moscow with how mr. putin is justifying the escalation in violence. we will get to all of that. welcome, everyone. i m alex witt in for hallie jackson from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we will get to msnbc correspondent erin mclaughlin and also white house correspondent kelly owe dodge. eri kelly o donnell. erin, what is it like where you are and where do you see this current escalation going? around 8:00 this morning, we heard five explosions here in kharkiv, what is the second largest city in ukraine, striking, according to ukrainian officials electrical infrastructure in the kharkiv region, leading to power outages in the city itself, with ukrainian officials say a couple of hours ago, power was restored to the city. this kind of missile strike is actually not all that unusual for kharkiv. it s a weekly occurrence. nothing like what we saw unfold in kyiv, the capital today, in which missiles rained down on the capital, damaging the residential buildings, a chi
it blocks, sort of formally the alliances have aligned with that. i can t relate with the smaller kid in the school. that was not you. not me. for sure. keir simmens. just a tiny wee boy and now just 6 5 . keir simmons, thank you very much. always a pleasure. you will be on morning joe as well discussing brexit of all things. a lot happening over there. a lot to talk about. a busy man. let s get a check on your weather now with nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning once again. how dangerous was yesterday afternoon? numerous tornadoes. not just attorneys but even strong tornadoes. we haven t found out exactly how high the winds were with them, with the storm surveys today. but look this one, look how wide, this is like a stove pipe tornado, and you can just see how fast it is hitting and the clouds are spinning on the bottom, some of the debris around the bottom, picking up the trees and tossing them around, we know we had three fatalities, from attorneys y
direction. he s using the power of his office to try and enlist the aid of other foreign leaders to support him in this. and they re pushing back or they re trying to dance around his demands. that s what we see ukraine doing, where they keep saying we will sort of look at this, we will kind of help you, but they don t actually do very much. okay, so we also see the russian president vladimir putin, is giving president trump s overtures somewhat of a thumbs up here. he used some sarcasm when he responded to our own keir simmens in moscow a few days ago. listen to this. is russia, as robert mueller alleged, attempting to influence the 2020 election in the united states? translator: i ll tell you in a secret, yes, we ll definitely intervene. it s a secret. so that everybody can laugh.
who is also in prison for murder. she says we have ended our surreal affair and still don t understand. the affection remains from the love we have. she talks about the appeal she has coming up in october and says she s trying not to get too hopeful. she says the greatest danger is to get too hopeful. keir, thank you very much. appreciate that. it s a pleasure. a new poll suggests americans feel the president is a go ahead leader. they just don t like where he s taking us. time magazine says 49% of americans approve of the job the president is doing in office, 45% disapprove. in that same poll just 39% of americans said the country is heading in the right direction. 56% say we re on the wrong track. ab stodsdards an associate editor and columnist with the hill newspaper. good to see you on this sunday. good to see you.
good sunday. i m contessa brewer. american student amanda nox is speaking out from behind bars. she insists she s innocent and wants to clear her name. knox is serving a 25-year sentence in an italian prison for the murder of her british roommate and been opening up to an italian magazine. nbc s keir simmens is in london with more. what s amanda knox saying about her situation? i think she s chosen her words carefully. she knows she [ inaudible ] opinion certainly back home and in italy and the uk where she s in prison and here in jail i have understood that sometimes bad things happen to good people. i am in a situation i can t explain and at times do not understand. it s as if it s happening to someone else. she also reveals that she is still in contact with her then boyfriend raffaele sollecito,