daniel schultz, professor of latin american academy in studies of the city of the city university of new york. it's so good to catch you on may. thank you very much. thank you. valerie, thank thank you. relations between the russia and nato are in a state of direct confrontation of the alliance as involvement in huge crate that is, according to the kremlin sports past chestnut inside these relations have now slipped to the level of direct confrontation. indeed, the nature of never stays, the line itself is in fact, not only comes to the increasing its engagement, but it is already involved in the conflict around ukraine. prepaid so continues moving towards how port is expanding its military infrastructure towards all borders. in fact, data continues to demonstrate its essence best because nato was conceived as the lines it was configured, created and managed by the us as an instrument on compensation, primarily on the european comes to the problem that does that conflict continues. nato support for ukraine does seem to be waning. some member states are starting to advocate for their

daniels from the asian society policy institute. my pleasure. thank you. hey, ukraine also top. the agenda talks in berlin between the german chancellor or la schultz. and the british prime minister refused to knock. it is the next 1st visit to germany since he took office 18 months ago. the 2 leaders also discussed plans to develop remote control artillery. due to these chief political editor, mckayla customer has this update on the tocs. this is really overseas through not the bridge department. it's a cool this inflection point. he called the ministry corporation between particularly germany and britain. the closest it has ever been. and the 1st for us is actually labeling. this is him returning to the world stage. he's just come from poland now speaking with the drum and so on. so it was quite clear that both on some more competition not to distill label themselves as the biggest supporter of ukraine without putting the other one in 2nd place within the european context. so clearly at both, once again said that they would continue to back at the ukraine, and that is the us house of representatives on the senate passing. that's $61000000000.00 wo

schultz. let me get your reaction to those quotes. >> as he was trying to influence the election, they will rely heavily on the timing of the alleged payments to miss daniels, which counter -- controvert the statement of trump's lawyer. however trump's lawyer is correct, these catch and kill journalistic payments, hush money payment, nondisclosure agreements have been used for years and decades and they are crimes. if they were crimes donald trump would be charged with those crimes. it is important to remember that the federal government did look into this to see if they thought he violated federal election law, alvin bragg is on record saying his case should have won in all of his committal cases. this is a prosecutor and defense attorney upstream match up in a courtroom moringa over what is and isn't and it is which lawyer paints the best picture on sub nation explaining what the evidence needs to this case. arthel: have prosecutors made their case the trump's hush money was election interference? >> reporter: everyone uses the term election interference when technically it is a hush money payment which is not a crime. prosecutors need to prove to take i