one, the actual direction doing president biden and zelenskyy, and their teams. they are expected, according to sources, to be significant substantive interactions between the two on how things should be moving forward, going forward. but there s also the critical element, and that is the new addition of new defense a that is going to becoming ukraine s way with the president expected to announce an additional 1. 8 billion dollars in u.s. assistance. that s on top of the 20 billion that s already been put in place. president zelenskyy is also tentatively scheduled to give joint address to congress at the same moment, john, lawmakers are considering inundated national 45 billion dollars in ukraine aid, underscoring the relationship and just the scale of the u.s. support for this ongoing war. the fact the united states is the first country that zelenskyy is choosing to visit since the invasion began, that tells you everything to begin with. that s 1. 8 billion dollars, this new round o
your counseled, cancel. everything is the cancel culture coming after you? you see the final expression of cancel culture in islam terrorist groups like isis and al-qaeda. it will be interesting to see what they come up with in 2022. our thanks to the recount for that election. and that is our broadcast for this wednesday night with our thanks for being with us on behalf of all of my colleagues at the network of nbc news. good night. finish tonight on all in, where we stand as we approach your three of the pandemic. as cases explode again, the cdc defense a position to cut covid isolation. we have followed numerous areas of science in making this important decision. then, a measure of justice in the epstein. significance of tonight s guilty burden for ghislaine maxwell. plus, the surprising area where democrats are having success against the push to undermine
in addition to attacking their motivations, which they did via cross examination. the defense being very confident the attacks on those particular victims would bear fruit particularly given they were decades old allegations and so they made as a defense a calculated assessment not to put their client on the stand. last point, whatever you put a client on the stand, it s not about whether the government has proven their case beyond a reasonable doubt but can we believe the particular defendant? were they credible? did they answer questions to anyone s satisfaction? when you put someone on the stand, it s not only about the narrative she would have had to indicate to the jury she was smitten by epstein and just as well as really taking advantage of him like everybody else was but she would be subject to cross examination and i think that would have been a lot to overcome so the final analysis, i just don t know that that would have made the difference at the end of the day the governmen
may flip. she needed to move apartments asap. she told federal prosecutors the feds told today get her the money but the paperwork would take time. detective allison carpenter didn t think there was time. it was hard. what did you decide to do i decided to give the money, help the move. your money? from your bank account? yes. may was loaned $5,000 of the detectives own money. she promised to pay her back. she was removed from the case. the defense a managed admonished her, defying witness testimony. i can t sleep, if something happens to may in her children, i won t be able to. sleep if i hadn t moved warren i did, i wouldn t be here today, i m very grateful. i narcy was indicted and
bond and he has to be back in court in three weeks. ryan, thank you. joining us now, cnn legal analyst joey jackson. joey, the big news overnight is that he is maintaining his innocence. his lawyers are and smollett son the cast of empire. what s the defense strategy here? well, listen, sometimes the defense there s two things you can do. the first thing is to do a mia culpa, to come out and go to the people who embraced him and love him and support him and say you know what in this just was not so. it not only worked from a public relations perspective, but it could work from the court of law. it likes contrition and remorse and when people own up to things. but it seems the other defense a scorched earth defense. and the facts are not all known, we re hearing things bit by bit. everyone s entitled to the presumption innocence, i get it.