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135 adults and 35 children. a hero. on that note, i wish you all a good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow as you know, wait till is on hiatus. but i'm glad to be able to tell you tonight that she will be back next. week rachel will be once again be the host starting monday night. but tonight i am joining you from lviv, ukraine. we have a lot of developments to get to, not just here in ukraine but in the united states as well. a historic moment today, as the united states senate confirmed judge ketanji brown-jackson to the supreme court in a bipartisan vote. we will have more on that vote and what it means to black women and all americans that the first black woman has been confirmed. also, we will look at a whole

mess of potential legal troubles facing donald trump, including the new attorney general moving to have the former president be held in contempt for failing to comply with their investigation. so, there's a lot of moving parts to keep up with tonight. but we begin in brussels, where ukraine's foreign minister met with the united states secretary of state another top diplomats from native countries. when he arrived, he did not mince words. >> i came to brussels to participate in the nato ministerial and to hold bilateral meetings. my job is simple. it had three items. weapons, weapons, weapons. >> ukraine's foreign minister told nato allies today that his country needs more weapons now because even as russian forces have withdrawn from the area around the capital, kyiv, the next phase of the war is about to begin in the donbas, in ukraine's east. >> as we speak, the battle for the donbas is underway.

it has not reached its maximum scale but every day, the heaviest fighting takes place in that part of ukraine. and more is to come, unfortunately. the battle for donbas, we remind you -- and i regret to say it but this is true -- the battle for the donbas will remind you of the second world war and its large operational maneuvers, and involvement of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, artillery. either you help us now and i am speaking about in days and not weeks or your help will come too late. >> it is in ukraine's east, along with president zelenskyy, are urging residents to evacuate their ahead of the expected russian onslaught.

the regional governor of luhansk warned that this may be, quote, the last chance for civilians to escape. and that we know maybe closing rapidly. the governor reported today that russia bombed a vital railway line, cutting off the only rail evacuation route from the donbas. he said multiple trains of evacuees are now stranded, as ukraine's east, already devastated by russian bombardment, braces for further attacks. there are few firm commitments from nato allies on sending the weapons to ukraine. the prime minister of neighboring slovakia's traveling to kyiv to tomorrow along with the president of the european commission. he says how lackey is ready to provide ukraine with the soviet made antiaircraft missiles. but only if slovakia can first secure a permanent replacement antiaircraft islam to defend itself. and in the u.s. today, measures to cut off normal trade relations with russia and ban russian oil imports passed the senate unanimously.

and the house on almost unanimously. the eu approved a ban on russian coal. and the un general assembly voted to yank russia off the un human rights council. this flurry of activities has been sparked in large part by the grisly images and reports from the towns around kyiv we russian forces have withdrawn from. but today, in a rare interview with a western media outlet, vladimir putin's spokesman told sky news that photos and satellite images of dead civilians left behind by russian forces are all fake's. in law is staged by the ukrainians. he did admit that russia has, quote, significant losses of troops, which he calls, quote, a huge tragedy for us. end quote. it's an unusual acknowledgment and peace of truth from the russian government. but there was yet more evidence today refuting the denials from putin spokesman. russian radio traffic reportedly intercepted by german intelligence. those intercepts reportedly included russian soldiers

discussing the indiscriminate killing of civilians in ukraine. we are going to be talking -- to the german reporter who broke that story later. the denials from the russian government also continue to be refuted by evidence on the ground. and i must warn you, sadly, as i do every night now, that some of what we are about to show you is disturbing. because in the kyiv suburb of bucha they are continuing to collect bodies, which have been found in mass graves, as well as individually buried in yards and in gardens. and those bringing bodies to the cemeteries say that victims were often shot in the head, blindfolded with their arms tied. ukrainian officials counted 320 civilian casualties in bucha alone as of last night. many more remain to be found. this video hand out from ukraine's emergency services shows workers coming through the rubble of destroyed apartment blocks in the nearby town of borodyanka.

and searching for bodies. officials have warned that the toll here maybe higher than even in bucha. as nbc's gabe gutierrez reports tonight, ukraine says that bombings in executions are not the only ways that russia is trying to break the will of the ukrainian populists. it may also be trying to starve them. >> near her apartment, nina leads us to three shelagh raves, neighbors lost. one of them was just 30 years old. russian troops ravaged her neighborhood outside kyiv for more than a month. >> how hard has this been? >> it was cold, she says, and we had no food. in another suburb, this woman's apartment exploded. russian soldiers broke open doors, choking off our town from supplies. >> what is the hardest part about moving on from this? >> i have a feeling it is all a bad dream, she says. but the nightmare is not over. ukraine's president zelenskyy

is accusing russia of using hunger as a weapon, reminiscent of stalin's forced famine during the 1930s. the ukrainians say that the russians are now blocking food and water from southern cities, like mariupol. and in villages outside hostomel, there were -- going house by house. did they take your food? >> they were stealing practically everything, she says, starting with food and ending with even children's toys. >> under circumstances like those, it is little wonder that ukraine is begging western allies for more support and more weapons. the question is, will they get what they say they need and will they get it in time? joining us now from kyiv is ivana, a ukrainian member of parliament and also the chair of its committee on the integration of ukraine to the european union. thank you for being with us. tonight. ukraine's foreign minister,

dmytro collab, a was in brussels today asking nato allies for more help because he is concerned, as many people are, that russia is regrouping for an assault on eastern ukraine. and he said, because of, that ukraine's military aid is needed in days, not weeks. you work with the eu. you know how the bureaucracy works. what has to happen to get to the weapons you need? >> well, first and foremost, i would like to reiterate that, yes, ukraine needs additional military support. and massive military capacity is needed in order to ensure that we are winning in the war against evil. we also need more sanctions and we also need more financial support. in order to get it to work, we definitely have to go from free war bureaucracy to something that is envisaged in engagement of everyone. and totally giving up on prewar procedures. and in taking the decision,

political will is needed. and from taking the decision, we need to execute it very, very quickly. >> do you feel that that has changed? because i sense, from being here in ukraine, that certainly the discoveries out of bucha over the weekend changed the way that things have been going so far. is that motivating people in terms of political will? to get you both the money and the aid and the weapons that you need? >> well, i think that the whole point policy of many of the european states have actually changed a lot since the beginning of this war. but definitely, bucha and irpin and borodyanka, and other places, all those atrocities that have been a reveal to the world, after the towns were liberated, they are adding to the readiness, to the resolve, to the capability of different nations to act. and i think the major role here is also lying with this is

societies that are pushing their politicians to help our country in order to ensure that our values do prevail. >> it is remarkable, though, to listen to your foreign minister, your president, and members of parliament like you and then listen to what the russian government is saying. today, vladimir putin's spokesperson, dimitri peskov, repeated a line that has taken hold in russia, calling the atrocities in bucha and the other cities you mentioned a forgery aimed at smearing russia. how do you fight back against that type of messaging, that the russians are continuing at the united nations and in the media? >> you know, i think the whole world has already seen that russia has a serious track record of lies, manipulation. and that it is trying to continue doing this. we have seen this from the very first start of the war, back in 2014.

-- remember the flight -- when it was down by russian troops? with his support of the russian military? that particular incident, as they called, it was portrayed by russia in seven or eight different ways, where they were trying to picture it as something that had no relations to the russian federation but we know that mh17 was connected, indeed connected to the russian federation. so, at this time right now, russia is just continuing on its lies. and we have to ensure that our major weapon is truth. and that is what we are coming with. and that is how we can probably break the neutrality of some of those nations, those democracies that are still indulging russian propaganda today, like india, for example, or south africa or brazil.

>> the world's biggest democracy continues to vacillate on what to do about russia. there is an interesting piece of truth that did come out today. and that is that vladimir putin spokesperson also admitted that russia has suffered what he called a significant loss of troops into the beginning of the invasion. tell me what you make of that candid this about the losses. because up until now russia has been downplaying the troop losses that they have had. they are now admitting that this is as bad as some people are saying. >> some people, not some people. but probably as armed forces are reporting. i think it is getting more and more difficult to hide. and in the big country of russia, it's difficult to hide those losses they have been suffering. because more and more people are getting information that their sons, husbands and brothers are not coming back. because they lost their lives in ukraine fighting against ukrainians.

and i think that that is causing this particular kind of change and shift in the narrative that russia is presenting to the world. >> ivanna klympush is a member of ukraine's parliament. ivanna klympush, thank you for being with us this evening. >> thank you for having. me. >> up next, a historic day in the u.s. senate today, as judge ketanji brown jackson is confirmed to the supreme court. we will talk to someone who has a special insight into what today means. stay with us. stay with us

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50, three the nays votes are 47. and the nominations. confirmed. [applause] you hear that? they are still going. that went on for almost a minute before they were gaveled to order. there was a sound from the floor in the gallery of the senate after it voted 53 to 47 to vote and confirm ketanji brown-jackson to the supreme court. the country's first black woman vice president denounced the confirmation of the country's first black woman to become supreme court justice. the applause was the sound of progress in history sustained. nearly all of the 47 republican senators who voted against judge jackson after working overtime to prevent or confirmation left the room as

the sound grew louder. senator mitt romney stayed, on his feet, applauding the moment. the senator was one of three republicans who broke ranks with the parties rigid stance against judge jackson. he voted yes based on the judges merits. so, he joined in the joy that filled the senate chamber. just ahead of the vote, senator warnock, the first black senator from the state of georgia, explained that joy this way. >> mister president, i rise to today to express my -- joy in voting to confirm judge ketanji brown-jackson to the united states supreme court. what a great date is for the united states of america. and for our system of government and the grand march towards the fulfillment of the covenant we have with one another as an american people. "e pluribus unum" out of many,

one. ketanji brown jackson's improbable journey to the nation's highest court is reflection of our own journey. through fits and starts, towards the nation's highest ideals. and she embodies the arc of our history, and like my brother, senator booker, i know what it has taken for judge jackson to get to this moment and no one is going to steal my joy. yes, i am a senator. i am a pastor. but beyond that, i'm the father of a young black girl. i know how much it means for judge jackson to have navigated

the double jeopardy of racism and sexism into next hand in the glory of this moment in all of her excellence. >> and judge jackson did stand and the glory of that moment with the president, who nominated her to fill justice breyer's seat. they felt the arc of history band. we will get to hear from judge jackson to more when she delivers her remarks alongside president biden and vice president harris. this is what the vice president had to say about the vote today after she gaveled it in. >> i am overjoyed. and deeply moved. there is still so much yet to accomplish. and that we can accomplish, including on a day like today that is so historic and so important for so many reasons. and i do believe it is a very as a nation. that we have just made a

decision to put this extraordinary jurist on the highest court of the. land >> it is a good statement about extrao who we are. it is also a reminder of who we have been and how we are still striving and sometimes succeeding to become more perfect. after 233 years of supreme court rulings, it had been 115 justices. 108 were white men. five were women, two were black men and 31 years since the last black justice was confirmed, we will finally have a black woman justice, someone who is exceptionally qualified and highly respected and will make the supreme court look just a bit more like the country it serves. this is who we are today. and that have lucian matters. it matters to the country and specifically to the black women

who will now stand on judge jackson's shoulders as they become tourists, working to help make the union more perfect. the new york times spoke to women who are members of the harvard black law students association, where judge jackson is an alumna. it's a small group, and 84 students are black women, out of a total 1700 students enrolled in the law program. one of those 84 students, mariah k. watson, told the times, quote, i'm grateful for the hard steps and all that chipping away that judge jackson is doing right now, so that the path is cleared or at least a little clearer for those who seek to come after her. joining us now is mariah watson, a third year law student at harvard law school and president of the harvard black law students association. ms. watson, thank you for being with us. i have to ask you first, what was it like seeing this today? >> this was historic. i -- we were together as a group of law students and our associations came together to

bring us as a classroom together, to stream it. you can imagine the uproar in the room as students were elated, to say the very least, that i promise had been fulfilled and that one of our very own has been nominated to the highest court in the land. >> you told the new york times that judge jackson has made the path for those who seek to come after her a little clearer. i want to ask you about the path she had to walk, which include graduating from harvard law school, followed by years of experience on the bench, and 24 hours of testimony very recently that questioned her record and character. this was her path to becoming an associate justice on the supreme court. tell me how you have digested this over the last several weeks. >> it has been complicated across the law school. i think if you look at the other quotes, we know that she was amazing. not only at the things that you

mentioned but she was on the law review. she served not only on the federal circuit at the court of appeals level but also as a district court judge for many years. she knows the law backwards and forwards. and she has been excellent in everything that she has attempted to do. so, part of the digesting is saying, well, you almost have to be without flaw. and she is amazing. and we do not take away from that. but the way in which she had to be perfect, not only in her professional life, but also in her personal life, and the deep, in-depth questions that they asked, nothing was off limits. so, we don't know. this is what becomes comes before us. if you want to ascend to this level, and you are a black woman, that means you will fight twice as hard to get there. >> i want to talk about something that you said to senator alex padilla of california. that as a harvard student that she once asked herself, do i belong here? can i make it in this

environment? there is a lot of language we are hearing now about who belongs in spaces. and that includes the supreme court, or where you are at harvard law school, places where there are relatively few black women. who needs to see that people who look like judge jackson belong in those spaces? the women who might follow her path? or is it the 47 senators who voted against her? who needs the proof that she has had to provide? >> i think it is both. i think it is the women who are trying to follow in her footsteps. as we look across the classroom or even in walking down the halls, and seeing the portraits of professors that do not look like us. and we are reading opinions written by people who do not reflect who we are. and you are wondering, am i meant to be here? is this the right place for me? and where does success lead? so, i think part of it is knowing that, as black women and as black people, and as just women in general, it's that we can ascend to these levels. and that now we have a role model. but i think it is equally

important for the 47 senators who voted no and the people who maybe share similar ideologies, for why they voted no, to see that black women can be brilliant, can be fair. and can function at the highest levels and do it really, really well. and i think that that is something that needs to be seen. i think there are a lot of assumptions we do not always talk about, around what it means to succeed and be brilliant when you are part of a marginalized community. and i think showing her credentials and her amazingness that she is going to bring to the court, is going to hopefully chip away at some of those assumptions. >> you have done something that many of us have not done. you met judge jackson in person. tell us a bit about that experience and in particular her willingness to make yourself available to aspiring young lawyers. >> absolutely. judge jackson, now justice jackson, or soon to be, regularly visited harvard law school. and i had the good fortune of meeting her in the fall of

2019. she came to speak to the black law students association in a lunch. and she talked to us about diversity in the judiciary. and she answered every single question that we, as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed -- had about what it meant to be here and how she persevered in her classroom, when she didn't feel like presenting or felt like she could not speak on things that she really cared about. or, how did she make herself known on campus? she talked about the importance of legal writing. she talked about the importance of understanding the law and having an intimate command of the doctrine. she talked about how to show up, even when you do not feel like you can. and she talked about how she did it. it is just an amazing opportunity. she also talked to us about court competition, and ways we could show our beautiful, brilliant, black community in spaces and not just in our organization. >> what an experience to have

met her and to have heard her speak. thank you for joining, us mariah, mariah k. watson is a third year law student at harvard law school and a graduate of the harvard black law students association. we are grateful for your time and your sharing of your experiences with us tonight. >> thank you. >> before we go to break, i want to draw your attention to something else that happened earlier today. shortly before announcing ketanji brown jackson's historic confirmation vote, vice president harris said did something that was rather unexpected. you can see on the left-hand side of your screen. she pulled out some paper. it turns out that that was vice presidential stationary. she proceeded to hand it over to the only two black democrats in the senate. senators cory booker and raphael warnock. apparently, the vice president told them she hadn't assignment. she wanted each of them to write a letter to a young black woman in their life as a way of commemorating the state in history. senator raphael warnock has shared the letter that he wrote. it is addressed to his daughter

chloe and it reads. today, we confirmed ketanji brown-jackson to the united states supreme court. in our nation's history, she is the first supreme court justice who looks like you, with hair like yours. while we were voting on the floor of the senate, a friend of mine, the vice president of the united states, handed me this piece of paper and suggested that i would write a letter to someone who comes to mind. by the, way she is the first vice president who also looks like you. i wrote this note to say that you can be anything, achieve anything you set your heart to do, love you, dad. we have a lot more to get to, stay with us. stay with us >> tech vo: you can schedule in just a few clicks. and we'll come to you with a replacement you can trust. >> man: looks great. >> tech: that's service on your time. schedule now. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

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minute. that's how former president donald trump says he feels about the attack that happened at the capitol on january 6th, 2021. no regret for the role he played in stoking the insurrection. the only regret that the private -- prevented him from marching with the mob. trump made these comments in a published interview with the washington post. asked about the missing phone records of the day of the right insurrection, trump responded in his singular patois, quote, from the standpoint of telephone calls, i don't

remember getting it very many. that's despite the fact that there are multiple records and witness accounts showing phone calls he both made and received that day that are missing from the official record. his own daughter, ivanka trump, who is present for at least one of those calls, testified to the january six committee for nearly eight hours this week. just one of the many investigations into trump's conduct that appears to be moving forward right now. today, the new york attorney general said in a statement that she has asked a judge to fine donald trump $10,000 per day until he complies with the subpoena for documents that his lawyers were supposed to hand over a week ago. we also got a surprise statement today from another new york prosecutor investigating trump. the district attorney in manhattan. for weeks, you remember, there have been indications that prosecutors were winding down the manhattan district attorneys and investigation into donald trump. it looked like maybe this was going to be one investigation that the former president did not have to worry about. but then today, the manhattan

district attorney released a statement saying that his investigation is still on. this is what he said. in recent weeks, the manhattan district attorney's office has been repeatedly asked whether our investigation concerning former president donald trump, the trump organization, and its leadership is continuing. it is. end quote. so it does not look like the former president can rest easy about that investigation anytime soon. and on top of that today, we found out about yet another investigation into donald trump. the washington post matt zapotosky reports that the department of justice has started investigating trump for taking 15 boxes of presidential records, including classified material, to his home in mar-a-lago. for weeks, members of congress have been trying to investigate whether trump violated the presidential records act by taking those documents back to his private home. it appears that the justice

department is planning its own probe into the matter. joining us now is the washington post justice department reporter matt zapotosky, matt, thanks for joining us tonight. tell us first, what do we know about this last piece of news that we've got, this justice department investigation, how far along it is and do we know specifically what they are investigating? >> it's in its very, very early stages. what they are investigating here is that there was classified information in these 15 boxes of documents. some of them top secret, and even beyond that. so when classified information spills out into the world, generally the department wants to see who saw it that didn't have the appropriate clearances, how did it get out there, is anyone potentially culpable for criminally mishandling this classified information? we remember that that was the focus of the hillary clinton email investigation in 2016. it's a similar issue here,

right, there is a classified information that somehow made its way out of government confides and the fbi is going to try to get to the bottom of that. i say this is in its early stages because as far as we can tell, they haven't done subset substantial things that they have done or that they will do one is taking stock part of what's the national archives has done, what is in these boxes, what is classified when was it classified, at what level was a classified, and also sort of establishing a chain of custody, interviewing people to know how and how this was packed up. we do know that they have taken some preliminary steps, had some discussions with the archives, and they are moving towards -- they will investigate this. >> so that's the department of justice. the house oversight committee has been trying to investigate this for sometime. the chair of this committee, congresswoman carolyn maloney, said that they've actually been

stonewalled by the justice department. what's that about? >> i'll tell you how we were able to learn this. news so she sent the justice department a letter today saying, hey, i asked the national archives who took possession of these 15 boxes for their inventory of what was in these 15 boxes. and the national archives told me, carolyn maloney, we can give that to you because the justice department, essentially, has asked us not to. so maloney writes to the justice department saying, you are interfering with my investigation and i want to know why. now, it's very likely the reason is because the justice department is investigating as we reported, when the justice department is investigating, they generally do not like congress sort of tracing around in the work that they are doing. but they have not told that. and she's very frustrated. and congress has its own aims here. some of which are separate from the justice department. the justice department is going to be laser focused on this classified issue and these

federal records issues. but karen maloney wants to investigated all and while this justice department an inquiry investigation is going, she may have a hard time doing that. so far that's frustrating her. it's also frustrating her that the justice department will tell her exactly what they're doing. >> matt, excellent reporting, thank you so much. matt zapotosky took covers the justice department for the washington post. we appreciate you joining us tonight. still ahead, the new reporting that german into intelligence intercepted radio communications between russian soldiers as they talk about indiscriminate killings in ukraine. the reporter who broke that story joins us after this. aleve x. its revolutionary rollerball design delivers fast, powerful, long-lasting pain relief. aleve it, and see what's possible.

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>> peskov is presented with satellite imagery, geolocation evidence, witness testimony compiled by human rights watch and amnesty international, but he insists, a bold fake made by ukrainians in conjunction with private satellite imagery companies all western media, and western governments, all to make russia look bad. as of last, night ukrainian officials accounted 320 civilian casualties in bucha alone. the mayor there saying that almost 90% of those found dead had bullet wounds, not shrapnel wounds. meaning they had been individually targeted. no matter how much evidence there is presented, the russian government continues to deny everything, to say it's all fake. now, today, the german publication, they are spiegel, has reported new evidence that will be hard for russia to deny. radio traffic intercepted by germany's foreign intelligence service of russian troops discussing the murder of civilians. quote, the radio traffic and

makes it seem the atrocities perpetuated on civilians in bucha were neither random acts nor the product of individual soldiers who got out of hand. rather, the material suggest that the troops spoke of the atrocities as though they were simply simply discussing their everyday lives. some of the intercepted traffic apparently matches the locations of bodies found along the main road through bucha. end quote. in one clip, the newspaper says a soldier apparently told another that they had just shot a person on a bicycle. in another, a man apparently said, first to interrogate soldiers, then you shoot them. joining us now is melanie amann, who in addition to being the lead byline on this reporting today is the berlin bureau chief for der spiegel, and member of the paper's editorial leadership. thank you for making the time for being with us tonight. i want to ask you about this

intercepted audio. how much audio is there? how many different conversations were there and what are the kinds of things that you could hear being discussed on it? >> thanks for having me. our sources have told us that there was a briefing of foreign intelligence service in germany which is abbreviated be in the, they were briefing members of parliament in a classified session called the radio traffic that the intercepted from russian troops. the exact number i cannot tell you, but they apparently did read a few of these intercepts with the politicians with quite shocking content where the russian soldiers were exchanging, basically, hints and information, how they were treating civilians in ukraine. and committing murder, committing all kinds of his atrocities. same for example, first we interrogate, and then we shoot them. and now this is of course the report that our sources gave to us. we haven't personally been able to listen to these intercepts.

but the sources accounts do lineup. it's quite shocking, actually. >> beyond being possible evidence of war crimes by individual soldiers, one of the things that you read about is the reason this audit was so significant is because it could be used as evidence that these may not have been rogue independent actors but soldiers carrying out orders as part of a plan, help us understand what you have reported on that demonstrates that? >> exactly, i think it's hard to underestimate the value of these intercepts when it comes to analyzing the military strategy of the russian army. indeed, they were -- the atrocities committed, the killings are not just random acts of violence, of people acting out, or maybe acting under the stress of war whatever, living out their horrible fantasy, but it's

actually coldly calculated mess that has been spread through a big part of the russian army. the political relevance is that these interceptions dismantle the propaganda of the russian government, of the kremlin, not only other pictures, fake these people were not killed by russian troops, and the whole propaganda from -- if you have people saying on record, soldiers, saying on record, this is how you treat civilians in this country, like shooting a guy on the bicycle, things like this and this is what makes these intercepts so important. >> the -- there can be signals intelligence that is used to match to the satellite images to identify specific perpetrators and that could be important in building a war crimes case. but there's added significance, some of the audio, not all of, it has been traced to the region north of kyiv where bucha is located. but there's also -- there also seemed to be already

a lot of other cities. how do you understand that? >> there's also apparently audio transmissions from the region of mariupol and other parts of the country. but especially from, like you, said north of kyiv, the nation's capital, where we know that atrocities have been committed, pieces of the puzzle add up. we are confronted with actual proof that the people who were there may have committed these atrocities. so they will be invaluable in the court of law. >> i want to go back to the beginning of this. you said that the radial was intercepted by german intelligence. do you have a sense of how they intercepted it and how they are working with other nations to do so? >> i do actually. it would be interesting, so far, our intelligence in this war has not proved as valuable as

for example your american services because the intelligence provided and the analysis of this intelligence has been flawed. they had underestimated the war. with these intercepts, suddenly they really are ahead of the pack, if you want. because, ironically, they are using a technique, they're using infrastructure that is come from the cold war. they're using these antennas, 30 meters high, that are located in bavaria which other european countries have long dismantled since the cold war. this infrastructure has been there for decades and it's used to transmit the shortwave transmissions from the russian army. after the soviet times, many countries thought, we don't need this anymore, the germans kept it since we are orderly and we stick to what we have and we've always poorly financed our military and security services. i guess this is why this clunky rusty stuff is still around. and now it's proved extremely valuable because we can listen

in on what the russian troops are discussing on their shortwave transmissions. >> that is a remarkable story,. your entire reporting on this is really remarkable. thank you. melanie amann is the editor-in-chief of their spiegel and a byline of this important piece of reporting. i thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> and we will be right back. waiting... ... looking intensely for a print that i never actually printed... ... so i don't have to deal with that terrifying pile of invoices. intuit quickbooks helps you easily send your first invoice in 3 steps. simple. ♪♪ ♪♪

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supreme court today, she is expect to make remarks next to president biden and vice president harris. it's not something that you will want to miss, and msnbc will have live coverage of this tomorrow afternoon. that does it for us tonight, we will see you tomorrow from the. if it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. lawrence, i always admire the fact that you've got a real grasp of history and u.s. political history, and many of those things i've not shared with you. but tonight, we get to share and experience and that is the confirmation of judge ketanji brown jackson, in this effort to be a more perfect union, i think we took a big step today. >> it really was quite a day, ali. unlike any other i have seen. we have long ron klain joining us tonight as our first guest. he used to work in the senate. he is now white house chief of staff and heavily involved in what we saw in the senate. and in our policy in ukraine. ali, i will be asking him about ukraine and about weapons