it has to do with holes drilled in the fuselage of those planes. it is for now not a threat to planes that are already in service. it affects around 50 jets that have not yet been delivered to customers. it was discovered by boeing who said some of the holes did not meet the standards. now, the supplier of spirit aerosystems said they are aware of the issue and are in touch . >> that wraps up the hour for me. you can always reach me on social media at jd balart and watch clips from today's show online at youtube at msnbc.com/jb. andrea mitchell has more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," unveiled. a bipartisan group of senators release their $118 billion

border bill. johnson said it is dead on arrival as he reveals a bill for israel alone without a cent for the war against putin in ukraine or the border. top senate negotiator, chris murphy joining us coming up. plus, the pentagon fires off a weekend barrage of preemptive strikes against houthis in yemen after friday night's strikes for the deaths of three u.s. service members. >> we intend to take additional strikes and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the united states will respond when our forces are attacked or our people are killed. >> secretary of state blinken has arrived in saudi arabia today starting his fifth shutting mission to the region since october 7th to promote a halt in the fighting in gaza in exchange for a release of hostages. and donald trump widens his lead over president biden in our new poll.

steve kornacki is here to break it all down. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. senate negotiators from both parties produced the most conservative border proposal in a generation. but house republicans and donald trump say it is dead in the house. the 370 page bill supports ukraine, israel, and taiwan while giving asylum laws and giving the president the power to shut most of the border if illegal migration exceeds 5,000 a day, but it leaves dreamers out in the cold. the bill has $20 billion for migration reform including nearly $4 billion to hire new asylum officers. 60 billion in aid to ukraine as the dire situation there deteriorates. there is $14 billion in security assistance for israel and 10

billion for humanitarian aid for ukraine, gaza, and the west bank, but it denies all federal funds to unrwa. it provides to support aggression in the south china seas. the white house, which was involved in the negotiations, is calling it the toughest in decades. senate votes are set for wednesday, but speaker johnson says it is dead on arrival. instead, he is proposing a supplemental for israel alone. it cuts out ukraine, taiwan, and the border with donald trump opposing, critics say to keep them as campaign issues against joe biden. the speaker, when pressed by kristen welker on "meet the press," said he is not taking orders from the former president. >> did you propose this stand alone israel aid package to kill this compromise deal in the senate? >> no. we made very clear what the requirements of the house were and that is to solve the problem at the border.

>> is donald trump calling the shots here, mr. speaker? >> of course not. he's not calling the shots. i am calling the shots for the the house. that's our responsibility. >> we start with ryan nobles and morgan chesky in eagle pass, texas. ryan, how would the migration changes work? what are the odds of it becoming law given what the speaker has laid down? >> there's no doubt that this is a pretty dramatic overhaul of the way the migration system currently works in the united states as you have already pointed out. it would lead to an automatic trigger of 5,000 migrants crossing the border over a seven-day period that would allow the white house and the administration to completely shutdown those migrations into the country. it also raises the standards for seeking asylum. also greatly expands the number of detention facilities and beds available to process these migrants. so it would be a big change but

it's still not enough for these house republicans in particular that are taking their cues from the former president, donald trump, who basically want an all or nothing scenario here. they've said the standards should be in place where no migrants come across the border at any time to give the administration that level of authority. and it's certainly led to some frustration. particularly from these border negotiators who have worked hard, given major concessions on both sides to try to get to a place where they felt they had something. i know you're about to talk to senator murphy. i just talked to senator langford a couple of minutes ago. he told me that under no circumstances could a package like this have been passed at any other period of time. it is this unique leverage point that both republicans and democrats have to try and get something done and he feels that his republican colleagues are throwing that opportunity away by just outright rejecting the

plan. now senator langford said there's the possibility that amendments could be added to this legislation, that it could make its way through the process to get the votes necessary. the mistake he feels his colleagues would be making particularly in the house if they don't allow it to come up for a vote or debate, he thinks they could be wasting a huge opportunity and it could come back to haunt them. although many believe that's why republicans are acting this way. because they want to give donald trump an issue heading into the fall race. >> thank you. talk about the reality of course along the border. is there any way that they would be pressure from those border states? they know the reality of what this bill would do. >> yeah, andrea. absolutely is correct. in fact, governor abbott was here exerting pressure over the weekend with a group of republican governors standing not too far from where i am. sharing essentially that because the biden administration has

failed to properly act to enforce the border, that he is doing so himself and here's a little of what he had to say shortly before the text of this bill was released. take a listen. >> this area we are in right now was at one time not too long ago an area where there would be 3,000, 4,000, sometimes 5,000 people crossing illegally. now that we have taken control of this area, for the the past three days, there's an average of only three people crossing illegally. in this area. >> we are awaiting for official confirmation of those numbers shared there, andrea. directly behind me is shelby park. this is the access point that's become very hotly contested between the state of texas and the biden administration. the federal government saying that border patrol agents are not allowed through there.

governor abbott saying yesterday that they are, but only in cases where migrants are in dire need. that back and forth continues as does the legal battle involving the razor wire and the thousand foot long border buoy in the rio grande just about a mile from where we are. meanwhile, this small border community is watching and waiting to see if those extra border patrol agents that would be a part of those bill would be coming here because keep in mind, when they have to search just to handle the migrants coming down here, every day that bridge is closed means dollars taken away from this very community in cross-country commerce. >> thanks so much to both of you for starting us off. joining us now is the key lead democratic negotiator, senator chris murphy of connecticut.

put this deal together over the course of months. also a member of both senate appropriations and foreign relations. thank you very much for being with us. so, it is a huge bipartisan triumph. it also means you had to compromise on a lot of priorities. a path to citizenship for dreamers. wanted to ask you about them and how they are excluded from this. >> well, this is a true old fashioned compromise. there are going to be republicans that will vote against this. there will likely be democrats that are going to vote against this. it certainly doesn't have everything i think needs to be part of comprehensive immigration reform including the path way to citizenship, but it also doesn't have major elements that republicans want. many want to completely close the border. so that no one ever has the ability to present and apply for

asylum in the united states. what i know is that the people i represent back in connecticut just want this problem fixed. they know that we can't handle rescue people from terror and torture. people who are applying for asylum. that's what this bill does. it gives the president new authorities to better control the border. especially when presentations are very high, it reforms the asylum system so you're no longer going to have a ten-year wait to get an asylum claim heard. you're going to be able to get those claims processed in about six months. it helps our cities with these migrants showing up without the ability to work, they're crowding the streets and homeless shelters. we're going to give migrants the ability to work much faster when they're in line for asylum. it is a true compromise but i think that's what we're sent here to do is to take these tough issues like immigration

and find bipartisan paths forward. >> i want to ask you about something i know is very close to your heart. that is ukraine. the $60 billion in security aid to ukraine is vital. i've been talking to military experts and diplomatic leaders on this. and we are facing a real showdown with putin if they don't get the weapons that they can only get from the u.s. the europeans came through. is this a matter of u.s. leadership, the atacms they need desperately to hold on and putin has endless numbers of troops to throw at it whether they're from prisons or elsewhere. unframed. he's throwing cannon fodder at it and he can hold out longer than they can. >> yeah. listen, we cannot allow ukraine to lose this war. we cannot allow kyiv to become a russian city. this is a moment of peril on many days on the front, the ukrainians are firing one

quarter the number of artillery shells that the russians are. they used to shoot down 100% of the incoming rockets but they don't have enough intercepters any longer so on some days, they're only shooting down half the rockets coming for ukrainian cities. we need to be clear with the american people. if you don't stop putin in ukraine, there's a very good chance he is going to move on to a nato country and it will then be u.s. men and women who will be fighting and dying in europe. that's not hyperbole. that is a potential reality. so the stakes here are really high. this bill gets funding to ukraine so they can survive through the next american election but it also fixes a broken border. it reforms our asylum system in a way that can build people's confidence in legal pathways to the united states. i just think this is such an opportunity of bipartisan compromise to provide

humanitarian assistance to gaza and other places around the world and solve or at least make a big down payment on solving our immigration system. we don't get that opportunity here often in washington to come together around a package that significant. >> regarding unrwa, i know the u.s. suspended further money, but this bill would deny it going forward. according to the experts, including u.s. officials, it's the only agency that can get relief from the rafah crossing into where it's needed inside gaza. there's just no other way. >> well, we were able to preserve the full amount of humanitarian funding that the president requested, $10 billion. that funding is going to get into gaza. yes, as part of this bipartisan compromise, there are restrictions right now on the way that money flows to unr

wa and they have to get its act together to hold its own employees accountable. but we believe there are ways to work with allies to make sure unrwa continues to be funded and to use u.s. dollars to support other partners inside gaza. this is a really important part of this bill. the humanitarian portions. hopefully it's the reason why republicans and democrats will support it and we'll find a way to get that money to people who need it on the ground in gaza. >> i want to ask you, i know what the speaker said to kristen welker on "meet the press." that he doesn't, you know, take orders from donald trump. that donald trump's not calling the shots. but this border bill includes everything that they had ever asked for just about and it's certainly more than has been done for decades. and for them to now say that it's dead on arrival on the hill, who's calling the shots and what do you say to the house if they let this die and let

ukraine go down? and doesn't the president have to give a speech before the state of the union? doesn't he have to go on prime full-time and make the argument for ukraine and his border bill? >> well, there's a clear choice for republicans. fix the border or keep chaos at the border because it helps donald trump. that's the choice. in front of republicans today. we have a breakthrough landmark bipartisan compromise that will help the president better manage the border. that will help fix a very broken asylum system. but it will also likely mean that there are fewer scenes of chaos this summer and this fall on the border. and donald trump wants those scenes of chaos. he wants there to be disorder at the border because he thinks that helps him politically. that's the choice republicans are going to have to make. and i think we can mount a public campaign of pressure in this country because regular

americans don't care about the politics of this issue. they want leaders to come together, put politics aside and solve big problems like the border. hopefully senators from the republican party will hear that message in the coming days. >> senator chris murphy, thank you so very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. and raising the stakes. secretary of state blinken back in the middle east. he's on the road again putting pressure on all sides for a new hostage deal and an extended cease fire. that's next. we'll be right back. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." we'll be back in 60 seconds. "anl reports. we'll be back in 60 seconds. (jen) so we partner with verizon. their solution for us? a private 5g network. (ella) we now get more control of production, efficiencies, and greater agility. (marquis) with a custom private 5g network. our customers get what they want, when they want it. (jen) now we're even smarter and ready for what's next. (vo) achieve enterprise intelligence. it's your vision, it's your verizon. as someone living with type 2 diabetes,

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they were excluded but these are the pictures of him in saudi arabia today. it's his first stop on his fifth visit to the middle east since the october 7th attacks. he's going to all the arab countries and also to israel. blinken the pushing for a new hostage deal and a pause in the fighting in gaza that was agreed to by all sides except hamas. at the same time, the u.s. is promising more strikes against iran-backed groups in the region following the first attacks friday night following proxy attacks in iraq and syria responsible for the deadly drone attack that killed three american soldiers on the border in jordan last week. the strikes have not killed any high value iranian operatives so far. kristen welker pressed jake sullivan on "meet the press" sunday about what would happen next. >> have you ruled out strikes inside iran?

>> well, sitting here today on a national news program, i'm not going to get into what we have ruled in and out from the point of military action. what i will say is that the president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people. the president also is not looking for a wider war in the middle east. >> in a separate operation saturday night, the u.s. and the u.k. launched strikes from the u.s.s. eisenhower. joining us now is keir simmons from iraq. i know you understand the importance of drone strikes. >> that's right, it is really important. this is a drone strike on a base in eastern syria and it is an area that was targeted by the

u.s. strikes on friday night and now the kurdish officials who run that area if you like, they are telling us that seven kurdish fighters have been killed, 18 injured in this base. again, this is in the same place as those iranian-backed militia where they were targeted just over the weekend. so while it doesn't appear that there are any u.s. servicemen and women impacted by this in terms of injuries or deaths of course, and i think now we would know that if there had been, it is very, very concerning. because just days later and it suggests that very quickly these iranian backed militia have been able to, if you like, pull themselves together and launch a new attack. of course, that is what they would want to do, andrea.

using actions rather than words to send the message, but those kurdish forces are backed by the u.s., of course, as you know all too well. they supported the u.s. in opposing president assad of syria. they supported the u.s. in fighting isis. and now it looks like today they're taking the brunt of an attack, the latest attack after the u.s. action over the weekend. >> keir simmons, thanks very much to you. and joining us now, former cia director, john brennan. good to see you, director brennan. let's talk about what's happening right now in the region. will the u.s. strikes against these proxies in iraq and syria, do you think this is going to be a deterrent to tehran? which is clearly behind this? >> well, i think it's going to have an impact in terms of degrading the capabilities of some of these militias that have been carrying out these attacks. it's clear the biden administration now has directed u.s. military force in the

region to ship from a defensive posture to a preventative one. in the past, the u.s. forces would wait for a missing or rocket or drone to be launched before they would destroy it, but what we have seen over the past several days is now the u.s. is going after those capabilities on the ground. the launchers, the weapon depots and take away the ability to carry out these attacks. i think we're going to see more strikes against these areas but as was shown just by this attack that killed some of the syrian kurdish forces, these militia extremist groups supported by iran have a mobile capability. mobile launchers, other types of things so they're going to move about. so i think the u.s. military is going to have to continue to focus on trying to find them, degrade them, carry out strikes, be able to take away the capability to strike u.s. forces. >> there were two missions in the region right now and then there's the overall issue of

iran and whether or not they should go directly to iran territorily. they're going to the revolutionary guard but they're not listening to senate critics. bombing iran. let me play a little bit of senator graham from fox. >> if the goal is to deter iran, you're failing miserably. if the goal is to protect american troops, you're not achieving your goal. you've convinced you don't want a wider war. they believe you. they got the message. what they're not afraid of of us. they were afraid of trump. they're not afraid of us. >> so, we should emphasize donald trump didn't bomb iran. he went after the quds force

leader on iraqi soil. in any case, what is your reaction to all of this? and the separate mission is against the houthis to deter them against international shipping. that is separately a defensive posture from this aggression that started friday night against the iranian interests in iraq and syria. >> what senator graham is calling for is a major escalation and basically war with iran. if we were to strike the sovereign state of iran, to me, it's very clear iran would respond with strikes against various positions along the gulf coast in terms of the gulf arab states and others. iran has a formidable military. it's a country of 90 million people. strikes against iranian commandos that are working with these groups inside of iraq and syria, even inside of yemen is one thing, but going after the sovereign state of iran. also, there are a lot of folks in congress that would very much

object to the biden administration authorizing strikes inside of iran. they would want to have congressional authorization for that. just like there was for the use of military force in afghanistan and also in iraq. but for the biden administration to just unilaterally do this in response to the attacks, again, i think it would be a major, major escalation and something that would insure a broadening and widening of the conflict in the middle east. >> and i want to ask you about this hostage deal. the framework that was agreed to many paris the sunday before yesterday. you know, a week and a day ago. and that this was negotiated by one of your successors, bill burns, on behalf of the u.s. by three top officials on behalf of israel. everyone signed the text according to my reporting. all there at the table as well as qatar and egypt on behalf of different factions of hamas.

hamas has not signed on to it. netanyahu has said very critical things about it, but israel did agree to it through their representatives, so, clearly, netanyahu is taking care of his immediate political problem, if you will. his right wing ministers so that his government doesn't fall. but they're all in on not the details. the details are tough. the number of palestinian prisoners and who they would be and exchange for the hostages, the direction of the cease fire, the pauses. all of that is very tough to do, but the framework is accepted by everybody but hamas right now. >> yes. and i think it's appropriate that it's being negotiated and it tells its channels and among these players. but clearly, hamas is the last hold out. and is probably as you point out, the details involved here. i think that israel is keenly interested in getting as many if not all of its hostages back as soon as possible and is willing

to have an extended pause in the fighting. i think hamas is trying to determine how the cadence of this release is going to take place. what are going to be some of the arrangements and conditions related to it, but hamas is the one that's going to have to decide even if all these other parties agree to it. unless hamas agrees to move forward, i think we're going to continue to see delays here. but i think this is why secretary blinken is going after the region, again trying to stimulate and make sure that those who have bought on to this, namely all of the israeli intelligence and military forces and netanyahu's i think blessing of it, will be still in existence when hamas ultimately i hope agrees to sign on this deal. >> we just showed you a picture. it's an official photo from the white house rather state department photographer i believe. it may be a pool photo as well. the video was not permitted with the saudi leader and blinken. just a quick question. explain to our viewers how

complicated getting hamas to sign on is. there are factions to hamas. they're all radical. they're all, you know, terrorists, but there's the political wing outside of gaza and then there are at least two leaders inside gaza. to get all of that coordinated is very, very challenging. correct? >> yes. just so many players and actors involved here and i think one of the holdouts quite frankly is inside of gaza. because you have hamas, the palestinian islamic jihad and palestinian gangs who are also holding some of these hostages. so they all have to agree to this. i'm sure there's outside pressure coming from various parties of hamas to agree to this and the saudis can play an important role, but ultimately, it's going to come down to whether or not hamas leadership is able to deliver in terms of the arraignments that will allow the cease fire to be initiated and to be able to be maintained but also then to be able to deliver those hostages wherever

they may be in hiding inside of gaza. >> john brennan, former station chief for the cia in saudi arabia. knows the region better than anyone. thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thanks, andrea. the poll watch with his approval rating at an all time low and campaign hoping to climb out of the basement especially with the young voters, steve kornacki is at the big board with all the new numbers. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. rs you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. s customizabls with social sentiment help you find and unlock opportunities in the market. e*trade from morgan stanley. always dry scoop before you run. the hot dog diet got me shredded! the world is full of "health experts"... it's time we listen to science. one a day is formulated with b vitamins to help convert food into fuel. science that matters. emergen-c crystals pop and fizz when you throw them back. and who doesn't love a good throwback?

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and these last two poll, november and this new one, they're the only two times, we've been polling the trump biden match up going back to 2019, the only two polls that trump's led by we've taken are the most recent two. so biden's numbers in the last two months have gone down. we show the approval rating of 37%. this is the lowest mark he has hit in his presidency for approval. this is the highest. last time an nbc poll had any president this low for approval was 2008 with george w. bush. >> you know, what's so stunning about it is that the economy is doing so well and then pick that up with the panel right now, steve. the president's just getting no credit for it at all. thank you. >> right. >> the latest jobs report just blew past expectations on friday. so much so even former trump white house adviser and fox

business adviser, larry kudlow, was forced to admit it. >> i was wrong about the slowdown and the recession. it is what it is. it's a very strong report. not every economic stat should be viewed through a political lens. >> joining us now, former obama white house press secretary, robert gibbs. bullwork writer, tim miller, former adviser to jeb bush, and kimberly atkins store. so robert gibbs, you've run successful campaigns. how can this white house turn around the public perception about the economy? because even larry kudlow admits that politics aside, this is a great report. >> jobs numbers are good. stock market has been good. inflation is coming down. i think it's going to take a while for people to feel that.

prices have come down from a high a year and a half ago. i think there's a lot of people who still feel like they're paying too much for things. i would point to a number in this poll that shows the number of people pessimistic about the economy has dropped. a 14-point drop since that november poll that steve was talking about of people who think the economy's going to get worse. 16 points if you go back to the poll in july. so i think there's the beginnings of that economic turn around. i think the president though has to take the fight to trump on the economy. talk about what president biden is for and talk about what former president trump has. >> i want to play something for all of you that jay powell said on 60 minutes last night. he was asked by scott pelly one of the things that scare you most about what's going to happen next. what could happen next. i'm paraphrasing. and interestingly, this is what his answer was.

>> really since world war ii, the united states has been the indispensable nation, supporting and defending democracy, security arrangements, economic arrangements. we've been the leading voice on that and it's clear the world wants that. and would want the united states to know, this has benefitted our country enormously. benefits our economy so much to have this role. >> he's worried that's not going to continue in the future. he, not being political, but he's talking about what would happen if donald trump comes in and carries out his promises which is to get out of nato and not be a world leader, not fund ukraine. tim miller? >> i think there are very good reasons to be concerned about that. i think that isolationist wing is ascending. it's underrepresented in

washington. if you talk to republican voters, they are more sympathetic that they should pull back from ukraine, from the world, than a lot of elected officials are. i think there's reason to be worried about that. adding on to gibbs, on the economy side of things, there's usually a lag in these things. if i remember the biden campaign, i'd continue speaking about economic issues and the positive process and reassess this thing in two months. i think the economy could get better for him where as the age issue, i don't know that's going to get much better. >> one of the problems that the president's having is losing young voters over the war. losing people of color. black and hispanic voters. part of his base. nikki haley was heart of snl's cold open on saturday where she should have cited slavery as the cause of the civil war.

>> what would you say was the main cause of the civil war and do you think it starts with an s and ends with a lavery? >> yep, i probably should have said that the first time and live from new york, it's saturday night! >> she also debated their donald trump and you know, chastised him for being, for refusing to debate. kimberly, she corrected that, but she's still not going after trump for deploying his birther tactics against her. >> i have to start by saying i see nothing funny about normalizing racism. she made a political calculation with her answer about the civil war. she said what she said and we heard her. i think a tone deaf skit doesn't really change that, but the fact she isn't going forward after donald trump shows that there is still this fear on her part, a belief that she has to pander to the worst of the gop base in

order to have a shot at getting ahead. even though it is a one-on-one competition now between her and trump. she has ever opportunity to go after him fully. and to show that she is actually understanding the issues as she claimed to be in that skit, but she has failed to do that. >> robert, tim, kimberly, thanks to all of you. and more border politics. a bill gets major pushback from the right and parts of the left. this is "andrea mitchell reports." you're watching msnbc. this is "andrea mitchell reports. you're watching msnbc. migraine , all in one. don't take if allergic to nurtec. allergic reactions can occur, even days after using. most common side effects were nausea, indigestion, and stomach pain. ask about nurtec odt.

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the house speaker is now joined by all house leaders saying that the immigration bill that came from the senate is dead. in a new statement, the speaker says any consideration of the senate bill in its current form is a waste of time. that means they can control it from even getting to the floor for a vote. the bill would be a decades long break, speeding up the asylum process. president biden shutdown the border when more than 5,000 illegal people attempt to enter illegally on any given day. deputy director at the aclu joins me now. the lead council on the challenge in the supreme court to title 42.

so, you see a lot of flaws from the progressive side of the argument. earlier, i was talking to senator murphy who said this is a real compromise. that democrats had to give up a lot but so did republicans. to get it out of the senate. after months of negotiations with the white house agreeing. are you upset that the white house has agreed to this? >> we don't think this bill makes a lot of sense. both because it's not going to work and because from a humanitarian standpoint, it virtually gets the asylum system that the united states has cherished since world war ii. the reason i don't think it's going to work is because closing the border is not going to stop people from coming. when people are desperate, they're not going to come. they don't really know what u.s. policy on any given day. this bill is particularly odd in the sense it closes the border, opens the border, closes the border. the only people who are going to know whether the border is open are the cartels and they're going to be able to manipulate

the numbers. it will send people back to persecution. let's be straight about that. people say not everyone gets asylum. only 15 to 20% of people ultimately vote asylum. that's partly because they don't have counsel. but think about that. the next time you see the media showing masses of people, pause it, and pick out 15 to 20 people of that group, mothers and children, and say those 15 to 20 people are going to be sent back to persecution. we have to have a system that allows people to apply for asylum. no one's saying the system doesn't need fixing. we don't want to streamline but we can't just go all the way to the other side and say we're going to end asylum. essentially that's what this does with minimal amounts of availability. >> once again, the dreamers are left out. >> right. i don't see a lot of concessions for the democrats. one positive thing is that

there's work authorization. people complain these migrants are a drag on society, on the economy. they want to work. their coming and they're happy to work. let them work. mayors in democratic cities are saying they need to work. this bill would allow them to work. that's a positive. but i don't think we can abandon having asylum system. we need to do the hard work of creating an efficient asylum system that doesn't throw it over the edge. >> thank you very much. and the deadly weather out west. tens of millions in the path of a potentially historic storm bringing torrential rainfall and flash flooding to california. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. rnia you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. l treatment for adults with mild-to-moderate covid-19 and a high-risk factor for it becoming severe. it does not prevent covid-19. my symptoms are mild now, but i'm not risking it. if it's covid, paxlovid. paxlovid must be taken

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we saw up to 11-foot waves here. they pushed all this debris onto the shoreline. here you see bamboo, huge tree branches. we also saw all kinds of things, board games, shoes, even this piece of mask right here. take a look at this pier, ventura pier has been closed since last year due to unprecedented weather. now other rounds of heavy rain, incredibly fragile right now. we saw construction crews up there working on it. the thing right now, andrea, people are concerned about. other rounds of rain, that's going to come in and it's going to come in and be a slow mover. we expect this to be lingering in some areas for up to 12 hours. something that californians here don't need. this area was already saturated. that's something they're not looking forward to. that will push to arizona tomorrow. we're not going to see sunshine here until thursday. >> thank you, elwyn. we look forward to years of your

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about 13 locations in three dozen targets. you're looking at exclusive video from nbc's courtney kube, the only broadcast team on the u.s.s. eisenhower. joining us now is "washington post" national security reporter missy ryan. missy, thanks for being with us. you know what kind of an operation it was from having done embeds like courtney's before. what could come next? anymore strikes in yemen which they say are defensive in posture, again, because of the shipping that's been attacked, or because of iran's proxies in iraq, syria and elsewhere? >> thanks, andrea. we are expecting more strikes against these iranian-backed militias. the pentagon and the white house have been clear this will be a sustained, multi--day campaign. i wouldn't expect weeks, but i don't know that they've gotten to the point where they feel like they've inflicted enough

damage to the military capability of these groups which is really what they're going for. they acknowledge it will be very difficult to deter these groups which have very longstanding political grievances, longstanding positions against american presence in the region, against america's role in supporting israel, but the real goal has been to erode their capability, their higher-level capability to launch drone strikes, ballistic missile strikes. so we're looking for signs that that has happened. in yemen it does seem like they've been able to hit some sort of drone facilities. there hasn't been the same kind of large-scale coordinated attacks like we saw in early january for a couple weeks. but the houthis continued even yesterday to launch additional drones. they clearly do still have some ability to threaten shipping. then the same thing in syria and in iraq. while there's been some evidence

that they's behind the scenes dialogue happening between the militias in syria and their sponsors in iran, they continue to attack american forces in syria. >> the conclusion still is by the u.s. that iran does not want a wider war, right, very briefly? >> yes, that is a conclusion. it is an open question how much control they have over their proxies operationally. >> especially not the houthis. thank you, missy ryan. appreciate you bringing it on home for us. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and on social media. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. buckingham palace has just announced that king charles has been