like desantis, haley, pence, scott, for this fund-raiser. the bulk of the g.o.p. field will be here. before they come to the iowa fairgrounds, some campaigning to do across the country. you are going to see a lot of us in south carolina. florida governor ron desantis hits his third early voting state of the week, south carolina after campaigning in iowa and new hampshire. don t let anyone tell you they can do this in 24 hours or six months or anything like that. this is going to be trench warfare. ron desantis is responding to former president donald trump was arguing could break the country in six months. desantis says that the republican president would need to go consecutive terms to rein in government. trump wrapped his two day iowa trip with a town hall in des moines and responded to reports that federal prosecutors have the reporting of the present acknowledging that he had a classified document about about iran war plans. everything i did was right. the
according to ukrainian armed forces. civilians have also been targeted. this video showing the terrifying a blast rocks a pedestrian bridge in kyiv moments before a person could be seen walking across it. that person manages to turn back and runway from the destruction. that strike reminiscent of this blast saturday on a crucial bridge connecting russian-controlled crimea and the country s mainland. a blow to russia suffering humiliating defeats on the battlefield. vladimir putin says that today s wave of violence is revenge for that blast. he blames ukraine, even though kyiv has not taken responsibility for it. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy sharing these devastating images from the aftermath of today s deadly campaign and founding an urgent alarm saying, quote, they are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. all the while ukrainian civilians are, again, forced underground into kyiv subway system, but they re managing to come together in an emot
moscow with how mr. putin is justifying the escalation in violence. we will get to all of that. welcome, everyone. i m alex witt in for hallie jackson from msnbc world headquarters in new york. we will get to msnbc correspondent erin mclaughlin and also white house correspondent kelly owe dodge. eri kelly o donnell. erin, what is it like where you are and where do you see this current escalation going? around 8:00 this morning, we heard five explosions here in kharkiv, what is the second largest city in ukraine, striking, according to ukrainian officials electrical infrastructure in the kharkiv region, leading to power outages in the city itself, with ukrainian officials say a couple of hours ago, power was restored to the city. this kind of missile strike is actually not all that unusual for kharkiv. it s a weekly occurrence. nothing like what we saw unfold in kyiv, the capital today, in which missiles rained down on the capital, damaging the residential buildings, a chi
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