burn. it was prominently featured in a russian rom-com. they announced new stamps with figures with leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet but instead they are standing on the bridge. some said it is a birthday present for vladimir putin who turns 70. marilyn monroe singing happy birthday to john f. kennedy in 1962. happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday mr. president happy birthday to you wow. talking about sending a message. fred pleitgen has more from the capital of kyiv. how are the russians and ukrainians reacting? i think we have some sense of it, but tell us more. reporter: yeah. they are essentially blaming each other. the senior advise orto the ukrainian president zelenskyy indicating this could be possibly infighting by russian security services. not much evidence to back all that up. certainly the russians doing things in the other direction, pointing the finger of blame squarely at the ukrainians. there was a senior official fro
his mission for puerto rico as the island faces a long recovery from another deadly hurricane. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, everyone it s a threat that shadowed a generation of americans during the cold war a nuclear standoff with russia and now president biden giving voice to growing new fears and a dangerous new era once more framed by the threat of nuclear conflict. president biden saying, we face the prospect of armageddon comparing it to the cuban missile crisis his dark comments referring to threats by russia s vladimir putin to introduce tactical nuclear weapons or chemical and biological weapons on the battlefield in russia s war with ukraine. president biden saying he takes putin s threats seriously saying, putin is not joking while there s no indication thus far that russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons, the president s blunt comments are sending a chill from washington to the streets of moscow where our keir simmons
he did not do it. day four of the seditious conspiracy trial. trump should have acted, and just manned up to do it, but he didn t. tonight, new evidence of how hard the oath keepers pressed for a coup. congressman jamie raskin, on what it means for the committee s final hearing. then, even new reporting suggesting the justice department thinks donald trump is, still, hiding documents. plus, new reporting that herschel walker urged his ex girlfriend to have a second abortion. joe searcy owning, on the presidents candid remarks about vladimir putin, and nuclear armageddon. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. we begin tonight by setting a scene for you at the e barrett premium federal courthouse in washington d.c.. five members of the right-wing gang, the oath keepers, are currently on trial for seditious conspiracy. in connection with their plot to keep donald trump in pair power with, the 2020 election. we have been bringing you up
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news, overnight vladimir putin s military facing another critical setback as this massive explosion was showing severely damage to a key bridge between crimea and russia. part of that bridge has collapsed into the sea, disrupting a main russian supply route. let s go right back to kier simmons joining us from moscow. what can you tell us about this? well alex, it s another dangerous moment in this conflict in ukraine. 48 hours after president biden mourned of the escalation could lead in his words to a nuclear conflict. well now we have this bridge attack, now the ukrainians are celebrating and not taking responsibility for it. the russians are furious. with a nuclear threat looming, a major fire on the bridge linking russia to crimea. the blaze visible for miles reports of a, huge explosion at around 6 am local time. russian authorities saying that it was a truck
your mind, he also said wherever you re sending it. doj believes he still has documents you shouldn t somewhere. back up against the wall, losing and facing dissent from high ranking insider. and biden with a threat to the world assessment. those rallying to herschel walker s defense must have known it could get worse and it did. jason johnson in for joy reid. reporting says even after 18 months, multiple requests from national archives, federal subpoena and fbi search of florida estate, government believes the president still hasn t returned all the documents he took from the white house. top intelligence official jay bratt communicated the complaints to the lawyers. unsure if there s evidence or just a suspicion because of the 58 empty envelopes with classified markings they found at mar-a-lago. one bunch he did return before leaving washington, related to 2016 probe into russia s links to the trump campaign. it was in such disarray, when trump gave it back, doj couldn