writing, russia s assault on ukraine and invasion of its territory must be met with strong american resolve. president biden must act now to hit vladimir putin where it hurts. but on the first anniversary just last week, he was singing a different tune. the republican party can be the party of ukraine and globalists or the party of east palestine and working americans. not both. hawley was immediately invited on to tucker carlson s show the same night. florida governor and likely presidential candidate ron desantis went on fox and friends to condemn our current support as an open-ended blank check, which he called not acceptable. georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene got the crowd to boo zelenskyy. i m still committed to saying no money to ukraine, and that country needs to find peace, not war. and while i will lock in a camera and directly tell s zelenskyy, you better leave your hands off our sons and daughters because they are not dying over there. presiden
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. is it a when or if? a grand jury weighs to indict donald trump. law enforcement in new york and here in washington on alert now for possible protests. the former president s allies in congress are attacking the manhattan prosecutor. plus a handshake watched around the globe. highly choreographed moment by xi jinping and vladimir putin sends a defiant message to the united states and to the west, but so far, no public chinese commitment to help putin on the ukraine battlefield. and president biden takes out his veto pen for the first time. at issue, investment rules. woke capitalism is infecting banks and its government. up first for us, a law and order decision with history on the line. tomorrow the grand jury meets again in manhattan. that maybe the day new york prosecutors lay out charges against the former president of the united states. but the timing of everything her
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
how close they came to catastrophe. you ll hear the urgent calls from air traffic control. the black boxes found after the passenger plane crash that killed at least 69 in nepal. the final moments caught on camera. the search tonight for answers. the death toll growing in one of the worst russian strikes on civilians since the war in ukraine began. italy s most wanted man captured. how a notorious mafia boss was found hiding in plain sight after 30 years on the run. and honoring a civil rights icon. the images from across the country on this martin luther king jr. day. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone. california tonight suffering the effects of its tenth consecutive storm. weeks of rain from an atmospheric river undermining roads. some crumbling right before the eyes of horrified onlookers. saturated hillsides turning to mudslides. the round of storms now blamed for the deaths of at least 22 people. search and rescue
including a live report from moscow and the littest from the white house. plus we re digging into the september jobs reports, which shows 263,000 new jobs added last month. matching the lowest level since 1969. so why is the the market selling off? finally, the white house raises the white flag on the war on weed. the president declaring a pardons for thousands convicted on federal charges of marijuana possession. more on the move and what will factor into the midterm races. we start with president biden s warning, one of the most chilling we have heard from anyone in the government on the subject of nuclear war. in biden s words, quote, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy. he added putin isn t joke whg he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. it s not clear whether biden was referencing any new intelligence in making this prediction, although we re asking that of the white house right now. in fac