resigned due to the leaked tape. the agency that gave us the photo mislabeled it and for that, we apologize. it's mission complete for nasa after it knocked an asteroid 7 million miles away off its course. nasa crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid last month and scientists at johns hopkins and nasa say the results are far better. it shoved the asteroid off course by 32 minutes. nasa hoped to cut it by ten minutes. it's a watershed moment for the planetary defense and humanity. i'm wonder if you knock it off so much that maybe it takes a weird course somewhere else unexpected. but it looks like it was a big success for all involved. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on twitter and instagram. be sure to follow the show online. thank you for the privilege of

your time. lindsey reiser picks up with more news right now. good morning. i'm lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. right now, diplomatic and military gears are in overdrive around ukraine. the united nations general assembly is holding an emergency meeting after russia's newly intensified strikes. and defense secretary lloyd austin is in brussels meeting with counterparts about supporting ukraine with more weapons, sharing this message. >> the whole world as just seen yet again, the malice and cruelty of putin's war of choice. we remain resolute. >> concern is only growing this morning over what vladimir putin's next possible military moves could be as he lashes out at ukraine for a strike on his beloved crimea bridge. and president biden is painting this portrait of his russian

counterpart. >> i think he is a rational actor who miscalculated significantly. >> what president biden is now saying about whether he believes putin will use a nuclear weapon. and in ukraine, a renewed focus on europe's largest nuclear plant in zaporizhzhia today, and plus, forward momentum to the midterms. this is the first day of early voting in two critical battlegrounds. and john fetterman is opening up about his health after suffering a stroke. what he's telling nbc news and his message to voters about his recovery. and the highly anticipated next and possible final january 6th committee hearing, the new material one member says they plan to present tomorrow. we're going to start with ukraine and the u.n.'s emergency meeting plus renewed until today on the country's endangered power plant. cal perry is in ukraine.

tell us how folks are doing in ukraine? >> reporter: first, the power plant is of huge concern, according to the iaa. the power keeps going on and off. the external power that allows the power plant to cool those very important nuclear rods, keeps going off and on. it keeps being struck by artillery fire. when it does go off, the power, they have to kick in these diesel generators. the problem is, they run on diesel fuel and eventually they'll run out of fuel. as of right now, the power is back on in this plant. but it underscores what people are talking about here in the capital city. people are worried about this plant because it could have far-reaching implications if it either slips out of control or has some kind of meltdown or malfunction. we should keep in mind, the power plant, the video of which you're looking at right now, is under the control of the russian military. they are occupying that site. the bigger picture is people are

taking stock of the damage that is left by that 48 hours of barrage, in places like zaporizhzhia, the region itself, we understand from the government, 70 people have been killed there in the last two weeks. it gives you an idea of the consistent bombardment that some places in the country have been taking for months. in the city of kyiv, we saw 48 hours of bombardment. in some of these other places, it's every day and has been going on for eight months. the power is currently on here in the capital. there was concern that there would be rolling blackouts, about 30% of the infrastructure here, the energy infrastructure of this country was damaged. the government is making it a priority with the winter months to get that power up and running, to get the infrastructure fixed and they're doing so as quickly as they can. >> yesterday when i spoke with a member of ukraine's parliament, she had said that ukrainians right now are preparing for the prospect of not having heat this winter. what are you hearing from people on the ground about how they're

actively preparing for that possibility? >> well, it's something that people in the east have lived with for years. people here are preparing for that possibility. they see these strikes targeting infrastructure targets and so there's an anticipation, even with just the blackouts, that you could lose power for some time. the cruel irony is that kyiv was a city that was on its way back. it was -- russia was very busy when those rockets fell. and we see people huddled in the subways trying to find cover. it has set this city back, both in terms of rebuilding and in terms of people's mentality. people here felt like it was a turning point, that the city had become a safe place, and then that very clearly changed on monday. let's see where we are a week from now wednesday. the people of ukraine are incredibly resilient. this is a war they've been fighting now for years. but certainly this barrage changed things and changed the mood here on the ground. >> thank you. let's dig deeper with the

former press secretary to president zelenskyy who she discusses in her new book and retired army brigadier general who served as attache to moscow. we just got the update on the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. nuclear dangers are front of mind. i want to play you what president biden said last night about vladimir putin potentially using tactical nuclear weapons. >> i don't think he will. it's irresponsible of him to talk about it. the idea that a world leader of one of the largest nuclear powers in the world say he may use a tactical nuclear weapon in ukraine. the whole point i was making was, it could lead to a horrible outcome. >> what is the state of alarm inside ukraine about this rhetoric? >> well, of course ukrainians are taking care of what's going

on there in zaporizhzhia very much. this is a very important southern region of ukraine and these nuclear power plant is much bigger than chernobyl. you know what a disaster has happened in ukraine in 1968. if something happens there, in fact, and we have the nuclear problem, it's not the problem of ukraine, because it will go to the european countries and it can also damage russia. and i'm sure that everyone in ukraine will be very, very much damaged and we will have huge migration of people from there. but most importantly, we will need to save a lot of people. so, of course, we are hoping that the u.n. actually -- and the whole world assistance will help to find some kind of logical behavior and will help to push russia to withdraw its troops and stop shelling near the power plant.

>> does the constant conversation about nuclear weapons in a way act as its own deterrence? >> that's a great question. i think in many ways the conversation is almost inoculating us and the world but also numbing. it's really dangerous and the president is right, it is utterly irresponsible for vladimir putin to throw out the nuclear -- he's been doing this, actually, for years. and this is -- i do believe, this is a sign of weakness, insecurity, it's like a gorilla thumping his chest, but they have them, both at the tactical level, or they could do something awful in zaporizhzhia, the nuclear power station, or hit another one. it's all out there, it's irresponsible statesman ship and the world, including the united

states in -- the united nations should censure putin for that. and if they actually do something at that -- there has to be a global reaction that really, really gets the russians' attention. last point. if this -- if they were to do this and, yes, i think putin tries to reassure the russians, don't worry, we have nuclear weapons, we're going to be all right. it's got to spook them as well. and their military and their oligarchs and all that, they don't want to go that way. so a lot to think about, a lot to unpack. it's very dangerous out there. >> general, according to the "new york times," when we talk about how the world can help, "the times" reports he needs more of the russian-style weapons that the ukrainian military has been trained to use and the global supply of them is

running low. we're now eight months into this war. we're heading into winter. that will obviously change elements on the battlefield. what calculations is the pentagon making now about how to equip ukrainians in the months ahead? >> what's extraordinary is this huge arms producer with seemingly endless munitions is running low. by the way, also is ukraine. and that russia has had to go to -- reportedly to north korea. belarus has been playing a real fence-sitting game for munitions. they're getting drones from iran. it shows the absolutely whittled down state of russian munitions. for ukraine and all that, yes, there is a global effort led by us and our western allies to get more of those former soviet-type

ak-47s, rpgs in there to continue to help the ukrainians in their extraordinary defense and now counteroffensive of their -- of the existential threat to their country. >> i want to play what president biden said about potential talks with putin at the g-20 next month. >> i have no intention of meeting with him. if he came to me at the said i want to talk about the release of griner, i would meet with him. i'm not about to nor is no one else prepared to negotiate with russia about them staying in ukraine, keeping any part ukraine, et cetera. so it would depend on specifically what he wanted to talk about. but, look, he's acted brutally. he's acted brutally. i think he's committed war crimes. >> what is the ukrainian side weighing in terms of any sort of diplomatic talks? >> well, look, in my book i'm

explaining the psychological portrait of putin and his delegation. and i'm telling absolutely straightly that this is -- these are the people from the past. in fact, what we're seeing in ukraine that putin's army is being defeated by ukrainian army and that's why putin tries to do all those horrors -- horrible atrocities in ukraine into the civilians and that's why ordinary people, it defeats our infrastructure and it's actually the full destruction of ukrainian civilian infrastructure including kindergartens, medical facilities, schools, residential houses. it's a terror. and that's why -- >> we -- >> it's difficult to -- it's difficult to negotiate with a terrorist state and that's what president zelenskyy does not see actually any action from russia to be serious about this

negotiations. let me remind that in february and march, there were two negotiations and ukraine provided a lot of good offense for russia to withdraw their troops. right now, russia claims that it can negotiate, but, look, what stops russia from sending missiles and killing civilians and with drawing its troops from ukraine? nothing. if russia is serious about it, it needs to stop the war and withdraw the troops. i know that president zelenskyy is not likely no negotiate any peace until russia has all those army and atrocities done in ukraine. >> we'll have to leave it there for now. thank you. we caught a glimpse of president vladimir putin as he delivered remarks for russia energy week. he mentioned saturday's explosion that damaged his prize bridge connecting russia to crimea and earlier russia's federal security service announced it arrested eight people that it says are

connected to that blast. keir simmons has more from moscow. >> president putin speaking in central moscow at a forum, but he spoke for 30 minutes and didn't take any questions. that is unusual. normally at a conference, this is russia's energy week, president putin would speak for hours. he would have a moderator asking questions. none of that happened and i think that potentially speaks to his frame of mind right now. russian intelligence are announcing just before president putin spoke that it has arrested eight people in connection with that explosion on the bridge between russia and crimea. eight people including five russians as well as ukrainians and armenians and describing a complex route with a truck -- according to the fsb, russian security services, explosives wrapped in explosives.

ukrainian official describing that description by the russians as nonsense. ukraine hasn't taken responsibility for that attack despite the fact that president putin describing it as terrorism and blaming ukrainian security services. so a kind of -- a war of words, if you like, between the russians and the ukrainians over that. and a lot of rhetoric, a lot of accusations from president putin today, but limited detail, again, this is i think a very, very challenging position for president putin right now. there are those questions from western officials about whether he can sustain the kind of barrage that he has implemented against ukraine in the past few days to -- the air barrage. those questions aren't being asked by anyone around the

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you're going to see here, you mentioned it in your intro, closed captioning was used in this interview. you'll see fetterman with a screen in front of him, the campaign has been open about his need to use this technology because he is still dealing with auditory processing sometimes as a result of the stroke. and, look, this interview is coming at a critical time. we're one month out from election day and his lead against his opponent, dr. oz, has narrowed in recent weeks. and this is a pivotal race that could determine the balance of power in the senate. >> everything about it is changed, basically having a conversation with your wife, to having a conversation with your children. >> reporter: john fetterman explaining how he's coping with the aftereffects of the stroke he suffered in may. nbc news agreed to his request to use a transcription program

during the interview. he can't always understand what he's hearing. >> walk me through why we need the closed captioning, how it works? >> it's really just how things happen because i -- sometimes i will hear things in a way that's not perfectly clear. so i use captioning. i'm able to see what you're saying on the -- in captioning. >> reporter: stroke experts say it's not a cognitive issue and fetterman says he's still fit to serve if elected. >> i thought i was empathetic -- i think i was very, excuse me, empathetic. that's an example of the stroke. now after having that stroke, i really understand, you know, much more kind of the challenges that americans have day in and day out. >> when you have moments like you had just now, what's that experience like of just not quite being able to get the words out in the way that you want them to? >> it was hard.

it was just about having to be thinking more about -- slower to just understand. and that sometimes that's the processing that happens. >> aside from releasing a letter from his cardiologist on june 3rd, the campaign has denied requests for his moderates. >> don't voters deserve to know your status now? >> as i said, you know, being on -- in front of thousands and thousands of people and having interviews and getting around all across pennsylvania, that gives everybody and the voters decide if they think that it's really the issue. >> reporter: fetterman's opponent, mehmet oz has called his health into question. >> he's either healthy and dodging questions or he's too sick. >> but he's hoping it's another issue. >> dr. oz likes to make fun of me that i might miss a word.

he's missed two words and that's yes or no on the national abortion ban. >> while oz is focusing on crime, hitting fetterman on his record where he advocated for the early release of some convicted murderers. >> for voters who say i would rather prioritize the safety of me and of my kids in and around philadelphia than prioritizing clemency or lower sentences for criminals, what do you say to those voters? >> i actually have a record in fighting crime. as mayor during four terms. >> reporter: and, lindsey, we did speak to stroke experts who say what you're seeing and hearing there, the auditory processing issues, the challenges with speech, those do not mean that his cognition is impaired, that his decision-making or memory has been affected and these are all side effects that he can recover from. the caveat, though, that all medical experts give is that they can only assess a person to

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>> yes. >> did you ever have a conversation with this woman at any time about an abortion? >> no, did you ever, to your knowledge, give money to pay for the coast of an abortion. >> no. >> is she lying? >> yes, she's lying. >> allison barber joins me now. what new details did we learn from that sit-down? >> big picture, there weren't any major new revelations in this sit-down, but we did get hershel walker's clearest denial of those allegations that he paid for the abortion of a former girlfriend. in this interview, hershel walker denied is accusations which he's done since the reporting first surfaced. he accused the unnamed woman of lying. he repeatedly said she is lying and he also when asked if there was any chance that he might

have forgotten about a conversation or something like this happened, immediately rebuffed that and said, no, that there was no possibility. that is notable in part because years ago hershel walker has talked about struggling with memory lapses, memory lapses notably in the past as it related to domestic violence accusations. he said that he suffered memory lapses because of disassociatetive identity disorder. he was asked about that, the door was left open for him to say he forgotten something. but he closes that and he immediately rebuffed it and said, no, definitely not. he says this did not happen when it comes to his mental health struggles and past issues with memory lapses, he says that he has not had any symptoms related to his disorder in years. you mentioned that poll, lindsey, i will remind viewers, one thing to not forget in georgia is that you don't have

to win in this state in order to win and avoid a runoff, candidates have to get over 50% of the vote and the debate coming up friday is going to be a huge deal. >> since there's that 50% threshold. let's take a look at that poll. it's important to note that the polling ended the day after the original "daily beast" story. how much do you think the numbers reflects the current state of the race? >> it may not reflect particularly on the republican side, if the past few days, all the controversy, all the kind of weird ways that hershel walker has responded to the controversy has further deflated his support, particularly among fellow conservatives. we have seen several recent polls that somewhat overlap with that first revelation of the allegation that he paid for an abortion. but most of those polls won't

fully capture the reaction and all of the fallout. but the trend is, reverend warnock is picking up steam, starting to pull ahead ever so slightly, and, again, the debate on friday could really be a deciding factor in this race. >> new report in "the washington post" says that same woman, from the "daily beast" story, said she had to press walker to pay for the abortion that he wanted. that means this woman has confirmed her story to three separate outlets, no one of which has identified her. is the story top of mind of the voters you've spoken with? >> yes and no. yes, the story is top of mind. it's been the biggest political story in georgia. it's been one of the biggest political stories in the nation. voters are well aware of the allegations, a lot of voters are troubled by the allegations. but as we know, a lot of voters in georgia, their minds are made

up and so for them, it's not necessarily a deciding factor, but the question is, are there enough voters in what we know will be a close race, are there enough voters who are saying i don't like how he's answering these questions, i don't like the way that i'm starting to feel about hershel walker, they may not vote for reverend warnock, but they may leave that race blank. they may go with the libertarian candidate. and that would be trouble for hershel walker. >> thank you both. as we've been mentioning, the midterm elections are still 27 days away, but early voting begins this morning in ohio and arizona. on the ballot in ohio, tim ryan and jd vance are in an all-out battle for the state's open senate seat. jess see kirsch is live with

more. what issues are you hearing matter most to voters in ohio as they head to the polls? >> lindsey, we just got here and spoke with the board of elections director about what kind of turnout they're expecting heading into this and it's looking like, according to the board of elections here, something similar to 2018. remember, the conversation then was around the blue wave and we're cuyahoga county. it gets talked about over and over again during elections. this is a democratic stronghold, has been for many recent elections and so this is an area, a community that will probably be voting heavily democratic if history is a reminder of that. when we look at the turnout, that's an indicator of the fact that people might be more enthusiastic about an election this time around compared to a midterm where they don't have a statewide ballot -- race on the ballot. we have a governor's race with the republican running for re-election and we have an open senate seat which we talked

about yesterday and that is making national headlines. there's a lot of attention on voting here in ohio. here's part of what the director told us about what we can expect in the days ahead here. >> i think this election will be well attended in cuyahoga county. it's not going to reach presidential turnout numbers which we would expect to be 70%, but it will be in the high 50s. it will be a robust turnout, which is good. it will probably beat what happened four years ago. which that in itself was a good turnout year for a midterm. >> and that would be potentially about 15 points if not more above the turnout from 2014. when you have an open senate seat and governor's race, that's likely to drive more enthusiasm and more people to the poll. we'll see what happens over the next few weeks. >> thank you. coming up, the latest legal twist into the investigation into the classified documents

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barring any last-minute cancellation, the house january 6th committee is set to finally hold its first public hearing since the summer tomorrow. the committee will largely focus on the, quote, close ties between people in trump world and some of these extremist groups. that's according to committee members. it's unclear what new testimony would be presented, but we are expecting new material, including documentary and surveillance footage. ali vitali joins me now from tol hill. what more can we expect from this hearing? >> reporter: a lot has happened in terms of interviews they've done since the last time they've done these public hearings as well as information they've got. and our colleague julia ainsley reporting that they've gotten

more than a million messages and communications from the secret service that pertain to the 6th or the lead-up to it. so they have a lot of information on the secret service side of this, potentially things that could speak to allegations that we've seen made under oath here in the past from people like cassidy hutchinson and others. the fact that they've done depositions with ginni thomas, someone who has spoken with several of the key players that this committee has worked so hard to tease out. that's an interview that they've done in the weeks and we could hear audio or see transcripts from because this was not on videotape, according to the agreement that they struck with thomas' team to have her come in voluntarily. but amidst all of the rest of this, lindsey, i think what's important is that there were still officers speaking out about what the impact has been here on capitol hill in terms of the dynamics between capitol police and the lawmakers that they still come here every day day to protect and they were protecting on that day, for

example, here's an officer this morning on "morning joe." >> has anyone apologized to you, checked in on you? do you get any of that from any members from congress? >> no. it's seeing the indifference on behalf of republican members of congress, but in many cases, democrat members of congress too in which they saw, you know, january 6th as either a distraction from their legislative agenda, not politically advantageous. >> reporter: this is a committee that has worked hard and in bipartisan fashion to try to keep the politics out of this. but that is, of course, easier said than done, especially as this is a hearing that comes just weeks before the critical midterm elections. >> thank you. the department of justice is responding to former president donald trump's appeal to the supreme court over the classified documents seized from mar-a-lago. the doj is asking the court to reject trump's request to give

the special master access to the documents marked as classified. the doj solicitor general saying that trump would suffer no harm at all if the documents were temporarily withheld from the special master. a decision by the supreme court could come at any time. joining me right now ken dilanian and former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. any other points stand out to you in the reply? >> what the doj is saying is that as a matter of law, donald trump has to show that he is irrepably harmed by this stay and they're saying, not only can he show that, he can't show an ownership interest in the documents who they they say clearly belong to the federal government. and they also add that it's the justice department that would suffer irreparable harm if they had to hand these documents over to the special master because

they would have to hand them back to donald trump and his lawyers who are not clear to see them. remember, these are some of the most highly classified documents that the united states government possesses. some of them have very esoteric classification markings on them. they're saying, trump has no legal leg to stand on here. and we should -- just so viewers understand, this is a separate track from the appeal that the justice department is pursuing before the 11th circuit in atlanta where they're asking that the whole special massachusetts process be thrown out, basically. whatever happens in this supreme court case, that appeal to the 11th circuit will still be ongoing and they've asked for -- they've asked the court to hear it on an emergency base. >> thanks for that clarity, kenny. they argued that any dispute over access to the presidential records must be resolved in d.c., not florida. and trump truly believes this trump is governed by the pra.

that he filed in the wrong court. what do you make of those arguments? >> well, the solicitor general is absolutely correct on the law in this area and it raises the question that underlies this entire move to take the case to the supreme court. trump's lawyers have not objected to doj's ability to continue using classified documents in their criminal investigation. they're only trying to force those classified materials back into the solicitor general's review and they're trying -- or rather into the special master's review and they're trying to do that in a venue that they hope will be friendly towards them. it has to be the case here that what's going on is that they're gambling on the fact that these classified documents, which the solicitor general has acknowledged are highly classified, many of very limited dissemination, are so incredibly valuable and important to national security that rather than proceed with its criminal investigation, doj might seed

some of that -- might give up the prospect of a prosecution in order to protect these classified secrets. but i think that's a bad gamble. when you've obstructed an investigation in the way the former president has, the doj can sift through the documents that we now know the former president retained and find a way to move forward with the criminal investigation. >> so, ken, if the supreme court does indeed grant this, will this affect the doj's access to the classified documents? and what would be the significance of those classified documents being handed over to the special master? >> it wouldn't be -- it wouldn't affect the doj's ability to use these classified documents in their investigation. they're doing that now and the trump side did not appeal that part of the 11th circuit's stay. but the justice department would say it would be a terrible precedent to be set in this matter. they say, donald trump does not have any right to see these documents and, therefore, they should not be reviewed by a special master.

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a historic first for earth. nasa says humanity's first test run of a planetary defense system was a success. two weeks of intense data crunching and analysis found the asteroid redirection test knocked an asteroid off its orbit. tom costello joins me with more. pretty incredible images. what more did we learn from nasa on this historic first? >> they learned that the strategy works. this asteroid never posed a risk. it was minding its own business orbiting another asteroid. nasa wanted to see, could it push it off course so one day it could use the same strategy when dealing with an asteroid heading our way. it all worked perfectly. look closely. you are seeing the moment of impact 7 million miles away.

it slammed into an asteroid, kicking up a massive plume of dirt and rock stretching thousands of miles in space. here is the nose-camera video as it went into its fatal dive at 14,000 miles per hour. [ cheers and applause ] scientists celebrated the bull's eye. now they know their mission into the darkness of space worked. it cut the tiny asteroid's orbit time by 32 minutes. nasa had hoped to cut it by ten minutes. that's a big deal. >> this is a watershed moment for planetary defense and a watershed moment for humanity. >> here is why. if nasa can push an asteroid off course, it may be able to deflect big asteroids that pose a risk to us on planet earth.

for proof that we need some kind of defense, just look at all the dinosaur fossils in the world's museums. they ruled the earth until they were wiped out by a massive meteor crashing into the planet 65 million years ago. fast forward to today. >> for the first time ever, humanity has changed the orbit of a planetary body. >> just maybe humanity has its first planetary defense system from a future mega meteor, if we get enough warning. >> nasa and other space agencies can have decades of warning time, can track these reliability for 100 plus years. >> a 100-year warning would hopefully be enough. the good news, nasa doesn't see any planet killers headed our way. >> i believe nasa has proven that we are serious as a defender of the planet. >> tom, you said that this

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