the new reporting that they are the latest targets of the special counsel investigating donald trump and january 6th. and ron desantis is cashing in, giving donald trump a run for his money, and the florida governor hasn t even jumped into the race yet. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. outfront tonight a major warning from president biden to vladimir putin, as new images show the true state of putin s fighting forces. take a look at this new video of ukraine attacking russian positions on the front lines of bakhmut. putin s troops are suffering heavy losses. and you can see that on stark display in this new video posted on social media and verified by cnn. dozens of coffins containing the bodies of russian fighters. they had reportedly been fighting with putin s private force, the wagner group, which is fighting in bakhmut. you can see death certificates with names and even the russian region that they were from. and i l
park, california where investigators are searching for what motivated a man to kill ten people on saturday night at a dance studio during lunar new year. police have identified the gunman as 72-year-old huu can tran. he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers closed in on his vehicle following a massive manhunt and this morning we re hearing from one fts heros who helped so stop the carnage. a 26-year-old man who subdued and disarmed the gunman at a second location is speaking out for the very first time. natasha chen joining me now with this hero s riveting account. good morning. what did he say. reporter: well, brandon tsay said he was cleaning up after most customers have gone at the lailai dance studio in alhambra and wasn t paying attention to the front door but he heard it close and he saw this man and heard the sound of metal rubbing together. this man, he said, seemed as if he was not looking for money. not as if hes with trying to rob anybody
support for territories throughout the region, addressed it through sanctions, military force posture, do what we have to do to protect ourselves our troops. nobody is turning away from that threat or their historic and sustained support for these territory groups. john, just a follow-up to what peter asked, two questions, i assume when the president said aid is not getting fast enough to gaza that he s not critiquing our efforts to get it there. and without hanging a hook on who is responsible, is he saying that more can be done from our end? is there more that can be done to get the aid to them? i think he was referring to actors in the region. and then the second question, for many years you are going to meet with the australian government and they have supported the release of julian assange. we have not done so saying there were national security reasons. for the reasons that he has been charged are basically the same efforts that many reporters use, so is there
we need to. this is not what we want, not what we re looking for. we don t want escalation. is we don t want a second or third front develop. we don t want to see our forces or our personnel come under fire, but if that happens, we re ready for it. secretary of state antony blinken making it clear, the united states will respond to any provocation from iran connected to the israel-hamas war. it comes as israel s defense forces are expanding air strikes in gaza. we ll get the latest with a live report from israel straight ahead. plus, new reporting on how president biden and other u.s. officials helped delay the ground invasion of the territory. also ahead, we ll dig into the republican-led dysfunction on capitol hill. there are now several candidates hoping to become house speaker after jim jordan s failed bid. and we ll get you expert legal analysis on donald trump s violation of the gag order in his civil fraud trial, as well as another new guilty plea deal fr
too early on this friday morning and all week long. morning joe starts right now. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, october 13th. we are following fast-moving developments out of israel. the country s military is telling us more than a million people telling more than a million people to leave their homes this morning as it prepares a potential full-scale ground invasion in the wake of the terror attacks by hamas. we ll have a live report for the very latest on the ground there. plus, an update on the biden administration s efforts to prevent further escalation in the region with top officials on the ground this morning in israel and jordan. also ahead, the republican-led chaos on capitol hill reached yet another level last night when the party s nominee for speaker just dropped out of the race. we ll talk about how that impacts the country and world events. along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of way too early, white house burea