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i'm christina ruffini. alex witt is back tomorrow. up next, the beat weekend. >> with new. >> reporting on a. >> partizan purge. >> a plan to. politicize the fbi. >> this involves donald trump. >> and i'm going to show you exactly what's happening. but the. >> first thing to know is. >> this breaks with history. >> and precedent. >> it is not normal. it is not standard, and it is not. part of the other. >> traditional and. >> even expected. >> personnel moves. >> that you have between administrations. you may have. >> heard the term political. appointee and our coverage of these hearings. that's all standard. what's not standard, and what could. >> be a friday night sort. >> of news. >> dump. >> an effort to hide. >> something that donald. trump doesn't want you. >> to see on the news tonight. is this. >> top. >> nonpartisan and career fbi officials basically. >> being pushed. >> in a so-called. purge to. >> resign or. >> face firing. agents who were involved in. >> investigations of. >> maga. >> of the crime spree that was well. docu

i'm christina ruffini in today for katy tur. despite some pushback from within the republican party, president trump isn't letting up on. >> his. >> attacks against ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. just hours ago, at a meeting of the national governors association, trump accused zelensky of talking tough without the leverage needed to win the war against russia. now, according to the new york times, that criticism runs counter to what secretary of state marco rubio is telling european allies, sources tell the times rubio has been assuring leaders that nothing has changed, that the us-russia talks about the future of ukraine did not represent a significant departure from american policies, but rather a first step in a larger process a test of whether the kremlin is serious about making a deal. so who are the allies to believe what they hear from the secretary rubio, or from trump's special envoy to ukraine, who just today called zelensky a, quote, courageous leader of a nation at war, or from the president himself who cont

i'm christina ruffini in for alex this afternoon. as we mentioned, we've got breaking news at the top of this hour. new information on the plane crash in philadelphia. officials now reporting seven dead and 19 injured. and we are expecting word soon on what investigators found in the black boxes from that mid-air collision in washington, dc. live reports from both locations in a few minutes. we have reporters and analysts covering those developing stories at this hour, but there are new and big developments from the trump administration as well, with an apparent purge of fbi officials and some doj prosecutors associated with january 6th. let's head to nbc's yamiche alcindor. she's in west palm beach, florida, where the president is spending the weekend. yamiche, before we get to those moves, the president posted on x about a military strike in somalia. what are you hearing about that strike? >> that's right. just a few hours ago, president trump announced that there was a strike against isis. i want to read to you part of this truth

. >> i'm christina. >> ruffini in for alex today. and we're going to start off with three big headlines. breaking news on the trump tariffs on canada, mexico and china. are they actually hitting today. and what do we know. plus dramatic new developments this hour on the trump administration pushing out january 6th. prosecutors and breaking news on the mid-air collision in washington, dc. new information from the flight data recorders expected soon. of course, we have reporters and analysts in place covering all of these new developing storylines. but first, we want to start with new information coming out just a short time ago from that other plane crash in a neighborhood in philadelphia last night. nbc's maya eaglin is near the site of the crash. maya officials just released some critical new details. what are they and what are you learning? >> yeah. christina, we just heard from hero and mayor parker just a short while ago. they said that in addition to the six people who were on that plane that died, one other person who was on th

i'm christina. >> ruffini, in for katy tur. the first month of president trump's administration has marked a. seismic shift here. >> in washington and sent. >> tremors through america's european allies. >> as trump appears to not only be abandoning the u.s. position on ukraine, but. >> also taking. >> personal jabs at its leader. president vladimir zelensky. >> a dictator without elections. zelensky better move fast or he's not going to have a country left. got to move, got to move fast. i love ukraine, but zelensky has done a terrible job. his country is shattered and millions and millions of people have unnecessarily died. >> okay, we want to do a quick fact check here. zelensky is, in fact not a dictator. i was. actually in ukraine monitoring. >> the election. >> when zelensky ran. and physically i took this photo you see on your screen, physically watched them count the votes at different polling stations. zelensky won overwhelmingly. that's his pile there on the right. and at the time was thought of as a very trumpian figu