please follow the show at jdbalart msnbc. thank you for your time. peter alexander picks up with more news right now. good morning. i am peter alexander here in washington. parts of ukraine are under fire in the dark and running low on water as russia unleashes a new barrage of air strikes overnight. president zelenskyy says 30% of his country s power stations are destroyed by russia part of what he says is vladimir putin s strategy to plunge ukraine into brutal conditions just as winter approaches. we are in ukraine with the very latest ahead. plus, just 21 days out from the midterms, president biden is going to put the spotlight on a crucial issue the democrats hope will motivate their voters. abortion rights. and he is ready to make this promise. codifying roe v. wade into law will be his first big legislative priority in the new congress. if he hopes that ll be enough to keep control of congress in democratic hands, that actually may hinge on a series of other issues. r
and there was plenty of talk about why the u.s. was hesitant to supply military aircraft to ukraine. is the fact now that iran with these drones appears to be doing just that for the russians meaning that the u.s. and western allies might feel a different sense here about whether there is more they should do to further involve themselves in this conflict? peter, i think the united states and our allies should be feeling a greater sense of urgency with the launching of the drones. first of all because it shows that vladimir putin is desperate. he is not going to win the war by taking out energy stations and attacking innocent civilians working at the energy stations or going shopping, going about their day-to-day business sitting on their couch. that is not how he wins. he is just trying to terrorize them and intimidate us and the west. he is on the losing foot here and we need to help the ukrainians take advantage of that. obviously we also have a moral