of weakness to us adversaries. smooth and timely transitions of confirmed leadership. central to the defense of the united states, and stable and orderly leadership. transitions are also vital to maintaining our unmatched network of allies and partners and their crucial for our military readiness. tuberville is protesting a pentagon decision to provide paid leave and travel time for any service member who needs reproductive health services, including abortions and fertility treatments, and are posted in states where abortion is now banned. post dobbs decision the pentagon is adamant that it is not funding abortions. the center is not allowing a simple vote. it will take approximately 668 hours to confirm all these military nominations. that is 27 days if senate works around the clock. if they did nominations for eight hours a day it would take 84 days. so just vote is not an answer. these holds will affect military read enes and others may opt to leave the military sinc
what happened in his meeting with president biden, and what sort of promises were made, and what sort of promises can be kept? the alliance is sticking together, and the money and weapons have been pouring in along with still firm sanctions on moscow. but, with a u.s. presidential election looming, what can ukraine count on long term, and what can nato expect? are there contingencies for a second donald trump administration if it comes to that, and what about at other variable? republican lawmakers on the hill, the party is publicly split on supporting ukraine. some even calling for the u.s. to pull funding immediately. so as the president heads to helsinki to celebrate finland s entry and sweden s ascension, let s discuss what s to come. nbc correspondent josh lederman, in kyiv, kelly cobiella, and with me, new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker. everybody, welcome. josh, let me start with you. walk us through the meeting with president zelenskyy and th
defending mr. biden s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn t do it, if we don t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we re doing this, when we re doing it. my conversation this morning with nato s secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden s leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. sweden will become a member of the alliance. that s good for sweden. it s good for turkey. it s good for whole of nato. with both in the alliance, the whole task of protecting the baltic area becomes so much easier for this alliance. this is important for the whole nato, but in particular this region. good day. i m andrea mitchell in lithuania. we begin with the scene moments ago. president zelenskyy at a concert here at nato just hours after he
because senator but you, know just between us. just between you and me. thank you, buddy it is always good to see. thank you for a great show and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. a match and there were 50 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the people who would decide whether or not to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county, georgia. today, about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them by you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was and there. out there she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury and grand jury be. h one was made up of 20 theaters plus alternates. now other than a $25 a day these grand jurors w
along with joe, willie and me, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson. and president emeritus of the council on foreign relations, richard haass, back with us this morning. he somehow becomes even more distinguished. he does. amazing. erudite is the word that come comes to mind. yes. willie, we ll get to the whistleblower that comer couldn t find, and then must be humiliated, as they found him in the southern district of new york. oh boy. oh no. a spy or something like that. we ll get to the details in a little bit. seriously, the gang that couldn t shoot straight, they keep getting the political gun, aiming it right at their foot, right? it s absolutely crazy. willie, last night, of course, midsummer, one of the most fun annual traditions, not joey chestnut eating nathan s hot dog eating contest for the 16th time. 16th time, you have to love the guy. the home run derby last night, how exciting?