critics we will tell you what s happening tonight. meantime, knocking on doors on anyone who was a law makers who crossed him. plus, new health concerns for senator dianne feinstein, more complications from shingles, including inflammation of the brain. more on that and who the mystery woman is by her side at all times now. and it s a real life episode of succession, the world s richest man has to choose one of his children to take the reigns, who will it be? good evening, i m air rain burnet. out front, putin targeting his own. putin police forces breaking down doors and detaining. armed police at one politician s home. this is break ting down with a crow bar, ripping the door off, and part of a sweep that reportedly was looking for people with ties to a former russian law makers. a man who was forced into exsill after he became the only law makers to vote against putins annexation of crimea. look what they re doing to people they say are connected to him. moments ago i spok
detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, w
ac 360 meantime starts now. and good evening. it is another night of drama and uncertainty in washington tonight. in a little less than two hours the house will reconvene and test congressman s kevin mccarthy confidence he can win the remaining hold outs he need to become speaker elect and avoid this fate for a 14th straight time. a majority of the votes cast, a speaker has not been elected. after that losing effort which saw him flip 15 no votes over to his side, the house adjourned to allow time to deal with the rest. what exactly got him this far is unclear. we know some of the proposed concessions or at least one he made has many democrats concerned it could lead to a government default. we re in territory unchartered since the 1850s. this is also taking place on the second anniversary of the attack on congress. president biden honoring defenders of democracy in both parties and law enforcement heroes of that day, and remembering those whose lives were lost. at th
good tuesday morning, everybody. i am lindsey reiser live at msnbc world headquarters in new york city. right now we are one hour away from the convening of the 118th congress on capitol hill. a scenario unlike anything we have seen before. one question remaining, will kevin mccarthy be the speaker of the house? right now it s not clear the california republican has the votes to secure the gavel. he seemed optimistic about the outcome this morning. do you have the votes yet? we will have a good day today. we do know house republicans spent the last hour huddleded in a closed door meeting where mccarthy addressed his caucus, but was he able to sway any republicans standing in his way. and just in the last hour we heard from congressman, scott perry. over the 14 years he has been in leadership, he has done almost virtually nothing to change it. and under pressure from a group of members that said we are not any longer going to accept the status quo, and we have been abl
good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the horror. ukraine s ministry of defense releasing these jarring and grotesque images. this is before and after. the soldier here is ukrainian. the image on the left is him taken during the siege of the azostal steel plant. that is when they were hunkered down not getting the full food and water that they needed. but there he was fighting. and on the right four months later, that is him now, starved, deformed. it is not even possible to imagine what happened to that man. and yet that picture is the reality. it is how russia is treating human beings. and you can t look the other way when you see that. it comes as putin has taken the war to a whole new level today running a sham election in parts of ukraine that are kind of under russian control. i ll show you the ballot. it reads just one question. the wording varies depending on the region. are you in favor of seceding from ukraine and joining the russian federation? and dow