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Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera reporting from New York. Thank you for joining us. Right to the breaking news at the United Nations this morning, President Biden is about to address the general assembly for the final time as this Countrys Commander in chief. His address comes amid global turmoil with War still raging in ukraine. And conflict escalating in the Middle East. Israel ratcheting up its attacks against hezbollah over the last few days, killing more than 500 in a series of deadly Air Strikes wi...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. On. Reporter after the jury is seated, the judge will give fairly long explanation. Were not going to hear Opening Statements today. Its possible we could hear them tomorrow or thursday. Got it. Pete williams. Thank you very much. Let me bring in National Political reporter for the Washington Post and msnbc political analyst. Two msnbc contributors. Charlie savage. Let me...

He ever went to singapore. >> policy equivalent of click bait. staying with you, lindsey, i know the "times" is reporting the u.s. may settle for whats being described as a nuclear freeze. you know, i was reading something you had written in "the times" before, how you had backed the ideas of the u.s. accepting a plan that is not full denuclearization, similar to this nuclear freeze, and you had written, quote, whether such a deal is possible depends on mr. trumps ability to embrace the art of t...

Paces into north korea. photo op or something more significant? >> well, a little bit of both. mostly a photo op. he is handing a huge propaganda gift to kim jong-un, to be honest. you can see how it was covered from the north korean side and how it was splashed all over north korean state media. but it will -- it will be sort of a kickstart to the negotiations. it did get these two countries back in touch. and so thats promising. >> well come back to those smiles on state-run media over in nort...

They are saying that out loud in washington today. rescuing americans from somebody elses civil war is grounds for impeachment, if not a military coup. in fact, its treason. >> president trump kowtowing to vladimir putin. it could not get better for putin today. >> he has turned syria over to the russians. >> to iranians. >> and isis. >> this is a christmas gift to americas enemies. this will help isis and russia and iran. >> at the worst moment we have given up our leverage and handed it to rus...

The agreement was perfect. it was the policy equivalent of making lemonade out of let me nons. the trump administration has turned that let monlemonade bac lemons. >> we had an agreement. it could have kept iran for having a nuclear weapon for 15 years and probably after. thats a long story. by pulling out of that agreement, what trump has done is put himself in a cul-de-sac. hes got three options here. he can try and renegotiate the agreement. the iranians wont do it. he can consider military a...

I search for any items that a charity had named in trumps honor and came up with a theater seat in new jersey. a seat in florida. trumps list of presidential achievements so fares looks like the policy equivalent of two theater seats and a park bench. so, i mean, if thats how he operated as a private citizen, it doesnt seem like thats going to change how he operates now. >> its possible. its possibly true. one thing i saw when looking at his donations, when the spotlight wasnt on him, where did ...

Charity had named in trumps honor and came up with a theater seat in new jersey. a seat in florida. trumps list of presidential achievements so fares looks like the policy equivalent of two theater seats and a park bench. so, i mean, if thats how he operated as a private citizen, it doesnt seem like thats going to change how he operates now. >> its possible. its possibly true. one thing i saw when looking at his donations, when the spotlight wasnt on him, where did he actually give his money? it...