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Boyfriend loophole. joining me now is capitol hill news correspondent ali raffa. what are you hearing? >> we know this bill is being reviewed by the congressional budget office. we're expecting a vote in the senate on this tomorrow or friday before the senators leave on this two. week, 4th of july recess. right now that's something that senate majority leader chuck schumer says he's planning for and despite the gop support that we saw this bill garner during this vote last night, we saw 14 senate leaders, and what was

Could join the european union, that would be a massive step for ukraine after this war. katie. >> that's the latest on the ground. thank you, raf. i want to know, as more evidence of war crimes surface, does diplomacy have its limits? coming up, we'll ask evelyn farkas what really needs to be done to stop these atrocities and whether the west needs to rethink its strategy. now to washington where the january 6th committee appears to be closing in on donald trump. lawmakers finally got their shot at ivanka, questioning her for eight hours. now there's even bigger questions about whether don j...

Correspondent ali raffa. welcome to msnbc. so happy to have you. what impact do all the headlines have on the committee's work? >> reporter: good morning, lindsey. it's an honor to be here with you this morning. you mentioned it right off the top there. there were a lot of developments to talk about in this committee meeting yesterday, most notably the developments about how former president trump handled white house records. the revelations are the latest obstacles in the committee's repeated delayed investigation into what trump was doing in the hours that the capitol was being attacked. lis...

New fallout today from a freshman republican's remarks about ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy. north carolina congressman madison cawthorn taking heat from his own party. let's go to ali raffa on capitol hill for us. what are gop leaders saying about cawthorn's comments? >> reporter: this video has attracted a lot of attention here on capitol hill since it surfaced last week, and throughout the video, cawthorn refers to ukraine as corrupt and evil in addition to calling president zelenskyy a thug, as you mentioned. and this is an opinion that's extremely far from where the majority of the...

One new report says russia doesn't even have a commander on the battlefield. another says they're now having to train syrian mercenaries to stop it and another backs up the claim that putin is being misled by his closest advisers. now we will get to all of that later on in the show. we'll begin our analysis. we want to begin this morning first with the latest on the ground in ukraine. there are many reports coming out about movement from russia, exactly where they're going to be targeting next, and who they're going to be targeting next. we're also hearing reports of different civilian casualt...