welcome to verified live,three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. of breaking stories, and checking the authorities in ukraine say more than 40,000 people are at risk from flooding, after a major dam in the south of the country, was attacked and collapsed yesterday. presdent putin has blamed ukraine for the attack calling it a barbaric act . while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. this is the scene in the city of kherson entire houses and streets submerged underwater. some people waiting to be rescued in affected areas have been forced to spend the night on their roofs or in trees as the waters rose. the dam supplies water to large tracts of agricultural land, including in crimea. and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant further upriver. both areas are currently under russian control. united nations says the collapse of the dam wil
over the western united states. it may have come all the way from china. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has details from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. good evening, gill i can t believe. the pentagon says it has detected and been tracking for the past several days a chinese surveillance balloon that entered u.s. airspace and appears to have been sent bye bye jing to spy on sensitive sites in montana. one of three sites where the u.s. houses it s siloed nuclear weapons. nbc first reported the news. a senior u.s. defense official just briefed reporters on the balloon which is still hovering over the continental united states. adding the u.s. government has very high confidence that this surveillance balloon was sent by the peoples republic of china. the balloon is currently traveling at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground. instances of this kind of balloon activity have been
investigations into january 6th and based on the evidence we saw last night, he might not be the last given that blockbuster hearing from the january 6th select committee in prime time last night. the committee put in place critical building blocks in its case against donald trump having criminal exposure as the leader of the plot against the government he led. in a hearing focused on what was unfolding inside the west wing of the white house on january 6th and in the days immediately following. the committee laid out in extraordinary detail everything that was happening as donald trump holed up in the white house dining room in front of the tv and barred photographers from the room as the mob he riled up attacked the united states capitol. the committee delivered evidence proving trump repeatedly and consistently resisted pleas from just about everybody on the white house staff for a forceful statement of condemnation. that would have the effect of calling off and stopping t
broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
Starts now. Tonight, new week, new witnesses. Donald trump faces new testimony as his Criminal Trial resumes along with a possible ruling on his alleged gag order violations. Plus, what elon musk wants from china that he cant get here in the u. S. And what that could mean for national security. Then, inside magas plans for a second trump residency. A warning about the movements new strategy to remake america as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. Great to be back with you and we are now 190 days away from the election and week two of testimony in Donald Trumps New York Terminal Case begins tomorrow morning, which is just hours from now. When the trial resumes in the morning, we expect to hear more from Michael Collins former banker. Then when trump gets a day off from court on wednesday, he is headed to the key swing states of michigan and wisconsin for Campaign Events before returning to New York City for two more days of co