as we come on the eric the united nations holding an emergency meeting on the war in ukraine, as russia launches massive strikes across the country, with all eyes on the u.s. response at this hour. the missile strikes from at least 11 people across ukraine, and officials there, including in cities considered peaceful, and safe, just one day before. blood on the ground in ukraine. and russia where president putin is calling the deadly attack a retaliation for the explosion on the bridge that connects the disputed crimea rege within russia, our reporter is in

moscow with how mr. putin is justifying the escalation in violence. we will get to all of that. welcome, everyone. i'm alex witt in for hallie jackson from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we will get to msnbc correspondent erin mclaughlin and also white house correspondent kelly owe dodge. eri -- kelly o'donnell. erin, what is it like where you are and where do you see this current escalation going? >> around 8:00 this morning, we heard five explosions here in kharkiv, what is the second largest city in ukraine, striking, according to ukrainian officials electrical infrastructure in the kharkiv region, leading to power outages in the city itself, with ukrainian officials say a couple of hours ago, power was restored to the city. this kind of missile strike is

actually not all that unusual for kharkiv. it's a weekly occurrence. nothing like what we saw unfold in kyiv, the capital today, in which missiles rained down on the capital, damaging the residential buildings, a child playground, a pedestrian walkway, a museum, and civilian targets, and that is what has so many ukrainian officials outraged, calling this a country-wide terror attack, on the part of the russian federation, but they're also seeing it as a sign of russian weakness. a sign that russia is on the back foot in this war, that they are losing on the battlefield, and it began here in kharkiv where ukrainian forces launched the counter offensive, and further in the donbas and all capped off with the you mail yating bridge attack over the

week. president putin in the words of one ukrainian official i have been talking to appears weak, to his country that values strength, and this is him in the deal of the one ukrainian official, trying to project that strength to his own people at the expense of ukrainian civilians. now, militarily, what unfolded today, according to ukrainian officials, will matter little in terms of the over all dynamics on the battlefield. if anything it has emboldened ukrainians to try to push harder to win this war. >> that would certainly reflect the way they reacted in the past. that's for sure. thank you, erin. kelly to you, how has the administration responded to the escalation of violence in ukraine. what is officially out there? >> reporter: strong words from president biden and secretary of state blinken, both of them citing the way that russia attacked civilian targets, namely playgrounds and civilian neighborhoods as being the objects of the strike, and the

destruction, and how that is so out of bounds of proper warfare, where as ukrainians, they note, have been using military targets, for their exercise of this war against russia and in defense of their own homeland. and so president biden is saying that this is another reason why the u.s. must stand with ukraine, along with other international partners, and impose more costs on russia, and must do the things that are necessary, to try to help support ukraine win this war. and also, the secretary of state is saying that any rational country, and any reasonable person, looking at these conditions, and assessing what has happened here, will see that russia is conducting this war in a way that is beyond the bounds of civility and beyond the rules of war. because of the civilian targets. so very harsh words from the u.s. government, and this comes at a time when the u.s.

government and these top officials are calling on other nations to not hold back, to not be on the sidelines, but to join them in trying to impose these financial costs and so forth, on russia, to try to stop this war. and specifically calling on russia to withdraw. secretary of state blinken saying the only aggressor here is russia, that ukraine is simply acting to defend itself. and now, we're many months into this war now, and the real questions, there are real questions about what comes next, and president biden at a fundraiser last week talked about the nuclear threat that potentially could exist here, if vladimir putin is pushed into a corner. the president in a fundraiser speaking to donors in new york, talked about not being sure what the off-ramp for vladimir putin would be. now, other u.s. officials are saying they're not seeing any indications through the kinds of intelligence they're able to employ, of seeing russia moving any nuclear weapons, or smaller tactical nuclear weapons, so no

sense that is something that is actively in his intention, but that is still a concern and one that certainly president biden is worried about. >> we'll see with the communal global body there, with the united nations, if they can come come up with some sort of an off-ramp or at least looking at some type of prototype to talk to the biden administration about. we will see on that. thank you, ladies, both of you, erin mclaughlin, kelly owe dodge. russian president vladimir putin today speak out about the military strikes, and calling it a retaliation for the terrorist action against a crucial bridge that russians built to connect crimea with russia and officials looking at satisfaction for the strike have not directly claimed responsibility for that. joined now by the chief correspondent keir simmons on the ground. and retaliation for what is

called a terrorist strike on the bridge, are officials getting a sense this is a one-up event or potentially a major escalation of the conflict? >> i think the question whether this may be a shift in the russian posture, certainly president putin in his comments on television earlier today threatened that there would be further harsh measures, as he put it, if ukraine, as he described it, more terrorist attacks on russian territory. now, of course, the russians call what the ukrainians are doing, ukrainian special forces, they call that terrorism, conversely, the ukrainians call the russians terrorists. and that same claim thrown in both directions. but i think with president putin, this is an important moment, because what he wants to do clearly is intimidate, to, you heard kelly o'donnell talking about president biden saying, looking for an off-ramp

of president putin or frankly ramping thing up. what he wants to do is intimidate ukrainians and europe and try to gain some advantage. again, now whether or not he can achieve that and whether or not russia can sustain it, and another point, it is opinion important one, president putin in his attacks today was answering the calls of his hardliners. there are many around him who have said that russia needs to step up its attacks on ukraine. and today they were celebrating those things in ukraine and now military, there is a russian domestic side to what putin is doing, a political side if you think. >> absolutely. and the question is, to ask whether there would be an off-ramp, were one to be offered

to him, given the stated goals in the region. and the belarusian state immediate yark the leaders are getting ready to welcome thousands of russian troops as well as his own military, and how does that shape the situation on the battlefield, keir? >> and lukashenko has been reluctant to get involved in this conflict. we'll see what happens next. because he is one of a number of allies of president putin who has sent in support of president putin and another is the chechen warlord, and at the same time, being very critical of the russian military, the russian ministry of defense, so now, he is another one of those who is applauding these strikes today. there's a lot of criminology in this. and beyond, that it is difficult

to read exactly what different allies of president putin are doing, because the events are moving so fast on the ground here. >> absolutely, they are. keir simmens from moscow, thank you very much for that. well, i want to bring in the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor. mr. ambassador, welcome, sir. over these last few hours, we've seen the strikes on cities across ukraine. in your opinion, do you think this is a one-off retaliation for the bridge attack or do you think it is a renewed period of escalation by the russians? >> well, alex, i'm not sure the russians have enough precision-guided munitions to keep this up. they've been firing a lot of these weapons. we know that they were, they are constrained in their numbers. we also know that they can't replace them. so my bet is this is a big bombing, it's outrageous, it is doing nothing but angering, further angering ukrainians. ukrainians are outraged. their blood is up, alex. they are fighting back.

if president putin is trying to intimidate ukraine, he is doing the opposite. >> yes. >> he is doing the opposite. and what was mentioned about off-ramps, you know, president biden, i don't think is looking for an off-ramp, he says that president putin is looking for an off-ramp, and president putin should be looking for an off-ramp, not for us to offer him one. let's be clear. this is putin's problem. he needs to find his own off-ramp because he's failing. he's failing, alex, on the battlefield. the only thing he can do is fire a limited number of, a dwindling number of these precision-guided munitions. so this is putin's big week. >> and so ambassador, how does the belarusian military potentially play into this. i mean to what level could they enhance putin's efforts be it militarily with the staffing or with actual munitions? >> probably not very much with munitions but they do have soldiers, and president putin's hurting for soldiers.

that's why he's been having, he's had to go to a partial mobilization, the 300,000, or more, soldiers trying to be recruited and of course we know four or five, 600,000 russians are leaving the country, to avoid this fight, this draft. so what can belarus do? it's not clear. it's not clear that they can do anything. there is a concern, of course, that president lukashenko will be looking for some way to threat this needle. on the one hand, his military and his people do not want to get involved in this war. on the other hand, president putin is leaning on him to find soldiers, because president putin needs soldiers. >> u.s. ambassador to the united nations, linda thomas greenfield is expected to speak in front of the body and preparing a resolution to condemn the russia annexation of the four regions in ukraine but what will another resolution against russia accomplish? what will that reveal here? >> it ril reveal the level of

support in the general assembly. an earlier vote to condemn the russians was 141-5. and so the question will be what kind of support, if it has gone up or down on that. but you're exactly right. the u.n. resolution is not going to do it. what is going to make a difference is if the beyond statements by the u.n., beyond statements by president biden and secretary blinken, beyond statements, the ukrainians need weapons. they need more weapons to defend themselves against these kind of attacks. they need more weapons to push the russians out of their country. let's be clear. this is an unprovoked war. this is a -- there is no reason for this war. and ukrainians are defending their own territory. and they need weapons from us to be able to push the russians back. that's what's going to end this war, alex. >> and that has been the status since day one of this conflict. all right, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine bill taylor, sir, thank you so much. coming up, new york city's

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we are just 29 days to the midterms, and right now all eyes are on the key georgia senate race that could determine which party controls the senate. here's what we're watching. republican heavy weights are rallying around republican heavy weight herschel walker after reports he paid for an abortion in 2009 and sentenced the woman for an abortion years later. walker denies the allegations.

continues to do so. he has never broken from that stance. and they have not been independently confirmed by nbc news. senate republicans rib scott and tom cotton are hitting the campaign trail for walker tomorrow. this as donald trump's new super pac is jumping in, spending about a million on ads in georgia throughout this next week. this gop show of force comes before walker and democrat incumbent senator rafael warnock hit the stang on friday for the one and only debate. let's bring in ali from atlanta. what you are seeing now, in terms of potential impact first of all, of the scandal on the voters? >> reporter: well, alex, it's an interesting question, because we haven't seen any updated polling since this first string of allegations surfaced early last week. i believe the last one was from a local fox affiliate that showed an extremely tight race here in georgia, and this race is still considered a critical battleground, 29 days before election day.

and i've spoke within a lot of democrats and republicans here on the ground in georgia, and i think the words to simply describe the mood here on the ground is unfazed. a lot of them say that there have been more and more allegations the past couple of months, against herschel walker, that this is just the latest, that it is really lost in translation here, but they're saying that the focus should be on issues that they say matter more. republicans are saying they want to talk about inflation, and the economy, and high gas prices, and while democrats are saying that they don't want to see this topic brought up on the debate stage, on friday, that they think there are so many other more important issues to hang on to. let's listen to what some voters told me here in georgia. >> not really sure if it means anything to voters. i feel like in georgia, a lot of people already have their minds made up of what they're going to do, leading up to election day, so no matter what they hear, no matter who says what, they're going to vote, whichever way they got their mind made up to

vote. >> reporter: and republicans at least publicly are sticking by walker. you mentioned gop heavy weights, rick scott and senator tom cotton coming here to rally for herschel walker here in georgia tomorrow, but democrats are saying they're actually happy that senator warnock has not brought this up on the campaign trail, unless he's been directly asked about it. and he's not taking political advantage. and using this as political ammunition. but i will say that voters on both sides of the aisle, both democrats and republicans, told me that they are very interested to see whether or not this will be brought up on the debate stage when the two face off in savannah on friday. >> i don't know, something tells me it may be. we will see on friday. allie raffa thank you for that. turning to another senate race, in ohio, where democratic tim ryan and republican jd vance will face off on the debate stage tonight. this is as new polling shows the

race more competitive than many political observers have expected certainly. let's take a look at this maris poll which shows vance leading ryan by one point, 46 to 45%, as early voting kicks off in two days on wednesday. i want to bring in jesse kirrish in cleveland for us. welcome. what are you going to see on the debate stage tonight. >> good to be with you. we reached out to both campaigns today for a look ahead from them, what we should be expecting from the candidates, and here's what the two campaigns have told us. they both said in the statements, the ryan kafrm camp saying tonight, you can hear about all of the ways that jd vance is a fraud, who is only in the race for himself, and how tim has a long track record of fighting and delivering for ohio. the vance campaign countering by saying in part, in the senate, ryan would be nothing more than a relike vote for the far left, jd is well prepared for the upcomele debates. he will have no problem wiping the floor with tim ryan. so you can see, some i have

-- some vitriol between the two candidates and this is what the campaign has been about, not necessarily issues. they have been discussing issues. they have their platforms. but both candidates very explicitly trying to portray the other as having a facade campaign that is different from who that candidate really is, and that is something we're going to be watching for today, and i think that is something that will ultimately factor into how this race actually plays out potentially, and which candidate voters think is more genuine. because tim ryan, the democratic candidate, is actually trying to play more of a republican play book, and i think he wouldn't be upset if people mistook him for a moderate republican candidate. policy-wise, i don't know that they will sound as different as some other campaigns will be looking like in other races in other states, so i think this comes down to personality and genuineness and how that is received. >> you make a very astute

observation there, because the 10-term congressman, he has been shying away from let's say really democratic tropes, right? he's never been very left. we know that for a fact. he wouldn't have been elected to congress that many times in ohio had he been very, very left. but it is interesting to see his political playbook. anyway, we will be watching the debate and i know you will, too. still ahead, 17,000 migrants have arrived in new york city since april and now the city says it is at its breaking point, facing record homelessness, and even declaring a state of emergency. so what is being done to help them? and first, migrant workers are playing a huge role in the recovery from hurricane ian. and they're not always getting fair treatment in return. we're live in florida next. reduction act into law. ok, so what exactly does it mean for you? out of pocket costs for drugs will be capped. for seniors, insulin will be just $35.

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(vo) get the new iphone 14 pro on us. right now t-mobile is including apple business essentials so you can easily manage your team's devices. on the network with more 5g coverage. only from t-mobile for business. people returning to their homes to see the destruction left by hurricane ian for the first time, the recovery process is just beginning, thousands along the coast are still without power, and water, and with governor ron desantis saying the hardest stuff is still ahead of us but immigrant workers are being called on to play a major role in the process of rebuilding, just as migrant

workers also played a crucial role in the reconstruction in new orleans, after hurricane katrina and again in houston, after hurricane harvey. joining me now from fort myers, is nbc's guad venegas, you have been there for several days and let's talk about what the immigrant workers are being asked to do. >> well, alex, we've seen the shift from the sorts of rescue teams to cleanup crews, and it is time for construction crews, for contractors, for the local guys to bring in the labor to clean up and rebuild the area. i spoke to a local contractor, this morning, to see what it is that is required. i do want to point out that they also suffered through the storm, so they are asking for help, when it comes to machines, when it comes to vehicles, because they lost all of them, but most importantly, they need labor. here is mart part of the conversation i had with them. >> i think it is very essential right now. it is very essential for every unworking person to jump out there and get back in the work

force right now, whether immigrant or not, and everyone who can help, everyone who can provide for their family, who wants to provide for their family or do something productive, it's time to get back out there and do that. >> now, alex, there is a community down the road from where we spoke, where we went, and we were reporting there, this is an immigrant community, and the thing i noticed when i went there, is there is only women and children. i was told there that all of the men had been working every day, and it was today that i spoke to some of these workers who told me they recently had a ride in the country and working, happy to be working 12 to 14-hour day, and hese specific workers that i spoke to today, say said they were brought in from miami and they said there is a number of worker, members of the immigrant community, who are being offered time to be a part of the cleanup. they were happy to contribute and make some money as they were helping in fort myers beach. >> all necessary efforts, that's for sure. thank you very much. appreciate that. and let us go now to the

growing humanitarian crisis in new york city. crews are building a tent city on randalls island in a desperate effort to manage the asylum seekers being brought here, since the spring pushing the homeless shelter system to the brink and leaving mayor eric adams to declare a state of emergency. we have more from randalls island where the humanitarian response and relief center is being build. welcome. i know mayor adams says the center will be temporary and house about 500 or so migrants. but look at the numbers. that is nowhere near enough to fix this problem, obviously. so give us a sense of how badly the situation, how bad the situation has become and what kind of options new york city has at this point to provide shelter for these migrants. >> well, the mayor says it is going to be very bad. he says the city is about to run through a billion this fiscal year, on this humanitarian crisis, and this facility behind me is one of their answers to

row houses, and some advocates for migrants were also, they were also local officials and they said they object to this because it is an island off the coast of manhattan and not accessible to local transportation or public services and what would they like to see happen? take a listen. >> where you would like to see migrants housed when they get off the bus or off the plane in new york city. where should they go? >> we still have vacancies in hotels around the city and i urge city hall and the mayor to accelerate those conversations with hotel owners who see who is able to accommodate and sign up to help us out during this time of need. >> the question becomes one of will those conversations be accelerated? and in the meantime, the mayor and others do point to the fact that there was already a housing problem in this city, in terms of affordable housing.

and currently something like 61,000 people who are living in temporary shelters right now. and that was even before the migrant crisis began. alex? >> which absolutely explains why it is a crisis. thank you very much. new developments today, the los angeles council president has just resigned her leadership post over racist remarks about a council colleague and his son. releasing this statement, resigning effective immediately and saying she is sorry after the los angeles times reported a leaked audio from a redistricting meeting back in 2021. she will however remain on the 15 member legislative body. now, in that audio, the council president martinez is heard making outrageously racist comments about council member mike who is white, and his son who is black and was just two years old at the time. here's that tape. >> the kid's bouncing off the effing walls on the float,

practically tipping it over, and there's nothing you can do to control him. they're raising him like a little white kid, which i was like, this kid needs a beatdown. like you need to take him around the corner and have a beatdown. >> nbc news hasn't shared whether this audio has been edited and the source of the audio is unknown but we know what has happened since it has played. we're joined by one of the reporters who broke the story for the los angeles times. benjamin, welcome. that is a small part of the audiotape. what else is on it and it will it affect the city mayoral race coming up in november because that is really heating up right now. >> yes, this audio came out yesterday, and it is sort of shaking the city. a lot of it, what was said, to not repeat on tv but other moments in that audio, council woman martinez refers to mike's son as a monkey and says he is handled like an accessory, and it is worth mentioning that he

and his wife, and the son, his son is, adopted, is black, and she also mocks the community of the population in the city, and refers to george, the district attorney, saying, f that guy, he's with the blacks. so she was drawing, just to clarify, she was joined by two members of the city council, kevin and joe, and the head of the union federation, which they weren't meeting, it wasn't a rezprikting meeting so much as to strategize about redistricting. land we hear is sort of what the smoke-filled room that we always talk about sounds like. it's an unvarnished commentary about how to carve the city up to take most advantage of the demographic changes we are seeing, and yes, you're right, at how it is changing our mayor's race, it is doing that, and in huge ways. one of the candidates, a former republican, turned independent, turned democrat, who was really running an anti-incumbent race, even though he is a billionaire, and has called for her

resignation, and the two others, martinez was endorsed, or has endorsed representative, and karen bass came out and condemned the remarks but didn't say these people needed to resign. so i think this is sort of like a powder keg going off. and it is a quick-moving situation, and i think about four or five members have called for her to quit completely and not just resign her leadership post. >> i want to ask you about that because resign leadership post, that happened like that, real quickly, and can she stay on the council and work effectively with her colleagues who she spoke to disparagingly about? what can we expect from the other members on this tape as well? >> it's a really good question, you know, yesterday, when this tape came out, three members came out and said she should resign and i think we were a little surprised by that and another two this morning came out and said the same thing.

you know, this is a moment in the city, they were talking about a year ago, a number of the city council had just been indicted at that time, so there is just so much turnover on this body, and also, so much tension between the members as they strategize how best to kind of accumulate power. and you heard that during this conversation, as they talked about sort of this zero sum nature of politics, and how they could create council districts that would advantage latino candidates and sort of disadvantage black candidates in many cases. >> it is extraordinary, as i thank you for, this but having read the article, the point was made that you sometimes think this kind of stuff goes on in the smoke-filled rooms that you described, but when you actually hear it, it is pretty darn shocking and this was among the worst, i think i've ever heard. benjamin, thank you so much in the los angeles times. coming up next, the cherokee nation is making a huge push for a nonvoting delegate in the house, but after a, get ready for, this almost 200-year wait.

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nation, the largest tribal government in the u.s., is renewing its push for representation on capitol hill calling on congress to deliver on the nearly 200-year-old promise a nonvoting delegate in the house. that right was included in the 1835 treaty of the same treaty that led to the mass exodus and it has become known in history as the trail of tears, but that promise of representation, yet to be delivered. the cherokee nation releasing a new video, calling on congress to act. watch this. >> for two centuries, congress has failed to honor that promise. however, the treaty has no expiration date. the obligation to seat a

cherokee nation delegate is as binding today as it was in 1835. >> joining me now cherokee nation principal chief chuck hoskin jr. thanks for joining us sir. i will get to the length of time this has taken in a moment but most recently you nominated kimberly to hold the seat, that happened back in 2019 and in an op-ed today, you wrote time is running out with only three months left before congress adjourns and it is critical they start the process of getting this job done. so where do the efforts stand now? what are your expectations? >> well, my expectation never was that the united states keep its promise. i mean my goodness, it is 2022, if there is ever time a keep a promise to indian country, it is now. it is simple. the house of representatives needs to hold a hearing before the end of this year and pass a resolution to seat our representative and that is as simple as i can put it, but it is exactly what needs to be done. and i think we're close to getting a hearing. and i have confidence that the

house of representatives will understand that treaties are promises, and promises ought to be kept. >> well, let's talk about what is happening, because right now, cherokee nation would not be the only one. there are six in fact nonvoting delegates in the house, they represent dc, puerto rico, american samoa, guam, u.s. virgin islands as well as the northern maiana islands. what would it mean to have the first cherokee nation delegate. >> it would mean a promise made is a promise kept, number one. that is important for cherokee nation and all of indian country because it really goes to the heart of what indian treaties are and whether they still matter and they should matter and for cherokee nation to have a delegate in the house of representatives, someone there advocating for our interest, introducing legislation, debating in committee, debating on the floor, that's important, and that's powerful, and that's what the framers of the treaty that's nearly 200 years old had in mind. we just have not put that into effect.

once we put it into effect, the cherokee that i nominated, and our council has confirmed to hold that role, and she is absolutely ready to take the floor of congress and be an effective advocate for not only cherokee nation but really all of indian country. >> and since you did put that nomination forward in 2019, there were some issues with covid and that may have attributed to some of the delay there, but i know you're getting support from some members of congress officially, that includes representatives teresa fernandez and mark mullen, but overall, this video that you put out and we played partly there, calling on congress to seek the cherokee nation delegate, what has been the response directly to you on that? >> well, it has been really encouraging. there's been lots of good questions asked. because even though there are delegates in congress, presently, even though the idea of a delegate is nothing new, this is unique, and that it is a treaty-based delegate, and naturally there have been questions how do you imp meant this 200-year-old promise and we

have answered those questions and we have found encouragement on a bipartisan basis. and that's really good news. but look, the issue is plenty. the treaty says that the cherokee nation shall have a delegate in the house of representatives when congress shall make provisions for the senate. it didn't say we might have a delegate. it says we shall have a delegate. that treaty was ratified in the united states senate, after the president of the united states proposed it back in the 19th century, it is now on the house of representatives to put this in effect. and we've been waiting long enough, and today's indigenous peoples day, this is the day we ought to be taking action, and so i think people all over the country can help us do this. >> well, we certainly hope so, because as you said, it was president andrew jackson who signed that almost 200 years ago. begs the question, what's been taking so long, but i hope we won't have to ask that question much longer. thank you very much, principal chief chuck hoskin jr. thank you very much.

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north korea is sending what it says is an obvious warning to the u.s. and south korea with yet another missile launch on sunday. kim jong-un personally overseeing the drill as you see in these pictures released by state media. it was the seventh missile test in the last two weeks coming on the 77th anniversary of the founding of the workers party of korea. nbc's matt bradley reports from seoul, south korea. >> reporter: in just the last day we've gotten what i guess you can call a photo dump from the north koreans. this showed kim jong-un alongside his wife whose political position seems to have been elevated witnessing or observing these missile launch range, short-range, ballistic missile launches and tests. seven in the last two weeks, 40 since january. a lot of this increased tempo,

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quite a bit since this summer and have enraged the north koreans and kim jong-un, particularly the redeployment of the "u.s.s. ronald reagan," a nuclear powered carrier off the coast of the korean peninsula. this increased use of tests has a lot of people here worried that the north koreans are readying themselves to test yet another nuclear weapon. the first in five years, their seventh nuclear weapon they've tested ever. the south koreans have said they've seen the ground being readied, satellite imagery, in north korea for such a test. if that does happen, and it could happen in the coming weeks or months, that would raise tensions here on the korean peninsula to impossible levels. alex. >> matt bradley from south korea. harvey weinstein is back in court facing 11 charges of sex crimes in los angeles.

weinstein is already serving 23 years here in new york for rape and sexual assault, but the jury selection that begins today is separate from that new york case. this one largely focused on crimes prosecutors say were committed during one particular oscars week back in 2013. nbc's maura barrett is following this from los angeles. welcome. walk us through the charges here and what makes this trial different from what we saw in new york. >> reporter: alex, harvey weinstein faces four counts of rape and seven various counts of sexual assault here in los angeles concerning five women through those years, as you mentioned, ranging from 2004 up to 2013. now, this is very different than the new york case. while we're going to see obviously similar allegations, it's different victims, different testimonies. as one legal analyst told me, potential different vindication. we have just learned that one of the women that is testifying is jennifer segal newsom, a

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i spoke with kaitlyn delaney yesterday. she accused weinstein of sexual assault back in the '90s. she's not involved with the l.a. trial but familiar with the world in which he operated. she said that this trial specifically is a hollywood reckoning because he set the example for other powerful men to get away with what they did. so she's going to be watching very closely along with other survivors because she's hoping that justice will be served, especially after seeing all the progress in the last five years to the day when those bombshell allegations were published that ignited this me to movement. >> five years in the making. maura barrett, thank you so much. thanks to all of you for watching this hour of msnbc. "deadline white house" starts right after this quick break.

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