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they've not necessarily detained them if at all. in fact, their economy has grown. >> yeah, this isn't a silver bullet. sanctions never really are. they do contribute, however, to putting pressure on the kremlin and what's interesting about these sanctions is the number, but also more significantly, the fact that they are really aiming

at dual use components. even providing drones and washing machines which have high-tech chips in them which the russians can use in their munitions is something i believe can be addressed by these sanctions. they're not insignificant. i'm glad to see them. there are more sanctions we can levy or at least better enforcement when it comes to the oil money coming in. actually, russia sells a significant amount of spent nuclear fuel for nuclear energy plants in the united states and europe among other places. i think we could also try to target c that. >> the nato security alliance was initially launched for protection of both u.s. interests inside europe but also european interests inside europe and the safety and security of those countries. with this hold up now, i know

ukraine is obviously not a part of nato, but with this hold up of this funding for military aid to ukraine, despite the fact thh united states has vowed to stand by ukraine to this war and now the advancement of the russian military, what message is being sent to other european countries? >> i think the message being sent is that united states is te unserious and frankly able to put its own interests, our own interests, you know, in jeopardy because the house of representatives, the fact they haven't passed this assistance package, yes, it's of course a tragedy for the ukrainians you showed in richard's clip, but it's also stupid and dangerous for us as americans not to give this assistance to ukraine because ukraine is addressing the number one military adversary of nato. we're a member of nato. if russia succeeds in ukraine,

they willds turn to our nato allies. we know that. putin said that. i think what's really shocking here is that there arek member of the house of representatives who don't seem to understand or care that what might ultimately put u.s. soldiers and u.s. interests in harm's way. >> it seems like putin is really kind of acting with total and absolute impunity at this point. a year or so ago when we were talking about him and his advancement on theg battlefiel it seems as though there were a fear factor especially after the head of the mercenary group that wasf killed. you have these advancements on the battlefield in ukraine as well. you have this election in a month or so. domestically inside russia, and the killing of alexei navalny. is there any turning back to the direction in which putin is headed inin and the relationshi

we are now at between putin and president biden? >> well, i think you're pointing to the other part of our strategy when it comes to russia. we need to make sure putin is also diplomatically isolated. make him a pariah. let's not forget the international criminal court has a warrant out for his arrest but -- >> but that's not enforced. none of those things are enforceable, right? >> right. so if he feels free to travel internationally and he doesn't get arrested, that is a problem. so we need to do more to make him pay. i will say we don't always know what's going on internally in russia and we need to lean into supporting dissidents in russia. getting the ones that are in jail and in danger out. i do think he is weak right now internally, but of course as you said, he's gettingal away with murder, you know, and has been getting away with it for

decades. >> what makes you think he's weak right now, domestically? >> the fact that when, so they have these sham elections but they have people that they call opposition and they can run for election. there was one candidate who decided, he was sanctioned by the government but he adopted an antiwar platform and got about 200,000 signatures before the kremlin said whoa, whoa, whoa, you can't be a candidate anymore and they disqualified him. but people were lining up to sign his position so he could be a candidate. again, 200,000 signatures already with people's passport numbers and their addresses. that showed there's a strong antith war sentiment and that i the number one flank. this is putin's war. that does show putin is not popular. his policy's not popular at least inside russia. he had to be worried enough to kill alexi navalny at this point in time. >> thank you. want to bring in now from kyiv

to talk more about the situation on the ground in ukraine. daria, cofounder and executive director of the anticorruption action center. i apologize if i just butchered your name. it happens to me often if that makes you feel any better. we're on the eve of the two-year anniversary of this war in ukraine. thousands of lives lost. a hold up in congress here in the united states for more weapons, more ammunition, more aid to the ukrainian military. take us tone kyiv, to ukraine, d how people are feeling. how you're feeling at this time. >> well, we are not stopping our fight. in order to survive, our kids have future. we need to keep fighting. obviously, fighting without military support, without ammunition, without weapons is much harder. it means that more people are

dying andpl i have my team membs who are fighting. they were just civilians, nonmilitary people. they mobilized two years ago and they are facing significant drop of military equipment. so we are resilient still. but we can't understand why so many, especially the u.s., got tired of supporting us so quickly. >> last spring, there was you know, this talk of the spring offensive. but ukraine faired very well on the battlefield. amidst the aid they had gotten at that time and continued to push back against the russians. now we see the russians advance. is there a fear they're going to get close to thes key cities they had in mind like the one you're in right now? >> air raids are happening from

time to time so russians are still targeting civilian objects. they were air raids which killed many people since the start of this year. if there will be no military support obviously, our soldiers might end up. when we will be out of our ur soldiers, it is still realistic for putin to take back the territories, which we were able successfully with the support of the americans to take and liberate in 2022. i just want to remind, 2022, we had a very successful land on ration. we hadce liberated 50% of what russians took. then in 2023, we had quite successful navy operation without having a navy.

basically, we sank a few russian warships and we got our control. and the entire world can see the impact because we are able to bring our grains, our food, outside of ukraine to the most deprived nations in the world. so we are still managing to feed the world. and this year, upcoming year, 2024, can be and should be that year of successful air operations. in ukraine, we have a very profound production of drones and we aredu using more and mor drones in our war. but we are also hope that the f-16 jets will be arriving very soon with proper missiles and then having control our air, we will be able to liberate more territories and prevent russians. >> we wish you the best and certainly safety in the coming days. thank you. >> thank you. thank you very much. coming up, more healthcare providers in alabama have halted

ivf treatments after a court ruling. what iten means for a patients including a couple who has left the state of alabama to seek treatment elsewhere. plus, the nation's biggest lgbtq is speaking out after the death of a nonbinary teen after they were attacked in their high school bathroom. we're back in just 60 seconds. we'll be right back. n just 60 s. we'll be right back. 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 within the first five days of symptoms, and helps stop the virus from multiplying in your body. taking paxlovid with certain medicines can lead to serious or life-threatening side effects or affect how it or other medicines work, including hormonal birth control. it's critical to tell your doctor about all the medicines you take because certain tests or changes in their dosage may be needed. tell your doctor if you have kidney or liver problems, hiv-1, are or plan to become pregnant, or breastfeed. don't take paxlovid if you're allergic to nirmatrelvir,

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procedures. >> it's heartbreaking. the phone conversations i've had to have with long time patients who are desperate and ready to become parents, and i'm having to tell them i can't offer the treatment we've agreed to. we are worried to our own personal risk about getting thrown in jail, lawsuits. >> and we're hearing from couples affected by this ruling. laura jarrett has more. >> hey there. the fallout over this alabama court decision really hitting a nerve. the legal risks to the doctors have them in a bind. the politics of it making for unusual allies but at the heart of this, guys, so many frustrated and confused patients all trying to navigate their future fertility. this is something where timing is everything. growing frustration across alabama as more patients in the middle of fertility treatments are learning their doctors are holding off on ivf, worried they could get sued because of a controversial new court ruling.

some couples even making the difficult decision to leave the state. >> we found a clinic that will take us in texas. >> after three miscarriages, gabbie said her doctor have her embryos genetically tested. >> i'm not stopping this cycle. i've been through too many shots. >> but what happens to embryos found with genetic abnormalities? typically, they're not implanted and usually discarded. others found not viable after the thaw process. it's got fertility clinics on edge after the alabama supreme court found frozen embryos no different than children. potentially putting clinics on the hook legally for their survival. >> as soon as i saw the number pop up on my phone, i knew it wasn't going to be good news. >> after spending nearly $250,000 on fertility treatments and a surrogate, megan and walker cole were devastated to learn their fertility clinic not

only canceled their embryo implantation this week, but said their clinic would not give them their frozen embryos to use outside the state. >> so even though these are apparently my children, i don't have access to them. >> meanwhile, alabama supreme court chief justice tom parker under scrutiny for invoking god in the court decision. >> it was a terrible moment. >> presidential hopeful, nikki haley, trying to clarify where she stands. >> we don't want fertility treatments to shutdown. >> in alabama, lawmakers, republicans and democrats, now looking at legislation to protect ivf and clarify how embryos should be treated under state law. back to you. o you. priorities like education and workforce development and thanks to kamala for her leadership and incredible

partnership across the board. and the members of our cabinet including former governor, we have two former governors here. are they both here today? where is my secretary of agriculture? is he here? he could be here tomorrow. tom. my republican friends, i got bad news for you. i actually like working with you. and it reminds me of the days i was in the senate. things, we'd argue like hell then get things done. before i begin, i want to say a few words about an important an verse vi that we mark tomorrow. two years ago before dawn, russian troops marched across the border in ukraine. putin believed he could easily bend the will and break the resolve of free people of ukraine. that he could roll into ukraine and roll over them. two years later, he remains wrong. he didn't do that. wasn't able to do that. kyiv is still standing.

ukraine is still free. the people of ukraine remain unbroken in the face of putin's vigorous onslaught. this is due to their sheer bravery and sacrifice, but it's also due to us. remember, the united states pulled together a coalition of more than 50 nations. we unified and expanded nato. can't walk away now. that's what putin's betting on. that's where i'll be speaking to the g-7 folks and nato today. i'm announcing more than 500 new sanctions in response -- [ applause ] in response to alexei navalny's death. make no mistake. putin is responsible for his death. yesterday, i met with alexei's

wife and daughter. he was an incredible and courageous man. his family as well. i assured them his legacy will continue to live around the world and we in the united states are going to insure putin pays the price for oppression at home. let me be clear. house of representatives must pass the bipartisan national security bill. bill provides urgent funding for ukraine and it passed overwhelmingly in the senate and there's no question, none, none, if a speaker called for vote in the house, it would pass easily today. instead, they went on vacation. it's just -- look, folks, all kidding aside. history's watching. clock is ticking. people in ukraine are dying. russia, russia is taking ukraine

territory for the first time in many months. but here in america, the speaker gave the house a week vacation. they have to come back. they have to come back and get this done because failure to support ukraine in this critical moment will never be forgot in history. it will be measured and have impact for decades to come. i want to thank your governors here if you agree with many, and many do, to urge congressional representatives to force this bill to be brought up. america, to prove america -- mesh stands up for freedom. we never bow to anyone. particularly putin. look, folks, now another important work we're doing. i want to thank you for delivering historic results for the american people. governors know the measure of success in how many partisan

points we score is we fix the problem. we disagree on how to fix the problem many times. we're all here for one reason. to fix the problems. get things done for families, communities, the country. that's why i kept my commitment to be president for all americans. whether you voted for me or not. in fact, we've invested more in all we passed in red states than blue. >> you're listening to the president at the national governor's association winter meeting in the palm room there addressing governors. however, he talked about the eve of the two-year anniversary of the war in ukraine along with the 500 sanctions levelled against moscow. he said the united states can't walk away when it comes to the sanctions. he said it was in response to the death of alexei navalny and

he said, i quote, putin is responsible for alexei navalny's death. he said putin must pay the price for aggression abroad and oppression at home. he urged the speaker of the house to come back from vacation and pass that aid package to get the military aid needed by the ukrainians over the finish line. i want to bring in aaron and evelyn. if you will, aaron, talk us through more of what you heard from the president there. >> well you heard the president reference the fact this two-year anniversary is coming up tomorrow and saying that putin thought that he was going to be able to roll into ukraine and roll over its people as the president said. he noted that in his words, putin is wrong. that kyiv is still standing and

that the people of ukrainian are unbowed and unbroken. he also took time to point out there is a great need at this point for the house of representatives to pass the national security supplemental. the funding package. the aid package that would benefit ukraine to the tune of $60 billion if the package that the senate passed were to be passed in the house. that will enable the pentagon to start replenishing some of the much needed supplies that ukraine is short on right now. the president earlier today releasing a statement saying that ukraine needs supplies in the u.s. in order to hold the line against russia and that the house needs to take action before it's too late. you heard the president say there that he believes that if speaker johnson were to put this on the floor for the house to vote, that it would pass in the house and that the u.s. would be able to give ukraine the much needed aid that the president and others in the administration and around the world want to see the u.s. to give to ukraine. >> evelyn, what would affect

putin and his war in ukraine more? is it the sanctions being levelled by the biden administration or would it be this aid package getting across the finish line? >> undoubtedly the aid package. the quickest way to address putin as a threat to the international community and the u.s. interest is to defeat his foreign policy in the battlefield in ukraine. sanctions take a long time and as we already spoke in the beginning here in the last segment, sanctions are usually not the silver bullet. so it's weapons. it's weapons. we have to arm the ukrainians so they can push the russians back enough so they can get to the negotiating table. >> thank you. coming up next, the very latest on the investigation into a nonbinary teen's death after a family said the student was attacked at school. the head of the human rights campaign will join us. we'll be right back. n rights campaign will join us. we'll be right back.

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shhh... [ achoo ] [ flatulence ] oklahoma's queer community, they are reeling and demanding answers after the death of a nonbinary teen who allegedly faced bullying at school for months. 16-year-old nex benedict died on february 8th one day after their family says they were attacked and assaulted in a bathroom at a school northeast of tulsa, oklahoma. it's unclear if the attack was

related to this bullying. police saying benedict did not die as a result of injuries from the fight, but the cause of death hasn't been determined. their death is coming as oklahoma lawmakers introduced 54 bills. the state with the highest number of these bills in the nation. with us now to talk more about this is kelly robinson, president of the human rights campaign. thanks for joining us on this. what do you want to see happen here? >> there has to be full accountability. it does not take an expert to connect the dots on what happened in this tragic case. we saw a state that leads the pack in laws, a state that has pushed forward antitrans bathroom bills. and couple that bad legislative action with hateful rhetoric from the governor to the superintendent. this is a moment where we have to make sure that nex's life is some semblance of justice and we

have to make sure this doesn't happen to another child. we are calling for full accountability, especially for the superintendent. >> i want to read a statement from this superindent on the death then have you react to it. saying this. the safety and security of our students is my top priority as well as the first responsibility of oklahoma schools. as part of oklahoma's comprehensive school based mental health implementation, i've committed all available resourced from osde to assist during this tragedy and await the full results of the on going investigation. what's your reaction to that? >> i continue to be heartbroken. this 16-year-old child lost their life but when you send your kids to school, you expect the adults to keep them safe and he did not uphold his responsibility to do that. ryan walters appointed someone from tiktok, an anti lgbtq plus

troll to be an advisory board. someone who doesn't even live in the state. he went after a teacher who performed drag on the weebd weekends and tried to force them to resign. he is fostering a culture of hate. adults have to take responsibility for their actions and we are demanding accountability for his. too many parents across the country are seeing our kids be put at risk in places they should be safe. in places they should be loved and nurtured to grow like at school. we have to have full accountability. we are hearing from parents across the country who are saying enough. that's why we are pushing so hard for the governor and superintendent to take full responsibility for what has happened to this child and to make sure there are measures moving forward to protect kids from the bullying and harassment that too many students in oklahoma endured. >> nbc actually reached out to the tiktok and they gave us no comment on that. again, i guess i got to ask you what does accountability look like when this is happening

state by state, right? 54 bills targeting members of the lgbtq community in oklahoma alone and that's not the only state where we're seeing this. >> the human rights campaign declared a national state of emergency for the first time in history last year because of all these pieces of legislation that are moving forward. this year already, we've seen nearly 400 bills introduced across this country and every time, politicians are spewing hateful rhetoric towards our community. that's what's creating this culture of violence. so accountability looks like the removal of ryan walters. look making sure the department of justice and education to use every tool to make sure this is investigated to the fullest extent of the law and ultimately what it looks like is making sure that parents in oklahoma and across this country are having the ability to support their kids in having welcoming environments, especially our

black, indigenous and kid kids of color. we can do something to change the outcomes of what is happening in too many states but it demands accountability now. removal of the superindent. >> and that kids feel safe. with less than 24 hours to the south carolina primary, nikki haley is out with new attacks against her former boss, donald trump. and nbc's exclusive interview with a new orleans magician who says he was paid to fake a misleading robo call featuring president biden. o call featuring president biden. a vaccine to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in people 60 years and older. it's not for everyone and may not protect all who receive it. don't get abrysvo if you've had an allergic... ...reaction to its ingredients. a weakened immune system may decrease your response. most common side effects are tiredness, headache, injection-site pain and muscle pain. ask about pfizer's abrysvo®. because every breath matters. you always got your mind on the green.

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tomorrow, south carolina voters head to the polls as nikki haley faces off against donald trump in her home state. the polls are showing trump is far ahead, but haley isn't letting up. >> look at donald trump. it's not normal to pay $50 million in campaign contributions towards your personal court cases. it's not normal to mock the military. >> let's bring in nbc correspondent, garrett haake, who's in charleston for us. susan paige a chip from greenville, south carolina. he served on the 1988 bush campaign and bush cheney

campaigns. garrett, start us off. take us there. what are you seeing ahead of tomorrow? >> reporter: nikki haley has never lost a race in south carolina but neither has donald trump. what you're seeing now is a governor who left office popular here but is now running in a party that looks very little like the party she used to represent against a candidate who is a movement in this state. from voters i've talked to, she's going to have a very difficult time as we've seen reflected in the polling, turning around that dynamic. i want to introduce you to a woman i spoke to yesterday who had been a haley supporter when she was governor, sort of weighing haley versus trump and how that decision was made for her. listen to this. when you put nikki haley's report up against donald trump, what do you see? >> i don't think she did as much for south carolina as trump did. and especially in our african

american community. >> reporter: opinions like that have been reflected in the polling. most of the state level polling has shown about a 30-point lead for donald trump. that's the suffolk "usa today" poll that came out last week, all placing this in a similar place. when you look at the national polling, she does better in a general election against joe biden than does donald trump. but it's sort of like me talking about the idea that maybe my cowboys would have done a better job against the chiefs in the super bowl. it doesn't matter if you don't make it there. i think that's what we're seeing reflected from these south carolina voters who are so far very clear in their preference for the former president. >> chip, i'm interested why in addition to some of garrett's reporting there, nikki haley is not really resognating with voters. some of what i've been reading about is that she's somewhat disconnected from the grass roots movement since she left the governor's office. is that what you're seeing? >> i think that's absolutely

true. we've had thousands of people move into south carolina since she was, excuse me, elected. thousands. a lot of those retirees coming from blue states to red states. they had no history with her. and we have a, constitutionally, a weak governorship. what's more important is that she's been gone since 2017 and you know, it's hard to, she's actually reintroducing herself to people in south carolina. it is her home state, but that's not the home story. >> susan, i want to look beyond south carolina if we can for a moment. i was actually in michigan yesterday and i spent some time with some voters on the ground there in a round table talking about their opinions on the general election and specifically joe biden and one of the major issues that came up repeatedly was the war in gaza and how it was swaying their decision. i want to play for you some of that sound then we'll talk.

>> you cannot keep killing people with our money and just keep thinking that oh, we are stupid enough to elect you again. >> the straightforward, simple answer for the biden administration is prefer a cease fire, stop aiding israeli their war crimes. >> why is our democracy more important than thousands of men, women, and children being killed. >> some of the folks on that panel has been personally affected by the war in gaza. have lost friends. have lost family members. so this hits home for them. i'm wondering as we look ahead especially to michigan on tuesday, susan, how much you think gaza is going to be an issue both for biden and the bi democrats. >> democrats and the white house are quite concerned about this issue and its impact on their support among young voters. one popular democrat told me it was a tornado going through their base.

michigan will be a good test case of this. we have congresswoman tlaib and others urging democrats to vote uncommitted in the democratic primary. that will be a test about how big a problem politically this is going to be for president biden. >> chip, can we talk a little bit about what trump is doing as well when it comes to courting the christian right? he spoke at a christian convention in nashville saying that liberals were persecuting christians. this is fodder for his base. how does this kind of help reach any of his voters and/or expand his voter base? >> well, you know, one of the great mysteries of life will be the ability of trump to pick up the evangelical vote. it's a strong part of the south carolina republican base. he is going to continue to do that. they are strong for him. they are going to be strong for him.

that doesn't necessarily play out in terms of logic, but it is what it is. he is going to keep pushing that. >> susan, what did you learn from listening to a state of the race call? >> nikki haley's campaign manager says they are in the race to stay. they are making a seven-figure ad buy in super tuesday states. i think as long as she has the money to run, she will continue to run. she's running a long game. at this point, it would take an act of god to deny donald trump the republican nomination. after this race, there's going to be another one in four years. at some point, we're going to have a post-trump gop. i think the discipline that nikki haley has shown in this campaign could serve her well in a race down the road. also, in that first clip you showed, she seems to be having fun in taking on trump than she did at the beginning of the contest. >> garrett, is that what you are hearing on the ground in

questioning as to why nikki haley is in this considering it seems as if donald trump is running away with it, but this is more about a long game, this is more about her political future than it is about the here and now? >> reporter: i don't know there's a clear answer to that question. nikki haley has made it clear she's not thinking about this in terms of her political future. this campaign has taken her off the list to be part of a second trump administration. there's a debate in the party about what the republican looks like in a post-trump era whenever that happens, whether it goes back to something that looks more like the party in which she was a superstar in the 2012 through 2017 time frame, or whether the maga imprint on the party is there to stay and politicians like nikki haley might not find a future in it. that's a discussion we will be having for the next four years, if not longer. >> seems as though chris sununu, who endorses nikki haley, does not think the republican party will be a maga republican party

in the future. that's really anybody's question at this point. garrett, susan and chip, thank you. if you think you have seen everything in politics, how about a magician using artificial intelligence to make robocalls pretending to be the president? a new orleans magician named paul carpenter was paid to use ai to impersonate president biden. a reminder, what you are about to hear is ai generated and not actually the president. >> a bunch of ma -- save your vote. >> that was not the president. it sounded a heck of a lot like

him. carpenter who holds world records showed nbc news how he made the robocalls. alex spoke with carpenter. thanks for joining us. what did you learn about this robocall? >> well, a lot. paul carpenter brought the receipts. text messages, venmo transactions. he sent me the audio file. it all corroborated the rather fanciful story he started telling me, which is that he was paid $150 by a consultant who happened to be working for dean philip's campaign, biden's challenger, and that he produced these calls and two others before that. the phillips campaign said they had no knowledge of this. they disavowed it. they threatened to take legal action against the former contractor whose name is steve cramer.

paul said he wanted to show how easy it was. it took 20 minutes and cost $1. >> is he facing any consequences? >> possibly. he does have a lawyer. this is such new area of the law that it's a little bit unclear. the fcc did criminalize ai robocalls, but they did it in response to this biden robocall. that law was not on the books when they sent this call. there are investigations ongoing. the new hampshire attorney general's office have no comment at the moment, but investigation continues. >> unbelievable how much he sounded like the president. thank you. appreciate that. that wraps it up for me. peter alexander picks things up with news right after a quick break. eak. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed.

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