this hour on msnbc, all eyes on the supreme court with the decision expected maybe as soon as today that could affect thousands of migrants hoping to cross the southern border. we'll bring you the latest on what it could mean if the justices do decide to end title 42 plus, it's a scramble at airports at this country after airlines canceled thousands of flights. one in the hot seat. southwest, a hot mess. travelers looking for new ways to get home after the holidays we've got more on that as airlines blame that winter storm that dumped feet of snow on parts of the country and left do dozens of people dead. plus, former president trump's taxes could drop at any point this week. he now set to face public skutny after a house committee voted to release them a week ago. what it could mean we begin this hour with that critical supreme court decision on title 42. here's the question at hand. we're going to find out potentially at some point in the next few hours whether the high

court will take on the case or pass and let this trump era public health policy expire. if that is the question at the heart of this and there are big implications depending on which way the supreme court goes i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent, julie. it's become an immigration policy, but the question is if the supreme court decides to pass and title 42 is lifted, the concern is this surge of migrants at the border there's a political context and backdrop to this as well talk us through it >> i've been tracking bipartisan negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform on capitol hill for the better part of last year, but even with democrats in control of the house and senate, obviously not those 60 votes they need, they were not able to get that done. so what will make the next congress different with republicans in control of the house? that's where the fear comes down to here. and not only do you have this surge on the border potentially

going forward to expand title 42 is disbanded, but you also have a path forward for dreamers. children who have been here since they were young brought by their parents. what happens to them that's something that democrats and republicans who are working on this approach want to be handled side by side security of the border wall, but also a pathway to legal immigration for the thousands of people who are already in this country. it really didn't work in the last couple of weeks when the biden administration asked congress to include $3 billion in funding for the border. democrats weren't able to get that as part of the omnibus package, but they need additional funding for permanent border agents, permanent homeland security personnel. there's a big fight in congress on the house side with republicans wanting to call mayorcas to the hot seat threatening to have him impeached so that is really where tensions are boiling over

on capitol hill as you have thou thousands that our reporters have been covering, just freezing in these temperatures >> thank you so much for that. you talk about the cold temperatures, obviously we've seen it from that holiday winter storm that is now mostly passed in most places but the impact of what happened, right, the domino effect if you're traveling, you know it is still very, very real. more than 10,000 flights have been canceled since the start of the storm. you know who's responsible for a lot of them? southwest. southwest overnight announcing it's only going run about a third of its scheduled flights for the next few days. our team of reporters and producers and correspondents have been fanning out across the country talking with people about what they're experiencing as they're trying to get home for the holidays here's what some had to say after days of a journey finally landing and getting home watch. >> day before christmas eve and we spent the night at atlanta airport to get an early flight

the next day because of the weather situation. and our flight got canceled at that stage so on the 23rd i guess. >> we tried to get there early, but it didn't work >> federal authorities are now looking into what in the world is happening they're looking into whether southwest is actually complying with its customer service plan with the u.s. department of transportation, trying to see if there's anything that can be done about it on a federal level and a lot of the blame from the airlines is going on to what you're seeing here the snow the freezing cold temperatures and the dangerous and deadly storm that ripped across the united states. killing at least 63 people and that number may still go up since the weather is expected to remain cold for at least another day before a warm up begins and with it, the potential for dangerous flooding i want to start with gary in aberdeen, maryland the roads are bad, too some people have resorted to getting on buses to hope maybe

hey, i-95 has better luck than trying to get on a southwest flight to get back home. >> reporter: yeah, just to give you an idea how what a mess the southwest flight situation is, there was about 3,000 cancellations nationwide around the country. 2500 of them are thanks to southwest airlines the department of transportation is investigating even president biden put out a tweet saying he's on board this investigation and wants to try to get people money back for what they are owed, but that's not going to help in the immediate term for people sitting in airports that wanted to get home yesterday. and so that's what's happening in the drama of the airline world. here on the roads, things are actually looking pretty good but this right now, this time, 3:05 p.m. eastern is some of the worst time to be on the roads this entire holiday season between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. i was just looking, i think you'll appreciate this, on my google maps to see how long it

would take to get home to d.c. 40 minutes longer than it took to get here this morning the folks at gas buddy gave us good news. $3.10 is the national average for gas. that's about the lowest it's been in a year and a half. >> at least you're not having to fly southwest. so there you go. appreciate it. let's talk about what's going on in western new york people there are still dealing with it. trying to dig out. most of the driving bans have been lifted. some are still in effect and we are learning more and more about just how deadly this has been. more than two dozen people confirmed dead snow continuing to fall. jesse kirsch has been reporting on the ground there. >> here in buffalo, i'm standing on a mound of snow in what should be the middle of a neighborhood street. you can see there are shovels and snow blowers out in this

neighborhood people trying to clear this away one man we spoke with saying that he is concerned that without getting rid of the snow in the middle of the street that the plows may not be able to get down here and clear out his neighborhood we've seen main roads in better condition but then there are scenes like this in neighborhoods. this might just look like a pile of snow drift. but if you look closely, that's the side view mirror in red right there on the side of a car, which is almost entirely still submerged in snow days after this deadly storm began. we are looking at reported deaths upwards of two dozen. making this the deadliest storm in the history of this community in an area that is familiar with bad winter weather we'll have much more on this throughout the day and we'll be monitoring for updates as officials still plead with people to stay home off the roads with a travel ban still in effect in buffalo so they can get the city more reopened back to you. >> our thanks to jesse live, actually, reporting there in

buffalo. thanks. coming up, just a few days away, one week away today, from the new congress getting sworn in and we're getting new details about a member who's acknowledging lying on the campaign trial we'll talk about the george santos of it all in a minute plus, new today, a man convicted of plotting to kidnap michigan's governor is just getting his sentence we have the details just ahead but first, we're watching capitol hill where a key house committee is set to release more of the former president's tax documents any day now. what we can expect coming up wi? ♪ what will you change? ♪ will you make something better? ♪ will you create something entirely new? ♪ our dell technologies advisors provide you with the tools and expertise you need to do incredible things. because we believe there's an innovator in all of us.

any day now, we could see the public release of the former president's tax returns. we know some stuff after the house ways and means committee put something out about it a week ago we know he paid little to no taxes during three years of his presidency and he was not audited by the irs even though there's a law that requires it

no audit the first two years at least. mr. trump, who ran partly on being a successful business man, a bunch of expenses filed at charitable donations let me bring in jonathan allen and former u.s. attorney, harry litman talk through the expectations once the full litany of tax documents are dropped. >> it's good you used the term, full litany. there's going to be a tremendous volume that the ways and means committee drops on us probably sometime this week they're running out of time before the end of this congress and what we're going to expect according to a member of the ways and means committee that i talked to today is to see a lot of efforts to hide income and to hide the nature of deductions. this member of the committee said the number of -- is jaw dropping i think it's going the take a

lot of forensics for most of us mere mortals, i'm neither a lawyer nor accountant. i think we're going to have a lot on our hands to sift through to try to figure out what trump was trying to do with his taxes. >> harry, let me go to you and your expectations here and what you've seen so far >> i expect a complete mess. so i think he probably was very cavalier about claiming losses that could give rise to either civil or criminal tax liability and it's very, it's similar to the mar-a-lago case in that there's a lot of precedent for it and a lot of guidelines in the doj of when they would bring charges, but i think he was probably, it's ironic, of course, he didn't release them because he said he was being audited. he wasn't, and i think that permitted him to skate by with what i expect is going to be very, very sketchy, especially

about all these losses >> thank you appreciate it. we've got to get to developing news this afternoon out of michigan where a federal judge as just sentenced a 39-year-old man to 16 years in prison for his role in the kidnapping plot in 2020. adam fox convicted by a jury in august on conspiracy to commit kidnapping i want to bring in detroit free press reporter, teresa so 16 and a half years is that about what we thought it would be >> you know, i know that fox is upset about the sentence i think he was hoping for a shorter one but it's definitely a blow to the government they were seeking a life sentence in this case and in the end, the judge concluded today that listen, what this man did was very serious he agreed he was the plot leader and that there was no

entrapments. agreed with the prosecution, but in the end, he didn't think that life in prison was necessary or warranted in this case >> there is a sentencing of barry croft, the other convicted ring leader, tomorrow. what does this tell us what about croft could face >> you know, i covered both of the trials and i think that barry croft actually, he might get a stiffer sentence because just how he was portrayed at trial as being sort of a not that he was more culpable, but that he did a lot of the leading and he made more i guess comments that the government considered to be more not defamatory, but perhaps -- he's just seemed to be for lack of a better word, the worse of the group. he was the one that talked, you

know, was building bombs that talked about building bombs and he just came off during both trials as the more culpable of all. >> can you remind people what a big deal this was at the time this was uncovered, this plot dw against the michigan governor and anything from her office this afternoon on this >> they have not weighed in yet. i'm surprised about this they have not issued a statement. one could have come out while i'm on air but in the past, they have said they wanted these men held accountable for what they did. governor whitmer has repeatedly said this case was traumatizing to her, to the safety of public officials everywhere, and she was grateful that the government pursued this as aggressively as it did >> always great to see you thank you so much for the context and the reporting here still ahead, new concerns now

about the tripledemic and what it could mean here at home with covid cases soaring to the highest levels we may have ever seen in china. what you should know and what we can expect for the new year, coming up.

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both up. then you look at what's happening in china seeing its biggest spike in cases hospitals are getting overwhelmed. as china announces it is easing up restrictions on its covid response strategy. i want to bring in raf in london and a doctor for housing works in new york city raf, there's this interesting statistic that since china has not reported nico individual deaths for five straight days this week despite what appears to be a massive spike in cases there giving the easing of restrictions in china. help us understand this. >> yeah, so there have been a lot of questions about china's official covid data since the beginning of the pandemic. those questions getting a lot deeper now that just as china is lifting restrictions, it has also stopped publishing daily covid data in a mist of what is

clearly a surge and that is causing a lot of concern, including at w.h.o even without official data, we can see this is a major, major series surge we can see it in videos that are coming out of chinese hospitals that really look like something from the early days of the pandemic you are seeing emergency rooms that are totally full up every bed is full. you have anxious families agitating for their loved ones to get treatment and you are seeing some patients in the hallways on oxygen in some cases. so china is in a really difficult position right now because these lockdowns have been so severe for three years, you have a population that doesn't have a whole lot of natural immunity a relatively small proportion of people until now have been exposed to the virus that come through the other side, have natural immunity, but you have a population that isn't that

vaccinated considering the amount of time they bought with the lockdowns. only about 60% of chinese people have had their booster shot and these chinese-made vaccines scientists have found, are really not that effective until you get up to that third booster. now, the official explanation from the chinese government for why they are abruptly dropping the policy is because omicron, they say, is less severe than previous versions of the virus it didn't cause as many hospital sa izations and deaths, which is true, but we've known that for a year and a bit now what many political analysts will tell you is this is a response to those protests we saw in china this month, last month. something we really haven't seen since 1989 in china. people protesting in major cities like shanghai protesting the lockdown and really challenging the authority of the chinese government, calling for the downfall of xi, of the chinese communist party.

there is a lot of concern in china about these rise in case numbers. there is a lot of concern about these rising hospitalizations, but there's also a lot of relief that finally, finally, finally, this seemingly never ending lockdown does appear to be coming to end. >> doctor, how much are public health professionals here watching what's happening in china? >> we're definitely watching it's good to see you, by the way. it's really tragic frankly what's happening in china. the healthcare systems are overwhelmed. emergency departments, icus, clinics, overwhelmed mostly with elderly patients presenting with covid-19 and pneumonia and other respiratory type symptoms. in the united states, we're seeing cases rise and we're seeing a rise in various infections caused by multiple

respiratory viruses. two things that he mentioned which is this rise in other infections because in the last two, three years, we've been isolated people in china has been isolated mitigation measures, masking basically, an immunity gap we're becoming vulnerable to these infections the other thing is that the vast majority of people presenting in hospitals in china are also unvaccinated this is based on the data we've known for the past couple of years, which is the vast majority of covid related mortality is among unvaccinated individuals. so we are definitely concerned here we're seeing cases rise nationwide in multiple hospitals because of the combination of covid-19, influenza and rsv. luckily, the latter virus, cases

are going down, but still, we need to be very, very mindful of what's happening >> dr. roy, thank you very much for that perspective and your expertise. raf, to you as well. u.s. in the middle of a mental health crisis still with teens affected in a big way, but now a new afterschool program in one city could be part of a blueprint for how to help kids everywhere as the nation's surgeon general talked with me about it in an exclusive interview. got pretty personal. watch. for high schoolers in chicago, a different kind of class. this afterschool program centering on the mental health of teens >> what a lot of people do is cover it up. >> he says adults sometimes don't get it >> in my experience as a teenager, they have quite literally shunned me my emotional state sometimes and it's taken a lot of work to actually learn how to speak and be open and honest with myself >> nearly half of high schoolers have reported feeling sad or

hope lu hopeless in the past year. it's why programs like this one exist. a partnership between adler university and after school matters, intended to help students connect with therapists and get access to behavioral health services. >> teens now are so much braver. i think they are demonstrating more openness to talk about their mental health. >> the nation's top doctor visiting to see for himself earlier this month >> mental health is a defining public health challenge of our time >> should there be more investment in programs like these? >> yes, there should when kids do better, it doesn't just benefit their mental health doesn't just reduce anxiety and depression, but it improves how they perform in school how they show up for their family and friends >> like so many of us, it's

deeply personal. >> in my own life, i struggled a lot as a child i felt lonely, struggled with anxiety, but i didn't know how to talk an it. i look at my observe children now who are 4 and 6 and i don't want them to go through what i went through >> the surgeon general issuing a rare public health advisory about the youth mental health crisis just talking about it can be part of a solution raising visibility, putting a spotlight on this matters. >> it does we know we've got to change culture by having better, more open conversations about mental health >> like the ones happening in chicago where nearly eight in ten students who participated said they feel more hopeful about their fuf. >> if i want my life to be better, what can i do? >> like this 14-year-old >> if i'm really feeling county and i need someone to talk to, i have to go and talk to someone to make myself better.

>> more conversations mean stronger connections mean better health our thanks to the surgeon general for sitting down to talk about this really important issue. next up, the story that's raising to use the old saw, raising eyebrows let's say, on capitol hill, after george santos admitted to lying about his career, education, and bending the truth about his religion and a whole lot more after the break. like this one! 50% off?! that deal's so good we don't even need an eight-time all-star to tell you about it. wait what? get it before it's gone on the subway app!

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new york soon to be congressman george santos finally addressing allegations that he lied during his successful house committee admitting he embellished his resume after a "new york times" piece called into question turns out, a lot of his story isn't true here's what he insists >> did i embellish my resume yes, i did and i'm sorry and it shouldn't be done and it's, it's, there's words can't express 100% how i feel. but i'm still the same guy i'm not a fraud. >> i'm not a fraud, he says. "washington post" senior political reporter joins us now. he says while -- the republican jewish coalition saying he is

not welcome at any of their events moving forward. >> yeah, i guess it does depend on how you define fraud. if you're talking about actual criminal activity, that so far has not been proven. a portion of "the new york times" that initially started this talked about a criminal charge that would been brought in brazil for check fraud. but where these interviews really began if you look closely is making that point, that nothing he did rises to the level of criminal activity, but that's sending a very low bar for him to clear and i think one he's emphasizing for a reason here it's important you brought up the republican jewish coalition's statement because so many republicans have been all but silent on this front and the fact that now we have a very significant republican group basically coming out and saying that the congressman elect misled them about his heritage and is not welcome at their events in the future is a very

significant thing because it may create pressure on some republicans to speak out about this >> do you think because at this point, is there any indication there will be consequences for mr. santos when he is sworn in after next week? >> sure. the idea is george santos not going to be seated in congress he is going to be seated in congress and that's for a very specific reason. it's because kevin mccarthy has a very narrow majority he needs all the votes he can get to become speaker and the republican party has no interest in policing this issue right now because it creates a problem for them if their majority wasn't so narrow, maybe there would be a window for somebody who actually cared about this to do something about it beyond that though, i think we could see certain groups that are concerned about these things speaking out as the republican jewish coalition did if there are members of congress who decide this isn't a good thing to have an incoming member

who lied about so many things on his resume, perhaps that could lead to a certain number of people speaking out but at this point, that's a very separate question and once he's seated, the bar for expelling him from congress from whatever might be found from any investigation would be high a two-thirds vote of the house and of course, republicans are going to be controlling the house and that's a very unlikely situation. >> great to see you. thank you very much. thanks for that. as always. want to get to some dropping news coming in new transcripts now dropping from the january 6th house select committee that is ending its work, right, in a week, when the new congress is sworn in. this, and just for back story here, they've been releasing these traunches of transcripts ever since its final report came out last week. we've seen a bunch of them already. this latest batch includes that i means that you will recognize like brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state

like steven mnuchin, then the treasury secretary others involved in the january 6th effort, the plot to attempt to overturn the results of the legitimate 2020 election let me bring in ryan nobles and julie. can i be honest and transparent? this is one of these annoying things where this just dropped five minutes ago there are hundreds and hundreds of pages we are working through them as we are live on the air i have had the opportunity to look through a couple of them during the commercial break. some that stand out, ryan, we'll start with you, include then cabinet secretary, steven mnuchin. he was not in the country when the insurrection happened on january 6th, but it has been long reported that he was somebody, a member of the cabinet, who was talking about the 25th amendment to potentially forcibly remove and i say forcibly, by the cabinet, former president trump from power. mnuchin acknowledges he did have at least one conversation with

then secretary of state mike pompeo about this, but says it was not something they were taking seriously he said a report that came out in a book released in the last couple of years was inaccurate that he was any kind of driver in that push that was one of the highlights we are getting now from these transcripts. talk us through what else you're seeing, ryan >> i think you raise a very important point just to how serious the 25th amendment talks got. i do think if you take mnuchin's transcript then couple it together with some of the other cabinet secretaries that were going to read the transcripts of, we may be able to at least paint a picture of just how serious those conversations were i don't think anyone believed there was a real threat that the 25th amendment would be used to remove the president from office at the time. but the fact there were conversations is noteworthy and within these transcripts, eugene

scalia is among those who may be able to paint a picture of exactly what was going on there. also when you gander at this list, the names that stand out to me include caroline wren who was one of the principle fund-raisers for this stop the steal rally that took place at the ellipse and you know, you talk about the follow the money, that was a big apart of the investigation. the green team within the january 6th select committee i'm interested to see how she responded to a lot of the questions the committee posed to her. another person who's name is on this list is judd deer, the deputy press secretary in the white house at the time. i was, we were kind of dividing an conquering here i started reading through the transcript and what's interesting in the early part of it is they're very interested in the way the press shop worked in the way they communicated with the former president and what deer kind of describes in these transcripts is a hodgepodge

effort where there wasn't any real division of labor and they were just trying to take the incoming requests and put the information out. and the president and dan s scavino operating on their own island just interesting insight into what the committee was looking for and how these people responded but another significant amount of transcripts from key people that were part of this vinvestigatio. >> julie >> i'll be honest and transparent with our viewers that the name that stuck out to me was brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state that's the transcript i began reading and even in the first few pages, they're really interested actually on what his family faced just because of what the former president did when he called him and said you know, find those 11,000 plus ballots accusing him of running the elections unfairly and you know, rigging them essentially and he says here that he actually asked senators purdue and leffler, the two georgia

republican incumbents who lost in 2020, to essentially tamp down the rhetoric, to turn it down, cool it off, as they were playing up the former president's claims that the election was stolen. the center point of that stolen election happened in georgia we heard from two poll workers in georgia who said their lives were never the same after the harassment they received so i think that's fascinating and really jumps out at me they also ask him, has there been election fraud in georgia before he said yes, every year, there are irregularities by a couple of votes it's not any different this year than in the past also about those dominion voting machines that the former president basically bolstered that conspiresy theory another name is ali aleksandrs, the organizer of the stop the steal rallies. he was credited for organizing

the rallies that took place when the president spoke at the ellipse on january 6th reporting over these 20 transcripts, just a lot here behind the scenes and how the committee came to their conclusions and identifying one man and one man only in the former president for january 6th. >> i was looking at brad raffensperger's transcript there's also that moment he talked about the threats he received he is telling the members of the committee first of all that even though he was called on to resign by then two is that rights in georgia, purdue and leffler and other, he said it ain't happening in a nutshell because he says he's a republican, but those were the results. sorry they were disappointed but it sounds like per my reading here, his wife, who was getting death threats, he says sexualized threats, the wife of the secretary of state of georgia, through her e-mail, phone number, information that is not out there publicly. she ended up texting the senators because she was

concerned and neither of them responded nor communicated with secretary raffensperger about their statement calling on him to resign. it does highlight, ryan, reminding people how high tensions were and how much was at stake here in the days after the insurrection >> yeah, i don't think there's any doubt about that and i just came across something i think is pretty interesting. you mentioned, it was kind of spurred on by your thoughts about the steve mnuchin part about the 25th amend this was from eugene scalia and the committee asked him about a conversation he had with the wife of the senate minority leader, mitch mcconnell, and she was also a cabinet secretary at the time and the two of them discussed whether or not they were going to stay in office or whether they planned to resign at any point. and this is his answer to one of the questions. they had a conversation on january 6th and then a follow up conversation on january 7th and

this is what scalia testified to the committee. he said at that point, what i suggested to her, this is on january 7th, that i thought it would be constructive if we could have the president convene a meeting of the cabinet and explain to her that i thought it would be a good way for the president to publicly demonstrate his commitment to a transition and that would be a good way to have an interaction with the president and play a role in a smooth transition. he said that's the conversation he had with secretary chow some were trying to find a way through this for trump to try and tamp down the violence and rhetoric and chaos that happened the day before then make that peaceful transfer of power of course, a meeting loike that never occurred and as we read on is that maybe when these conversations about the 25th amendment occurred it's an interesting glimpse into

the minds of these cabinet officials at a crucial and difficult time >> thanks to both of you i'm sure you'll be back on with more as you get it when it rains, it pours on capitol hill because when we were finding out about these transcripts, we found out about something else we now know which of the any days they'll be released it's going to be on friday according to nbc news. the tax records are expected to be put into the record as part of the house's proforma session. we'll have coverage here on msnbc. also here, local and federal law enforcement still looking for suspects and a motive in a whole bunch of christmas day attacks on power substations in washington state no long after stations in north carolina were shot up. officials think this might be a series of attacks on the nation's power grid.

>> reporter: it happened early christmas morning. three power substations in the tacoma area targeted on christmas. arriving officers found blue flames, the fences cut amanda clark lost electricity and her well water >> scary in our small, little community, that something like that would happen. >> we're going to be investigating to see this this was coordinated by a specific group of people. >> the fbi issued a warning this month after power companies in oregon and southern washington were attacked using hand tools, arson, firearms and metal chains, possibly in response to an online call for attacks on critical infrastructure. in north carolina, substations were attacks with gunfire, nothing out power to 45,000 homes and businesses a homeland security terrorism advisory warned in november that domestic actors and foreign terrorist organizations maintain a visible presence online to

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[ sirens ] the special operation of putin was clearly war. denying intentions to invade his neighbor he'd openly claimed ukraine was part of russia and demonized ukraine's leaders. putin had already illegally annex ed crimean territory, the crimean peninsula with little backlash this time condemnation came quickly. >> putin's case to make a totally unjustifiable war on ukraine will have left russia weaker and the rest of the world stronger. >> reporter: wide-ranging sanctions rolled out, but they did little to deter. russia's military ten times the size of ukraine's moved swiftly to surround kyiv but almost immediately cracks in the mighty russian army began to appear

their events stalled ukrainians organized and fought back civilians banded together. 0 many took up arms to defend their country. it seemed vladimir putin hadn't accounted for this, the will of the ukrainian people, led by an unlikely hero. president volodymyr zelenskyy, the nation rallied behind the comedian turned politician now wartime leader facing resistance and failing to capture kyiv, russia focused its attacks on eastern ukraine. moscow called it "a change of strategy." for the ukrainians it was a major victory, but any celebrations were short lived. as russian forces withdrew from around kyiv, evidence of atrocities and war crimes on a massive scale emerged. first in bucha, the pattern continued in other liberated areas. ukrainian officials documented 50,000 alleged russian war

crimes russia has repeatedly denied its soldiers are responsible >> why do you think this is happening that there are now thousands of allegations of russian war crimes here? thousands? >> something was, you know -- something was broken with mentality, with them. >> reporter: in the east, and in the south, russia's bloody campaign continued. with putin's forces firing missiles and artillery to hammer towns and cities often indiscriminately u.s. officials estimate tens of thousands of ukrainian civilians have been killed, and 100,000 russian troops killed or wounded. ukrainians have soldiered on, backed by international support including $20 billion in weapons and military assistance from the united states. ukrainian troops have used it to launch a major counteroffensive

liberating large parts of eastern ukraine -- and then the southern city of kherson, occupied by moscow for eight months as the ukrainian military moved in, soldiers given a hero's welcome president zelenskyy called the liberation of kherson the beginning of the end of this war. >> how are you feeling today, mr. president? how are you feeling? >> very well. >> how is this moment for you? >> the moment is very important. that is the biggest, the biggest since the force of, you know, 24th of february the biggest city and now it's free so ukraine came. >> reporter: as the conflict nears one year, there's still no end in sight. ukrainians fear the world is losing interest in the war, as putin implores a brutal new tactic mass targeting ukrainian infrastructure, just as temperatures plummet.

he couldn't take ukraine as completely or quickly as he'd hoped. now it seems he's trying to starve and freeze the country into submission. >> richard engel with that reporting there. thanks to him for that and our thanks to you for watching a couple pretty busy hours here on msnbc. find me on twitter, highlights from the show and new reporting there. over on our nbc news streaming channel tonight at everybody weeknight at 5:00 eastern for show number two. see you there in just a bit. meantime, "deadline: white house" picks up right after the break.

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