western reporters actually inside the country. look at the unrest going on in iran right now, the unrest in russia right now. yeah. people say they ve never seen protests at this scale. it s getting serious. a lot of mothers getting out there. they don t want their sons being dragged off to war. we begin with a new development on the war in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskiy is accusing russia of nuclear blackmail and says he does not think president vladimir putin is bluffing, this as the u.s. announced an additional $457 million in civilian assistance to ukraine. nbc news foreign correspondent erin mclaughlin has more. reporter: days after russian president vladimir putin issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat, u.s. officials sending a message of their own. if russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for russia. the united states will respond decisively. reporter: that warning coming the same weekend that outrage, fear, and brutality swept
released from prison. we re going to play that tape and vet him tonight. first, the countdown continues. we are only 55 short days away from these pivotal midterm elections and democrats have lost all touch with reality. now, yesterday we showed you the new devastating economic numbers, inflation went up, food, rent, energy, all the way pick up. the stock market plummeted. it dropped significantly. the biggest drop since the height of the pandemic. this but one month after the democrats passed their so-called inflation redux act or as i reduction act. it doesn t actually do anything to reduce inflation. it will increase inflation. it is just a massive green new deal spending bill that, as predicted, is making inflation far worse, making everything more expensive than ever. and now, by the way, to add insult to injury r biden s competent transportation secretary has been unable to hammer out a deal with america s railroad unions. so now in the wake of a looming strike, man
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previous reluctant witnesses. one is the secret service. according to new cnn reporting, investigators have identified potential missing text messages on the phones of ten agents. messages from on and around january 6th. committee vice chair liz cheney calls the developments regarding the agency deeply troubling. i have just tremendous respect and admiration and real affection for members of the secret service, particularly those who were with my family on 9/11 and in the aftermath of 9/11. but i also know that what we saw in terms of what s happened over the course, what we ve become aware of over the course of the last several weeks is deeply troubling. we will get to the bottom of it. cheney also tells cnn the panel is still interested in speaking with steve bannon, who was convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the committee s subpoena. we ll join steve bannon s attorney for his first interview. they say they could also subpoena begiginni thomas.
Passed a Stopgap Funding Bill that would temporarily keep the government open for 45 days, if signed by president biden. This comes just hours before finding was set to expire, which would have affected millions of americans and their families. Theres lots to get to this hour. Lets bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent ali vitali, and National Reporter sahill kapoor. And we actually heard Michael Bennett speak on the senate floor. What did he have to say . Thats exactly right. Because you will remember that just a few hours ago, we wondered if senator Michael Bennet of colorado would be the one to hold this whole thing up. And certainly, he did provide a hold for about an hour or so, over the idea that no ukraine funding was included in this continuing resolution. Bennett certainly not the only one who was upset to find that that money was not included here. But what he was able to do, by putting this temporary hold on, was extract from leadership, and both the democratic and re