get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s decla
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
surprisingly are in allegiance with both of these comments. also tonight, russia unleashes a new round of air strikes against ukrainian civilians. trump s lawyers meet with federal investigators as trump again says the documents are, quote, mine. the fallout today from racial slurs caught from an l.a. city council president who as of now is the former l.a. city council president. good evening. i m jason johnson in tonight for joy reid. we begin with the shamelessly unapologetic racism and xenophobia on display this weekend. not surprising. the twice-impeached former president is doing a traveling road show around the country. most of the offensive commentary seem to follow him like rats to garbage. first alabama s tommy tuberville. republicans refused to condemn his comments. don baker suggested tuberville should have been more polite with his racism. the next day, georgia s congresswoman said hold my racist beer and joined in on the racism, targeting immigrants. joe
hello, again, everyone. we begin with breaking news on ukraine. russia says it will suspend its participation in the grain export deal that it made and had gotten under way with ukraine. cnn s nic robertson is in kyiv. nic, what s the significance of this? reporter: very significant. russia says it is withdrawing from this deal for an indefinite period. it agreed the deal brokered by the u.n. in a similar deal with ukraine back at the end of july. back then it was anticipated that this would allow all the grain that was backing up in ukrainian ports to get to all those hard-hit, third-world countries in desperate need of food supplies. anticipated that tons of grain could be shifted. the ukrainians said the russians have been dragging their feet. the russians are saying share not sure they woul with this grain deal. so far some 405 ships have been involved in the deal moving 9.1 million tons, which is less than half of what was originally anticipated. but what precipitated
crimea which it illegally annexed. it s monday, october 10th. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt. john berman is off today. officials say ten people have been killed. at least 60 are injured after this wave of missile strikes across the country. you can see all the different areas across the country that have been hit here. video showing an explosion near a pedestrian bridge in kyiv. a playground was also hit. you can see the crater that missile left. the mayor of kyiv is urging people to shelter in place. ukrainian officials say these photos show a russian missile that was taken down by air defense. president volodymyr zelenskyy releasing this video message after the strikes. translator: they re trying to spread chaos and panic. they want to annihilate our energy supplies. they re hopeless. this morning russian president vladimir putin has been holding a national security council meeting after what he says was a terrorist attack orchestrated by ukraine linking russia