♪ ♪ no more waiting. no more running. [ screaming ] we finish this tonight. there's no universe where the president wants to be talking about covid today, reminding voters of the pandemic when just two weeks out from the midterms. but there's also no universe where the president wants to let the pandemic interrupt daily life and the economy again so you're looking at the white house because he will be out today making sure everyone knows to get their booster. since we spent so much time masked and away from each other over the past two year, doctors

are warning this winter could be extra hard. not just for covid, but for flu, and now a childhood respiratory virus that's going around. it is an important message and we're going to go to the white house when he begins speaking. speaking of the president and midterms, biden is going to syracuse this week. yes, syracuse, yes, new york. yes, new york, in the last two weeks before the midterms. he's coming here because as blue as new york is, some of the congressional races are looking a little more purple. after a haywire redistricting process, new york has more congressional battlegrounds than nearly any other state in the country. even the democratic campaign chairman is locked in a dead heat, forcing the house campaign arm to spend a lot of money to defend its own chief from republican michael lawler. it's not just malone in westchester. nine of new york's seats from the tip of long up to pew kip

see are in play and now the governor's race is tightening. kathy hochul, once considered a lock in, is facing lee zeldin in their first and only debate. we'll get what's happening there, here in a moment. we're also live in pennsylvania for what is considered tonight's marquee match-up, which is on odd way to describe a political debate. john fetterman will be on the stage with mehmet oz where the focus will likely get personal. fetterman is recovering from a stroke and dr. oz has made an issue of his health. mocking fetterman. and as if that was not enough to digest, we have a fascinating new look at how other democrats in tight races in some key places around the country are campaigning. the issues they're focusing on versus the issues you hear so much about on the news. including on this show here. so buckle up.

all right, everyone, welcome. dasha, you have covered this race for so long now. you're a bit of an expert on these two. tell me what you're looking out for in the debate? >> oh, my goodness, katy, we are in the final stretch here. this is probably the most anticipated, high stakes debate of the midterms and all of the voters i've been talking to across pennsylvania tell me they have been waiting for this day. they've seen the battles over the air waves, on social media and now they want to see these two face-to-face. what should we expect? the fetterman campaign on debate eve released a memo saying what we should expect from their point of view. quote, we'll admit this isn't john's format.

if we're being honest, oz comes into tuesday night with a huge, built-in advantage and called the circumstances unprecedented, pointing to the closed captioning fetterman will be using because of his lingering auditory processing issues. the moderators will have two monitors behind them. there will be live closed captioning happening throughout the debate. they closed this memo by saying quote, john is going to win this race even if he doesn't win the debate. a pretty striking message from the campaign the day before this very high stakes match-up. i'll tell you, the voters i've been speaking with, i found a surprising number of people are still in that persuadable camp and they are waiting for tonight. we talked to a particular subset of voters both candidates have been targeting. suburban women. we talked to women in lucerne, which is red, and montgomery, which is red.

. >> inflation, like it really affects how you important, what you can do with your kids, when your taxes are just going up and your expendable income is just shrinking every day. >> definitely, the economy. gas prices, food prices. i'm single. i'm a teacher, but i have five other jobs. >> five other jobs. >> yeah, five other little side jobs so i work all the time. >> this is personal for folks. so inflation, gas prices, and crime are the top issues i heard from suburban women. abortion not as prominent in these conversations as those other two issues that i mentioned and some of these persuadable women, they said look, i might make up my mind tonight. >> all right, so, john, we've got a little bit from voters about what they're looking for tonight, but broadly speaking when you talk to folks, what are they paying attention to and i wonder are they going to be paying close attention to

fetterman's health tonight? is that going to be an issue for pennsylvania voters? >> certainly the oz campaign would like to make it an issue. they've been hammering fetterman for the last couple of weeks, accusing him of hiding from the base. accusing him of hiding on the campaign trail. certainly fetterman suffered the stroke and was benched until august. he's come back now. still suffering from those auditory issues and that's sometimes been apparent in his public appearances. but same time, disability advocates and stroke survivor rs looking to him as a public face for what they're going through on a daily basis. in a weird way, not in a weird way, but sort of making a statement for them as well. when you get out there and talk to others, and i was on the phone with the group for our future this morning, dasha's right. the economy and public safety are at the top of voters lists of concerns. even the republicans are trying

to claim the ground on the economy. there are a great number of democratic voters out there believe fetterman and the gubernatorial candidate, josh shapiro, are best suited to handle the economy. >> what about the kitchen tables in pennsylvania? is it just going to be the economy? a lot of that is focused heavily on pennsylvania and what happened in 2020 and how they were so many challenges to the vote there. is that top of mind or is that secondary or tersery? >> this has been a remarkably substance free campaign. there's been wars on social media between oz and fetterman, but not a lot of delving into substantive issues. they're looking for these two men to say something to speaks

to them tonight presents a pretty unprecedented opportunity. that said, how many pennsylvanians will be logging in to watch this. it's going to be a subset of, a subset. there's a lot going on. voters have a lot of demands on their time, but for voters who care about this thing, they'll be watching. >> john and dasha, thank you very much. moving on to new york and the cluster democrats made for themselves. joining me onset is ron allen. also jesse mckinley. all this redistricting in new york, the backfiring of the math has made a lot of races a lot tougher and i'm particularly interested and not just patrick malone, but what's happening with kathy hochul and lee zeldin? they're debating tonight. it's surprising to a lot of folks that blue, blue, blue new york might not be so blue in the

governor's mansion. >> this is the first time she's running for the job outright. she's never won a state election for governor. so there's a lot of attention focused on how will she affect the down ballot races. there's a debate tonight. zeldin clambering for one, finally got it. it's only an hour and is going to be broadcast on a cable network. not a broadcast one. >> new york one. >> exactly. for zeldin, it's his opportunity to introduce himself to new yorkers. he's been underdog throughout. there have been recent polls that put the race as close as four points if you believe that poll. he's been doing it by hammering away at crime. he has press conferences at crime scenes. subways. the subway here in new york is a huge issue. there was another sensational crime there in the past couple of days. that's what he's been hammering away. crime, quality of life. whereas hochul has been saying i'm competent, i can do the job, i'm doing the job.

oh, by the way, zeldin is an extremist. he voted to not certify the election. >> it shows you how potent the crime issue is here in new york. it's to say it is on the top of a lot of new yorker's minds. it's, it hits you in the face. >> it's crime, but also quality of life. this post covid era is coming back not as quickly as some other parts of the country and quality of life means inflation, gas prices, food prices. >> trash everywhere. >> it's all playing together and that's why zeldin, that seems to be why the polls are tightening, but remember, this state has not elected a republican governor since 2002. so it's been 20 years. >> it would almost seem anathema here in new york, but it's not just the governor. jesse, as you've been talking about, it's a lot of these congressional races.

maloney is in a tough race, a head of the dcc. >> yeah, depending on who you talk to and what polls you read, it could be very, very close in new york 17. he's running against mike lawler, who's a republican political consultant who's run a spirited campaign. there's a couple of districts north of that where they're also in a fight. so election night should be fascinated. hochul has a lot more money that zeldin, but zeldin has been helped by outside groups, pouring a lot of money into this. of course, you can't overstate that new york city is a tabloid city and a lot of those crimes on subways, street corners get a lot of attention if you want to make that a big issue. >> very true. just open up the "new york post" and you'll see it. jesse and ron -- you're right. just look at the cover of the

"new york post" or if you're like me, go to instagram and every third slide is a sensational headline from them. gentlemen, thank you very much. we're going to the white house because president biden is going to be talking about booster shots and keeping yourself healthy this winter. >> we've seen cases of hospitalizations rise in europe in recent weeks and the weather is getting colder. people will spend more time indoors and contagious viruses like covid are going to spread considerably more easily. and as a country, you know, we have a choice to make. can we repeat what happened in the past winters? more infections, more hospitalizations, more loved ones getting sick, even dying from the virus? or can we have a much better winter if we use all, all the tools we have available to us now. let's start with covid update

vaccines. they're designed to fight a specific omicron strand that's as dominant in our country right now. this is really is a serious, giant step forward. remember, omicron did not even exist when the first vaccines against covid were developed. we're especially fortunate here in the united states because biden administration made sure we have the, we were the first country in the world to have vaccines to target most common covid strains. for americans over 5 years of age who were fully vaccinated, our nation's health experts recommend they get the updated covid vaccine once a year. in other words, it's just like the flu shot. and if you're fully vaccinated, get one more covid shot. once a year. that's it. now some high risk people such as immunocompromised may need more than one covid shot, but

for most americans, one covid shot each year will be all they need. and if you get it, you're protected. if you don't, you're putting yourself and other people at unnecessary risk. the shot is free. it's widely available. and conveniently located just in time for the holiday season. look, over 20 million of our fellow americans have already gotten the shot. i'm calling on all americans. seems like you're having to make this case again. all americans to get their shots. just as soon as they can. you're old vaccine or previous covid infection will not give you maximum protection. let me be as plain as i can. we still have hundreds of people dying each day from covid in this country. hundreds. that number is likely to rise this winter. but this year is different from the past. this year, nearly every death is preventable. let me say it again. nearly every death is preventable.

so get updated. get your updated covid shot. now is the time to do it. by halloween, if you can, that's the best time. and that way, you can be protected for the holidays. and please, while you're at it, get the flu shot. have your kids get their flu shot. you can get them at the same time you get the flu shot and covid at the same time. either your doctor's office or one of the drugstores. we're already seeing a rise in flu and rsv and other respiratory illnesses especially among young children so take precautions. stay safe. you can spend thanksgiving with family and friends with a peace of mind knowing you've done your part for everyone's well-being. my administration is doing our part. we've made these updates to vaccines easy to get and available for free at tens of thousands of convenient locations. these include local pharmacies, doctor's office, community health centers, rural health clinics that serve the hard to

reach areas in america. 95%, 95% of americans can find a free update vaccine within five miles of where they live. you can go to vaccines.gov. let me say that again. go to vaccines.gov to find a location near you. again, say one more time. go to vaccines.gov. find a place you can get the shot near you. we're working with doctors, community groups, faith leaders and companies. leaders of some of our nation's largest pharmaceutical chains are standing behind me. they're all stepping up to help more people get vaccinated. some are offering coupons when people get their updated covid shots. get the shot. five, ten, $20 off at your drugstore grocery purchase or grocery purchase next time at the same time you get the shot.

some are making it easy for you to walk in and get your vaccine right away including on nights and weekends and others from the private sector are stepping up as well, including delivering covid treatments right to people's homes for free. now, what do you do if you think you have covid? well, please get tested. so you can be treated. we mailed out hundreds of millions of free test kits earlier this year. we had to pause the program because unfortunately some of our friends in congress failed to continue fund the covid response, but you have used up these free test, that's okay. we've required health insurance companies to cover free at-home tests, eight tests per person per month. folks on medicare and medicaid can get free at-home tests as well. we have made free testing widely available in communities.

and then if you test positive, get treat. we have amazing treatments available now and can help stop infections from turning into serious illness. we are the only large country in the world that made paxlovid widely available for free. you can get it prescribed by your doctor or at thousands of test to treat sites or even from your local pharmacist. pick it up for free. it's a pill. it's easy. paxlovid can save your life. it's worth it. here's the bottom line. virtually every covid death in america is preventable. virtually every one. almost everyone who will die from covid this year will not be up to date on their shots or will not have taken paxlovid when day got sick. we've made the vaccines free and available. we've made the tests free and available. we've made paxlovid free and

available. please use them. use them. and encourage your friends and loved ones and neighbors to use them as well. it can save a life. to employers, help your employees get vaccinated. set up a vaccine clinic in your building. give people time off to get it if necessary. share good, clear information. just like you do for the flu shots. to school and college leaders, help your communities get vaccinated this fall. host onsite clinics before thanksgiving. and to our friends in congress, it's time to step up with much needed covid funding. help us stay ahead of the virus and keep our communities going strong with free vaccines, free tests and widely available treatments as we've done so far. some of our friends in congress say we don't need covid funding. they say there's really no reason that the government should be paying for it. i strongly disagree.

strongly disagree. this is a global health emergency. if you really want to put covid behind us, we have to keep up the fight together. we can't leave people to face it alone. some members of congress say they don't want to move beyond covid but they don't want to spend the money to do it. we can't have it both ways. funding we seek is critical to continue the work to develop and purchase the most effective treatments and vaccines against covid. it's important. it's important. now i want to speak directly to those who special conditions. new variants may make some existing protections ineffective for the immunocompromised. sadly, this means you may be at a special risk this winter so i urge you, i urge you to consult your doctor on the right steps to protect yourself. take extra precautions. i also want to say this. as we enter this new moment in

the battle against covid, let's use it to start fresh as a country. to put all the old battles over covid behind us. to put all the partisan politics aside. we've already lost over 1 million americans to covid. over 1 million americans to covid. you know, we can do so much now to reduce the number of people who die from this terrible disease. we have the tools. we have the vaccines. we have the treatments. none of this is about politics. it's about your health. the health of your loved ones. close with this. over the past 20 months, biden administration has left no stone unturned to make life saving tools widely available and easily accessible. now covid cases are down by more than 80% from when i took office. covid deaths are down nearly

90%. and now we're in the longest stretch since the virus emerged when our hospitals are not overrun with severely ill covid patients. that didn't just happen. it took a combination of incredibly effective vaccines, tests, and treatments to get us there. one of the biggest public health efforts ever undertaken in this country. but together, we did it. now let's keep doing it. let's keep going. this fall, get your covid shot. and get your flu shot. it's simple. it's easy. for most americans, it's one of the covid shots per year. once a year. it's going the be required. it's most important thing you can do. so thank you and now i'll show you just how easy it is to get that shot.

>> left arm? all right. >> it's a necessity to deal with. >> what's your reaction to the saudis on oil -- >> sir, do you think it was a mistake for new york to -- vaccines? >> say it again. >> do you think it was a mistake for new york to drop vaccine mandates? >> no, i don't think, that's a local judgment. thank you. [ shouting ]

>> what is your next move now that brittney griner wants her appeal? >> we're in constant contact with russian authorities to get brittney and others out and so far, we've not been met with so much positive response, but we're not stopping. [ shouting ] >> the dirty bomb allegations from russia as it relates to ukraine. do you believe this is the beginning of a falsified operation? is russia to deploy a dirty bomb itself or a nuclear weapon? >> i, i spend a lot of time today talking about that. let me just say russia will be making an incredibly serious

mistake for it to use a tactical nuclear weapon. i'm not guaranteeing you that it's a false flag operation yet. don't know. but it would be a serious, serious mistake. [ shouting ] >> so a lot more in addition to him getting his booster shot there. joining me now from washington is msnbc news white house correspondent, mike memoli. also with me is former obama white house director and medical director. dr. patel, there are a number of threats, i guess i should put it, for the winter season. there's you know, the pandemic, which is still lingering, obviously. covid still spreading although thankfully we have therapeutics. there's also the flu. people might not have thought much about the flu because we were inside and masked.

now as many people got the flu over the past two years. but then there's this childhood respiratory disease that's really concerning. can you tell me a little bit about what's going on there and what parents need to watch out for? >> we're calling it a triple demic. it's hitting me at home personally. i've got a 5-year-old, it's about day ten into a nasty rsv illness. thankfully she's been able to be taken care of at home, but in an average year, there are about 60,000 pediatric hospitalizations and over 100,000 adult. we don't talk about that an enough. you're seeing an unusually increased amount of activity because we've had children either at home or schools with masks on and precautions. tells you two things. one, those precautions help. we don't have any of those in place now, so if you're a worried parent, keep using the

common sense of what we used to help your child avoid getting sick with covid and other respiratory illnesses and also if you're a worried parent like i have been over the last ten days, don't hesitate to take your child into the health practitioner's office to get tested. it's hard to tell the difference between covid, flu, and rsv and other illnesses out there. >> mike, this is not something any president wants to talk about two weeks before the midterms, reminding folks about the dark days of the pandemic. what was the move at the white house for having the president come out now and do this? >> well, the timing of all this is so interesting. first, it's dictated by cdc guidance. it was just about three months ago that president biden himself contracted covid-19 and the guidance is you should wait to get this booster or the updated vaccine for three months.

so the timing was auspicious because of partially what you heard, as we're getting ready for the holidays, now is the perfect time to get this vaccine to have the maximum protection to protect yourself and your loved ones, but i thought it was notable. we started the show two weeks before the midterm elections. the president really making the point that because of the way his administration has tried to manage the pandemic more effectively is their argument compared to the trump administration, we have all the tools, the treatments to deal with this variant and others to come, but you also heard him with another ask. the administration requested $10 billion in additional funding for the pandemic during some of the last budget fights we saw over the course of the late summer into the fall. republicans and some democrats blocked that from being attached to the ukraine funding aid and so you heard him there really making the argument to republicans of course, but when we have another round of funding

battles to come in the lame duck session, we need more to track, to trace, to get ahead of future variants in order to continue to manage this. >> everybody out there, go get your booster shot if you haven't done so yet. and your flu shot. thank you very much. and coming up at 3:00, dr. fauci is going to join lindsey who's in for hallie. stay with us at msnbc for that. we started our hour talking about those neck and neck races in pennsylvania and new york. again, the midterms, just two weeks away. but it is not just those key races that we're talking about all the time. there are super tight races all over the country. if you dropped in on any of those, you'd find the campaigns sound a little different than the national conversation. which is what my next guest did. he writes the issues the candidates i watched have only one point of intersection. the threat to abortion rights. the candidates talk less about fighting climate change, more about lowering your federal taxes through solar credits.

less about the january 6th insurrection and more about the many reasonable republicans they enjoy working with. less about the biden administration's passage of historic legislation, more about insulin price caps and they combine this with a tough, unsent mental way of practicing politics that includes trying to hell to draw far right opponents. joining me now is nicholas lemon. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> i thought your piece today in "the new yorker" was fascinating. it just cut through a lot of the national dialogue and showed us what has worked in the past on the ground in some of these tighter places like nevada and new hampshire and what democrats are hoping to do again there. tell me about how maggie hasson is running her race. >> well, i should say of the you know, list of most endangered democratic senators, hasson seems to be the only one who is

now considered quasi safe to be re-elected. so how did she do it? she was lucky, but it wasn't just luck to get the most right wing opponent she could possibly get. a man named don, his first race for political office. an early ad. he looked in the camera and said are you sick of pansies running this country? i am. you know, so that's kind of the lane he's in. so he's the ideal opponent for her. she also stresses constantly how centrist she is. how she loves working with republicans. she loves veterans. she is very skeptical of taxes. she's very skeptical of immigration. before you conclude that she's just joe mansion ii, she almost always votes in accord with the biden administration's position, but she's tailoring her race to

what she thinks will win in a traditionally red and now supposedly purple state, new hampshire. >> you have catherine cortez. this is a state where you talk to democrats there, democratic professionals, leadership, and they'll tell you it's always tight here. no matter what. i people like to say we're a blue state, but we're not a blue state. the races are always neck and neck. tell me what's going on there. >> cortes masto seems to be in a lot of trouble. she's neck and neck or slightly behind her opponent who's the grandson of senator paul axalt so he has great name recognition in nevada. what she has in common with hasson, somebody earlier was mentioning kitchen table. i heard about a lot of kitchen tables when i was reporting this story.

i felt like i was going to turn into a kitchen table because all the conversations about these are very specific things that i'm going to do or i have done to make your life and your family's life better. no big picture. just here's what we're doing to help you. and that's what these, you know, closely contested democratic candidates are running on. laxalt and bolden are running on a kind of very dramatic picture of liberals have taken over every aspect of american life and they're the only way to stop that from continuing to happen. >> you talk about how because republicans are taking on this culture war mantle, going full speed on these social issues, that it's given democrats an opening to talk more about the economy and i know we've said it a bunch, kitchen table issues.

a bit of a cliche, but you understand what we're talking about. i thought it was so interesting that you reached out to president obama but instead of getting an interview with him, his team sent over a load of articles i guess to reflect his point of view and one of them was new york magazine writer, jonathan chap with the headline, political correctness is losing. can you explain that? >> yeah, so there's sort of two parts of what's going on. i think it's a really interesting story that is not widely understood. part one, this is where president obama was going. if the democrats can drop the sort of farther to the left positions then everything will be fine. so that's part one. a second version, which is not inconsistent but somewhat different, the democrats have screwed up over a generation or two by aligning themselves with white collar, upper middle class

voters they've been gaining from the republicans and they need to reorient toward blue collar america which they're losing to the republicans or bleeding to the republicans. and they do that by attending to the economic interest of people who didn't go to college and people who feel like they're falling behind in the new economy. there's actually a lot of that in the biden program that isn't getting covered as much it deserves to be covered. >> you also end with ro khanna who we had on the other day and the message he's trying to urge other democrats to take on. economic nationalism? >> patriotism. >> so, he's an interesting case. he represents silicon valley in congress. so his district, a, voted for bernie sanders and b, has probably more billionaires than any congressional district in

america. so he's, and he's a child of immigrants. it's the only majority asian district in the continental u.s. and he's in the progressive caucus. so he's trying to sort of thread a needle where his message is you know, as i was saying, the country has left working people behind and it needs to correct that, but the facebooks and googles among his constituents shouldn't be afraid of that. it's something they need to sign on it and he's been pretty good at making that work in a tough environment for him. >> thank you so much for coming on. the art cal in "the new yorker" was really interesting. what was the title again? >> well, we're in the age where it has seven different titles. >> going online. >> print magazine, only connect. >> democrats midterm challenge i

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in a private meeting with king charles, rishi sunak was officially invited to form a government and that was the easy part. the hard part is everything that comes now. sunak ak nonled it as he walked down ten downing that he's walking into a rat's nest of economic troubles with a dire energy crisis as the cherry on top. joining me from london is keir simmons. forgive me for my mixed metaphor, my friend, but tell me what he said todays and how th country reacted. >> reporter: i love the mix a metaphor. how about this for a mixed up message today.

kind of in a split screen here, on the one hand, you have frankly among many, just glee in the indian community and back in india that a man of indian heritage, the first person of color to walk through that door behind me as prime minister, a really historic moment. the president of his home hindu temple describing it as britain's obama moment. so you have that, then as you mentioned, the extraordinary challenge that he now faces. being frank saying there are going to be tough choices. they are very tough choices. billions of dollars hole in the british budget. britain known for its stability and steady financial planning, this the past few months in chaos. and now you have a prime minister with a party that is divided and isn't liked that much by the british people.

you have to make all these very, very hard decisions. there have been calls for a general election. he's clear he's not going to call a general election. at least that's reading between the lines of his statement here in downing street. but you wonder whether or not he will still be prime minister in a little while. >> sorry to interrupt, but i want to ask you this because it's confusing to me and an american audience, i would imagine. calling for a general election, here in the states, we have prescribed general elections. can't move them. when would a party in power, why would they call a general election if they don't have to by law? >> yeah, exactly. and particularly if they don't think they're going to win. it's like lawmakers as you might say, like turkeys voting at thanksgiving. why would they do that? they're not likely to. at the same time, there's this challenge that the prime minister who was elected was boris johnson. the system here is different.

it's the party that is elected. not the leader. so what you've basically seen here once again is a kind of primary without a general election and that's okay under the british constitution, but the trouble is he's got to make such difficult decisions. let me give you one example. will there be at some point members of his party, no sign of it now, who say well, do we really have to spend so much on ukraine when we've got so many problems here and of course the white house would not want to see that, president biden in his congratulations clearly saying we very much look forward to a solid relationship over the ukraine crisis. >> you know, it's a conversation we'll be having here as well. if the republicans are able to retake either one of the houses of congress. keir, thank you so much. like a turkey voting for thanksgiving. never heard that before. but i'm going to steal it. appreciate it. thanks, keir. and international inspectors are heading to ukraine as we

were talking about, investigating russia's claims that the ukrainian military is plotting a dirty bomb attack on itself. they're coming at ukraine's request to debunk what ukraine says and the u.s. agrees is russian disinformation. meanwhile, big gains to report for ukrainian forces trying to reclaim kherson. government officials are evacuating as the ukrainian military is closing in on the strategically critical port city. joining me from kyiv is cal perry. that's the good news, they're closing in on kherson, but cal, you're hearing a different tone. some different messages from officials there. tell me what they're saying. >> reporter: so in just the past hour, we've heard from the deputy prime minister who's urging ukrainians who are outside the country right now to remain outside ukraine for the winter and look, we normally get the government's best version of this war. every night, president zelenskyy puts out a message that is more often than not filled with positivity, filled with

battlefield gains. so this is a stark admission that the power grid is frankly not holding up. that it is starting to falter and it might fail. we know at least 30% of the power stations have already been destroyed. the weather has turned very bad. there were strikes throughout the day today on eight separate cities. so getting those structures repaired is virtually impossible. so it feels as if the situation is only going to get worse. more on those strikes. eight cities taking strikes. the target today, not just the power infrastructure, but tv towers. the tv was knocked out. the news i should say. it crossed the southern part of the country. it is part of russia's propaganda campaign it continues in kherson. there's a media blackout in kherson and we're not clear what ukrainian troops are going to find when they get to that city. civilians have been forcibly removered. it is russia's way of taking away the ability to liberate anyone or anything. you have continued talk of this

dirty bach. that's why the iaea is in town. ukrainian officials though are expressing concern that it's not going to be able to prove that ukraine doesn't have something. russia is saying they're developing a dirty bomb. ukrainian officials saying not only is that absurd, but how do we prove we don't have something. >> on another note, you're standing in front of a blacked out city. you were talking to me yesterday about the rolling blackouts and how they're trying to conserve electricity and energy. can you explain more on that? what is is country experiencing? >> right, so as far as kyiv is concerned, they want to try to conserve electricity so the grid doesn't fail. there's a government area in parts of this city where we know officials still reside. where they're still trying to communicate with front line troops. it is not the area behind me. the area behind me is without power. so they're trying to keep the power on in this city. it is much worse when you go outside of the capital. the power in these villages and

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