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good evening once again, good to be back with you, i am stephanie ruhle. and tonight we are tracking important developments in several investigations into the former president, donald j trump. nbc news reports that fulton county, eight fani willis, it will begin choosing to grand jury s tomorrow. if we ll estates pursue charges against donald trump, these jurors will be the people signing off on them. meanwhile, special counsel jack smith wants to take the classified documents case to trial this december. both sides have agreed to a hearing next tuesday about handling evidence that was supposed to happen this friday. the judge has yet to give the okay. the timing of the trial is absolutely key, you know why, because we are just seven months out from the first presidential primaries. the judge knows that, if this trial does not occur by the end of this calendar year, that it is going to be right up in the grill of people deciding who the republican nominees for preside ....
president was in helsinki standing side by side with vladimir putin defending the russian leader. we ll take you there live. also, right now, wild weather coast to coast from tornados in chicago to flooding in the northeast, and more than 100 million americans under the thumb of a historic heat wave. we have your forecast. plus, setting the stage for another hollywood strike, first writers, now actors, what it could mean for all your entertainment. good morning, it s 10:00 eastern. thanks for being here. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and we begin in helsinki where we are just minutes away from a joint press conference with president biden and the president of finland, nato s newest member. let s go there now with nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba. walk us through the presidents day there in finland so far. reporter: well, ana, this is really a historic cap to a week of critical meetings for president biden overseas, and he s here in fin ....
will begin choosing two grand jury s tomorrow. if we ll estates pursue charges against donald trump, these jurors will be the people signing off on them. meanwhile, special counsel jack smith wants to take the classified documents case to trial this december. both sides have agreed to a hearing next tuesday about handling evidence that was supposed to happen this friday. the judge has yet to give the okay. the timing of the trial is absolutely key, you know why, because we are just seven months out from the first presidential primaries. the judge knows that, if this trial does not occur by the end of this calendar year, that it is going to be right up in the grill of people deciding who the republican nominees for president should be and, right now, the favorite in fact is the defendant. the case is also the focus of a new political ad that started airing in the battleground states of arizona, georgia, and wisconsin. in it, former cia and nsa director michael haden ....
the places that s expected to be hardest hit. how will we get all those power for those new electric vehicles? think nuclear, but there is a problem, we ll explain. president biden is on his way home after a trip to europe, marking the first anniversary of the russian invasion of ukraine. today the president met with ally leaders to affirm u.s. support of nato. he said russia is making a big mistake by suspending his suspension in the last remaining nuclear armed treaty with the u.s. white house correspondent, peter ducey, is in warsaw tonight. good evening. reporter: good evening, bret, new alliances are forming that is threatening u.s. interests around the world. president biden relying on an old alliance. we ll defend every inch of nato, every inch of nato. reporter: that message is just not for russia anymore. it is for what could be described as a new axis of super powers. of course, we are waiting for the head of china s people republic to visit russia ....
He ll be talking about. so he did have some of those meetings over the last couple of hours here. again, touting this united front, unwavering support for ukraine. and then he will have this press conference with the finnish president where he will be sort of putting this all into context, everything that he s done in the last week or so to, in his view, try to reposition and reaffirm america s dominance on the world stage and return that to a place compared to where things were with the previous administration. i think you can expect the president to touch on that. here s a little more of what he had to say about his major takeaways following these visits to several countries. okay. it sounds like we don t have that sound, monica. but let me ask you because this is, you know, now happening three months after finland joined nato. this is the last stop on president biden s european trip. is he trying to send a message ....