♪♪ good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific, i'm jose diaz-balart and we begin this very busy hour with breaking news. this morning, a spokesman for house speaker nancy pelosi says her husband, paul pelosi, was violently assaulted in their san francisco home. paul pelosi was taken to the hospital, is expected to make a full recovery. speaker's office said she was not in san francisco at the time of the attack. the assailant is in custody. now, as of right now, motive for the attack is unclear. joining us now with more on this breaking story is nbc news

capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? >> reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn't appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi's office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there's been a 144% increase in

these type of threats, and it has made the job of capitol police keeping these families safe one of their highest priorities. now, again, we don't know the motivation of this particular attack and why this happened, but it just goes to show how members of congress are vulnerable on many levels. we'll continue to look into the background here and exactly why this particular attack took place, but right now, everyone thinking about paul pelosi and his full recovery. of course, jose, as you know, paul pelosi, recently in the news, had a situation where he pled guilty to a misdemeanor, a driving while intoxicated charge and was even given jail time because of that. he's a prominent member of the pelosi family and is someone that spends most of his time in california but is often at the speaker's side, and as we said before, right now, the speaker's office saying he's expected to make a full recovery. >> and ryan, i know this is, you know, breaking news, just coming

across our different bureaus,but any idea of a timeline, when this occurred? do we know? was it overnight, early in the morning? yesterday? >> reporter: yes, according to the statement, it happened early this morning, and it was someone that physically broke into the pelosi home, and that's where the attack took place. so, that's all we know right now in terms of the timeline, that it did happen early this morning. of course, it did happen on the west coast, so it would have been very early this morning that this took place, but again, we're still trying to piece together the details, and of course, the motive still remains the biggest open question. >> yeah, 7:02 in the morning right now in the west coast. frank, you worked at the fbi field office in san francisco. i'm just wondering, what are your thoughts when you see this? >> so, first, two pieces of good news. the subject is in custody. second, the reports from the hospital are that mr. pelosi is expected to recover. that's all good news.

but as is often the case in these early stages, we have lots of questions. i'm certain that the fbi in san francisco is partnering with the capitol police department and the san francisco police department to figure this out. identify the subject, start looking into his record, if he or she has one. but you know, as often is the case even in medical training, young doctors are told, hey, sometimes a headache is just a headache. sometimes in the crime business, you have to look at the context. so, this is a very affluent neighborhood. i'm quite familiar with it, in san francisco, and because of that affluence, sometimes those residents are targeted for what's called follow-home crimes. smkd sees someone in a nice-looking car driving home, they follow them, and they use that opportunity to get in and rob the house. but we're not hearing necessarily robbery or burglary here. what we're hearing is assault, and so that raises other questions beyond just the possible crime issues in that neighborhood, and that means the fbi could get involved.

there could be federal charges if, for example, there was interstate travel to commit this crime. if, for example, they determine that this person held extremist ideologies and this attack had to do with political motivations. if that's the case, this turns, possibly, from a local crime to a federal crime. that's why everybody's probably working together right now, identifying, searching for a motive, and i think we'll know soon enough whether this was an assailant who had no idea whose home he was breaking into or rather something more sophisticated. the level of security around where she is is high, but the posture changes when she's not at that residence, and i think maybe capitol police will be reviewing that security level at her residence. >> yeah, i mean, it seems as though -- i mean, you know, it could be a b&e, a home invasion,

or something a lot more sinister. but that house has been targeted in the past. it just seems, frank, that you would think there would be maybe not, you know, physical security there but some, you know, sophisticated alarm system, et cetera, that would have at least protected a little bit, this incident. >> i totally agree. second in line after the vice president means you should have enhanced security and perhaps even when you're not present at the residence. but we all know that alarm systems are great if you activate the alarm, and we don't know if that's been activated. i would assert there should be physical presence, even when the speaker's not at the residence, because that becomes a soft target and a symbolic target because of the line of succession, so san francisco pd, i'm sure, has enhanced patrols past that home. but maybe -- maybe it's time to put someone physically there around the clock, and you know what? maybe we'll find out that was the case, but something broke

down. lots to learn here. >> yeah. and of course, we will be monitoring this situation throughout the hour and throughout the day here on msnbc. i thank you, frank figliuzzi and ryan nobles, for being with us this morning. meanwhile, we are just 11 days away from this year's midterms, and at this time, more than 60 million people have already cast their ballots in these critical races, and this morning, both parties are looking to presidents past and present for an 11th hour boost. today, president obama will head to georgia to stump for incumbent senator raphael warnock and democratic gubernatorial nominee stacey abrams. it's part of a major blitz on the campaign trail where we're also going to see donald trump stumping for republicans ahead of election day. meanwhile, president biden is headed to philadelphia again tonight, along with vice president harris, this as the pennsylvania lieutenant governor, john fetterman, is defending his candidacy after a

shaky debate performance. >> one of the things we always remind everybody is that by january, i would be much, much better, but oz will still be a fraud. and you know, and i rely on the judgment on real doctors, not a fake doctor like dr. oz. >> and with more, nbc news correspondent dasha burns, live in philadelphia. nbc news senior political reporter live in atlanta and here with us on our miami set, nbc news national reporter mark caputo. so, dasha, what can you tell us about the state of this senate race in pennsylvania? >> reporter: well, look, jose, we haven't had a lot of substantive polling since the debate, but i can tell you before the debate, this race was extremely tight, just about two points separating the candidates in the polls. of course, in the aftermath of the debate, i've heard some concern from voters about fetterman and his health, but it was also the first time that voters got to see dr. oz on

television in a political capacity rather than as a tv doctor, as many americans have seen him for years now, and it's going to be interesting to see a lot can happen in the next 11 days and there was a lot to digest from that debate, including some of the conversation around abortion and roe v. wade, conversations around crime. both candidates have been hitting the campaign trail. dr. oz focusing, again, on law enforcement, on the crime issue. fetterman holding an event with dave matthews, and both candidates pulling out all the stops with the democratic party supporting fetterman and josh shapiro, the candidate for governor. we know that plans are coming together for both obama and biden to come here to pennsylvania to stump, and trump will be coming to stump for dr. oz and the gubernatorial candidate, doug mastriano. jose? >> dasha, you spent some time with local officials preparing for election day. what'd you learn? >> yeah. >> reporter: well, look,

philadelphia may very well decide the outcome here in pennsylvania, and therefore, potentially, decide who holds the balance of power in congress. so, elected officials are taking this extremely seriously. they have a brand-new facility with new technology to make sure that the vote-counting is efficient and secure, and the security measures they're taking this time around are pretty serious. take a listen. >> we have metal detectors, we have cameras. we have all the doors are locked. there will be a fence around the whole site. there will be security at the entrance, at the entrance, all the doors are alarmed. and again, there's additional security features that, you know, we won't speak of. >> reporter: you heard from lisa dealey there. she also told me she's been involved in elections her entire life, and she never thought that she would need to be speaking to

the fbi, to homeland security, about an election, but this is the climate right now. they are concerned not only about the safety and integrity of the election but also the safety of their election workers as so many of them have been facing threats in the last few years during this kind of very, very intense time for folks involved in this process, jose. >> indeed. and meanwhile, president obama will be in georgia today, campaigning for senator warnock and stacey abrams. what can we expect? i mean, this -- georgia, entire state races, have really intensified. >> reporter: they certainly have, jose. former president obama will be here in atlanta to campaign with top democratic candidates. he's hoping to lend his star power within the party to offer a singular message that democrats should turn out. they need to vote. the stakes in this election are high. specifically, he's known to be effective at reaching young voters and black voters, two core constituencies that can make or break elections for the

democrats, and i spoke to an advisor to president obama who said he's going to highlight a number of things. first, threats to democracy. that's an issue on the minds of many democrats. he will talk about that in georgia, in particular, democrats are attuned to that issue. but he'll also talk about economics, the cost of living, which is the singular issue on the minds of most independent voters. he'll make the case that democrats have worked on this front to try to lower energy costs, that democrats, in his view, have the backs of voters, and he believes that's how democrats can win, ultimately, to win elections. now, this comes as there is some concern within democrats that the race for the senate is tightening with raphael warnock, the democratic incumbent's lead, shrinking in certain surveys. one democrat who mentioned this in what he thought was a private conversation with president biden yesterday, is chuck schumer, the democratic majority leader. i want to play what he had to say on that hot mic moment. >> state polling, we're going

down in georgia. it's hard to believe that they would go for herschel walker. >> and by the way, barack's down there tomorrow. >> tomorrow, yeah. but our vote -- our early turnout in georgia is huge. huge. >> reporter: now, if you didn't hear him there, schumer said the state where we're going downhill is georgia, and he did go on to say that the early vote for democrats is huge. that is a bright spot for the party here. now, it's that context in which the democratic senate committee is unleashing a new ad going against -- going heavily negative against the republican challenger, herschel walker, bringing up allegations of his turbulent past, allegations of domestic violence, questioning his honesty, mentioning the fact that even his son, christian walker, has called him a liar. it looks like an increasingly negative campaign down the stretch with herschel walker

campaigning with ted cruz and lindsey graham around georgia lately. the governor's race is a rematch of 2018, stacey abrams, the democratic challenger, faces now republican incumbent brian kemp, who is the clear favorite. he's leading by a fairly wide margin in recent polls. it's going to be tough for her to pull this off, jose. >> yeah, meanwhile, mark, in battleground florida, new poll says all signs are pointing to a republican landslide with 11 days before the election and much of florida already voting. what is the strategy for democrats in these next days? >> the strategy for democrats in florida right now is probably to pray. they really don't have much going for them. on primary election night, august 23rd, the day after i was here, so far, that has shown to be the case. and in the senate race, val

demings is running against marco rubio. that is because of where we sit, in miami dade county. this used to be a heavily blue county, and it's getting very purple and a big reason for that is hispanic voters are shifting harder and harder right, at least in this county and in this state, and as a result, ron desantis might be the first governor since jeb bush in 2002, in 20 years, to win miami dade. if that happens, it's a wipeout. >> bush was a miami guy. latino for many people. that's different. >> right. it is different. this is -- a lot of this is the spillover trump effect. trump sort of rewired this county. >> why? how? >> well, he -- he showed up. he told hispanics -- one person had once told me that he made hispanics feel great again. and that was a democratic consultant. and his campaign also did a good job communicating a lot of blue-collar concerns within a

culture war context that played very well to the latino electorates down here, not just cuban americans. it's venezuelan americans, it's nicaraguaen americans, across the board, colombian americans. and the fruition of that is kind of being harvested or the fruits of that are being harvested by desantis. remember, donald trump went from losing miami dade county, the biggest county, most populous county in the state of florida, by 29 percentage points in 2016 to losing it by only 7. and so, if desantis wins this, you know, as i said, it's -- >> if desantis does win miami dade, would that be the first time -- i'm thinking of the jeb situation, but as far as democrats' strength in miami dade, it's a different time. i mean, you know, when jeb won, it was a far different time. >> it was a different time. in the obama years, his political operation had seen miami dade as a place for the ascendant electorate. >> and he won.

>> but they did the spade work. they actually dug the trenches. they fought the fight. they registered voters. they organized. they made sure people showed up. this democratic party here is just -- to even call it a political party is almost an exaggeration. i mean, it is not really doing anything. and as a result, now, the number of republican voters statewide in florida, registered republican voters, outnumber registered democrats. >> for the first time. >> for the first time. when obama, in 2008, ran, the democratic advantage was something on the order of 650,000. now they're down by about 300,000. i don't know how that happens unless you really don't do your job. >> marc, dasha, sahil, thank you very much. still ahead, uvalde families are calling for more accountability after new body cam footage gives new insight into the police response that day. the legal guardian of one of the children lost at robb elementary will be with us this morning.

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press, paul -- paul pelosi, nancy pelosi's husband, suffered blunt force injuries in the overnight early morning attack at his home in san francisco. that, according to the associated press. blunt force injuries suffered by paul pelosi in this overnight attack in his home in san francisco. two people now are telling the associated press that the 82-year-old did suffer that -- those series of injuries in the attack. nancy pelosi's office says she was not in san francisco at the time of the attack. we will, of course, continue to monitor this breaking news story. meanwhile, we can tell you that several democratic strategists are agonizing about political headwinds in the closing stretch of the campaign. some of them fear the election will be worse for the party than polls indicate. joining us to talk about this and other headlines is texas

congresswoman veronica escobar. congresswoman, always a pleasure to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. congresswoman, i just want -- let's start with this breaking news story of paul pelosi getting attacked in his home in san francisco. just your thoughts on that. >> well, good morning, jose. i'm so -- always honored to be on your program, and i am shocked and really concerned for the speaker and her family. i reached out to her this morning, sent her a text, concerned about paul. he's such a wonderful person. to be violated and attacked in your own home is deeply traumatic. i hope he's able to fully recover. of course, we await the details of the attack, the motive of the attack, but it was horrific nonetheless, and my thoughts and my prayers are with the pelosi family. >> yeah. and did you hear back from the

speaker, by chance? in your communication with her? >> no, i'm sure she is -- they're on a flight home or worried about -- trying to get as much information as possible, and as she should. but you know, it is -- whether it was a targeted attack or not, again, to be -- to have someone in your home and then physically attack you in the way that it sounds like paul was attacked, i just -- i can't even imagine, and it's -- you know, i just hope for a full and speedy recovery for paul and justice for the pelosi family. >> yeah. i think that that's a sentiment that everybody shares. congresswoman, my colleagues at nbc news report democratic strategists are agonizing about headwinds in the final days of the campaign with some fearing the election will be worse for the party than polls indicate. where do you see things right now? >> well, speaking of speaker pelosi, i'm going to quote her.

and she says, we don't agonize, we organize. here in el paso, we have been knocking on doors. we have been reaching out to voters. i don't look at the polls. i actually, jose, i don't read any articles about polling anymore. i think the polling industry is not one that is reliable in the same way that it was, you know, six, eight years ago. things have changed. there are a lot of folks who don't want to answer polls. there are still pollsters that call land lines, and most people have cell phones. so, i don't look at the polls. i look at what's happening on the ground. and we are doing everything we can to reach every voter. i was in south texas this weekend, supporting michelle vallejo, texas 15, with sylvia garcia of houston, talking to voters there, making sure that voters understand that republicans want to take away freedoms, freedom for women to

have -- to determine their own future, freedom for people to marry the person they love. republicans want to take away social security and medicare. republicans complain about the economy, but not only do they offer no ideas around inflation, they want to crash the economy by solidifying tax cuts to the top 1%, which would blow up our deficit and fuel inflation. so, we are trying to talk to as many voters as possible to tell them, you know, don't buy the bill of goods, the bad bill of goods that republicans are trying to sell you. you know, please pay attention to policy, and what democrats bring to the table. so, i'm not going to agonize. i'm going to organize. >> and i want to talk to you about the humanitarian crisis that is at the border. as you know, i mean, el paso has been in the past up to 2,000 people coming into the greater el paso area on a daily basis.

the mayor was telling us it costs about $300,000 a day that the federal government was, at the time, reimbursing, but you have a policy change in which, essentially, using title 42, and essentially reviving mpp, making it even more intense, they're sending venezuelans back to mexico, no questions asked. what are your thoughts on that? >> here's my general thoughts, jose. putting this particular policy aside, i mean, i'm on the record as saying title 42 is not the answer, and i don't support title 42. republicans continue to complain that they want trump policies reinstated. the fact of the matter is, jose, with the exception of family separation, virtually all trump border policies are still in place today. and not only are we not seeing a slowdown in migration, not only are we seeing things, you know,

more orderly process at the border, but we're actually seeing the opposite. why is that? well, i have talked to my community at great length. i published an op-ed in this past sunday's el paso times, saying that really what we are seeing at the border is a result of republican strategy, which is, for the last few decades, republicans want to address immigration only at the border. they refuse to open up legal pathways. they refuse to do their job and legislate around immigration. in fact, jose, as you and i have talked about, the last time congress acted on immigration was almost 30 years ago. and 30 years ago, what happened was congress passed and then-president clinton signed, limiting legal pathways. so we have gone in the opposite direction. we've gone in the republican

direction, limiting legal pathways and border-only policies. that is a failure. and that's why we're seeing what we're seeing today at the border. >> congresswoman escobar, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, jose. coming up, elon musk takes control of twitter, leaving millions of users wondering how things will change under his watch. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports. you're watching jose diaz-balart reports. ♪limu emu & doug♪ it's nice to unwind after a long week of telling people how liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. showtime. whoo! i'm on fire tonight. (limu squawks) yes! limu, you're a natural. we're not counting that. only pay for what you need. ♪liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.♪ ♪ ♪

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follow through on his $44 billion purchase of the company. cnbc reports citing unnamed sources that twitter's ceo and chief financial officer have left the company. "the washington post" similarly reports that a top company lawyer has left as well. joining us now, nbc news technology correspondent jacob ward. jacob, good morning. what more can you tell us about this twitter purchase story? >> well, good morning, jose. you know, the sun is rising today in san francisco on elon musk's first full day as ceo of twitter. he has changed his handle on twitter to chief twit and is already making moves. typically, in my position, i would be covering a transition like this, and there would be all sorts of vagaries and platitudes as top executives were slowly transitioned out. but as you mentioned, that is not the case. some of the top leadership, including the ceo, were evidently escorted off the property yesterday just hours after elon musk's signature hit the paper. we also know, at this point, that he is beginning to follow through on certain plans. you have a picture of him here.

i should just point out he posted of himself visiting the headquarters, carrying a kitchen sink, some sort of sink, he seems to have had in mind a twitter meme of some sort. he wrote a tweet that said, i'm here at twitter, let that sink in. some sort of joke there. and then shortly thereafter, you know, within 24 hours, was having the top leadership escorted off the property. we know that he is following through at this time or at least seems to be on taking the company private. twitter has already filed the s.e.c. documents necessary to make that happen. and now, the question is, what other layoffs may be in store? we have reports, of course, that he told early investors he would fire as much as 75% of the company, but i've been speaking to people inside and outside the company who say that in order to do what twitter does, in order to do the kind of content moderation it does, never mind doing what elon musk has talked about doing there, fighting bots, creating a super version of the app, that's going to

require intensive work. if he does away with a huge number of employees and shows he's willing to fire anybody, people are saying they wonder how it is he's going to retain people, much less hire new ones into it. a very new day here. there's so much going on here. that's not even getting into what he may do in terms of the rules that, for instance, have held donald trump off the platform. will he bring him back? will he reverse lifetime bans? many, many questions here, but we're certainly seeing dramatic movement from elon musk. >> jacob ward, thank you very much. still ahead, we're going to talk with a uvalde family member who's been very vocal about calls for police accountability. what he wants to see happen as the investigation continues. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." watching diaz-balart reports. nt's fragrae disappears in the dryer? downy in-wash scent boosters survive the washer & dryer for freshness that lasts 6 times longer than detergent alone. release freshness with every touch...

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>> want to jump the [ bleep ] gate or what. >> what's the safest way to do this? i'm not trying to get clapped down. >> me neither. >> parents continue to press for accountability, calling for the resignation of dps director steven mccraw. mccraw defended the agency, saying he believed it didn't fail the community. >> i can tell you this. if dps as an institution failed the families, failed the school, or failed the community of uvalde, then absolutely, i need to go. but i can tell you this right now. dps as an institution, okay, right now, did not fail the community. plain and simple. >> your officers were in there within ten minutes, correct? are they not representatives of your department? >> absolutely. >> therefore, they failed? >> absolutely. >> therefore, dps failed. therefore, there is culpability, therefore, if you are a man of your word, then you would retire.

listen, you can get irritated all you want. i lost my damn son. your anger is not going to outmatch mine. >> joining us now is brett cross, the legal guardian of uziah garcia, one of the 19 students killed at robb elementary. he's also president of the organization, lives robbed. they're working to raise awareness surrounding the impacts of gun violence. brett, i thank you so much for being with us. i just want to start our conversation by telling me a little bit more about uziah. >> man, he was just indescribable, you know? i mean, he was just the -- he just brought life and happiness, you know, to anyone that he encountered. what he loved the most was to make people laugh and smile. i mean, not only did we lose our son, but you know, we lost -- he would have been the one that

would have been here trying to make us smile. so, i mean, it's rough. >> yeah. you know, i often think, how can i, when i have the opportunity, the privilege to speak with folks who are affected by this, it's like, you know, that 24th of may just never gets any less painful. >> no, sir. no. and i mean, it's almost like groundhog day. you relive it every day. i mean, every day, you wake up and for a split second, you think, okay, it was a dream. and then reality crashes back in, and then your heart sinks once again. so, you know, it's situations like yesterday that, you know, i got up and left my house at 5:00 in the morning to make it to that meeting in austin by 9:00 for them to just tell us

absolutely nothing. for mccraw to go back on his word and then not give us the updates that they promised, i mean, it just -- it's like they keep shoving that dagger further and further in. >> yeah. i mean, all of a sudden, we get a little bit more body cam video. what's that like, brett, for you all to have these little drips of, in this case, this video cam, you know, showing those moments? how do you get accountability? >> i mean, it's a blessing, but it sucks at the same time. you know, because these little bits of information that come out are just -- not to say that it reopens, because these wounds are still fresh, but it's like -- it's just another jab,

and instead of them just coming clean and just being, like, look, this is what happened, these are the failures, this is what we're going to do. it's, we have to go through and watch the body cam footage. we have to work on it ourselves, and then have, you know, the media is doing a hell of a job giving us this information, because the powers that be refuse to acknowledge their culpability to this, and then to tell us what actually happened. so, we're having to do the work that these people are paid to do. >> yeah. and brett, just, you know, i keep thinking, you know, we're at the end of october. november's coming up. december is coming up. how do you -- how do you prepare, you know? >> you don't. you just try to make it through the day the best that you can.

we don't have good days anymore. we have all right days. you know? and so, you don't -- there's no preparing, because we took our kids -- our other kids to go and get halloween costumes. well, uzi loved halloween, and i didn't -- you know, we have this tradition where they go get it, come home and try it on and act silly and goofy for a little bit, and we didn't get that. thanksgiving, there's going to be an empty plate there. christmas, there's going to be one less smiling, happy kid on our couch opening presents. so, there's no preparing for it. it's just -- you know, you got to push on. i've got other kids that i have to -- i have to push my hurt to the side so that i can give them as much happiness as they can have after losing their brother. >> brett, i send not only to you

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putin says he has no intention of using nuclear weapons in ukraine, but this comes after he previously said that he would use all means available to defend territory held by russia. ahead of the looming battle to retake the strategic ukrainian city of kherson, russia is adding roughly a thousand new troops to the city, according to the ukrainian military. joining us now, nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley in kyiv and general barry mccaffrey, retired four-star general and an nbc military analyst. matt, what's the latest about the offensive in kherson? >> reporter: yeah, well, it sounds as though the ukrainian military are finally on the ci. they're on the west bank, or what they call the right bank of the river and they're just really on the outskirts. i've been speaking with some people in kherson and they're saying that the city is almost empty now and that a lot of

those military personnel and local ukrainian collaborators with the russian occupiers have all been evacuated. we just heard today from the russian-appointed leader of crimea that that evacuation is complete, but many civilians do remain in kherson. and we also heard from -- i also spoke yesterday with the defense minister of ukraine, and he said that one of the reasons why this advance has been so slow or relatively slow compared to that lightning advance that we saw in kharkiv just a couple of weeks ago is because of the agricultural land in the southern part of the country. it allows for the russians to use drainage ditches and irrigation canals as bunkers or as just -- you know, berms that they can hide behind and that has slowed the russian progress. in the next couple of days, we're likely to see a blistering battle for this city and that's because, you know, one of the things we've been hearing from people there and other officials is that this russian withdrawal

is likely meant to free up the city so that they can simply use what the russians do best, which is artillery, to pummel the city and to prevent the ukrainians from advancing. the woman i was speaking to who was down there right now, she said that those thousand soldiers you mentioned who are reinforcing that city, she mentioned these are all newly recruited russians. we heard about this new mobilization that putin had ordered. she said they're really obviously different from the russians who were there before. they're older, some of them look, she said, like they're handicapped, like they get benefits when they're back in russia. these are people who, a lot of them, were recruited, apparently, reportedly, from prison camps in russia. so these are men who are not necessarily fit for fighting, but they're being put into the front lines in what could be one of the worst battles -- we don't know yet -- but it could become one of the worst battles that this war has seen and it seems as though to vladimir putin and

the russian demand, they might just be expendable. jose? >> thank you so much. general, let's talk about so many issues this morning to ask your thoughts on. the ap reports that the u.s. is sending ukraine a new $275 million package of aid, mostly military hardware, to help ukraine's efforts push russian forces in the south as winter quickly approaches. i'm wondering, how challenging will this winter be for ukraine? >> well, it's going to be worse on the russians, that's for sure. the wagner group mercenaries who have largely gone and emptied out the prisons in the russian federation are doing the preponderance of the fighting. this is a disaster for mr. putin. kherson will fall, i'm sure at

some point. but the russian army is not done yet. they still got preponderance of air power, they're still pummelling ukrainian civilian infrastructure across the nation. it's going to be tougher on the civilians this winter than it is on the ukrainian army. in the background, even though putin is saying -- the general said, we're destabilizing it badly, the russians do have a couple of thousand tactical nuclear weapons and so clearly our president has to take into account the potential for vertical escalation in this conflict. it's a very difficult situation. the ukrainians will fight all winter. the west is now supplying their army with the appropriate winter clothing. they can fight, the ground will freeze in february. you can use spoke, you can attack at night. so i think the war is going to heat up and continue throughout

the winter. >> general, when you call this disaster for putin, i'm wondering, going forward, if this continues to be a disaster for him, what is the retirement program look like in russia for former authoritarian leaders? >> there is none. there's no history of the army or the gru or the fsb intervening and taking out the head of state. putin is a clever lad. he got 4,000-some-odd people involved in his personal security. he spends much of his time outside moscow in heavily defended locations. so i don't see putin coming out and he can't back off this decision. this was his war. he instigated it. they're in trouble. i don't know how you fix this on the fly for mr. putin. i think he's hoping now that he

can fracture support for ukraine and the united states after this election and he's hopeful he can intimidate the europeans into freezing this winter. i don't think either is going to happen. ukraine eventually is going to retake much of the land they've lost in this criminal invasion of ukraine. >> and putin will not wake up -- >> i'm not sure i follow that. >> what i meant, like, in romania, 25th of december of 1989, he was pulled out of his palace and put in front of a firing squad along with his wife. i mean, that's, you know, something that -- some dictators face if the situation is a disaster for them. >> i think we rarely talk about the notion of eliminating or do we encourage internal dissent to

take out putin with violence. we would ill-advised to see that as some kind of a success story. by the way, putin is being pushed on his right by hard-liners on the war who want to see -- we watch on state television, russian state television is atrocious, on burning ukrainian children alive and firing nuclear weapons at the uk, paris, berlin. we have no guarantee that a successor of putin would be any better. this russian military culture and indeed the russian political system has melted down. hundreds of thousands of russian men have fled to escape his own conscription service. he's in trouble. no one can see the way out for him or ukraine, for that matter. >> general, it's always a pleasure to see you. i thank you very much for being with us as always. >> good to be with you.

today is a month since hurricane ian devastated parts of florida and killed at least 140 people. some are still searching for their loved ones as many begin the heartbreaking process of rebuilding. joining us now is sam brock. it's good to see you. how are you? >> i'm good. it's incredibly disorienting what we're seeing right now on the ground there in fort myers and throughout the region, jose. >> what has this month been like? there's been huge progress done, but there's still a lot of destruction. >> simultaneously, there's miraculous recovery going on and there's also destruction that defies logic. we were on the ground for days two, three and four. here we are now at day 30 in places like fort myers beach and sanibel island. some of the video you're seeing right now. it still looks like that a month later. the stacks of debris in some cases are 10, 12 feet high. there's entire lots there that are just sheered clean and there

are still at this hour right now, five people who are missing. family members and loved ones, i've talked to them that are just trying to get in touch with folks who still have not been located. one woman told me that her dad was living on his boat. we saw the marina there. can't find the boat. it is now a month later. they thought after several days there were signs maybe they located him and that hasn't happened. some people are living in complete ambiguity. >> how has the process been for fema. they said, look, you can reach this website to start registering and seeing if you can get some assistance, how is that? >> fema loans are available. that's the good thing about this. when you talk to business owners, what they will tell you, they've been through covid and here we are and you can potentially have another loan. what they need is assistance to get back up and running. i spoke with the green cup cafe, they lost $80,000 worth of equipment. the community came out, jose, when they posted something on

facebook and cleaned up their entire shop. but they can't get back up and running again unless they have money to rebuild. that's the position -- without flood insurance -- many people find themselves in right now. >> and most people in florida don't have flood insurance. >> that's correct. this sunday, we present "the sentence of michael thompson" who served as the longest sentence for a nonviolent offense in michigan's history. that's sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, 7:00 p.m. pacific right here on msnbc. i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc "nightly news" saturday. thank you for the privilege of your time. yasmin vossoughian picks up coverage right now. she'll be speaking with dr. fauci and that starts right now.