booster vaccine schedule for all americans regardless of their coronavirus vaccination history. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. vladimir putin s forces are responding to the decision by the united states and its allies to supply president zelenskyy s forces with dozens of abrams and leopard 2 tanks by launching a new group missiles. defense forces shot down 20 missiles. one civilian did die from falling shrapnel. joining me now, raf martinez. there were 55 missile attacks. they were self-exploding drones. what are you hearing from military leaders and city officials? reporter: andrea, the only good news, if you can call it that, on this very bloody day across ukraine is the ukrainian air force is saying, they shot down most of those 55 missiles. the russians followed what at this point is a grimly familiar pattern. they sent a wave of those iranian-made self-destructing drones in what appears to have been an attempt to overwhelm ukraine s air defens
Its good to be back with you for this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, the speaker of the house about to call on the president of the Columbia University to resign, with tensions growing over protests on campus. Can the school reach a deal with students camped out over the conflict in gaza . Well get a live report. Plus, a major test of how the war is affecting democrats at the ballot box. And an Nbc News Exclusive, the fbi director sounding the alarm. What he said about chances for a Terror Attack in the United States similar to the massacre at a russian concert hall. And Donald Trumps daughterinlaw talking election day and the rnc plans that are causing a lot of controversy today. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. Lets start here in new york with the ongoing protests at Columbia University. Nbcs trymaine lee is reporting from right outside campus. Speaker johnson planning a Press Conference there next hour after meeting with jewis
targeting a safe house and training facilities used by iranian affiliated groups. that s according to the pentagon. we ve got the latest on the significant escalation in the middle east amid rising tensions. plus, on defense, donald trump jr. back on the stand, the first witness for the defense in the new york civil fraud trial calling his dad today a visionary. what impact will his testimony have. and could the qanon shamon go back to washington, after serving 27 months behind bars, he s filing paperwork to run for congress. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin in gaza with one doctor in al-shifa hospital saying 600 patients need care, there isn t food and water among other things needed. erin mclaughlin is in tel aviv. you talked to a doctor inside al-shifa this morning. what did he tell you. reporter: that s right, chris. as the israeli military has pushed further and further into gaza city, there s desperation at a numbe
economy. working with the palestinians in order to ease the lots of steps that can be done that are giving hope and keeping the road open for peace in the future. netanyahu has rolled out a plan to limit the power of israel s very independent supreme court. what would this mean for israel? not only, the new government is taking steps that they re going to change, if he will succeed, hopefully not, it s going to change the nature of democracy. it s not only the supreme court. they are attacking and putting legislation, bills against watchdogs within the government that are working against corruption. attorney general, free press and also politicalization of the supreme court.
past in our history and now basically another political event instead of sorting out exactly what this man judge kavanaugh may or may not be on the court. we have the charges levelled by dr. ford and miss ramirez, both of them have to be legitimately heard. you have to be, again, as we spoke about earlier, both women would have to be mentally ill to have injected themselves into such a process the way they are now participating in the process. but the larger tragedy is the politicalization of the supreme court. i guess it began with bob bork in the middle of the 1980s but the supreme court is supposed to be different it s a lifetime appointment. it affects every american in its rulings and it was isolated from politics and that sadly is no longer the case. well it is a lifetime appointment. the idea that we have to rush forward and get a vote on