the more violent gangs in. is it a revolution or just gangland violence? it's almost impossible to know. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on social media and watch clips from our show on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," a tale of two campaigns. president biden brings in a monster haul for his re-election campaign from a star-studded radio city fund-raiser with presidents obama and clinton. while former president trump strengthens his grip over the republican party ahead of another wave of campaign rallies and court appearances. this hour, the latest on the fight for detained american

journalist evan gershkovich and his freedom after one year in russian custody. "the wall street journal" has a powerful front page. we will go to baltimore to break down the major operation to reopen a major economic waterway in the coming months. ♪♪ hello and welcome. i'm ryan nobles in for andrea mitchell in washington. the battle for the white house heats up on the heels of president biden and former president trump's split-screen visits to new york yesterday. more than $26 million was raised by the biden campaign at last night's star-studded event and radio city music hall. former presidents obama and clinton joined president biden in his trademark aviators. it wasn't all lighthearted, especially when the moderator ask the president about the

election. >> how would you describe what's at stake in this election? >> i think our democracy is at stake. we are at a real inflection point in history. this guy denies there's global warming. this guy wants to get rid of not only roe v. wade, but he wants to get rid of the ability of anyone anywhere in america to choose. all the things he is doing are so old. speaking of old. you know, a little old and out of shape. >> pro-palestinian protesters interrupted the fund-raiser, gathering inside and outside radio city, with former biden supporters showing up as well. >> did you vote for him in 2020? >> i did.

i will not vote for him this time. >> former president trump traveling to new york yesterday to attend the wake for a slain nypd officer. presenting himself as a law and order candidate, all while facing four indictments. mr. trump speaking on fox news. >> i came in from florida. what a family, the diller family. they lost a hero, really. just a hero. they are devastated. the family is devastated. the police force is devastated. the whole country feels this way. it's happening more and more. it's really a lack of respect for law and order. we have to have law and order back in our country. you go up to a car and they shoot you and murder you. this shouldn't be happening in this country and shouldn't be happening anywhere. it's got to stop. we have to have law and order. >> joining us now, mike memoli, who was at radio city last night. and vaughn hillyard. mike, let's start with you.

this was just one big campaign ad for the biden campaign. our cameras were not allowed inside. you were there. tell us what you saw and heard. what is the strategy for taking on trump? >> reporter: sometimes i think we have to take a step back and remember what an unusual election this is. we have not seen in a long time a sitting president running against his immediate predecessor in a presidential election. yesterday, add to it the unusual scene. four presidents in the new york area. it turned out to be three against one. the democratic presidents each taking on donald trump to an audience that was very, very receptive. for obama, i thought what was interesting is he has been warning biden and his team they need to show more urgency to take on trump more directly. he said it's not enough to speak against trump, you have to highlight the things that joe biden has done for the american people. he really was testifying throughout the event to biden's

personal character and to his accomplishments, in addition to calling out some of the hecklers in a way that biden certainly can't because of the politics of the moment. bill clinton was fascinating, deconstructing the economic argument that biden needs to be making, while also being a little more direct in challenging donald trump as well. we also heard, of course, from president biden, more than a few personal digs against his predecessor and opponent this year. let's listen to another one of them. >> can voters trust a presidential candidate who has not won a single trump international golf club trophy? have you no chip shot? >> i would be happy to play. i told him once before, when he came into the oval -- when he was being -- before he got sworn in. i said, i will give you three strokes if you carry your own bag. >> reporter: i was speaking with donors who are attending a finance committee meeting of some of the campaign's top donors in new york.

the president also just spoke to that audience. he continued his barbs against trump in a more serious way. he called donald trump the most undemocratic president in this country since the civil war. he talked about the stakes globally as well, saying the world looks to this country for stability. an implicit argument about what donald trump vowed to do if he returns to the oval office. >> vaughn, to you now. a lot of star power for donald trump to compete with. he is coming out swinging. he did a fox interview this morning. tell us more about that. >> reporter: right. donald trump knew just hours before that fund-raiser there yesterday in new york city for the biden campaign -- donald trump was attending a wake for officer diller of the nypd in long island. he was killed just one week ago. donald trump in that interview with fox was talking about police and his support for police. take a listen. >> politically, he can't support the police.

i think he is making a mistake. i think politically, his base won't let him support the police. they didn't even call the family. >> reporter: of course, we have seen donald trump repeatedly attack the biden administration over crime, particularly democratic cities across the city. to note, serious crimes have fallen over the last year according to the fbi. when you are talking about donald trump and law enforcement and the justice system, of course, donald trump, when we talk about the five individuals, the five officers who passed away following the events of january 6, donald trump has been silent about their passing. of course, there are more than 140 other officers who were injured on the january 6th attack. of course, he said he would release the january 6 defendants who -- individuals who assaulted police officers that day. of course, just in the last 24

hours, he has gone on the attack against the judge who will oversee his new york case as well as the judge's daughter. for donald trump, who so often we see, he picks and chooses what part of law enforcement and the justice system he supports and the others that he denigrates. for him over the seven months, he made it clear that he is going to try to use the idea of crime in major cities as a way to undercut the biden administration and win over political support. >> mike memoli and vaughn hillyard, we appreciate that. let's talk about it now with david jolly, a former republican congressman from florida and former maryland congresswoman donna edwards. david, talk to me of the optics of donald trump running as a law and order candidate. how effective is that? vaughn points out, both sides of the situation with january 6 and he is fighting indictments, appearing in court, attacking

judges. how can you be both? >> we live in a post-truth america. donald trump has ushered it in and maximized his own advantages by that. listen, if the family was glad to have donald trump at the wake, then god bless the officer and the family. okay. i think given eight years watching donald trump, there's reason to ask whether he attended for his own political benefit and secure this narrative of being pro law and order. i think eight years in, people are kind of on to his schtick. i think, what could possibly change the election outcome from where we are now? are there really undecideds? barring a crisis or acceleration of the economy or something at the border or on the world stage, i think the biggest thing donald trump has to fight against is that people really are on to him.

this trump fatigue. for many of those voters who are perhaps predisposed to think, i just don't think i want this guy back, seeing what he did yesterday in the context of himself now being on trial, claiming law and order when we know his own violations of law, that reminds some of the remaining voters that they can't go back to donald trump. >> donna, let's talk about the other side of this equation, and that's president biden and his re-election effort. president obama yesterday, who we have not heard a ton from at this point, at one point defending president biden on the subject of gaza last night. how potent of an issue or how damaging could the situation in the middle east be to the biden campaign? if so, how do they get out from under it? >> i think that the president has taken steps, particularly over the last several weeks, of really separating himself from the dangerous policies of benjamin netanyahu, calling for

humanitarian -- increased humanitarian assistance and the rest. really, just calling out israel for just slaughtering innocent civilians, many of them women and children. i think the president obviously has to stick with a policy that holds israel to account and also holds, obviously, hamas to account. i think that's going to go a long way with voters. i think having president obama out there on the trail really helping to put some context into the president's policies. as he said, it's a lonely place sitting in the oval office. i think there's times where -- for recovery. you could not have two stronger messengers on behalf of president biden than former president clinton and former president obama out there on

campaign trail. look, we're just getting started with this thing. it's going to be a long season up until november. it really has just started. i think the biden campaign is making great strides in making their case to the american people. you can see that in the uptick in the polling numbers, closing those gaps. i think with the amount of money they have in the bank, it's going to go a long way. i think donors for donald trump have to ask themselves, how much of my money is going to the campaign and how much is going to the -- to his legal defense? biden supporters certainly don't have to ask those questions. i think biden is going to make great use of being able to get his message out on platforms and in ways that the trump campaign simply will not be able to compete with. >> david, you could make an argument that the last couple of times the democrats have lost presidential elections, it's because of the impact that third parties had. you could make it in a number of

examples of how that's the case. georgia republicans -- the republican legislature is a proving a bill that could impact this year's election. could help rfk junior get on the ballot in the battleground state and make it easier to challenge voter eligibility. how much does this kind of a development impact what could ultimately be a very close margin in some of the swing states? >> yeah, ryan, it's an unknown. i would add to the reason democrats have lost the electoral college, a lot of democrats would be saying that was the primary reason. typically, third party or independent candidates tap into the reform movement. those reform sympathies are more often democratic-leaning sympathies. you see them pull away. or it's an ideological run from the far left. in this case, i think the rfk one is intriguing. he is a vaccine freedom candidate. he will pull from the fox news crowd a little bit.

it would be cleaner if it was a binary race. i would say, let's see who rfk starts to draw from. >> okay. david jolly and donna edwards, excellent insight. we appreciate it. one year later, american journalist evan gershkovich hoping for a diplomatic resolution that ends his wrongful detainment inside russia. that's next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in just 60 seconds only on msnbc. old spice gentleman's super hydration body wash. (whispered) vanilla and shea. 24/7 moisturization with vitamin b3. (knock on the door) are you using all the old spice? oops. ♪ (old spice mnemonic) ♪ feeling claritin clear is like... ♪♪ [cat meow] —is she? letting her imagination run wild even though she has allergies. yeah. nexium 24hr prevents heartburn acid for twice as long as pepcid.

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months, ordering him to stay in prison until at least june 30th. his family telling andrea mitchell that they are not giving up hope that he will be freed. >> evan is not here. it has been a year. >> he spent all four seasons there. he spent his birthday and all the holidays. >> we are keeping ourselves optimistic. that's the best way we can cope with it. no pessimism. pessimism will kill all the hope. >> joining me now is keir simmons. one year has been stolen from evan. what is the white white house saying about the detention? is there a path forward? >> he is being held in pretrial detention. what that means is that he can be held for almost indefinitely.

they are holding him while they investigate the espionage charges which his colleagues, the u.s. government, his loved ones all categorically deny. these hearings that have been taking place, including this week where our team in moscow -- nbc news team tried to go. no media was allowed. those hearings are about whether he will be held. it's that challenging. the second part of your question, what the white house is saying -- president biden actually issued a statement just in the past -- just recently, just today. he says, we will continue to denounce russia to use americans as bargaining chips, to evan, to paul whelan, to all americans wrongfully detained abroad, we will never stop working to bring you home. the latter part of the statement raises the question of whether there are negotiations to

potentially swap evan and others for perhaps an fsb, the former kgb officer being held in germany, convicted of murder. we don't know how far that has developed. certainly, president putin has intimated that that's something he might want. it's very, very challenging. that person, for example, is being held in germany. it's not necessarily possible for the u.s. government to tell the germans what to do. it's very difficult for his family and, of course, for evan himself. >> keir simmons, thank you. let's talk about it more. joining me is the former supreme allied commander of nato, admiral james stavridis.

>> this is the only way you will see evan coming home. putin escalated the use of the detentions to try to secure the release of people that are his associates. you will with brittney griner, we had to release an arms dealer. it's hard to see any other pathway. he has escalated crackdowns at home, escalated what he is willing to do to people in prison. we saw navalny die in a prison. it's a tough call for the united states. we don't accept the idea that evan gershkovich is a spy and engaging in a spy swap validates

the way they want to treat him. frankly, because we have done this swap with griner, there's just not that many people left for the united states to exchange. you get into a complicated three-way negotiation potentially with germany that probably doesn't want to be seen releasing somebody who committed murder on their soil on behalf of an american citizen. this is a complicated problem for the administration and a tragic circumstance for evan's family. >> admiral, get us in the thinking of vladimir putin in arresting someone like evan gershkovich. is this him flexing his muscles to illustrate his power? >> it's simply obtaining bargaining chips. by the way, to any american citizens listening out there, please don't go to russia. it just is not going to turn out

well. this is going to continue. by the way, the iranians have done the same thing, the chinese have used a form of this practiced on canadians. as people around the world see the compassion, correctly so, that the united states has for its citizens, the light goes on for them that they can perhaps obtain the release of malevolent actors like, for example, victor boot, who is a true merchant of death. it's the two things you mentioned but it's also the straight up, let's grab an american and we can trade him or her for somebody who is languishing, quite correctly, in jail. >> let's turn to the situation in ukraine. president zelenskyy spoke to the house speaker mike johnson yesterday about the situation on the battlefield. the critical need for u.s. aid, which is stalled in congress right now.

part of this i think is interesting because we know zelenskyy put out a statement about it. the speaker has yet to provide his side of the conversation. what does that tell us about how zelenskyy is navigating the politics of washington? do you envision a scenario where ukraine aid is brought to the house floor? >> it seems like it's alive. i don't think you would have that conversation with the speaker if there wasn't hope. the administration keeps coming back at this. the reality is zelenskyy is saying, this is life and death. this is the basic material that they need to resupply on a very long and difficult frontline where they are fighting against the russians. the russians have made gains in recent months. in part because of the lack of small arms and ammunition and shells that ukraine needs. from the ukrainian standpoint, this is the last chance they have to get anything out of the united states before the november election. beyond that, they are looking at

an election that will determine whether the united states remains a partner or not. i don't think there's any dependability that donald trump is going to continue that assistance. i'm sure the ukrainians are trying do everything they can to get what's locked in congress out. there's no way that the united states or europe can make ukraine whole without that supplemental package. >> there's a component for israel. strikes have escalated since october. what does this signal? >> the israelis are clearly going after the supply chain that is sending weapons from iran across syria to hezbollah in the north of israel, in lebanon. the israelis and the hezbollah terrorists have been exchanging a relatively low level but still

concerning number of missiles and strikes going back and forth. what the strike in syria is designed to do, appropriately, is to interdict resupply headed to hezbollah. one other point i want to make, picking up on the point about the 60 billion and how critical for ukraine, worth noting, the europeans have already offered 60 billion. this is simply matching what our allies in europe are putting up. i think if both europe and the united states come through, it will keep ukraine in good shape through the election. we will have to see how it goes after that. but it is a critical package. now is the time. >> a great point, especially because one of donald trump's arguments is that europe is not paying their fair share, which is not the case. back to israel. the international court of justice at the hague ordered israel to stop them to stop

obstructing aid into gaza. is there a point where israel will have to start listening? >> i think so. i think with the u.s. allowing for that resolution to go through at the security council, calling for an immediate cease-fire, i think that indicates israel's last remaining diplomatic support in the international community is now no longer aligned with the idea that israel, number one, is obstructing assistance from getting to palestinians, and number two, is committed to going forward with this military operation in rafah, the city that has over a million people in it in dire circumstances in the gaza strip. you feel international pressure. if netanyahu chooses to ignore that and go forward with the rah -- rafah operation, i think israel will reach a state of isolation that they haven't faced before. this is a very critical couple of weeks and decision points for

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with donald trump's new york hush money trial scheduled to begin just two weeks from monday, the former president is continuing his attacks against

the presiding judge's daughter on truth social. by our count, at least four times since the judge issued a gag order against him on tuesday, limiting him from making statements about potential witnesses in the criminal trial. neither the judge nor his family are covered by that gag order. yesterday, in georgia, a lawyer for mr. trump citing the first amendment and political speech as the reason why the charges against the former president in fulton county should be dropped. joining me now, legal correspondent lisa ruben and catherine christian, a former manhattan district attorney. lisa, how could the posts affect the gag order imposed earlier this week? >> it's an interesting question. as of right now, as you noted, those posts aren't implicated in the gag order. the gag order as it's written now talks about donald trump's ability to talk about known or potential witnesses, perspective or actual jurors, and then certain participants in the

process but not others, namely the lawyers in the case, except bragg and family members. absent from that gag order is the judge himself and any family members. if the judge wants to take some action here, he will either have to expand the gag order or issue some new prohibition against the former president's ability to talk about his family members and potentially threaten or harm them in the days ahead. >> catherine, given what we know about donald trump, what else should he not be doing to avoid any sort of fines or penalties because of his behavior? >> let me also say, in new york, it is a crime when a person intentionally and for no legitimate purpose engages in conduct at a person and they know that conduct is likely to cause that person reasonable fear for their safety.

that's called stalking in the fourth degree. i'm putting it out there for any law enforcement. she has to decide whether she wants to do anything about that. basically, this is -- donald trump named her. he has targeted her four times publically. i put that out there. as lisa is correct, in terms of the gag order, he technically did not violate it, because the judge did not put himself or his family members as a category that donald trump could not attack. >> lisa, we have seen this play out before. a month ago while under a gag order, he launched similar attacks against judge engoran. why wouldn't a judge include themselves and their family members in the gag order? >> let's start with the second question. why wouldn't a judge include themselves? it's considered unseemly that

judges take this risk and understand the risk of judicial service when they take their jobs. that's probably particularly true in a state judicial system like new york, where supreme court justices -- the trial judges in new york are supreme court justices. they are elected officials. they take that risk. on the other hand, the judge's daughter might be differently situations to judge engoran's wife who lives with him and was able to take advantage of any additional security that the judge himself had. if she lives independently and as an adult, one would expect she does, from her family members, her father might be expected to act differently in this instance. >> catherine, yesterday, a sitting federal judge criticized mr. trump's attacks on judge merchant.

he said -- what's your reaction to the fact that a sitting judge would feel so compelled to speak out about the gravity of this situation? >> it shows how horrendous this behavior is. judges don't speak publically, they don't talk to the press. we know that there have been judges who have been killed and judges' family members killed. it happened in new jersey a few years ago. it's very, very dangerous. particularly because this is a person, donald trump, who has millions of followers who read his social media postings. this young woman, who is the daughter of the judge, has nothing do with this case. she's not the decision maker. i'm sure other judges who have high profile cases are also

scared that something like this might happen to them and their family members. >> they are public servants. it's not as though they are getting rich. they could be making more money probably in private law firms. it's a lot that we ask of them. thank you both. we appreciate that. impeachment politics. a new approach from house republicans on president biden, as capitol hill prepares for secretary mayorkas' impeachment trial. this is "andrea mitchell reports," only on msnbc. ♪♪ [cat meow] —is she? letting her imagination run wild even though she has allergies. yeah. [dog whimpers] [thinking] why always the couch? does he need to go to puppy school? get his little puppy diploma? how much have i been spending on this little guy?

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house speaker mike johnson is sending articles of impeachment against mayorkas to the senate, where there will be a trial in about two weeks. republicans have yet to cite evidence of crimes and misdemeanors by mayorkas, but they are tieing the push to the border either way. joining me now is ali vitali. ali, how are republicans defending this impeachment? how are secretary mayorkas and the homeland security department reacting? >> reporter: it's clear, you and i know this, that this was a key priority for house republicans, but there's no appetite for this really on the senate side, at least not in the numbers they need. all lawmakers here are aware of the realities once this impeachment moves to the senate side of the building. it's why we are seeing senator

chuck schumer say clearly that a day after this is sent to them, he will begin the process. but it's likely to be a short-lived one. you and i know -- we heard from senators, democrats and also republicans, saying that this consideration of a rare impeachment of a cabinet secretary is basically not the thing that they want to be spending their time on in the senate. we also know they have a laundry list of other items to deal with once they get back into town. i imagine this is going to be quickly dispensed with. you and i have covered this congress long enough to know that things can sometimes pop up. we are watching and waiting for that eventuality. the fact that this is going to be one of the first things we see house republicans hit the ground running running with whe come back from this two-week recess that they're currently on is notable, but it's also sort of the final stretch of something that we saw house republicans really elevate in the early days of their majority and now watch it come to its probably foreseen conclusion in the distract-controlled senate.

>> and ali, of course it's not the only impeachment that house republicans are presumably working on. >> hardly. >> they are still working on the impeachment of the current president and we saw the oversight chairman james comer formally invite president biden to testify before his committee. what's the real likelihood of that happening? >> reporter: probably not, ryan, and you followed this so closely as you've been tracking the oversight committee's attempts at trying to find some kind of concrete evidence of the role that former -- that then vice president joe biden would have played in his son hunter's business dealings. of course, even house republicans' best witness relatively has yet to come forward with concrete evidence of that. it's why we're watching comer say that biden should come before them. at the same time, the twhiet white house is literally responding by saying lol at the idea that they would come to

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of course today is good friday marking day two of pope francis's four-day leadership of holy week services, and despite several months of respiratory illnesses, the 87-year-old pope was reportedly looking strong during the annual holy thursday foot washing ceremony. later today, the pontiff is expected to head to the coliseum in rome to attend the way of the cross procession reenacting jesus christ's crucifixion. joining me is claudio lavon ya, who is at the vatican. he did appear to be looking strong and showing real endurance throughout this week's holy week events. has he scaled back his schedule compared to past events and have we heard anything from the vatican about his current

condition? >> reporter: hey, actually, he hasn't scaled back at all surprisingly in a way because there were concerns over whether he would be able to carry out and preside over all of these major events during holy week, especially if you consider that not only he was coming from months where he had frequent bouts of bronchitis, flu, cold that led him to sometimes cancel appointments, audiences, even letting other aides to read for him. on palm sunday just a few days ago, he decided not to read the homily. perhaps that was the biggest indication he was not feeling well, and that's why there were concerns. instead, somehow he has recovered. right now behind me at the basilica of st. peter's he's presiding over the celebration of the lord's passion as scheduled. later on as you mentioned, he's expected to attend the way of the cross at the coliseum. also, throughout the week on wednesday he attended the general audience. he looked fine.

on thursday he washed the feet as per tradition of 12 female inmates in a prison in the outskirts of rome. he was sitting -- he was on a wheelchair. he still has, of course, mobility problems, but at least he's respiratory problems seem to have gotten much better. that makes us belief he's also fit to believe mass for the most important day of this holy week, of course, which is sunday. ryan. >> reporter:. >> and looking ahead to sunday, what are we expecting to hear from the pope particularly against the backdrops of wars in israel, ukraine, and the other strife afflicting humanity. >> reporter: it's easy to predict in a way, we don't have the speech, yet, it is easy to predict he will appeal for a cease fire for peace in both wars because started at the beginning of the war in ukraine and also of the war in gaza. he has consistently almost on a weekly basis called for a cease fire, called for peace. he's asked for catholics around the world to pray for peace, and

we expect him to do that once again on easter sunday. back to you, ryan. >> claudio lavanga in st. peter's square. thank you for that. that does it for us in this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow the show on social media @mitchellreports. right now it is time for "chris jansing reports," which starts right now. ♪♪ good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the battle for big bucks is on. president biden setting the bar incredibly high, $26 million raised last night alone. now donald trump is trying to smash that record, but donors may want to know how much is going to go to court costs as opposed to his campaign. plus, the delicate and dangerous process of clearing the wreckage at baltimore's key bridge, just getting started. so how long until the port

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