you. thank you. thank you, andrea. and thank you very much. that s it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. chris jansing starts right now. good day, i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. ron desantis and his decidedly unconventional campaign launch trying to income off the most unconventional presidential candidate in modern history, donald trump. we ll have the latest on the florida governor as he heads to the twitter verse with the world s second richest man for the big announcement now just hours away. how do you solve an impending economic crisis if some people don t believe a crisis exists. a war of words between treasury secretary janet yellen and conservatives questioning whether the u.s. is really on the verge of default. breaking this morning, nearly two dozen new charges filed against convicted double murderer alex murdaugh, carrying penalties of nearly 500 years in jail. details on the multimillion dollar fraud scheme he s
hard-to-watch-at-times, grilling on capitol hill. president biden, the new deals between the country concerning the border. we are moments away from hearing from the pentagon after the u.s. launched air strikes against iranian linked targets in syria. that happened after a u.s. contractor was killed and others wounded during a drone strike in the country. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments as we wait for the pentagon update on those air strikes in syria. i want to bring in nbc s dan de luce. what do we know, dan, and what have we expected to learn from the briefing? what are the questions that are still out there? reporter: there are a lot of questions still about this whole episode. the first thing is perhaps why the head of central command, when he testified before congress yesterday didn t mention this lethal incident in which this drone killed an american contractor there at that base in northeastern syria. there s also a question about the
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air strikes have been pommelling ukraine and killing more civilians. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in kyiv. how is ukraine recovering from these attacks? reporter: they re trying to pick up the damage, they re trying to pick up those who have been injured. we saw one person was killed overnight, and we heard from the ukrainians that there were some 30 strikes all across the country. five missile strikes. this is just a continuous thing because yesterday or two days ago, we saw deadly strikes in zaporizhzhia and outside where i am now in the capital of kyiv. this is something that s been going on, this particular style of attack since last fall. we have been seeing the ukrainians pommelling civilian targets, trying to hit electricity infrastructure. this time, residential buildings that are really nowhere near any military targets according to the ukrainians, all of this is happening, chris, as we re starting to see sightings of
they re going to have to answer for the most extreme statements made by marjorie taylor greene, or made by jim jordan, or made by lauren boebert. you know, ron desantis is in a church and somebody says do you agree with lauren boebert if jesus had an ar-15 he wouldn t have been crucified and died for everybody s sins and that would have been preferable. but that will follow the craziness, now that they re in power actually matters and it s something that whoever is running for president in 2024 on the democratic side, well, just cynically, it s probably going to help him a lot. i don t know why you would get a twitter pommelling for that, although i will say, a twitter pommelling is good for the soul, occasionally. i enjoy it. it keeps you fresh. i think that s a very accurate