custody. they have it in multiple languages. they have a number of ways that they have been helping here. they have been doing this for months, because what we are seeing here today, this is the daily reality on the u.s.-mexico border. >> david noriega, appreciate that. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. watch clips from our show on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the senate approves billions of dollars in aid for ukraine, israel and taiwan in an all nighter. the house speaker won't promise to give it a vote. democrats trying to find enough republicans to out flank the speaker and his far right supporters. we will have the politics with the whole world watching in a

few moments. former president trump's lawyers juggling multiple appeals, including asking the supreme court to review an appeals court rejection of his immunity claim, to pause it, while he tries to take control of the republican national committee before he is nominated. the stock market tumbles after numbers show inflation slowing, but not by as much as predicted. putting more pressure on the fed and the white house. ♪♪ good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. after a rare all night session to break a republican filibuster in the senate and a final vote at dawn, the senate passed a $95 billion emergency foreign aid bill, including $60 billion for ukraine, $14 billion for israel, plus billions to bolster taiwan and $9 billion in humanitarian aid. the senate super majority was 70-29, including 22 republicans. once again, the bill faces a

battle to get a vote in the house. >> finally, america led the way for freedom and democracy. we this bill, the senate declares that american leadership will not waiver, falter or fail. i call on speaker johnson to rise to the occasion, to do the right thing, bring this bill to the floor. >> ukraine's president zelenskyy thanking the senate, tweeting, it saves human lives from russian terror. it means that life will continue in our cities and will triumph. >> ukraine's backers in congress with now working on a plan to do an end run around the speaker and force a vote by using a difficult maneuver called a discharge petition. that requires work from 218

democrats and republicans coming together. we start today with nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. jonathan lemire and former republican congressman and political analyst david jolly. ryan, an all nighter. this was like the last days before final exams. the bill had overwhelming support in the senate. majority leader schumer telling you he is confident there's enough support in the house. do they have the votes? 218 is a high bar. >> reporter: yeah. i think that that's the hope, that the majority leader chuck schumer has, that the fact that 22 senate republicans supported this legislation, would be a message to the house speaker mike johnson that he needs to give this package its opportunity to get an up or down vote on the floor. just based on johnson's initial reaction to this package, the

skepticism that he seems to be applying to it, it seems unlikely that it will just be that simple, that they will put the bill on the floor and let the members decide. there's the possibility they attempt to change it or they break it up into individual pieces and put those on the floor. all that is a possibility right now. obviously, any of that would complicate this matter greatly. it took so much work to get to the point where they could pass this legislation in the senate. any additional changes to it in the house make it even that much less likely of getting finally passed and be given the opportunity to the president to sign it into law. this was no doubt an incredibly big hurdle that this legislation passed over in the early morning hours here on capitol hill. but it still has a very uphill battle in the house of representatives. a hill, i should point out, that seems very murky at best,

andrea. >> david, discharge petitions are really, really rare. it requires 218 votes. most house votes pass shy of that. do you think it will work this time? could donald trump again intervene, block a legislative win for the president and also, i guess, block an attempt to take down the speaker? >> yeah, andrea, i remain a skeptic with this republican house ever will work, particularly on this legislation, because it requires several republicans to break from their own party. what is it going in favor of a discharge petition are the enormous numbers of republican retirements. some of them are relatively mainstream. they are still maga, but they understand governing. some appropriators that are leaving, some chairs of committees who are leaving. do they say, look, hating -- i'm not standing for re-election. the best thing that could happen

to speaker mike johnson is a discharge petition. he is not responsible for bringing it up for a vote. absent a discharge petition, this is the quandary for speaker johnson. it would be up to him to bring up a vote on legislation that overwhelmingly democrats will provide votes to pass. he doesn't seem like he is going to do that. i'm very worried. sometime today we will hear the words, dead on arrival. i don't know where they go with this critical funding. >> you heard from the president today urging the house to move on this, saying, we cannot afford to wait any longer. the costs of inaction are rising every day, especially in ukraine. what is he doing? is he reaching out to people? i can recall previous presidents bringing them up one by one, working them over. they have got some leverage. a lot of the house and senate members in particular are going to munich towards the end of the week, thursday. they will face ukrainian leaders. they will face the world

opinion, nato leaders. you've got a hostage deal in play, israel is in play. there's so many deadlines here. >> yeah, there are. president biden has been consistent throughout this process, calling for congress to act, saying that the united states must be good and keep its word, needs to fulfill its obligations. it made a promise to ukraine to be there until the end of the war. that seems in doubt. we are getting reports by the day about the tide of war turning a little bit in russia's favor. they have been able to reclaim some territory from the ukrainians. there's desperate need from kyiv to get more supplies and ammunition. soldiers running out of bullets right now. the white house, after the first summer 2021 where they were dealt legislative defedefeats, have found they are more successful this they take a hands-off role.

if they are lobbying too much, that turns them off. certainly, senior aides, the chief of staff, they will make -- republicans who represent biden districts that the president won in 2020, but there's not great optimism here from the west wing aides i speak to. they don't believe speaker johnson will act in good faith. they see it's probably unlikely he will bring a vote to the floor. a discharge petition also a tough hill to climb. there are concerns about what that means on the world stage in terms of for ukraine and also other american allies and adversaries looking at this and wondering what the u.s. stand gs -- stands for going forward. they feel like this is an issue they can use to go after republicans and say, the gop, they walked away from the border deal and now they are abandoned our allies. >> david jolly, there's a

special election in a snowy new york congressional district to fill the seat held by george santos. if democrats flip that seat, it narrows the majority further. you held a seat for the republicans against an obama victory that year. what's your prediction today? >> look, the polls show that democrats are position dodt -- positioned to do well. i can tell you what has been happening in the race is the national parties and all of the outside groups are message testing for november. it's why you see the issue of immigration in that district being the number one issue in this race. it's because the national parties want to message test. they will learn from their mistakes. they will learn what didn't work and they will learn what works. if democrats take back this seat, like we have seen them perform in special elections

since the dobbs decision, that's a very good signal for democrats going into november. if republicans hold it, it suggests for democrats, you have work to do. >> david jolly, ryan nobles, and, of course, jonathan lemire. thanks to you. the scales of justice, the supreme court balancing whether to weigh in on trump's immunity claims, potentially delaying his criminal election interference trial. that's next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in 60 seconds. you are watching msnbc. u are wac our financial planning tools and advice can help you prepare for today's longer retirement. hi mom. that's the value of ownership. rsv can seriously impact breathing, even for the best performer. protect yourself with pfizer's abrysvo... ...a vaccine to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv

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ruling and now it will be on pause while the supreme court decides how or whether to move forward. on the campaign trail, the former president continues to insult nikki haley implying that her husband left her despite the fact he is the national guard. i think he should come home to save her dying campaign. haley calls that line of attack disgusting. in south carolina highlighted the fact he disparaged veterans. >> this is a pattern. he mocked military members calling them suckers and losers. when he was at arlington national cemetery, he said, what was in it for them? now he is doing this. it's because he has never been near anymore in the military.

the only harm that's come dnald trump's way is if a golf ball hit him while he is in a golf cart. it's the truth. >> joining me now, yamiche alcindor, campaign manager for president obama jim messina and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. yamiche, donald trump's attacks against spouses, a husband who is in the military, but it doesn't seem to bother him, even in south carolina, which is a very heavily veteran state. >> it does underscore the fact that former president trump has been able to get away with things no other politician has. not only is he going after nikki haley's husband, who is literally deployed in africa, but he got after john mccain. he went after the gold star family. nikki haley, while you would think this would give her momentum, she's trailing by more

than 30 points. this is giving her fire. she's going after donald trump in a way we have not seen her go after him before. she's releasing an ad that's focusing on this issue. whether it will win her election, all signs point to the fact that nikki haley unfortunately for her is going to lose. i came back from georgia where i was talking to a number of voters. they say the same thing, they would like to see nikki haley, even democrats who are angry or disappointed in former president trump and president biden, but they say the same thing, nikki haley doesn't seem like something realistic. it looks like it's trump and biden. >> so far, she has the donors sticking with her. she can keep going maybe through super tuesday. jim messina, john stewart was back for his monday night hosting duties after being gone for ten years. he joked about joe biden and donald trump's age and fitness for office and the special counsel's report focusing on the

president's memory. >> the footage of the president unable to recall simple facts must have been brutal to watch. >> i don't remember. i mean, i don't remember that. as good as my memory is, i don't remember that. >> that's the high functioning candidate from nine years ago, unable to recall if he has a good memory. democrats will say that any criticism like this, especially of biden, is unfair. you just don't know biden like they know biden. >> this is a man who is sharp, who is on top of his game, who knows what's going on. >> he is smart. he is on his game. >> i was in almost every meeting with the president, and the president was in front of and on top of it all. >> if you are telling us he is sharp and full of energy and on top of it and controlling and leading, you should film that. that would be good to show to

people. >> watching john stewart again, living through that moment with joe biden, finished a forceful press encounter and then took that other question and came back and john stewart imitating the way his advisers were probably holding their head in their hands, because it was after that that he mixed up mexico and egypt. jim messina, the age and fitness issue isn't going anywhere. it's not being viewed proportionally in terms of both candidates, because we know that donald trump makes all kinds of mistakes on the campaign trail when he is not on trial and not on the trail. it doesn't seem to matter to the voters as much as it does to the voters -- the biden supporters. >> part of that is the campaign. they need to -- the biden campaign needs to go after trump and start highlighting some of the stuff, showing things.

they will absolutely start to do that. you are right, right now it's all about biden. when i ran president obama's care, i used to say, if the election is about the incumbe. if it's a choice, you will win. biden needs to make this a choice between he and donald trump. he needs to sell his age as experience, as someone who can be calm and get things done. while you have this crazy guy in donald trump making the voters of america feel uncomfortable. that choice between two candidates is incredibly important for the biden campaign to drive. i think coming up, they will do just that. >> joyce, let's talk about the delay in tactics. donald trump is using everything at his disposal, as anyone would have the right to. now he is asking the supreme court not to take or not take the appeals court decision, he is asking for a pause. another pause, which would be

briefed by jack smith by next tuesday. then he wants the pause to, i guess, ask the full appeals court to review what the three justices did decisively. then he would have the opportunity to go to the supreme court and ask them to take it or not take it. the delay is just putting everything on hold still. >> right. we are into the thick of the appeals process. but president trump hasn't yet asked the supreme court to hear the substantive issue, whether he is entitled to presidential immunity. what's in stake in his filing yesterday is whether the district court, trial judge chutkan, can continue with the proceedings to take this case towards trial or whether that has to stay on hold. trump has said, i want you to continue to stay those trial proceedings while i decide whether to file a request for

this court to hear the substantive appeal. he will, of course, do that. he asked them for an additional measure. the court of appeals told trump he had until yesterday to go to the supreme court or they would restart proceedings in the trial court. they told trump, you can't ask the entire district of columbia court of appeals to rehear the decision of our three-judge panel. if you do that, that won't stop the clock in the trial court either. trump is saying to the supreme court, please stop the clock in front of the trial court. let me go to the court of appeals where all of the sitting judges would hear my appeal rather than just this three-judge panel. after that, let me come to the supreme court. that amounts to one thing, delay. this appellate procedure is incredibly -- it's very complicated, very intricate. it's difficult to explain on tv.

it's meant to protect a litigant's due process rights. in this particular situation, trump is clearly stretching those limits and abusing the process. >> how long can this stretch out? the supreme court is asking for briefs from jack smith opposing this trump request by next tuesday. would they hear oral arguments on that? would they likely rule on whether or not it will be stayed? >> no. on this procedural request, they will hear the parties out. then the court will make a decision about the stay. there's a wrinkle. the supreme court can treat this as the actual request by trump to have the supreme court hear the substantive case. they do this not infrequently. i wouldn't be surprised to see it happen here. donald trump has actually put forward the case for hearing -- for the supreme court to hear the substantive appeal. i think we will see jack smith respond in kind. it may be that this procedure,

which will take up a week or two, could lead to the supreme court deciding whether it will hear the case or let this decision in favor of the government that was rendered by the court of appeals stand. >> yamiche, there's another wrinkle on the house side. the speaker and the house are coming back, now that steve scalise is back from his medical procedures, and they have one more vote. they only lost by one vote. they will take another crack at impeaching mayorkas today. >> yeah. they are banking house republicans on the idea that they now have the votes. if this fails again, it would be a massive embarrassment. you would imagine they will have the votes there time. it underscores the idea that republicans are now really focusing on playing to their base. we have this monthly group called the deciders that were doing focus groups. we heard from republican voters, from trump supporters that the border and inflation are the top two issues. the idea that they are trying to

do this and trying to at least impeach mayorkas on the house -re little to know -- there's absolutely no way that he is going to be convicted in the senate. this is house republicans trying to keep immigration and their anger at the dhs secretary in the headlines. it's 2024 politics happening. >> surprise, politics in the house. thanks to all of you. closing the deal. the cia director in cairo today, trying to close significant differences or narrow them between israel and hamas that are holding up a cease-fire and release of more hostages. we will have more on that coming up. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. ea mitchell reports" on msnbc ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people reached an a1c under 7 and maintained it. i'm under 7.

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there. they are packed into rafah, exposed and vulnerable. they need to be protected. >> joining me from jerusalem is molly hunter. first of all, we are hearing from people -- from our team in rafah. it's desperate there. >> reporter: it is incredibly desperate. there's this real rising panic as we watch this split screenplay out in the region. i imagine we will watch it for the next couple of days as the negotiations continue. you have bill burns, the israeli spy chief, other officials in cairo to hammer out details of the homage release deal and a cease-fire. in rafah, no one believes the israeli prime minister will wait to launch that ground incursion until a deal is inked. our team has been talking to people about what it feels like to be in that tightly packed area in the south of the gaza

strip. listen to what it feels like. >> reporter: it's terrifying. these are people who have been displaced multiple times from different places in the gaza strip. an estimated 1.4 million palestinians crammed into this tiny area up against the egyptian border. u.n. agencies -- you heard the pressure from biden and other organizations who are saying these people have nowhere to go if israeli ground troops come in. >> there's a growing feeling in the arab world that netanyahu is not listening to america. the u.s. is not being tough

enough, still supplying weapons and support. just another $14 billion in that senate bill today that passed. the state department has confirmed a u.s. citizen was killed in the west bank, where there's growing tension, on saturday. you have details now from the field that this was a teenager, this was a boy. >> reporter: this was a child, andrea. our producer just got off the phone with the father. i can tell you what he said. the u.s. state department just released a statement as you said, not releasing his name, just saying we extend our deepest condolences to the family. we are working to gather more information and have pressed the government of israel for further information. the father of the 17-year-old has just flown over from miami to be here. his son was having a picnic with friends and relatives saturday afternoon, february 10th in a palestinian village just across

the wall from where i am in jerusalem, about ten minutes as the crow flies, just over the wall in the occupied west bank. he was having a picnic with friends. after the picnic, they got into their cars. around 4:30 p.m., that's when israeli forces shot him in the head. he died in a hospital. according to the defense for children international, an organization that tracks incidents like this, 98 palestinian children under the age of 18 have been killed just since october 7th. we are talking to his family to try to get more information about the circumstances around this. we know he was 17 years old. he was living over here for high school. his father has just arrived with the horrible news, from miami, florida. >> thank you very much. it's the economy. white house reaction to today's new inflation data. prices rising more than expected. a major concern for voters across the country. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc.

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the numbers are in. they show inflation won't go away. the consumer price index from january showing inflation up 3.1% from last year. it has cooled from the 3.4% in december. overall inflation has gone down from the pandemic era, that peaked at 9.1%, it is higher than what economists expected.

it could have looming affects. joining us is jean spurling, coordinator for the american rescue plan, a top economic advisor to presidents obama and clinton. welcome. these aren't the numbers the markets were hoping for and the white house was hoping for. what do they mean? how do they translate to consumers? >> what consumers should understand is that the trend is still the friend for consumers. in other words, it's not just the prices are down two-thirds from the worst of the pandemic global inflation. they are down cut by half even in the last year. number one, we are still -- we have a strong trend going down. number two, if you actually look at the inflation measure that the federal reserve looks most closely at, that is actually --

that's around 2% over the previous six months. third, we are seeing so many prices from lettuce to smartphones to travel to rental cars, not just having slower inflation, but actually seeing the price start to go down. i think what's most important to this president is that these numbers again show that for non-executive workers, they are seeing real wage growth. in other words, even when you count inflation, they are seeing 1.5% to 2% real growth, real increase in purchasing power of what they need to support their families. you are right, almost every month in the last six or seven, it has come in either perfect or it has been a tick down. this is one month where it was

one tick, one-tenth of a percent higher than projected. that should not divert from what has been, again, a very positive trend for working families. >> it's not translating into the poll numbers. the president is not given credit by people, by voters, for improvement in the economy. how can you persuade people that things are getting better? >> well, you know, let's again look at all the evidence out there. i realize most people don't wake up in the morning and look at the consumer confidence report that the university of michigan puts out every month. what we saw is we have seen a 20% increase just recently in how people view their current conditions, and a 36% increase of what they expect for the future. you just saw the new york federal reserve say that people's expectations for inflation over the next few

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>> one of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, sir, if we don't pay and we are attacked by russia, will you protect us? i said, you didn't pay, are delinquent? he said, yes, let's say that happened. no, i would not protect you. in fact, i would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. you gotta pay. you gotta pay your bills. >> this as european leaders were concerned about america's reliability if donald trump wins a second term. joining us now is the former minister of foreign affairs of span and the director of the german council on foreign relations. welcome to both of you. they are two of the authors of a new article titled "trump proofing europe, how the continent can prepare for american abandonment." former president trump gave russia a green light basically, do whatever the hell you want, was the reaction -- i know the reaction here.

but what was your reaction when you heard those remarks? >> well, the reaction is pretty simple. this is not the time to weaken each other. this is the time to stand together. what we are standing together for is democracy, is peace, stability and security. not just that of europeans, by the way. also of americans, of american citizens. this is the time to work like allies, hand in hand. we know from the past that sometimes you have to wish for the best but prepare for the worst. this time around, we immediate to be prepared. prepared to defend what we believe in, peace, security, stability and democracy, and do that with or without our u.s. ally. we would like to do that with the u.s., obviously. but in the words of donald trump this is not desirable, we will have to draw our lessons.

>> in reading from your report, your article, you write -- the two of you write that european leaders cannot count on a friendly united states. they must prepare for the possibility that a year from now, the united states will again be led by donald trump. given the things he has said, what would a donald trump presidency mean for europe? do you think these are campaign-style bluffing? do you think these are real security decisions he might take? >> i would say this is a real security issue. it's a security issue. it's an economic security issue, a military security issue. but also, a real risk to democracy in europe. it's really precarious for the transatlantic relation. it's our partnership that makes us strong. let me remind the u.s. colleagues that, of course, it was europe that supported the

united states in afghanistan. it's not -- simply not the case that europe is not an ally to the united states. the united states benefits from the alliance with europe. what we need to do is we need to really prepare for the worst, prepare for the possibility of that alliance really getting weaker. that means investing into our own collective defense, investing into our economic security and supporting ukraine strongly and up front. >> what more can be done? you talk about trump proofing the alliance. he can't get out of nato. there was a law passed. so he can't carry out that threat. if he opposes, as he is now, aid for ukraine, it has not passed the house, even though it got through the senate. so his statements even as a candidate are having a huge affect on congress.

>> correct. i think what we have to do is prepare ourselves. we would like to have the u.s. as an ally. this is how we feel. but we also have to be lucid. last time around, donald trump did not behave as an ally. treated europe with -- more like a rival. so this time around, we need to be prepared. this means taking more responsibility for our own security and defense. like we're doing today. just last week, europe passed a $50 billion package of support for ukraine. that today puts europe at double the amount of support it puts ee the amount of support it provides to ukraine from that provided by the u.s. it is a signal that europe is ready to put its security and invest in its own security and

it is ready to do whatever it takes to protect its democracy and protect its citizens. rather do it with the u.s., but if the u.s. is not ready to do that, we'll have to do it, investing more ourselves in protecting europe. >> you write in the article in foreign affairs that a second trump term may well exacerbate the instability europe is already struggling to manage. in short, it needs to trump-proof its future. the country weathered four years of a trump presidency, a second four years will most likely be much harder to sail through. how do you prepare? you just did $54 billion overcoming objections from hungary, but there are certain weapons, antiaircraft systems, atacms, that ukraine has to get from the united states. they aren't made in europe. >> well, many people wonder whether we can really defend the

continent without the united states. and the answer is, well, if we have to, we will have to be able to do it. it is as simple as that. it is not -- we don't have a choice. we have to do it. and economically it is feasible, completely feasible. germany's gdp alone is twice that of russia, so that should really not be the obstacle. we are investing, finally starting to investing massively in ammunition production, in a part of germany that was just a major new factory, opened -- the building site was opened and the construction is ramping up. so production is going up. many capabilities are going up. but the truth is also that within nato, the united states strategic enabler, meaning it has a certain number of strategic assets that no other eu country at the moment has.

that includes the capacity to deploy troops rapidly and many other things. so we have to invest into all of these assets and we have to start now. and, you know, we really have to prepare for worst and i think it is good investment, by the way, irrespective of who gets into the white house, even if we have a second biden presidency, it is time for europe to step up and be responsible for the security of its continent. >> thank you so much for weighing in. i know a lot of this is going to be discussed in munich coming up, just toward the end of this week, we'll be covering as well, we will be there as europe gets together to talk about this whole security issue. thank you. president biden announced that the president will be speaking at 1:15, that's the schedule about the supplemental that has been passed with ukraine, israel and taiwan aid. coming up, one on one next, lester holt's exclusive interview with america's highest

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as the pentagon navigates threats to american troops in the middle east and around the world, nbc's lester holt sat down with america's top general, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff charles q. brown. he asked general brown about his career, about the video that made headlines when the head of the pacific command spoke passionately to his troops after the murder of george floyd. >> i think about wearing the same flight suit with the same wings on my chest as my peers and being questioned by a military member, are you a pilot. >> you were in the pacific air force then, what made you do that? >> our youngest son. sunday, called my wife and i and

he was really struggling with the death of george floyd. and it bothered me as well and my son asked me, dad, what is pacific air forces going to say. what he's asking me is, dad, what you going to say? i had no intent for it to go as far as it did, but i'm glad it did. i think it gave a voice to many. because they're feeling much of the same. i'm glad i was able to do it. >> and sharing with us his inspiration during his career, the legendary tuskegee airmen. you spoke at the air force base about the tuskegee airmen. what is it you want, what do you want us to know and think about? >> opportunity. you know, i think throughout my air force career, i wanted an equal opportunity to compete and not judge me based on the color of my skin, but judge me on the merit of my capability.

i think that's what all of our service members want. they want an opportunity. i'm an ordinary person with an extraordinary opportunity. i want to make sure i do everything i can to open a door for others. >> our thanks to lester holt and his "nightly news" team for bringing that us from general c.q. brown. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." thank you for being with us. follow the show on social media at mitchell reports and watch the best parts of our show anytime on youtube, go to msnbc.com/andrea. "chris jansing reports" starts right now. good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. decisions, decisions. so many developments unfolding in all four of donald trump's criminal cases that come thursday he'll have to choose which courtroom to be in. we'll dig into what all of that means for voters and this critical question, will there be a verdict in any of