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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," former president trump back in court after storming out this morning, fuming in the middle of closing arguments in the e. jean carroll defamation and damages case with the jury watching it all. while nikki haley scheduled two south carolina rallies this weekend. donors pour millions into her campaign, defying trump's appeal to write her off. and the u.n.'s highest court pressures israel to stem the loss of lives in gaza but does not come down hard on israel, as cia director bill burns crosses the atlantic, trying to pose a deal to free the ho...

and all of this is against the back drop of our response to nato's -- to russia's aggression and to help ukraine defend itself. united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant contributions. sect austin just brought together more than 50 countries, more than 50 countries pledging new commitments and this is a global effort to support ukraine. nearly 140,000 anti-tank systems, more than 600 tanks, nearly 500 artillery systems, more than 600,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, as well as advanced multiple launch roc...

He cannot do that. so i think he's now changed his tactics but not his ultimate aim of seizing all of the ukraine or as much as he can. so sadly, i think we're in for a long conflict. and i think it is great that you brought the press conference in its entirety. i think what we just watched is one of the most important press conferences of his presidency. it was on domestic and foreign policy. domestically he talked about ending the filibuster and foreign policy, we're stationing permanent troops in poland, we're expanding the reporter with russia by 800 miles. we're in a new world. so that wa...

Different investments being made in nato. troops being moved. being added on permanent locations in poland, et cetera, et cetera. he also made a direct line between gas prices here in the u.s. and russia later in his comments. let's bring in professor of history or cal studies at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies and associate at harvard university, mary elise sarrot. and with us military analyst former deputy commander of the united states european command and retired u.s. army lieutenant general stef twitty joins us. good to have you both with us today. and i'...

And enhancing those troops. how much of a historic moment is for some european nations to have that happen? >> first of all, mika, it is great to see this alliance remain ironclad against russia. i will tell you that it is also impressive to see all of the things that have been committed of course there have been words not deeds yet. hopefully those deeds will come to fold. but if you take a look at u.s., we're going to bolster ore commitment in the east. we'll have rotational combat in romania and we'll have the u.s. army fifth corp which is the commanded by lieutenant general, we're going to...