i hell held a top secret sci clearance. for officials as high-ranking as jared kushner and others, the security