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we start with the breaking news. a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to sandy hook elementary families and an fbi agent in the connecticut defamation trial against alex jones. eight families and a first responder sued the far right conspiracy theer orists for the lies he told. this is the second of three against jones, concerning the sandy hook massacre, comes after a texas jury decided in august that jones and his company should pay nearly $50 million. the connecticut...

$965 million to the victims of the sandy hook school shooting massacre. were getting reaction about the verdict and impact of jones lies about the shooting. also tonight, russia launches mass casualty missile strikes in ukraine. as the u.s. and nato scramble to beef up ukrainian air defenses. ill ask white house national security official john kirby about administrations response to vladimir putins provocation and learning more about tomorrows january 6th hearing and new evidence tha...

tomorrows climactic hearing by the january 6th select committee, the last before election day. cnn political correspondent sara murray has new details on what to expect. >> reporter: the january 6th committee making its closing argument ahead of the november midterms. >> theres some new material that, you know, i found as we got into it pretty surprising. >> reporter: sources say theyre aiming to drive home that former president donald trump still poses a danger to democracy, using a m...

nbc news here in los angeles. welcome to alex witt reports. developing for you this hour concerns over national security growing this weekend in the wake of a bombshell new report on those documents seized from mar-a-lago. nbc news confirms some of those classified documents in trumps possession included intelligence regarding iran and china. this is according to two people familiar with the matter. then the revelation comes as trump faces new pressure on another front, of the january ...

interview with john fetterman showing how he relies on closed captioning as he recovers from a stroke. what are voters going to say? i will talk to the democratic candidate for governor in arizona. i will speak with the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee leading the push to freeze relations with the saudis over their decision to limit oil supply and help russia. president biden will make saudi arabia pay for giving putin an economic life line. good day, everyone...

good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriends abortion. >> flat out denial a lie. >> and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview sinc...

showing again that it has the ability and the determination to keep pushing russia back. but president zelenskyy says he still needs help to keep it up. yesterday, he asked the g-7 for more military might and today, germany sent over an ultra modern air defense system so new its never been used on the battlefield. crediting this type of help with saving lives across ukraine. saying the barrage of missile attacks would have been even worse had the ukrainians not been able to shoot down ...

diagnosis. were going to head to mora, who standing by with this. morrow with you here about it? >> well as the presidents physician doctor of connor released a letter in the last hour, saying the president is experiencing a few new symptoms, but the symptoms are improving. he noted theres an addition of sore throat and body aches, as well as what we already knew, the runny nose and loose cuff. he also wanted to detail saying the president completed his second full day of paxlovid, yes...

from msnbc world headquarters to new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour. the fallout grows on the fbi search in mar-a-lago. as we wait to see if donald trumps legal team filed a motion for a special master to review the evidence seized the department of justice is nearing a major deadline to propose redactions for the affidavit season that search. earlier today, house intelligence committee chair adam schiff spoke on winning the balance of the publics rig...

mike pompeo. in uvalde, texas, a new investigation that uncovered a local of majority officers never had active shooter training. more on that this hour. we begin this morning with new details on the investigations facing former president donald trump. we start in new york where during his deposition before the state attorneys general office, the former president took the fifth over 440 times as part of the state civil investigation into trumps business practices. in a lengthy stat...