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the privilege of your time. lindsey riser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i am lindsey risers at msnbc headquarters in new york. as long as it takes. that's the vow from president biden and his g7 counterparts. the leaders committing to sending more aid to ukraine. in the past 24 hours, more than 100 rockets have been fired in ukraine with new strikes hitting the western city of lviv this morning, knocking out power. a moment that cristalizes the rogue dangers in kyiv. right now, all eyes are on vladimir putin and what he could do next to turn around his failures. our chief international
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correspondent, keir simmons, is in moscow sharing this. >> reporter: this is the front page of russia's government newspaper with a picture of vladimir putin and the headline, no one should have any doubts. >> earlier in the white house, top adviser, john kirby, weighing in on this moment in the war. >> we don't know what the steps are here for mr. putin, but can you see from the reaction of the ukrainian people over the course of the weekends, they are not backing down and they are not slowing down. >> the fog of war escalating tensions and no clear signs of an off-ramp are obviously a dangerous combination for a country with nuclear weapons. we will get insight from a member of ukraine's parliament. plus, here at home, the political drum beat to the midterms is growing louder, and herschel walker will be getting an assist from big-name republicans as a new ad takes aim at his family scandals.
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later with the economy a big issue for voters, the stark new warning from the head of the nation's largest bank about an economic crisis looming on the horizon. we are going to begin with the developing situation in ukraine where there have been new strikes from russia over the last few hours. nbc's cal perry is in the capital of kyiv. we know there was a rocket attack in western ukraine earlier as russia is keeping up with the strikes. what are you seeing there in kyiv? >> reporter: yeah, well, we can start there in the west where we know lviv is without power because of strikes that hit infrastructure targets here, and this is the second day in a row that city was targeted and the target is the same is to cut the power there as the winter months approach. 12 rockets hitting that city, and one dead, and here in the capital, it was a long night, air-raid sirens going off all night, and no impacts that we
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know of in the capital, and you have people out assessing the damage. you had a situation where you had a city trying to come back, and school would have been in session this week, and we talked to schoolchildren about the threats they are hearing from moscow, and schools are out for the entire week. there will not be any blackouts, and the energy, and the infrastructure was hit hard and they are trying to repair that. the real story, the loss of life, and at least 19 confirmed dead and more than 100 people wounded across the country. >> thank you for that live report. we want to dive deeper into this with a member of ukraine's parliament. kyra, thanks for being with us again today. you and i spoke just on saturday. so much has changed since then. how, first of all, are you, your
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friends and your family and your fellow ukrainians doing right now after this wave of strikes? >> hello, and thank you so much for having me. well, thank god everybody who i know are alive. stressed, stayed days and nights at the bomb shelter, and however heartbroken we are, we are not broken. what we have seen in the last couple of days that there is a huge difference between the reaction of ukrainians on the attacks from the ones that were at the very beginning of the invasion. the attacks were intense that time and right now, but the reaction is very different. people are organized. people know what to do. people are helping each other. we know that the main goal of those attacks is to threaten us and to make us scared, so we are
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not scared. it doesn't change our plan, and our plan is the same. we will be fighting for our country. we will be standing up against the tyra knee. the practical difference is it heating and electrical infrastructure, and we know that for the last time when we spoke with you, we had small chance but still a chance to survive the winter with the warmth of our homes. right now we know that this is an illusion and it will be incredibly hard so we will have to be prepared. people right now know that they have either to take their children over to the western country or to prepare that it will be incredibly hard in winter. the tragedy right now is that definitely many people wanted to
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return to ukraine just two days ago, and right now they completely changed their minds and everybody who has children also are thinking about how they are going to go through the winter with those threats. >> certainly a harsh winter ahead. kira, i want to ask you, zelenskyy said there could be no dialogue with putin who, he says, has no future. we want to ask you obviously we know there's no negotiation of a peace deal, but if that's a possibility in the future what is your position on potentially engaging in talks with the russian leader? >> the main question that remains unsolved is who or what would be the security guard on tour for any russian leader keeping up his words.
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right now we know whatever putin promises he will break his word. if it's a different leader for a discussion, we still need an organization or world leader to make sure he takes a guarantee for the russian leader to go with the agreement. right now we know 100% that this war is something that we do not want our children to continue. we want to win it and make sure that russia would not attack again. so what are the assurances we will get that it wouldn't happen, we would not be a country that will have to become a military country for the next, like, ten or 15 years. this is not what we are suffering for. this is not what we are fighting for. we need to make sure that this issue of having the want to destroy us would be resolved, and there should be guarantees
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making sure russia would not attack us again. we learned our lesson, after eight years of war in russia but not actually at war with russia when the whole world was watching and we do not want to repeat that again. >> thank you for joining us. we hope you stay safe. >> thank you, and glory to ukraine. and then a former under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, both msnbc analysts. admiral, nato says next week it will conduct its nuclear deterrence exercises. what do those look like and how timely are they at this point? >> they are extremely timely unfortunately, because putin continues to rattle the nuclear sabre. what is not in the cards is the strike, and let's park that idea, and putin loves his
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country, i will give him that, he will not reach for the lever for the apocalypse, and could he use nukes, probably in the 10% category. the exercises are set up so we would practice responses to a tactical nuclear weapon, and that would include donning protective gear to avoid radiation, and exercising conventional means of responses, and nato does not contemplate using nuclear weapons in the face of a tactical nuclear threat. these will be very tactical exercises. i conducted them when i was supreme allied commander. last thought, lindsey, your reporter, cal, held up a newspaper saying "let there be no doubt." i have no doubt the ukrainians will stick to the long course
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and so will nato. no doubt. >> you heard what ukrainians want in terms of -- they need help with energy for example with the long winter ahead and air defenses as well. and let's put up a picture of president biden at g7, and we know the g7 is sticking with ukraine, but what can the u.s. and g7 send at this point that it has not already that will meet their needs and not escalate tensions with russia? >> we have sent $17 billion worth of aid and weapons that would help them. i would echo what the admiral said, and that's to be prepared for a possible tactical nuclear attack. i would go one up on what the admiral has said, because there never has been a tactical nuclear attack in world history, and the distinction between
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so-called tactical nuclear weapons and strategic nuclear weapons is to me a distinction without a difference, and the g7 countries are prepared to do something that has never been done before in world history. we can help the ukrainians this long winter, with energy costs and subsidizing energy costs, and the europeans have done a great job of weaning themselves off of russian energy, and the billions of dollars that had been pouring into putin's treasury during the early part of the war will not be happening this winter. >> russia's foreign minister today says russia is open to a putin and biden meeting at the g20, saying, quote, they never refuse meetings, and zelenskyy said there could be no dialogue
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with this leader. what diplomatic path forward is there? >> well, you know, to echo winston churchill said jaw, jaw, is always better than war, war. the fact that putin is willing to meet with biden, something he was not willing to do earlier on might be a sign of the fact that he is in a more cornered position that we had thought. all wars end at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield. this one will, too. >> admiral, do you fear right now given the rhetoric, given what keir held up saying nobody should have any doubts, do you fear that should will arm putin, inspire him to continue on with these brutal attacks? >> >> i think he is going to continue these kind of brutal attacks because he's proving to be so incompetent. his military at conventional
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warfare, they are failing at every turn, and being pushed out of territory they conquered and they should be able to hold that and they are not. he has to play other cards. that's why rick and i are discussing the possibility of a tactical nuclear weapon. he could use chemical weapons. he has a draft going on in russia that is failing badly to generate the manpower, but if he can get a combination of mercenaries and new draftees to put them in the battle, that's another card he could play. cyber is another weapon he has not used in a significant way that we have seen, and there are many turns of the wheel to go here. lindsey, last thought in terms of what else we could do for the ukrainians right now, we could help them close the sky over ukraine by providing them tactical aircraft, mig 29s, air defenses, and all that is on the
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table for discussion with nato right now. >> thank you both. new details on push back. secret service agents faced about the documents turned over. what we know about that hearing. and herschel walker, two prominent two gop senators are hitting the trail with him in georgia. four weeks until the midterms, a fiery, and we should warn you at times, profane debate for ohio's open seat. >> i am for ohio, and i don't kiss anybody's ass, and ohio needs an ass kicker, not an ass kisser. not an ass kisser before we begin,
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first campaign appearance since thursday where he emphatically denied "the daily beast" stories. joining us now, greg, a political reporter and msnbc political contributor, and a congressman from florida and nbc analysts. how much of a boost, if any, will this appearance by scott be to walker's campaign? >> it's too late to take herschel walker off the ballot, and so republicans are kind of committed, they are committed to this race. they have no other option, because they have such a narrow path to taking back the u.s. senate, and their chances really rely on winning this georgia
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race. >> david, what do you make so far by the moves of national republicans to take such a strong stand here? >> i think their stand is an interesting one. it's not in raw defense of herschel walker. you see some of the former elected and some of the talk show host defend herschel walker, and what you are seeing from national republicans in trying to protect herschel walker is to go after democrats, and when rick scott and tom cotton are on the ground, they will spend more time talking about president biden and vice president harris and nancy pelosi than they will herschel walker, and with walker, there's a strategy of denial, and there are four weeks to go and it's already breaking. it's not working. this is a candidate that said i will explain the road i have travelled and his message of grace and redemption is a good
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one, and you will see the republicans attack and attack democrats here through november and try to avoid defending herschel walker on the substance of the issue. >> and then a new pro warnock ad, and it hones in on accusations made by walker's son, christian. let's listen. >> showing up at his ex-wife's house warmed with a gun and refusing to leave, and making violent threats outside his son's children's party. >> walker has not commented on the specific claims of violence in his son's remarks, and has repeatedly said he loves him no matter what, and he said
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democrats are desperate for the seat. >> i think we are seeing republican -- sorry, democratic aligned groups test what works and what doesn't, and in this case these remarks from walker's 23-year-old son who is a conservative figure in his own right. he used the word mockery and he warned him not to run. to me in all the fallout of the daily beast reports, this is one of the most significant events where his own adult son is attacking his father for running for office, and now the democratic group is weaponizing, to the extent where voters in georgia, and some voters probably have not tuned in to the back and forth, and it's very compelling and it's hard to keep your eyes off that raw testimony from herschel walker's own son. >> that hits on the family
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values point, and how effective is that? >> a lot of people reacted, we don't want to touch the family issues, and the fact is his son is a 23-year-old and i think it's fair game. there's a lot of questions. herschel walker said i suffered and sought treatment for mental issues, and these are serious allegations from a 23-year-old adult and those allegations are fair game. >> greg, thank you. congressman, stick with us. a new twist in the january 6th investigation, and the phone records of secret service agents turned over to investigators. first, fireworks at the first debate in the ohio senate race. could it be new momentum, for
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debate. democratic congressman, tim ryan, and republican author, j.d. vance, tried to paint the picture as being authentic. and while framing vance as sub servant to trump, and playing that now but a warning in advance he uses colorful language. >> donald trump said to j.d. vance all you do is kiss my ass, and if -- i have been a pain in the rear end to nancy pelosi. ohio needs an ass kicker, not an ass kisser. >> former congressman david jolly is back with us. ryan said vance lacked courage. how effective will that be with voters in ohio?
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>> it can be effective if those hits land, and to paint a candidate as not willing to lead and weak is important, and ryan has a lot to stand on here. the truth is, tim ryan is exactly the type of senator that chuck schumer and democrats would want in the senate. he is a senator that much of the country could see themselves in. he was a loyal vote for nancy pelosi, and he was not an an tag -- and time ryan is saying he will fight for ohio, and j.d. vance will fight for trump and others when told to. that is a contrast that will matter on election day. >> what are we hearing from the candidates this morning after
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last night's performance? >> reporter: one of the responses from j.d. vance when tim ryan was trying to tie him to the former president as well as other republican allies of the former president, is vance simply said, let's talk about something substantive, like the fact that people can't pay for groceries, and that's a common thread we have heard from republicans, and turning things back to the inflation and economy, and the economy is always something people are focused on. we saw a tweet from vance labeling ryan as a liar, and somebody he has tried to portray as presenting a candidate to voters to different how he voted himself in washington and acted as a politician across two decades. this morning also we have heard from congressman tim ryan himself and he appeared on "morning joe." here's what he said. >> i always expressed a level of
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frustration with the democratic party and the disconnect with the working class people, and i like it a little bit, david and goliath, and we will shock the world. >> reporter: that's ryan again, trying to keep democratic leaders, including joe biden at arm's length, and he said last night he does not think president biden should run for re-election, and he is trying to tow the line keeping himself at arm's length from the democratic party and draw in republicans as well. >> and joe manchin has given a lot of headaches to the democratic party. how is this towing of the line and do you think the democratic party is staying back and maybe not donating as much to his campaign, and do you think they will come to regret it? >> tim ryan was telling the truth on that "morning joe"
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clip. he was a bit of a voter where he wanted to address more of the midwestern democratic part of the party, and joe manchin really has withheld his vote and been more of an an tag northwest rather, he's a loyal democrat, tim ryan is, but he's a democrat that you typically don't see as a national leading voice of the party today. that is why democrats should be investing heavily in the race to see tim ryan get across the finish line ahead of j.d. vance. >> abortion was a top issue last night and vance came across as softer on the issue than he has in the past. here's a moment.
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>> i always believed in reasonable exceptions, but some minimum national standard is totally fine with me. >> has he gotten more clear on what exceptions he would support? >> yeah, so we have been trying to get answers on this, and what he is talking about this at the end is a response to supporting what lindsey graham would support, and it's a national limit, and he was okay with that. he talked about being onboard with exceptions, but he did not get specific, and he talked about a specific case and that made headlines, and a little girl went out to state to get an abortion, and that case is what he spoke about before pivoting to immigration, and unlike ryan, who did take our questions directly, he did not show up and sent his chief strategists and here's part of my exchange with him.
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>> he gave a broad statement on what he would accept as exceptions -- >> he'll talk about those -- >> why isn't he here to talk about that? >> he talks to the press all the time, and i am not a candidate and there will be a debate -- >> you don't know what his stance is on abortion? >> i am not prepared to answer that specific question, no. >> still trying to get clarity on that, and he wants to end abortion on his website. >> we know you will continue to ask those questions. good to have both of you. turning to exclusive details ahead of thursday's long awaited hearing, and it shows secret service agents were looking to get a record of all communications seized from their personal phones, and the secret
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service denied the request, and the news was in august where they were looking to get text messages that were wiped out, and senior national political reporter, saw huh kau poor. >> what it also tells us, lindsey, is we do believe that some data was taken from the personal cell phones of secret service agents. we have been asking that question for a long time and we learned on their work phones text messages were deleted as a preplanned upgrade and we asked about the personal phones, and they want to know what information was taken from their personal phones and they were denied that by their own agency, and it seems like the secret service could have provided numbers like their cell phones,
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and they could have got information of who they called and how long, and there's at least a question about what was taken. that's why agents want to know the answer, and their own agency said we can't give you that answer. what communications from january 5th and 6th might need to be shared, and the agents think less should be shared and the leadership is trying to err on the side of caution. if there is, indeed, information that has been shared, we want to know what congress and the inspector general might have learned from those communications. >> and what are we learning about what we can expect? >> it may be the last time we ever see them in the room.
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unlike previous hearings, it's not likely to have a single narrow focus, and all members are going to have a chance to speak which is a break from previous hearings, and in terms of filling in gaps and details, and it could be the secret service text messages. there has been a lot of frustration from the committee that there was a hole in the historical record. there's an expectation about documentary footage from an upcoming documentary about roger stone where he predicts the violence, and the previous hearing was postponed, and the committee did talk to ginni thomas and they may disclose more about what they learned there. beyond that, there's the question of the committee writing their final report and that's expected to happen at the end of the year. then there's the bigger question of how this committee measures
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success, and what have they accomplished? they are taking credit for elevating the issues of january 6th. >> it's very evident now the department of justice, largely because of some of the work we have done if not all of the work we have been able to do, realizes it's a bigger issue than they think or thought or maybe had evidence for, and they will be able to get the information that maybe we weren't. >> apart from that, there's a question of public opinion. has this changed the minds of americans? we have seen marginal shifts in the direction of more americans blaming former president trump for the attack on the capitol on january 6th. and finally, there's the question of legislative action. congress is on course to pass a bill that would tighten up the 1887 electoral act and make it
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the protests were sparked after a 22-year-old woman died after being arrested from the morality police. do you think more workers across the country are about to join the movement? >> lindsey, it's certainly possible. i have been speaking with scholars throughout the day and they say it's certainly a sight, something to see, when you see iran in the oil industry standing with women across the country. we know there are a couple things at play, and we know the men were supporting the women in iran and they were protesting conditions at work. that is, of course, according to a group that represents contract oil workers, and then we have the government of the city that saw the demonstrations that said this is nothing more than neighborhood gatherings, and somebody in the crowd decided to
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set fires in bins and were arrested, and it's a company experiencing economic turmoil and decline for years now, and inflation is skyrocketing, and there's tension and frustration that is fuelling and permeating throughout the entire country of iran. we are seeing these men standing in solidarity with these young women, under 30 years old, and we are talking about teenagers, 13, 14, 15 years old, taking on the streets in protest, and protesting in school yards and defying the supreme leader and risking being arrested or even death, and the arrests are fueling the demonstrations. the latest, a 16-year-old was a youtuber and she attended a protest and she died. iranian officials say she took her own life and she jumped off a building, and her family disputes that assertion, and we are looking at protests now all
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across the country rolling into the fourth week. lindsey, really showing no signs of slowing. >> we have seen sort of the trickle of social media and information coming out of there, and it's hard to pinpoint what is happening. do you get a sense, sources we have talked to on the ground, this sort of feels different? >> absolutely, this does feel different. i spoke to a professor that said in some ways this is unprecedented, and when you look at the bravery of the women and what is at risk here. this is a turning point potentially, and this is why all eyes are on iran and this movement as it continues to move forward. >> megan fitzgerald, thank you so much. and then after the planned opec cuts in oil production, it
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comes as the chair of senator bob menendez is calling on the president to immediately freeze cooperation with saudi arabia over opec's cut in oil production. the new jersey senator in a statement saying yesterday, quote, there's simply no room to play both sides of the conflict, and either you try to stop a war criminal or support him. the king of saudi arabia chose the latter in a terrible decision driven by self interest. the cut in production will likely help russia as the second largest oil importer. and then out with a dire prediction for the future of our economy, and jpmorgan chase chief, jamie dimon, warned the war in iraq and inflation could push us into a recession, and pretty soon. >> these are very, very serious
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things, which i think are likely to push the u.s. and the world -- i mean, europe is already in a recession, and likely to put the u.s. in some kind of recession in six or nine months from now. >> joining me now the cnbc reporter that conducted that interview. what did he say about how severe the recession could be and how it would impact americans? >> hello, and thank you for having me. jamie dimon said the severity of the recession is something nobody ever knows, and businesses are in good shape and resilient, and there are a range of outcomes from mild to hard, and he said there's one guarantee, and that's that the markets will continue to be
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volatile. i asked the chief how he thinks the fed is doing managing the current environment. take a listen. >> they waited too long and did too little, and qts should have started sooner and all that, and clear catching up and clearly motivated to catch up and from here let's keep our fingers crossed they are successful, and like i said, the far more serious thing is this war, far more serious than the short-term affects of the economy and things like that. >> jamie dimon also offered some pretty strong views on the energy situation, arguing we are getting energy completely wrong and america needs to play a leadership role, and in his view america should have been pumping gas and oil straightaway back in march, and we talked about elon
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chewy. the first lady of california will be among those testifies in disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein's lawsuit. she's among the accusers. in a statement, her attorney says she was sexually assaulted by weinstein at a purported business meeting that quote turned out to be a trap. weinstein has pleaded not guilty on all counts. this is the second trial for weinstein who is serving a 23-year sentence after being convicted off similar charges in new york, though he has been granted an appeal on that conviction. turning now to the closely watched sentencing trial in florida for the parkland high school shooter. the prosecution rested. the defense will deliver closing statements. cruz pleaded guilty to all
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charges related to the horrific 2018 shooting. 17 students and staff members were killed. kerry sanders joins us live. what do we know about what the jury has to consider? >> reporter: this say very difficult end to what started in july for the jury. they hear it was purposeful and premeditated and depraved. the defense, which will get up in a moment to make its arguments, will say there are mitigating factors. the gunman, who killed 17 and attempted murder of 17 others, that he had a very difficult childhood, born into a family with -- the fact that he had a mother with some sort of problems with alcohol abuse causing some fetal alcohol syndrome, all of that would they
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say are the mitigating circumstances. the jury needs to reach a unanimous decision. if all jurors come back and vote for the death penalty, then he will, based on what the judge will follow, get the death penalty and a sentence. there are those who are families of victims as well as some victims who survived who believe that that is the only just sentence here, while others say they are not sure. in the midst of this, there are those who look at the amount of money -- remember, this started in 2018. the amount of money that it has taken to get to this point. they question whether the justice system in many ways delivers justice. the calculation is that this has hit $1 million and will go beyond. does that dollar figure bother you in any way? >> i mean, this young man is living a structured life. there's defense attorneys hugging him.
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he gets to eat food. now all the money that's being spent, yes, it bothers me very much and many of my students have to pay out of pocket a co-pay to get some kind of mental health help. that bothers me a lot. >> reporter: there have been those who wonder whether the confessed gunman has been getting some sort of vicarious thrill by listening to the recounting of the horrors that took place. we expect a jury to get the case for sentencing probably tomorrow. >> kerry sanders, thank you. that does it for me. i will see you back here at 11:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next. next eggland's best eggs. classic, cage free, and organic. more delicious, farm-fresh taste. plus, superior nutrition. because the way we care is anything but ordinary. ♪♪
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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden and g7 leaders hearing directly from president zelenskyy to send putin a tough warning as russia unleashes its deadliest missile barrage since the start of the war. ukraine desperate for more air defenses to combat the assault. close senate races boiling over with ohio's democratic hopeful tim ryan on offense against trump candidate j.d. vance in their first head-to-head matchup. >> i'm for ohio. i don't kiss anyone's
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