president trump s pole numbers rise. we have a lot of grounds to cover. here is part one of my interview with the former president. mr. presidency, great to see you yoochl thank you very much thank you for doing this. as reported, as you know, you are facing legal challenges. in your opinion, does this help you or hurt you in terms of your chances to win in 2024. if you listen to the fake news media it helps. because they are all saying it is a scam. people that don t like me say this is terrible to do for our country. i don t know whether it helps or hurts. in my opinion it it is a way of cheating on election its is election interference. what they are doing if they can t win at the ballot box i m leading by a lot in the poles for every republican and dem credit by a lot including biden by a lot they can t beat that you way they will do this kinds of stuff. never done like this in the history of the country to this extent. people are pleading with the prosecuto
that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s
come on our country come from outside its borders. here is salvador s president. think what you want about former president trump and the reasons he s being indicted, but just imagine if this happened in any other country where a government arrested the main opposition candidate. the united states s about to use, quote, democracy as foreign policy is gone. thousands of miles from new york city in the heart of central america it is very obvious what just happened in that manhattan courthouse. it s obvious to many democrats, too. trump was criminally charged because he is planning to challenge joe biden in the upcoming presidential election. it s really that simple. if donald trump retired in 2020, would he have been arraigned tonight? of course not. most democrats know that. some admit it. politico ran a piece describing president biden s most senior advisers predicting trump will be the nominee. and, now that he has been charged with crimes, will lose the general election. th
hello. we ll have much more on our breaking news here in just a moment. a russian jet striking a u.s. drone over international waters in the black sea. first, though, today, a collective sigh of relief after the latest inflation numbers and a market rally have the u.s. stepping back from the brink of economic disaster. inflation has cooled for the eighth straight month with the consumer price index at a level we haven t seen since september of 2021. that doesn t mean the prices are back to normal. any trip to the grocery store makes that very clear. but overall they are trending in the right direction. right now regional banks are rebounding. there you see some of the surging stocks and paired with that deposit outflows are apparently slowing, meaning the collapse of two banks in recent days has not as of now sparked a domino effect. but moodies has just down graded its outlook for the entire u.s. banking sector. matt, what a difference a day makes here, right? first republic
they discount a congressman and a staff members new book about a call from the white house to rioters during the insurrection. we ll look ahead to the midterms just six weeks from now and bring you an exclusive from nbc politics on which are the 25 key senate, house, and governors races that could determine the outcome for this year s contest and for 2024. and i ll be joined by former cia director, john brennan, to discuss the warning to putin of a catastrophic american response if he carries out his threat to go nuclear. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington where president biden has approved a federal emergency declaration that s postponing his trip to florida as hurricane ian strengthens. it is pushing northwest up towards florida s west coast where millions of residents from tampa to key west are preparing for hurricane force winds and destructive storm surge, but there s still a lot of volatility in predicting the exact path of the storm. bill, there are parts