Democratic leader to say Donald Trump is a threat. Did he lose the 2020 election . Tim im focused on the future. That is a damning non answer. You have a really good choice of who will honor that democracy and who will honor Donald Trump. Vances refusal to admit that trump lost. You would have seen him try to put a gloss of respectability as trump appears increasingly unhinged. That strategy to normalize the weird and Extreme Trump vance platform. That strategy fell apart. There was a lot of bad Data Points there. Today it feels like the News Gods watched last Months Debate and saw Jd Vances appalling answer and decided to highlight the whole issue. They unsealed a partially redacted filing from Special Council Jack Smith. Why he believes it is very much prosecutable. Smith lays out another new narrative of the case and that all 165 pages of that is what reporters and legal analysts have been pouring over all day today. Stuff like conversations with Touch And Vice president Mike Pence
see the crime scene for themselves. we ll have a live report from the courthouse in south carolina coming up. at least a dozen people hospitalized, but no deaths reported after tornadoes tear apart businesses and homes in central oklahoma. we ll have the latest on the storms that made million z miserable over the last 24 hours and the problems they left behind. first, the challenges to donald trump. ideologically, financially and organizationally, all ramping up. case in point, ron desantis is gathering for more than 150 donors, a huge event over the weekend held less than a ten-minute drive from former president trump s back yard. the event was described as, quote, part of desantis increasingly open encroachments into the former president s long-term support base and ideological turf. that s just the tip of the iceberg with the florida governor set to extend his campaign with a national book tour that launches tomorrow. we should be clear. right nou desantis is still a
300,000 additional troops will be called up to fight. this comes as russia has suffered ahumiliating losses to ukraine with troops retreating from territory. putin used his most direct language to date regarding the possible use of nuclear weapons. translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. the comments come across the backdrop of the u.n. general assembly here in new york. president biden set to speak just hours for now, as multiple kremlin backed authorities announced referendums on joining russia this week. ukraine and its allies dismissed the moves as a sham driven by fear of defeat. i want to bring in kylie atwood here in new york, nick paton walsh is live in ukraine for us. this speech we thought it was going to happen yesterday, i
they re extreme positions, out of touch with the value of pennsylvanians. here s what we need to fight about inflation because it s a tax on working families. and dr. oz can t possibly understand what that is like. he has ten mansions. pennsylvania s senate race, it took center stage on debate night in america last night. i m brianna keilar with alex marquardt. such a pleasure to be back with you. john fetterman and mehmet oz trading attacks in their first and only debate. they sparred over abortion, inflation, and fracking. issues that are the most important to pennsylvania voters. fetterman s health has been a question in this campaign and the debate highlighted the recovery from his stroke. he used closed captioning for assistance. in new york, fighting crime was front and center between kathy hochul and lee zeldin. recent polls show the governor s race is tightening in the final weeks of the campaign. in michigan, gretchen whitmer and tudor dixen clashes over
puerto rico are still without power. many are waiting for vital fuel in the wake of hurricane fiona. the congressman who just visited the island will tell us what he saw on the ground. also we are taking a closer look at what to expect from tomorrow s highly anticipated january 6th committee hearing when the panel is set to clip from roger stone s new documentary. the obstacles are these weak-kneed bureaucrats in the white house council s office. now they must be crushed. meanwhile in russia as more military men flee the country, the kremlin now acknowledges issues with its latest draft in yet another blow to putin s military strategy in ukraine. the former president of ukraine will join us with more on that. we begin this hour with a very latest on hurricane ian, which made land falls in western cuba at 4:30 a.m. eastern bringing heavy rain and maximum sustained winds of 125 miles per hour. the latest tracking shows ian could reach florida s western coast as early as wed