which named mr prigozhin. the mercenary leader had led an aborted mutiny against the russian military injune amid growing tension with commanders over the war in ukraine. he had since relocated to belarus. in a statement released on the telegram channel, the spokeswoman of russia s investigative committee, svetlana petrenko, said genetic tests had established the identities of all those on board. translation: as part - of the investigation of the plane crash in the tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed according to their results. the identities of all ten dead were established. they correspond to the list stated in the flight sheet. well, the exact circumstances behind the plane crash remain unclear. our russia editor steve rosenberg has the latest from moscow. we still don t know the cause of the crash. there s been so much speculation in recent days. was this a missile attack, a bomb on board? was this some kind of other sabotage? we don t know. th
i, very. alicia, thank you so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber joining you live on this presidents day. our top story is the fallout as one former president finds his business efforts to out-run the law are finally running out of time. as you probably know by now, donald trump lost that massive fraud case to new york attorney general james. now he faces staggering costs, not only for losing the fraud case, as i m about to walk through with you, but losing a lot of other cases that are piling up. that news hit like a freight train. it is a big number. it is the staggering number. in fact, it is a record number. judge arthur engoron deciding that donald trump is liable for 350 plus million dollars. this is a major gut punch, as we all well know, to donald trump, to his legacy. the even say it s a body blow would be an understatement. the court has done everything short of ordering that trump be thrown into a wood chipper. this is really a decision that wi
secretary alejandro mayorkas over his role in they secr biden border disaster, the crisis he created to articles, in fact, were approved, one accusing him of refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and another accusing him of violating public trust. this weekend, mayorkas tried wit to deflect responsibility for his role in the crisis, claiming, oh, the system has. been broken for years and repeating the lie that they need congress to fix it. no, they don t. take a lootakek. do you bear responsibility for what is happening at the border, what the president himself has called a crisis? it certainly is a crisissident. while we don t bear responsibility for a broken system and we re doing a tremendous amount within that broken system, but fundamentall sysy, em fundamentally, congress is the only one who can fix it. now, joe biden just have to understand the ones he rescinded whe havn he got the most secure borders in history. in other words, he rescinded all the trum
capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, also with us, frank figliuzzi, former assistant director for counterintelligence at the fbi. he is also an msnbc national security analyst. ryan, what do we know and not know about the attack at this hour? reporter: well, the biggest open question right now, jose, is motive. there doesn t appear to be a lot of clear answers right now as to why paul pelosi was targeted inside his san francisco home early this morning. we do know that the attack was violent, and it was enough for him to be rushed to the hospital. he is in the hospital now and the spokesperson for pelosi s office says that he is receiving excellent care and is expected to make a full recovery. the speaker herself, though, was not in san francisco at the time. and of course, jose, this comes against the backdrop of an increasing number of threats directed at members of congress and their families. capitol police put out a report over the summer that said there s bee
the israel-hamas war triggering a spike in attacks on our troops in the region. a u.s. centcom spokesperson telling, fox news, that two dozen u.s. service members were actually injured last week from drone and rocket attacks on american bases in iraq and syria. all of the injured personnel have since returned to duty. the pentagon is now bolstering u.s. resources in the region, both for protection as well as as a deterrent. and we are posturing additional forces in the region for two reasons. one, again, to bolster our broader regional deterrence efforts. two, to send a clear message that we will protect our forces . we will always maintain the inherent right of self-defense. and if there is a response, should we choose to have one, we would do that at a time and place of our choosing. the white house, meantime is also developing contingency plans to evacuate americans from the middle east in case the israel-hamas war spreads. however, national security spokesperson john