good to be with you. i m katy tur do not travel to russia. that is the message today from the state department and the white house reiterating that it is not safe right now for americans in that country. the white house says it is still trying to establish consular contact with evan gershkovich. he was arrested overnight. the 31-year-old reporter for the wall street journal said he was not spying, denying guilt in a court proceeding this morning. gershkovich is the first american journalist arrested on claims of spying since the cold war. matt bodner who was recently based is here to explain who gershkovich says they caught him doing red handed, and a former member of the biden inner circle to walk us through what the white house is likely doing behind the scenes as this marks what is considered a new low in the already ice cold relationship between moscow and washington joining me now from london for the reporting, nbc news reporter, matt bodner and mike memoli joins us as
constant communication with the ukrainians about what their needs are, and those have evolved as the war has evolved and we ll see where this go. the air base, is the u.s. prepared to facilitate the delivery of the meg 29s. we have never dictated to another partner what they can or can t give or on what time line. if one of our allies or partners wants to provide fighter aircraft to president zelenskyy, that s a sovereign decision they have every right to make, and we would welcome that. there s $100 million in the appropriations bill. so john kirby in the white house briefing room. the trip to poland by the president, the latest move to show support for ukraine and to continue to work with our allies to keep that support for ukraine going, but a lot of interest continuing on those four unmanned objects in the sky. a couple of things came out of that. you heard him say there s an increasing focus that we have, and we heard the president outline four things yesterday t
reid wiseman added we can see the artemis 2 mission take off late next year that does it this hour, our coverage continues with alex witt right now very good to be with all of you. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we begin this hour in tennessee where any minute now the state s republican-led house will hold a vote to remove three democratic lawmakers from office. those lawmakers are currently making their opening statements. you see one of them right there doing so state representatives gloria johnson, justin jones, and justin pierson participated in a protest on the house floor where they held signs, led chants demanding stricter gun laws. the protest was in response to last month s shooting at a nashville school that left six dead, including three 9-year-old students those three democrats were stripped of their committee assignments, they were hit with three separate filings for their exp expulsion. it is a step that the tennessee state house has only taken twice since t
katy tur, welcome to katy tur reports at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we know that three more objects were shot down over american and canadian airspace over the weekend. what we do know not know is what exactly all of those objects were, what they were doing, and who sent them. we also don t know if we re just seeing more of them because we re looking more closely. these are answerable questions and the white house just tried to fill in some of those blanks, speaking from the podium and the white house briefing room a moment ago, national security council spokesperson john kirby told reporters the intel community is assessing. as of now, it does not look like these additional objects were conducting surveillance. they weren t maneuverable. there was no propulsion, and they were not manned. as to who sent them, that is still unclear. but kirby did begin the briefing by calling out china. china has a high altitude balloon program for intelligence collection that s connected to the peo
i m yasmin vossoughian here in new york city. you hear the music. you have seen the ads. you maybe have gotten one of those text messages, campaign text messages. it means we re almost there. one day away from the midterm elections. this morning with just hours left to make the final pitches, candidates, they are hitting the trail across the country. 42 million americans have already early voted. but it is election day turnout that could make all of the difference. and in a topsy-turvy election year, the issues driving folks run the gamut. the main thing is we vote for people who are willing to accept the results at the ballots. abortion, firearms. inflation. just all the policies and the changes. just cutthroat. try to vote for the lesser of two evils is my way of thinking about it. that last point there, the lesser of two evils, that mind-set can make all the difference. our final round of nbc news polling showing that democrats and republicans are now neck and ne