more news right now. good morning, everybody. i am lindsey reiser at msnbc headquarters in new york. president biden is expected to meet with the prime minister of the netherlands at this hour, and that meeting comes as the white house is facing intensified pressure after the classified documents from his home. both the white house and the secret service are pushing back saying there are no logs since this was a private residence. ahead where republicans are likely to go from here and more on inside the white house on how they are juggling this political headache. then the president is set to visit california thursday to get a first-hand look at the trail of devastation left behind by a revolving door of deadly storms. 400 mudslides have been reported in a matter of weeks and thousands are still under evacuation orders. probably about 10 or 12 feet high of mud, tree, debris, mud and dirt. we ll figure it out. it used to be a 50-year flood zone and now it s a 3 to 5-ye
i don t use that word lightly. that s exactly what the man is accused of doing. terrorizing. they say the republican candidate was so angry over his defeat and claims the election was rigged against him that he hired four men to shoot at the homes of officials, even pulling the trigger himself during one of the crimes. we have one of the officials who was targeted joining us in a moment. she s going to tell us what the bullets hit and how close they came to her and her grandchildren. it is scary. what makes this our top story today is that it s not just about an alleged one off crazy person. it s not isolated. this terror is part of a growing problem. just ask nancy pelosi or pramila jayapal or the one in five adults who said in a survey they would be willing to condone acts of political violence. what is motivating all of these people and what is law enforcement doing about the threats before they turn violent? joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, ga
And that s what he did. we re standing by for that to happen about sydney powell. appreciate it. we know that you will let us know as soon as that does happen. of course we will be having much more of those resigns from georgia a bit later in the hour. i want to turn to this other major breaking news in our world lead. russian state media reporting that the notorious warlord yevgeny prigozhin is likely dead. prigozhin of course the leader of the private russian ersnary group wagner. and once a key ally of russian leader vladimir putin. prigozhin s army helping putin to carry out some of his bloodiest crusades in ukraine especially in the eastern city of bakhmut which earned the title the human meat grinder. and then prigozhin, as you may recall, not long ago turned against the russian ministry was defense claiming it had insufficient ammunition and resources to his grisly battalion slamming putin s generals. that led to a failed armed mutiny to moscow in june, exactly two months ag
Desperate, recruiting convicts direct from prison with promises of pardons. nobody goes back, and nobody backs down and nobody surrenders. ukrainians call his style of fighting meat waves. the self-promoting man showcases every state of his human meat grinder, addressing his mercenaries on the front lines, and demanding his amputee troops run to the front. if a mine explodes, a new leg will be welded. ukraine and america say these battles have little strategic battle. the victory is for he, himself. and he s doing all this in
Been accused of war crimes. to leave the fight in the east, he needed more men. he found them among russia s most desperate. recruiting convicts direct from prisons with promises of pardons. no one goes back. no one backs down. no one surrenders. ukrainians call his style of fighting meat waves. sending wave after wave of poorly trained convict straight into ukrainian defenses. he showcases every stage of his human meat grinder. addressing his mercenaries on the front lines. demanding even his amputee troops return to the front. if another mine explodes, then the iron leg will be torn off and a new one will be welded. to finally sending them home in body bags. the contract is over. they re going home. but ukrainian american officials say these battles have little strategic value. the victory is him.