good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, october 10th. thanks for starting your day with us. and we ll begin the show with the war in ukraine. overnight, multiple explosions rocked the capital city of kyiv for the first time in four months. according to the mayor of kyiv, explosions went off near the center of the city in an area that includes the historic old town as well as several government offices. the number of casualties is not yet clear. ukrainian media is also reporting explosions in several other cities including a refuge for many people fleeing the fighting. air raid sirens sounded in every region of ukraine except russia annexed crimea the past four hours. yesterday russia also launched a missile attack that hit a residential building, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens more. at least ten children were hurt in that attack. according to the ukrainian air force, six missiles were launched from russian occupied areas in the city. the city
the crime are owed that. they are not owed that. blatant racism and fear mongering that appears to be the end game strategy for republicans with the midterm elections now one month away. can you believe what we just heard? yes. we ll talk about it. explosive new allegations regarding herschel walker s senate campaign in georgia. the running back urged a woman to have a second abortion, she says, but chose to have their son instead. we ll explain how text messages are now at the center of the story. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, october 10th. we begin with major developments in the war in ukraine where overnight, multiple explosions rocked the capital city of kyiv. for the first time in four months, according to the mayor ever of kyiv, explosions went off in the historic old town, including several government offices. the number of casualties is not yet clear. ukrainian media is also reporting explosions in several other cities including lviv,
shootings at the homes of local democratic officials. solomon pena faces a slew of charges including conspiracy, attempted aggravated battery for the attempted attacks. he lost by a margin of more than 50%. police say he visited the homes of at least three of the officials before the shootings. some of those visits were caught on doorbell cameras. cnn s josh campbell joins us now. what do we expect at the hearing? reporter: this hearing is starting just minutes from now there in new mexico. this will be the suspects a first appearance in court since he was arrested by albuquerque s.w.a.t. officers on monday. look it a these charges. they re obviously very serious. he s been charged with felony possession of a firearm, aggravated attempt with a deadly weapon, as well as conspiracy. we ve reached out to pena s attorney, but what police allege he was the ringleader in this conspiracy to target democratic officials in new mexico, shooting at four homes. this came after pena a
and even more horrible day for the people of ukraine. the lead starts right now. a helicopter crash outside a kindergarten in the suburbs of kyiv and a ukrainian cabinet minister and a child among the 14 killed. what caused this tragedy? plus, she s called matt gaetz a fraud, used a clown emoemp bey to describe marjorie taylor greene and called her own party tone deaf on the subject of abortion. speaking with congresswoman nancy mace as the swing district republican fights for the soul of the gop. and officially charged in his wife s murder. google searches including how long before a body starts to smell, how to clean blood from wooden floor and, how long for someone to be missing to inherit, quote/unquote. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the big story in our world lead. an investigation is und? er way and three days of mourning in ukraine have begun after a helicopter crashed in the kyiv suburb earlier today. the crash at 8:20 a.m. ukraine time
and the way he treated and spoke to other people and the fact that he didn t have conversations. he had accusations and he had a way of telling people they didn t know what they were talking about. always politics? yeah. reporter: video appears to show pena at three different trump rallies in d.c. in one clip his name is stitched into his hat and in july 2021, kr, nn video captured a man appears to be pena in the rally crowd. pena would later post a picture of himself as an attendee. a year later pena ran for office as a republican candidate for the state house. he lost last november by a slant sl landslide but pena would not accept an election loss. police say he targeted four democrats to blame finding their addresses and confronting them. so i went to the gate and that s where he was and he seemed agitated. he seemed a little aggressive. i did tell someone about it. they said this guy is a felon. mr. pena orchestrated and made phone calls and hired people to sh