joining the msnbc reports lineup with the premier of anna cabrera reports at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we look forward to that. chris jansing reports starts right now. hey, everything,body, good you, i m yasmin vossoughian in for chris jansing in new york city tennessee democrats saying the world is working as they slam republicans for expelling two black representatives from the legislature. their message to protesters outraged over it we re also now learning the vice president traveling to tennessee as well to meet with lawmakers there amidst all of this going on. also, new allegations about supreme court justice clarence thomas allegedly taking advantage of half a million dollars worth of gifts and trips from a republican mega donor the new report from propublica and how thomas is responding. and the latest jobs report shows a good, not great number as hiring falls to roughly half of what it was a few months ago. what it means for the economy and your wallet coming u
ukrainian had a very strong answer for us. he believes like so many people here, that morale is on their side, that the ukrainian troops have more morale they re fighting an existential fight to save their country. the real thing that we keep hearing from everybody here in kyiv is that the decisive factor is western weapons that are now flowing in in huge numbers, sophisticated weapons that the ukrainians believe can tip the balance in their favor now, we have seen and we ve been hearing about a russian offensive. that seems, as far as we can tell, to have come and gone and hasn t really changed that much on the front lines so now the ukrainians believe that they still have cards to play and that the russians don t. matt bradley for us, we thank you, matt. so we re now learning more about how russia is attempting to wipe out the ukrainian identity during their invasion t experts saying, russian forces are systematically stealing art and cultural artifacts in ukraine on a scale not