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i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york, and this morning our first glimpse into donald trump's new game plan after he pleaded not guilty to federal charges. >> i hadn't had a chance to go through all the boxes. it's a long, tedious job. i did everything right, and they indicted me. >> he projected confidence in front of a supportive new jersey audience. we have new nbc news reporting that trump knows he's in for a long legal showdown, potentially even more charges making this challenge unlike anything trump's faced in the past. and as trump prepares his legal defense, the republic...

Ground. and taking them away from their earlier training, top down training and allowing them not only to become familiar with western weaponry, but also with becoming more flexible in terms of decision-making on the ground, more nimble in having that authority. talk about the roles that all of that training has played to help the ukrainians become as successful as they're showing they are right now. >> well, the training has been really important. the focus of training, of course, is really to train leaders. now, the military and the west have noncommissioned officers. and i think that's a di...

Stay focused on it. and your stories every night are helping us. molly, you know i'm going back, but you are going to be here for a while. we are going to make sure that those stories that you bring us every night make it on to our tv sets and our viewers can see them. molly, thanks again, we'll talk to you later. nbc's molly hunter, in kyiv, she is on the capital of ukraine. joining me now is the retired military colonel alexander vindman. he's charge of european affairs for the security council, and author of the important book here, right matters, an american story. colonel vindman, i want ...

Be finally getting off the sidelines for a reluctant administration, a reluctant national security council. what it would mean is that we actually start taking a longer view of the fact that this will be a protracted war and start looking to train ukraine on more advanced weaponry, western weaponry. not just -- weaponry. in a lot of, ways it means that we're pushing equipment further to the border in poland, the border in hungary, if they allow. it to the border and slovakia in romania. ukrainians couldn't start to dry out equipment as they need. it they don't make a request and that it has to...