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the two big questions remain unanswered as members of congress return to the hill for the first time in six weeks. democrats have the senate locked up. right now nbc news is protecting the republican majority in the house. if they get it, it could be by a seat or two. why are some conservatives arguing the answer is for the gop to move even further to the right. plus, we'll get a live report from arizona where the governor's race is still too close to call. and live to virginia where three uva football players were shot and killed on a charter bus. the suspect a fellow classmate and former football player himself. he was at large when a press conference began two hours ago. but then this moment. >> we just received information the suspect is in custody.

i just need a moment to thank god, breathe a sigh of relief. >> finally, president biden with his comments about ukraine taking back the city of kherson as we saw raw emotion pouring onto the streets from the people who survived the russian occupation there. but we start in washington where an all-out war has erupted over who should take the blame for last week's stunning losses and whether radical changes need to be made for the house and senate. elections for those are supposed to be this week. there is a big push under way for them to be delayed while the party does soul searching.

>> it would be preposterous to hold leadership elections before georgia is done, before midterms are over, and before we have the adult to determine what happened in the swing states. >> we're tired of losing. >> elections are about winning. if folks want to look at these election results and decide that's where you want us to be, we're not going to do well. >> what's fascinating is the initial push for a delay came from top senators like marco rubio and lindsey graham. this morning we got word that leading conservatives including the head for growth, heritage and cpac all want to take a step back as well. right now republicans are still short of the 218 they need to gain control of the house. they need to win just seven out of the 18 uncalled races. so they are favored to gain the majority. it's not a sure thing, though. on the other hand, democrats

secured control of the senate with their big win in nevada. now, the only question is whether they will go into 2023 with 50 seats or 51. i want to bring in nbc's capitol hill correspondent ali vitale. matthew dowd, country over party and msnbc political analyst. go to see both of you. congress is back in session for the first time post election. you've got these leadership races that suddenly seem like they're in turmoil. does it seem like the republicans themselves have any real idea of where to go next? what are you hearing? >> well, what i hear, since especially since i still talk to my former republican friends, they have no idea where to go and they have not come to terms with why they lost. you have to keep in mind that a majority of these house republicans voted not to certify the election. so my guess is they still want to go in that direction which is what the base of the republican

party wants them to go, to stay in that direction. but they're completely undermining their ability to win general elections. so i think the problem is the republican party, it's a more fundamental problem than who the leader is. it's a problem that their base is out of step with the majority of the country. >> so, eli, what's going to happen? are there going to be serious challenges to mccarthy and mcconnell? are they in trouble? >> reporter: at this point there's a lot of noise. you can't somebody with nobody. we know on the house side kevin mccarthy has put his name forward for speaker. there are some, especially in the house freedom caucus, who are talking about they think there will be a challenger but they don't have a name for who the challenger is going to be. we will see how many votes kevin mccarthy can get. you have to think about tomorrow on the house republican side as something being done in pencil at least for the speaker's spot.

and then in january, weeks from now, which is an eternity in politics, weeks from now it will be made official with that full vote. but at the same time, what it says broadly is that republicans are really having a reckoning wr then party. if you flip of to the senate side of this, the fact that mitch mcconnell could have a rare and real challenge. you have eight people within the caucus coming forward saying they want to delay the elections. many of the eight are talking about the fact they are laying blame for what happened with the senate at the feet of people like mitch mcconnell. the fact that you are seeing all of this says there is a real reckoning right now within this party at the same time. again, can't beat somebody with nobody. on the senate side of this rick scott has been coy about whether or not he will officially challenge mcconnell. until you have a name on the challenger line, these challenges are kind of just air. they're not real. they're just talk. >>ing on. well, i mean, one thing they know, right, matt, election denier after election denier

lost. yet conservatives, many of them are making the argument the real problem is they didn't go far enough on the left. those calling for a delay said this on fax news yesterday. >> when you need a paradigm shifting speaker, i think you need someone that is going to wake up every morning and think we need to take it to the adversary. and i think that's someone like jim jordan, someone that comes from the conservative side. house republicans, house freedom caucus to stand and say we're done with this, we are done with the cartel speaker, the peace time speaker. we want real change. we actually want to save the country in this late hour, and we want someone else. >> does he seem to have a grip on what the real problem is here, matthew? >> well, i think there's been a question about grip on reality for the last few years. this is like a manufacturer saying we're losing money on every widget. what's the answer?

make more widgets. that's the problem in this case. and i'll give you two scenarios in the house elections, if the republicans win by three seats which i know what nbc is projecting in the course of this, is that that is such a bare bones minimum that we could see the house change hands based on vacancies multiple times in the next two years. think about that. multiple times. because there's only a three-seat margin. the other thing that i think sometimes we are neglecting to say is there's six or seven republicans who won in biden districts. those six or seven republicans know they can't win in a general election in 2024 if the republicans continue to go off the deep end. so they have an incredible amount of say in my view because they could easily slide over to the democrats and say we're going to be with you on these number of issues on these votes. so that's the difficulty. any vacancy occurs, the house could be in complete disarray even without the leadership. and two is there are six orren

seven republicans in moderate districts that are not going to want to go along with the right wing stuff. >> matthew, year going to hear from you again later on. ali, stay with me. i want to bring in priscilla thompson in atlanta. the runoff won't change in power. it will change how republicans and democrats will govern. bring us to speed on the race. is there a letdown among the candidates or the voters now that georgia is no longer the deciding race in terms of who is going to control the senate. >> reporter: yeah. that is the big question here. so much of the focus of this race up to this point has been this idea that it could determine control of the senate. but of course that is no longer the case. but at the same time, both of these candidates are still getting out on the campaign trail looking to make the closing message to voters and say they are still in it to win it. and i spoke specifically to republican voters yesterday about this and about herschel walker. and what they told me is that

even if they aren't able to get control of the senate this time around, it is going to keep the margins very tight. effectively making the senate gridlocked and making it still very challenging for democrats to get certain things done. and another voter pointed out to me that kamala harris may not always be that tie-breaking vote. the senators sit for quite a while. she is looking at the long game, this win could help in the next election cycle. at the same time, democrats also recognize the urgency at how this might allow them to have more flexibility by picking up this one additional seat. it is going to come down to turnout. we know herschel walker did not say to power with bryant kemp as it relates to the votes here. it's a question of how many voters he can turn out. his race is on the only one on the ticket. of course we have two weeks to early voting and then election day in a little over three weeks on december 6th.

>> so we know every vote counts, but does every seat count? and i mean that by does this change 50 or 51 the way democrats can tackle their agenda. >> reporter: it basically means for chuck schumer his job would go at 50 from really hard, which we have seen him do this balancing act over the last two years. a power sharing agreement, the way things have to move through committees. all of this is because of the realities of a 50/50 senate. his job is really hard. it could continue to be that. if they got 51 then it's just hard. there are still tight margins here. democrats just want to get as many seats as possible. that has always been the goal. most of the democratic senators i talked to at the beginning of the midterms prior to the times that voters voted and the results are what we know now, they wanted two more seats. they felt that would ensure the agenda, codifying abortion, all the laundry list of items that

democrats are so passionate about. right now when you look at where they are with 50 or 51 that's not the reality they have. for them they want to win in georgia, be able to make it out of the power sharing agreement and notch another win if they can. >> there's still stuff that has to get done, right, in the lame duck session in january? chuck schumer called it an extremely, underline extremely, agenda. what's on it and how tough is that going to be? >> yeah. he's not wrong. what you have right now is some democrats, including senator elizabeth warren saying, all right, we know what the stakes will be in the senate. why don't we deal with the debt ceiling right now before we see republicans potentially take over the house and make doing the basic economic functions that much harder. but there are fears here of what the democratic senate can and can't do. we know that they're trying to do things like same-sex marriage, the defense act they need to pass.

but here's more of chuck schumer talking about this balancing act no matter what this morning on "morning joe". >> we -- i am willing to reach out. we're not going to sacrifice our principles. but to get somethingen done, even if it's not everything you want, is the answer. on the debt ceiling and so many other others, the nonmaga republicans will see the path to following maga stuff a loser. >> reporter: we'll see if that's the lesson they take away, chris. over the course of this segment, it is clear it depends who you talk to whether the maga stuff was a winning message or losing one. no matter what democrats want as many seats as they can. >> they will conclude whether it is or isn't going forward. ali vitale and priscilla thompson as well. a 22-year-old student is in custody tracked down after 12

hours after allegedly shooting and killing three classmates on their way back from a class field trip. ryan nobles is in charlottesville. what's the latest? >> reporter: this no doubt has been an unsettling 12 hours. it is breathing just a little bit easier now that they have been told the suspect at the center of the shooting that killed three students and wounded two others has been brought into custody. for the first time today, the university officials identified those three victims, devin chandler from virginia beach, lavel davis jr., third year student from south carolina, and d'sean perry from florida, fourth year student. they were all members of the university of virginia football team. the police chief, tim longo, who has been center center of many tragedies in charlottesville and connected to many other places talked about what the campus

community is going through earlier today. >> mr. jones came to the attention of the university of virginia's threat assessment team fall of 2022. in fact,, september of 2022 our office of student affairs reported to the multidisciplinary threat assessment team that mr. jones, they received information that mr. jones had made a comment about possessing a gun. the comment about mr. jones owning a gun was not made in conjunction with any threats. >> reporter: and what chief longo is talking about there, the suspect, christopher darnell jones, was someone that had come in contact with the university security staff because they were told he had a gun in his possession. no apparent threat connected to him. but longo was saying he was being as transparent as possible

what interaction they had with him in the past. even though they knew this potential issue with him. it all came a shock as to what happened today. it was the end of a long class trip. members of the campus had gone to washington, d.c. to take in a play that day. it happened at the end of the long bus trip in the parking lot behind me. three killed and two others wounded and a campus trying to figure out what went wrong. nobles, thank you for that. president biden holds a three and a half hour meeting with xi jinping as russia continues to suffer major setbacks on the battlefield. why ukraine's president now says this could be the beginning of the end of the war in ukraine. we are in kyiv next. and one january 6th rioter facing six years in prison. the wild new claims from his lawyer ahead of his sentencing on friday. or are they that wild? you're watching "chris jansing

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president zelenskyy said the russian retreat from kherson marks the beginning of the end of the war. president biden spoke about how meaningful that is. >> it was a significant, significant victory for ukraine. significant victory.

and i can do nothing but applaud the courage, determination and capacity of the ukrainian people, the ukrainian military. >> we are seeing the raw relief from people who survived the last few months in kherson, hugging ukrainian soldiers saying thank you. one soldier running into the city to be reunited with his grandmother. and our richard engel capturing the moment when she saw him collapsing to her knees. >> what was that moment like? >> i was so, so happy to see him, she says, my grandson, that he is running to me, that he is alive. she watches the video again and again, and kisses oleg on the screen. and months of fear and uncertainty well up and come pouring out. it was overdue. thank you. thank you for everything, she says. i had no words.

>> nbc's molly hunter is in kyiv for us. molly, president zelenskyy, i saw some of the pictures. just made an unannounced visit to kherson. tell us about that and what his message was to the people there. >> reporter: chris, so glad you just played that video of oleg running up to his grandmother lydia. it gets you every time. >> every time. >> reporter: so many videos like that came out over the weekend and seeing richard obviously talk to her. president zelenskyy making a surprise visit to kherson this morning. richard got a few questions in to president zelenskyy this morning. take a quick listen to that. >> how are you feeling today, mr. president? how are you feeling? >> very well today. >> be careful. >> i understand there is a lot of security here. >> yeah. >> but how is this moment for you? >> the moment is very important. that is the biggest city that was occupied since the 24th of february.

so that was the biggest city and now it's free. so ukraine came so i am happy. >> reporter: now, president zelenskyy arrived to huge crowds of people, not only the world's media but also thousands of people who gathered there to sing the national anthem. a song that had been banned for the last nine months. raise the ukrainian flag. people were waving ukrainian flags that were hidden during russian occupation. this is a turning point. they will build on this momentum. we heard from the governor of the region who warns residents that it is not an easy path from now on. it is a humanitarian catastrophe in that region. no power, no water, no phone connectivity, no wi-fi. he is saying not only is this a frontline town because they retreated just beyond the river onto the east bank of dnipro, it is not ready for people to live

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dilanian, luke broadwater, and former prosecutor and nbc news legal analyst coleman. you write, quote, material prepared by several of the teams whose work not directly linked to trump would largely not be in the report. did those sources explain a reason for the decision. is it possible that it could change? >> yes on both counts, chris. this decision is largely being driven by the committee's republican vice chair liz cheney who we're told is worried any mention of law enforcement and security failures will detract from the focus on donald trump's role in the insurrection. the worry is that trump and his allies will say any law enforcement shortcomings prove if only security was better, the riot would never have happened. our understanding is that the plan right now is for a final report focused largely on trump.

but we are told not all members are on board with this. so this decision could change. if it stands, significant findings from a year-long investigation could be buried. we're told the committee reviewed thousands of pages of documents and conducted hundreds of interviews related to the roles of the fbi, dhs, the military, other agencies. our sources say investigators have significant new information about how and why the fbi failed to act on threats before january 6th and why it took so long for the national guard to respond during the riots. chris, congressional records are not subject to the freedom of information act. if the committee doesn't publish its findings they may never see the light of day. the inspector general is investigating how the fbi handled intelligence in the lead-up to the attack. >> charles, there are a lot of folks who are suggesting it could be a huge missed opportunity not to include the part about law enforcement. there are obvious reasons, right? if mistakes were made, how do we

fix them? there is an argument to be made that in your closing argument you want to be clear, focused, persuasive. >> sure. >> by stick to go donald trump and his role. >> right. >> that allows them to do that better. what do you think? >> well, i think it's not a question of either or. and i think it is and also. threading the needle is very difficult. but it can be done. prosecutors on this case or the committee has to simply make the case that, listen, this is a story that chiefly focusing on the former president of the united states donald trump and what he failed to do and what he actually did to bring about january 6th. but in telling that narrative and framing that for the public and framing that in their final report, they can make it very clear that law enforcement did have some very significant mistakes which also exacerbated the entirety situation and led to what we saw unfold in front of our very eyes. i don't necessarily think they have to choose one or the other. it is critical they have to make

clear where their emphasis is. they can't equate the two as being the same. ultimately they don't have to say since we're focusing on donald trump, we can't talk about the failures of law enforcement. >> luke, regarding trump's lawsuit, attempting to block the january 6th subpoena, you write, that his lawyers say it is invalid for a couple of reasons. it is a broad and unnecessary, that it looks a legislative purpose and infringes on executive privilege and first amendment rights. what exactly is that argument they're making? >> right. they're trying to say the president has broad powers of executive privilege. he has a constitutional independence from congress where congress cannot meddle in his affairs. we have never seen a situation like this before. we have had one president who defied a congressional subpoena,

harry truman. we don't know how the courts will view these arguments. what we do know is donald trump did not show up today for his deposition. and now the ball is in the committee's court. are they going to try to enforce the subpoena, bring contempt of congress charge against donald trump and finish out this congress in a moment of high conflict. or are they going to wait for the courts to decide this matter >> there is a constitutionally important question here that you could argue, as luke rights, whether congress can compel testimony from a former president. is it enough of a reason for the suit to continue? >> honestly, i think that in terms of what the committee is trying to accomplish, i think they have to move forward. i don't necessarily know they will for reasons luke already talked about with respect to ending this. but i think that word former is probably what makes this the most interesting and intriguing proposition we have seen so far. we are not talking about a sitting president but a former

president and what rights does a former president have, what protections do they enjoy. we don't really know. this is a case of first impression in many respects. it is something that, you know, for lack of a better word, needs to be decided one way or the other. but unfortunately, for the purposes of donald trump, it's already -- this suit has already served its purpose. it has already done. he did not want to testify. many of us knew he wasn't going to testify. and this essentially gets him out of it regardless how much pressure is put on a judge or case regarding moving this forward. we know that more likely than not, this is pretty much the nail in the coffin to ensure it does not come before the january 6th committee. >> also related to donald trump but a separate story, luke, you just wrote how much money was spent and by whom at the trump hotel in washington, d.c. what did you find? >> right. so the house oversight committee, we were talking about the january 6th committee. but the house oversight

committee has a separate investigation into foreign influence of the trump administration via the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. and what they've uncovered with these latest documents they got from president trump's former accountable firm is six governments throughout the years of 2017 and 2018 really focused on spending lavishly at that hotel right before important meetings with president trump or before important decisions were about to be made regarding foreign policy. there's some details in here about the examples that they spent on. for instance, $1,500 personal trainer for the prime minister of malaysia. lots of movies being rented. $300,000 being spent by the government of qatar at the hotel right before a key meeting with president trump. so you can sort of see how these governments viewed that hotel as a way to try to influence the

trump administration during key periods. >> so you read the first line. i want to clarify they were renting rooms for more than $10,000 per night. that's not per room? >> no. that's per room. >> that's per room in washington, d.c.? $10,000 a night. >> yes. $10,500. >> ken dilanian's eyes have gone up into his forehead. >> it is jaw dropping some of the spending that was going on. the defense ministry of saudi arabia was spending $10,500 a night for rooms for his excellent say. we don't know exactly who stayed there. we know by that title it was probably somebody high up within the saudi government. >> ken, luke, charms, thank you all very much. appreciate it. congratulations on that reporting to you, luke. meantime, the gop trying to pick up the pieces after several midterm upsets and two key races in limbo. what will happen if trump announces he's running?

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>> reporter: chris, the shortest, most nonconfrontational answer is this week. today, tomorrow. there's not a lot of ballots left. 160,000 left to be in the state. a dump of 100,000 last night. less than 100,000 in maricopa county where the lion's share will take place. we are close. the more complicated, longer answer is it really depends on performance, specifically when it comes to the amount of votes between lake and hobbs. hobbs is in the lead by 26,000 votes. every day the returns have been in lake's favor. the last three days or so. the problem is analysts say that may not be enough. she isn't hitting key margins that would keep her neck and neck. the last few days she has been

gaining but not at the thresholds. it puts pressure on her tonight. there are several other scenarios, f overperforms or makes it in this margin that would trigger an automatic recount. we probably won't know who is the winner of the race. the big takeaway is lake is really running out of political oxygen, running out of ballots to make that difference. but still too close to cold. >> steve patterson, you sold that. i think it's fair to say few adopted trump's policy more than lake. you called arizona a hotbed of

election denialism. it was called a laughing stock. what is your view of what's unfolding there? >> if anywhere it needed to have a clean and smooth election, it was maricopa county, which has been the focus of so many conspiracies since 2020 and even before. we did see some snafus which republicans have seized on early tuesday morning when some of the tabulators were having issues read. it still seems to be an issue. >> you do report on the conspiracy theory at polling places in maricopa. you quote his love for the party was essential pillar of his

identity and he understood himself to be a member of the state gop establishment. then the party changed beneath his feet. it sounds like he knew if any issues, however common they might be, how they might be in other places it would fall on him. frankly, reading your story, it sounded like his life was already a bit of a little hell. >> the board of supervisors in charge of running the operations on election day. he knew there would be an enormous amount of scrutiny on him. he received death threats. the sheriff suggested he go spend the night in a secure location. i asked if that had rattled him. he said maybe if it had been the

first time i had to leave because of death threats it would have rattled me more. >> who is going to want to be part of that going forward. having said that, let's talk about moving forward. because donald trump apparently going to announce it tomorrow that he is going to run in 2024. it's not just florida govern ron desantis who seems to be setting himself up as a possible contender. but mike pence is gearing up as a lot of candidates do with a book tour. i want to play this for you. >> members were barricaded inside the house chamber. in the middle of it all you can see that the president has tweeted. 2:24 p.m., the president tweeted mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done.

>> it angered me. but i turned to my daughter who was standing by. i said it doesn't take courage to break the law. it takes courage to uphold the law. the president's words were reckless. it is clear he decided to be part of the problem. >> he went from ardent supporter to someone distancing himself to out and out critic. he didn't just say trump is part of the problem. he said the president endangered me and my family. did you hear a 2024 strategy in that? >> well, the first thing i heard was a person in that. like anybody faced with something like that, somebody he thought he was loyal to turns on him. so it felt personal. i think mike pence has acted as

candidate ever since he lost the election as vice president in 2020. the problem for all of republicans positioning themselves or want to position themselves is it's a theoretical conversation until they get into the ring with donald trump and want to face the voters. even when donald trump didn't do well 80% of republicans had a favorable opinion of donald trump. and the only way to turn that around and provide you room for somebody like tkopbdz or somebody like mike pence is you have to take on donald trump full frontal and relentlessly. the question in my mind, are they willing to do that? the republican base of the party will stick with donald trump. and i think that's what donald trump understands, whatever he announces tomorrow night.

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stole actually a coatrack and a liquor bottle from the u.s. capitol on january 6th and chose to go to trial in this case. on the stand he tried to blame donald trump and say that he needed a strong male figure in his life, and that is sort of why he was wrapped up into this, and he was trying to impress trump and that's why he was doing at the direction of the former president. after he was convicted, the judge didn't really take a liking to some of his testimony, and decided to lock him up immediately, until he was actually sentenced, and not very happy with some of the things that dustin thompson said on the stand which were, the jury determined were pretty clearly lies. now in this case he has done everything to the sentencing, and a new order, he's talking to they don't programming expert in talking about how he got sucked up in this radicalization. and now they're more focusing on how he got revved up on a lot of the lies online as opposed to saying i was just following the orders of the president. so they're going more with sort of the argument that this was

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