permanent representative julie smith will represent secretary austin at the nato defense ministerial scheduled for thursday. we will keep you updated on outcomes from both of these important meetings. switching gears, this month, marks the two year anniversary since the white house released its anda pacific strategy, in the last two years the department of defense had done more than ever to advance a shared vision for free and open indo pacific regions. we made historic advancements and alliances with the republic of korea, japan, australia, philippines, india, and others across the region and even as we confront challenges elsewhere, the united states will continue to prioritize their efforts in the critical region in support of international security, stability, and prosperity. for more information see our fact sheet on the dod website. our prayers with the people of the philippines as a long-standing ally faces severe flooding and landslides from a series of storms. u.s. marines from the third marine expeditionary force has assisted with the philippine government and usaid in deli

s. representative investor, julie smith, who was standing in for defense secretary austin. so it was, it was good timing for the nato meeting to put out their own messages to counter what uh, what we've heard from donald trump. all correspondence that terry shows, i have nasal headquarters in brussels. thank you very much, terry. as of now, some of the other stories making headlines today. the 1st criminal trial of a full us president is set to go ahead. next months off to a new york judge rejected a bid from donald trump to have the case dismissed. the challenges stem from hush, money paid to 2 women ahead of the 2016 presidential elections authorities in thailand have issued a 2 day work from home, owed at full bangkok, city employees due to the highest mobile apps. and that quality index shows the amount of dangerous product goes us 15 times higher than w o h o recommendations. the city is small. this caused by crop burning, industrial pollution, and heavy traffic. in india, the government is to hold talks with pharmacy following most protests coating, full guaranteed cr

july. trump saying august. your reaction? >> my first reaction was i was thinking last night when this ruling came out from the supreme court that if i'm jack smithd get this trial, not the documents case scheduled -- but the election case scheduled for the first business day after july 4th because you would have a ruling on the immunity issue by then. you can't have one defendant on trial in three courtrooms at the same time. so i'm a little surprised that they did this. it's also interesting, too, because i think what this tells us is that the trump camp probably sees being on trial in the documents case as good for his campaign because instead of trying to lay it as they have in the past, past the election, you're saying bringing it on now and they can basically run on this. if he gets convicted he can -- he thinks he can probably pardon himself and he thinks it's probably a good opportunity to get a free campaign, free air time and get his base all stirred up right on the eve of the election. so -- >> and david, with that said, let me jump in and when trump says okay, august, which is new and out tonight, we've heard a lot of talk here today

tonight, jack smith is now proposing a trial date of july 8th. the trump team, though, is still pushing for this to happen after the election. there's a hearing on this tomorrow, though, where we may hear more from the judge. david? >> david: mary bruce, thank you. >>> we turn now to that horrific scene in gaza. tonight, authorities say more than 100 palestinians were killed and at least 700 were injured in a stampede for much-needed food that was arriving, and then israeli gunfire. how the israeli military is now explaining this. abc's tom soufi burridge in israel. >> reporter: tonight, the moment israeli troops opened fire at a crowd of gazans desperate for food near a convoy of aid trucks. this surveillance video showing thousands of people surrounding the vital supplies moving into northern gaza. an israeli tank firing warning shots, attempting to disperse what they called a threatening crowd. the idf claiming self-defense, saying they were there to support the convoy, and then when people got too close to the tanks, they opened fire. this ma

post-presidency at nato julian smith expressed confidence that ukraine will not receive an invitation to join the military-political bloc at... the upcoming nato summit in julyntries approved a multi-year package of support for ukraine, but no time frame for the country’s entry into the alliance, which kiev insisted on, was outlined. the crews of su-25 attack aircraft launched a missile attack on a stronghold of the ukrainian armed forces. footage of the combat work of russian pilots was published by our ministry of defense. pilots operated at extremely low altitudes, bending. in the area, then the pilots launched unguided s-13 missiles using a pitching maneuver, this is done so that the missiles fly as if along a suspended trajectory, several kilometers into the distance. according to the ministry of defense, the electronic warfare stations of the ukrainian armed forces did not prevent the attack aircraft from successfully completing their combat mission. the flight was carried out at an extremely low altitude, with strong resistance from the enemy’s mid-strap. according to the report of the forward air gunner. targets were hit, police equipment worked prop

now you're looking at the florida the mar-a-lago case blocking july, august, september that just leaves nowhere for jack smith's other case, the dc case to go. so i'm going to be looking to see how the parties are trying to manipulate push poll that trial date. >> but did they not fear the classified documents case? i mean, if they're happy to have that one go for us, does that mean they feel like that? one is more winnable for them? >> if that's the strategy, then yes, that's what it tells you and i'm trying to think about this. if i was donald trump's defense lawyer hypothetically, the way i would look at it is the stronger evidence, yet we're being hypothetical here. the stronger evidence against my hypothetical client is in the florida case, the documents case. it's easier for a jury to understand he had classified documents he showed i've had them. he didn't come back. he obstructed justice. it's a neater fit with the law. the dc case, the january 6 case, is more complicated and a little bit of a messier fit but your jury pool, if you're donald trump's team is so much better in florida. i mean, donald trum

the moving the trial back more than a month, special counsel jack smith wants to delay the start of the classified documents trial to july suggested an august 1st start but says a fire trial can't be held this year. all types of classifications problems to be worked out on this particular trial. there is a hearing on the federal judge on this scheduling discrepancy tomorrow in south florida. ♪ >> a massive wildfire that has sconkd more than a million acres of land in just four days in the texas panhandle has now become the largest such event in texas state history. firefighters continue their desperate attempts to contain that blaze. crews working to extinguish the fire as well as four others across that region are hoping to get a brief and rather bizarre wintry assist from the weather as a blanket of snow fell across that area. ♪ a prominent member of the so-called progressive squad is offering a solution for homelessness. money with no strings attached, correspondent alexandria hoff takes a look this evening. >> cash without conditions. progressive congresswoman rashida tlaib sees that as a solution to house young peop

figure and reveal and for his base this is the mother of his douglas smith or establishment x, i guess, i guess both in our former july and prize of and so best antonietta is lying in states in the capital santiago, 2 days after he died in a helicopter crash, the public started paying the last respects to ban yet on wednesday nights, state funeral will be held on friday. the following president's time and office was full of highs and lows in the dramatic rescue tracts. mine is the widespread protest against economic inequality in 2019 the south african president. so rather photo is that this al, delivering the state of the nation address at pilot buildings in cape town, is addressed south africa's case of the international criminal court seeking the protection of palestinians and the war on garza. well that springing out colorado, hotmail, when the 8, he's a professor of african politics at the university of south africa and joins us from pretoria. so i think the speech is still ongoing. well, what do you make of it so far? are going to be pleased to begin this page is more like a reflection on the countries the 3 dec

july. the argument for urgency was stressed in jack smith's ruling last week asking the supreme court to rejectolution of these charges threatens to frustrate the public interest in a speedy and fair verdict. a compelling interest and one that has unique national importance here. all while the timing of other cases involving the ex-president are in question. classified documents trial is expected to get pushback from its expected may date. the trial in georgia has still not been set and the supreme court has yet to rule on the 14th amendment challenge to trump's ballot eligibility. legal issues with the clock ticking. that is where we start this hour with jordan rubin, our deadline legal blog writer and former prosecutor. plus here at the table, democratic strategist and director of the public policy program at hunter college, and lisa rubin is back with us. lisa, talk to me about the strategy. it's well documented at this point. delay, delay, delay. where is it working for him and where is it not? >> it's certainly not working for example from the new york d.a.'s case where the judge has set a

smith. and that's why i'm comfortable saying that this decision will never come down before the last day. because there will be dissents -- >> it's julyences. >> and look, andrew weismann, i keep coming back to this, because, i'll grab the short stick and i'll just say it, trump wins. his legal strategy is never to defend himself on the merits, ever. never has been. not in mueller, not in when he wanted to come and answer question and lie. he ultimately lies in writing. not in mar-a-lago. his defense is to say, when you're famous, they let you do it, same thing we heard him say in his own words on the "access hollywood" tape, about grabbing women you know where, between the legs. so again, the legal strategy, he trotted it out with mueller, perfected it, maybe, mar-a-lago documents and here we go. we now have wittingly or unwittingly, an assist in the delay legal strategy from the supreme court today. >> i couldn't agree more, and i think what you're hearing from people like neal and me is trying to grasp at some hope, because there is the hope that they would decide this quickly and thus, you know, you do tack on those 88 days. that'

from green to yellow and red for the first time in july 2002 looking at the period through january 6th and later as you know through doj through jack smith's probe indicted five of these plots which we've shown you before and which the court just discussed and trump's trial had not occurred yet and that's what the whole clash is about and the appeals judges made the point of referring to these several plots that we were telling you about as an assault, attempted and if proven on the structure of the u.s. government from trying to steal local votes and demanding state officials overturn results which you see there to pushing the lies which the judges knowingly false claims of election fraud. this matters legally because while any single statement by a politician or any even single plot might be minimized or might not reach the level of the bar of proving a crime, many plots together and the evidence here now cited by this powerful appeals court build the case against trump including his own damning acts. >> in pennsylvania there were 205,000 more ballots cast than there were voters. >> over 30,000 illegal aliens voted in arizona. >> they ca

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smith spoke on behalf of us administration. earlier, foreign policy wrote in its material that currently the united states and germany are expressing doubts about inviting ukraine to nato already at this summit in july. i also talked about it with the ambassador, the former ambassador of the united states to ukraine with tseven peifer. he said that there really are, this is how it looks now, certain disagreements, and in his opinion it would be important to adopt some kind and find a compromise solution for those countries that already support the invitation to ukraine. countries that doubt, in his opinion, such a compromise solution could be the announcement of the start of negotiations on ukraine's accession to nato, with the prospect of an early invitation to membership, he said, and compared it with the decision previously adopted in the european union, the ambassador said that it put nato, as he says, on a parallel track with the european union and would allow a compromise solution to be reached between those countries that have not yet decided on ... their position, we know that olaf scholz was in washington last week, he met with joe biden, they talked about supporting ukraine, and they also

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julie, mike, this is likely headed to the supreme court. the question is what will they do and how quickly will they do it? special counsel jack smith wants this trial to start before the election. while the strategy for mr. trump's team has been to delay, delay, delay, say the legal and political ramifications are massive. a federal appeals court unanimously rejected former president trump's claim that he's immune from prosecution related to charges he allegedly plotted to overturn the 2020 election, not only are they unified that they all said no, no, no to trump's arguments here, but there wasn't a single author. >> they decided to speak with one voice. i thought that was hugely significant. >> in a 57 page opinion, the court answered a question they've never been asked before, writing in part, quote, for the purpose of the criminal case. former president trump has become citizen trump. trump's team vowed to appeal, while the former president railed against the decision on truth, social writing, if not overturned as it should be, this decision would terribly injure not only the presidency but the life breath and success of our co