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good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. just moments ago, you saw it here on msnbc, president biden delivering an address defending democracy and freedom at the pointe du hoc ranger monument in normandy, france. 80 years ago there at pointe du hoc, u.s. army rangers scaled the 100 foot cliffs overlooking omaha and utah beaches on d-day. it is about seven miles west of the normandy american cemetery, also where in 1984 then president ronald reagan delivered one of his moment memorable speeches. before the speech today, president biden met with ukrainian president zelenskyy, announcing a new $225 million military assistance package for ukraine. joining us now, richard haass, president emeritus of the council on foreign relations and elise labbott. wondering your thoughts on this speech the day it was delivered, what it means for the history of the world, what we witnessed there 80 years ago. well, jose, what happened 80 years ago, in ....
is as well. and cnn politics reporter to koppen. former business partner, manafort, rick gates maybe called this week. he is considered a star witness. in exchange for his guilty plea. what is to be expected from him? yes, that s right, fred. i mean, in many ways, this is sort of what everyone has been waiting for the trial to build up to. he was the man who is sort of on the inside so to speak on all of these different pieces of the puzzle that have been being put together by this testimony from, you know, from accountants, from the various sort of external factors in manafort s world. but this is the man who was, you know, supposedly according to prosecutors side by side with manafort as much as this went down and may be the one to testify, you know, exactly what he was thinking and doing and intending, which is so important when you re building this criminal case. you know, he also is sort of the connection to trump world. that we haven t seen as much. and that s what has t ....
The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. and then actually never really does do it. like release his taxes, right. then there s other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. the big question is, is he going to do it in this case? we don t know what donald trump we re fog to get on that particular day. although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and that s something muler is doing, to see if there s any condemning statements he s made in those tweets. he s been warned about that for a very long time. the president continues, you know, to tweet. whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. how will mueller use these tweets to his advantage? even if they never get direct q & a from the president? ....
Elise labbott. wondering your thoughts on this speech the day it was delivered, what it means for the history of the world, what we witnessed there 80 years ago. well, jose, what happened 80 years ago, in no small part account for this extraordinary run of history ever since. i think historians will look back on the last three quarters of the century as something of a golden age. the way world war ii was finally resolved, the triumph of the democratic allies, and then much of the post world war ii era is quite extraordinary in what was accomplished and what was avoided. president gave a fine speech today, the problem is whether he is now speaking for the united states. and this country could change more after november, so as ....
Us. a current and former u.s. official are telling me and my colleague elise labbott that u.s. officials met secretly with venezuelan military officers to discuss a possible coup against venezuelan president maduro. meeting with these military officers in several overt meetings over the last year, and these meetings happened abroad. washington ultimately decided against supporting this coup against the venezuelan president. we know this white house has sent a very firm stance against venezuela. they ve issued numerous sanctions. we know the president has said in the past that he is still considering a military option. he has kept open that possibility. we also reported earlier this summer that the president had previously talked to aides about the possibility of invading venezue venezuela. we also now know this coup that ....