rocket attacks in 24 hours as the military steps up its assault in ukraine. our reporters are here to cover all of the latest developments and we start there. nbc s richard engel is in dnipro, ukraine, this latest barrage of missiles, give us the latest we know about what s happening on the ground there. reporter: so ukrainians are shrugging it off. they so far say that the russian offensive, which was launched about two weeks ago, is not shaping up to be as devastating as province, the head of ukrainian intelligence earlier today said the russian offensive appears to be of such low quality that some field commanders don t even know that it has begun, that there has been intense activity from the russian side around bakhmut where we have been reporting over the last couple of weeks, but that in other areas, the russians are running so low on ammunition on artillery shells they are now in an ammunition conservation mode. so, yes, they are still able to launch rockets at unde
as well. in the meantime, we have breaking news coming to us out of the alec murdaugh double murder trial. i want to go straight to catie beck in walterboro, south carolina. i was just having a conversation with members of my team and saying it is extremely rare in a murder case for a defendant to take the stand but alec murdaugh may do it? reporter: that s what we re hearing that it is their plan to call alec murdaugh to the stand, as you say, legal experts say less than 5% of the time do defense attorneys call the defendant to the stand. it opens a whole range of issues, opens the door to lots of questions for the prosecution. in this case, there is a mountain of evidence that has been presented over four weeks against alec murdaugh, so there is a lot to cover. if they do put him on the stand. the one thing that i would say is there s a critical piece of evidence that the prosecution has presented, a video of that
that s something a lot of tech companies were concerned about going into this case. everybody that goes before the supreme court could lose but that they would lose in such a way that five, ten, 15 years from now, we could be dealing with a new problem or new question that can t be anticipated right now, and everybody s hands would be tied by a supreme court ruling from 2023, just because the court is not that skilled with that, and we saw some of the justices, justice kagan most of all, and others saying is this up to us or congress? i guess that s the question, isn t it, laura, and i m curious what you heard both yesterday and today. was that sort of it, like this really isn t in our wheel house here? just in terms of we don t get it, we don t understand it, maybe it should be regulated but we don t regulate. reporter: if there are changes to the shield law that s been on the books since the
roadway. that sound you hear is senate democrats breathing a sigh of relief after jon tester announced today that he will in fact run for reelection in 2024. he had told nbc news earlier this month he was undecided. this decision is huge for democrats. montana is solidly red, and it s critical to holding the senate majority for dems in 2024. for a second day in a row, the supreme court is faced with a case that s key to the future of the internet. yesterday it was you tube at the center of it. today it s twitter. and a similar question of whether the social media app can be sued. this time, accused of aiding and abetting a terrorist attack through the spread of militant islamic ideology. nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett is outside the supreme court. also with me, senior editor at axios, sam baker. laura, give us the laymen s version of what this case is about and what the implications of the court s ruling could be?
political action committee on his own legal fees, his personal legal fees. that was just last year. he s a declared candidate now. does that raise any legal questions? definitely, and remember this pac, by the way, this is what he said after. i want you all to contribute to help me reverse the election. and he shook loose all of those new donations, usually in small amounts. a candidate, if he gets that amount of money from a pac or any individual, you or me, it s probably a campaign contribution. there are limits on campaign contributions. $3,300 in this case, be a pac or an individual. so that s going to lead to trouble, and of course he notoriously doesn t like to pay his bills himself. sometimes he doesn t pay them even if he owes them. that s going to raise an issue now that he s a declared candidate. from what you said and you mentioned the other probes, his legal bills are going north and