family! and thank you so much for joining me today, i am fredricka whitfield. smerconish starts right now. when russia invaded ukraine, american politicians on both side of the aisle here were pretty much united in their support of the underdog. but with congress having approved $113 billion in aid, in 2022, a rebellious and growing wing of the gop has decided it s time to draw a line in the sand, and polls show the public support may also be softening. consider this. when the invasion first occurred, josh holly of missouri was writing, russia s brutal 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. holly was immediately invited onto tucker carlson s fox new
and so and sunday night you were with the same family members, your brother and brooklyn and buster and that s right. and liz. and lizzie, and lizzie s mom and dad and i believe donny and paula was still there, but i can t remember when they left. and then you went to somerville with whom? i believe i went to somerville by myself, but i know in the car by myself. i can t remember if buster and i rode together, but i think we might have had separate cars. we probably did ride together that first day. i don t remember, but i know i went to somerville and buster was in somerville with me and grandma and papa t. and somerville is where maggie s parents live? that s right. that s maggie s mom and dad, maggie s mom is grandma and maggie s dad is papa t. did you stay with them for a few days in somerville? i stayed with them longer in somerville? yeah, i stayed with them we stayed in somerville monday night, tuesday night, wednesday night, and then we w
good wednesday morning, i m lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. right now escalating tensions between the u.s. and russia with ukraine front and center. in the last hour, president biden led a show of unity with leaders of the so-called bucharest nine, our eastern european nato allies and he had this blunt message about the future. today as we approach the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion, it s either more important that we continue to stand together. because what s literally at stake is not just ukraine, it s freedom. looming over it all the spector of nuclear weapons with new comments from a top putin ally this morning saying russia has the right to defend itself with, quote, any weapon including the nuclear kind. this as we also learn russia told the u.s. it was going to test an intercontinental ballistic missile before president biden s trip to ukraine. and another wrinkle during a meeting with china s top diplomat earlier, russian president v
the devastation. it s just we re looking at the video. now. it s incredible. it is striking jim to see this devastation of close and in person, you know, it s not really an exaggeration to say that there is very little of this town that has remained untouched from the tornado that ripped through here on. uh, the buildings that we re seeing here throughout the area have been reduced to rubble. there are individuals that we smoke into that don t understand how they got out alive, considering so many around them perished. as you mentioned at least 25 people have been killed as a result of the storms that we re continuing the machinery being brought through these areas clear out the records, and it was earlier that i spoke to one of the tornado survivors. ernest hall, who says that he was asleep when the initial storm came through. woken up by a phone call of a family member asking for help to erased across town to a trailer park where we re standing in front of that is among the
all children in london aged between i and 9 will be offered a polio booster vaccine after more traces of the virus are found in the capital s waste water. four days of extreme weather is forecast in england and wales. it comes as environmental groups say some rivers are starting to dry up seriously impacting wildlife. saying he the former football trail continues. # the author and illustrator raymond briggs, best known for the 1978 classic, the snowman, has died, aged 88. many families are falling behind on their gas and electricity bills, with the total owed by consumers to energy suppliers tripling since last september. a survey of 2,000 people for u switch suggests almost a quarter of households owe an average of more than 200 pounds to their provider. it comes as ministers are due to hold talks with the energy companies tomorrow about the impact of sharply rising bills. yesterday experts predicted the average household energy bill would reach 4000 200 pounds a year by j