january 6th select committee officially issuing a subpoena to donald trump. when exactly they want to sit down with the former president, and what s next and what could be a potentially long and historic legal battle. plus, president biden set to speak any minute now. the focus, the student debt relief program. with election day less than three weeks away, how it s moving forward, after surviving two legal challenges. and while we re talking midterms, senator raphael warnock, no more mr. nice guy ramping up attack ads against his opponent herschel walker. plus in nevada, we re talking to both candidates in the senate race that could decide which party controls the chamber next year. we re going to start with nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, new york times reporter, and msnbc contributor katie benner and legal analyst charles coleman. good afternoon to all of you. ali, obviously this is breaking in the last hour. you were busy reading everything in betwe
in ukraine, another new round of missile strikes as russian officials celebrate what they say is a new phase of the war, one that apparently focuses on killing civilians instead of soldiers. so what is this new phase? what does it mean for what s ahead? i ll ask barry mccaffrey in just a minute. and we have now learned that among the women accusing disgraced producer harvey weinstein at his trial in california is the governor s wife. we ll have the latest from the courtroom. but we start with the midterm races and growing alarm that decision makers may be letting winnable races slip away. that includes races in wisconsin, north carolina, pennsylvania, across the board, democratic candidates have spent way more on their own ads than the party ha has. while on the republican side, the bulk of the spending has come from the national party and outside groups. case in point, ohio, where jd vance has come up with just 10% of the cost of his ads compared to more than 80% for d
the high light, how is this structural law helping to build back. we go to philadelphia for a closed door fund-raiser with the democratic senator nominee john fetterman. another trip to pennsylvania is a reminder the president is simply not welcome by many across the country, and the president is skipping traditional campaign rallies, choosing instead to mostly hold low key events on administrative policy wins. when asked why he s not out on the campaign trail, he insists he is. there hasn t been that many candidates campaigning with you. that s not true. there ve been 15. count. let s get straight to mj lee. she s live from pittsburgh. what are we hearing from the president? reporter: well, john, you will recall it was back in january the president was supposed to visit pittsburgh, an literally hours before that it was behind me where he was standing but fortunately nobody was killed at the time, but the timing of it is really incredibly coincidental because the occ
82-year-old paul pelosi to make a complete recovery. however, it was apparently a very near thing, especially for a man of his age. tonight a spokesperson for his wife, house speaker nancy pelosi, second in the line of presidential succession, said mr. pelosi underwent surgery to repair a fractured skull and serious injury to his right arm and hands. she is now at the hospital with him. this is new video just in of her motorcade arriving. she was in washington when the attack happened. we learned that san francisco s police chief is expected to update the public soon and we will bring you any new information as it becomes available. this is what we know so far. law enforcement sources tell cnn he was attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder shouting, quote, where is nancy? and according to two sources familiar with the situation when the police got there the suspect who is now in custody and charged with attempted murder told him he was, quote, waiting for nancy. although pol
we begin with the aftermath of him, and what could be the costliest hurricane in u.s. history. and was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone today, the storm delivering with heavy rains from the creek of islands to new england marking. out some and delivering strangers storm surge to the south. in florida, it s climbing. in this hour it stands at 77. that number is expected to rise. they re also assessing the damage, it could amount to billions of dollars in the southwestern part of the state. businesses destroyed. homes flattened. residents, left in complete shock. i wish we should be alive right now. we shouldn t be alive right now with that storm. the power of that storm? it would ve crashed into that side of the house. we would ve been swept away. to see the damage of clothes, it s almost frightening to see just how easily he d chewed through tons of concrete and steel. but to the danger above? heartbreaking. when you realize this is the only way an entire community c