him. ohio needs an ass kicker not an ass kisser. the sedition trial is back in trial for the oath keepers today. a live report from the d.c. courthouse. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the war in ukraine appears to be at a turning point. russia continues to hammer cities, knocking out power across the country. richard engel is in ukraine. ukraine s foreign minister says the russians are focusing against the country s energy infrastructure. what s the impact having across ukraine with that? reporter: it is having an impact, even in cities where the war hasn t really had much of a day-to-day consequence so far. in the city of lviv, for example, close to the polish border, now there s large sections of the city that are without power. there have been air strikes in kyiv. there s this city of kyiv, since the early days of the war, has been spared the daily violence. it s far away from the front lines. a sense of normalcy had returned to the city of ky
including a live report from moscow and the littest from the white house. plus we re digging into the september jobs reports, which shows 263,000 new jobs added last month. matching the lowest level since 1969. so why is the the market selling off? finally, the white house raises the white flag on the war on weed. the president declaring a pardons for thousands convicted on federal charges of marijuana possession. more on the move and what will factor into the midterm races. we start with president biden s warning, one of the most chilling we have heard from anyone in the government on the subject of nuclear war. in biden s words, quote, we have not faced the prospect of armageddon since kennedy. he added putin isn t joke whg he talks about potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons. it s not clear whether biden was referencing any new intelligence in making this prediction, although we re asking that of the white house right now. in fac
Person any of us want dealing with the russian government is antony blinken who just engaged in this and, you know, everyone knows full well what has transa spired including the russian government. maria: i want to talk a bit about china because this is a broader, bigger story in terms of the impacts on america. you ve got the ccp with a serious goal in place to overtake the united states as the number one superpower. from economic strength to, you know, even issues around diplomacy, they re trying to be the power broke broker between the iranians and the saudiss, between the mexicans and ores and, of course, the russia and, the russian leadership and zelenskyy many ukraine. penn biden center at the university of pennsylvania was funded by communist china. antony blinken was running it. so we talk a lot about the potential of joe biden being can come to to hissed. ing what about antony blinken? well, that s a very fair
They re really working for the saudis. it would be dishonest but also ineffective. the point of these trips was to change minds on capitol hill about a law that the saudis didn t like. but the veterans got nowhere and one of the reasons was, as soon as people figured out the saudis were funding this, every office they came into, the members would say, aren t you getting paid by the saudi ss you don t even know that? and that makes you an ineffective lobbyist. he s done reporting on the corruption side, the corrupt business practices side of trump and his family. and this seems like something that should be flashing red lights for all of us. the most distressing thing is how cheaply you can buy the president. i mean, $270,000 is not a great deal of money in the grand scheme of things. but, look, obviously the saudis understand that trump is
Without mbs s approval of tasks? no, i think as analytical matter for anybody who followed the saudiss closely and particularly mohammed bin salaman it s hard with the potential ramifications it s clearly had not happening without any kind of expressed order from mohammed bin salaman, president trump calling good first step, what do you think we should do? well, i think it s good step, for 2 and a half weeks the saudis have said that this man left the consulate of own free will and now finally admitted he has died in the consulate at the hand of saudi officials and on the orders of at least people as powerful and as high level in