declaration about the war in ukraine. we ll have that for you in just a moment. also ahead special counsel jack smith responds to a request by donald trump lawyers to delay his trial in the classified documents case. they want to do that after the 2024 election. plus hollywood officially goes dark for the first time in over six decades as writers and actors are now together on the picket lines. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, july 14th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. president joe biden wrapped up his five-day european trip to finland yesterday with nato s newest memberch it ended decades of neutrality in april when it became the alliance s 31st member. the country shares 830 miles of border with russia. president biden yesterday celebrated finland s membership and nato s united front against russian president vladimir putin. mr. president, at this critical moment in history, this inflection point, the world is watching to see will w
coverage of tuesday s florida republican primary. our special live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern. coming up in less than a half an hour, tonight a challenge to tell the truth. you won t want to miss it. in other news tonight a massive pilep kills ten people. drivers were blinded by smoke from a brush fire in the predawn darkness on sunday. some stopped when they drove into the smoke. in an instant cars and trucks started smashing into each other. it happened near ganzville. steven said he got a second chance. no later than five seconds later we heard a crash from the back. and i guarantee you in no less than three seconds after we heard that the driver was under the semi truck. wow. that experience alone just really blew me and my friends mind because we were talking to this guy and he is under a semi truck. after we sat there and we were going crazy, no later than ten seconds later we get hit by a car going at least 80 miles per hour on the interstate. it kn