next. >> the situation that happened in ukraine has to do with whether or not the people of ukraine can determine their own destiny. i personally have to expressed to president yanukovych the need for him to recognize the spirit of the ukrainian people and work with that. >> and as the violence escalates in ukraine, a protest video from there goes viral. >> reporter: we want to be free from it. we want to be free from the politicians who work only for themselves. who are ready to shoot, to beat be to injure people. >> hazards ahead as new jersey governor chris christie holds his first town hall today since the bridgegate scandal. another potential republican contender is under the microscope today. did wisconsin governor's scott

walker's office mix politics with official business back when he was running. and rapper's delight. the "tonight show" jimmy fallon has a new rap mashup starring two of our own isn't that hotel motel holiday inn ♪ say if you're a girl starts acting up then you take her friend ♪ ♪ good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we'll talk about the latest from ukraine in a moment. first, a new warning about a potential shoe bomb that is changing travel procedures on foreign flights coming into the u.s. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams first broke the story and joins me now. pete, let's talk about what this threat is and what's it based on? >> it's based on intelligence monitoring, andrea, of the places where terrorists have

been talking about bombing u.s. aircraft for some time. there was an uptick in this chatter, we're told about using shoes for carrying explosives on airplanes. because of where it came from and the tempo about it. officials decided to put out these advisories to airlines. now, it applies overseas to airlines that have flights that leave their last point of departure from overseas directly to the united states. so let's say you're flying from sochi through frankford to the u.s., you're not going to see it when you first get on the plane in sochi. you're only going to see it when you board a flight that goes directly to the united states. and then foreign travelers will see something they haven't really seen much, though we're used to it here. they'll have to take their shoes off. the shoes will be x-rayed and they'll use trace detector swabs to check them out. they'll also be checking shoes on carry-on bags. here in the u.s., officials say

again today they don't expect to see any change in the security protocols. what that means, many travelers will have to take their shoes off just as they did a week ago. travelers in the precheck program that can go through without doing things like taking jackets off and opening up loptop computers or taking off shoes and belts, it won't change for them either. it's strictly overseas. how long this will last, andrea, hard to tell. that's based on the intelligence. they review these things every week to ten days or so. so they'll say more about whether that's going to stay in place. on an unrelated note. the advisory about checking out possible toothpaste tubes as a way to smuggling explosives on the flight to russia, we'll check to see whether homeland is going to extend that once the olympics are over. >> pete williams with the latest. thank you. s the death toll is rising in kiev today, european officials

trying to negotiate a truce that can hold between the protesters and the government. wendy sherman is the state department's top negotiator with iran. and has just completed the first tox on a permanent deal in iran. first, let's talk about ukraine. you've been with the european officials, negotiating. surely, ukraine came up and you know the state of play. what can europe and the united states do by banning travel from government leaders and freezing assets? will that have any impact on the decisions made by the government? >> well, i think the possibility of those sanctions got at least the attempt at a cease-fire and a meeting between the opposition and the government. that quickly dissolved, as you know, into great tragedy today. and that great tragedy included a government that used automatic weapons against its own citizens. so we've had many, many deaths and a great deal of violence in

kiev today. and throughout ukraine there is continued violence. so what i think the european union was looking at today and its foreign affairs council and lady ashton who coord mads the p5 plus 1 talks with iran here in vienna left this morning to go bright back to brussels. two that three european ministers went to ukraine this morning. and then reported back to the foreign affairs council, i believe, by phone. as you know, the white house has put out a very strong statement that this violence should stop. there needs to be mediation here. but first and foremost, the government has to pull back, not fire upon its citizens. i would suspect that everyone is looking at additional sanctions, additional measures that can be taken, to tell president yanukovych and the government in kiev to think twice about what they're doing. to listen to the voices of the ukrainian people. and to work together with the

entire international community, with everyone in the international community to try to have the future that the people of ukraine hope for. >> what do we say to vladimir putin in russia who they've been arguing that we have no right to meddle, as he would put it, in ukraine. that it's his backyard that it's outside of our severe of influence. what is the united states argument for being engaged here? >> well, i think the argument is that this is not a zero sum game. this is not about the ukrainian people choosing between russia and the european union or the united states. we no longer live in the cold war. this is about everyone working together, supporting the people of ukraine. this is a young democracy, but one trying to really become a full-fledged democracy. and i think what we're seeing in many places around the world are people that yearn to have a

full-fledged democracy. and are saying to their government, respond to us. listen to us. hear our views, include us, incorporate us, make sure that elections are free and fair. that corruption is gone. and that we can have the future we want. democracy and the growth of democracy is a hard business. but people in the end fight for what they want. and we are seeing what can be the devastating and difficult results of that when a government is not responsive, is not listening. is not letting all of the voices in a country be heard. >> what about russia's role, the role that putin is playing in supporting the ukraine government and presumably supporting what they've done? shouldn't putin be saying to the ukrainian president that he shouldn't be using automatic weapons fire against his own people? >> everyone should be saying

that yanukovych should not be using automatic weapons fire against his own people. i think that's completely outrageous. as we have said today, as leaders all over the world have said. and i assume that the russians, that every member of the security council of the united states nations who want peace and security for the world will urge the government to pull back. and for everyone to stop and try to get to a peaceful place and let the voices of the people of ukraine be heard. >> now, i want to ask you, obviously, about iran. you've will be leading these negotiations. this was the first round of the talks for a permanent agreement built on the framework that was agreed to several months ago. there are reports that the iranians say that certain things are off the table, that in fact the foreign minister said they will not negotiate on their missile program. and i think u.s. officials have said that needs to be on the table. which is it?

>> what it is, to be very straightforward about it is, everything that the p5 plus 1 and the european union believe should be on the table, should be discussed in a comprehensive agreement is being discussed as part of a comprehensive agreement. we all, of course, have different perspectives about how to resolve those issues, how they should be addressed, but indeed, we discuss the entire range of subjects in the three days we've been here in vienna. it was a very workmanlike, very constructive, and i would say productive, set of conversations. we have now set the table by arraying all of the things that need to be discussed in that apprehensive agreement. a timetable of meetings. a process going forward. we began the work. now we're going to get deeper into the hard work. this is going to be difficult. this is going to be tough. this is going to be complex.

but there was a commitment by everyone sitting at the negotiating table today to try to get this done. and to get this done by the end of july when the six months of the joint plan of action are up. that was a very worth while first step. we expect and see that all parties are in fact following through on the commitments they have been -- they made in that first step. but we don't want it to be the only step. and we don't want it to be the last step. we have to get to a comprehensive agreement for two reasons. we have to be sure, as president obama has said, that iran never obtains a nuclear weapon. and secondly, we have to make sure that the international is community has confidence that iran's nuclear program is an exclusively peaceful one. that's the major of a comprehensive agreement. that's what we're setting out to do. >> you're about to go to saudi arabia and to israel and talk to the allies about what was

accomplished. their concerns are iran is already selling more oil in getting around sanctions since this first framework was agreed to. what can you do to guarantee that the sanctions are not being violated? >> well, what we can do, what we always do is talk to people around the world about what is now their able to do under the joint plan of action. there was limited targeted sanctions relief for the six months that the joint plan of action is enforce. and we have made all the necessary arrangements for that limited targeted sanctions relief. and we are committed to the repatriation of funds from iranian frozen assets that are permissible under the joint plan of action. at the same time, we will continue to enforce the sanctions architecture which remains in place in oil, financial and banking. and we have our teams and our colleagues talk to people around

the world. we want things that are legitimate. can go forward. things that remain for the relief that will be seen and in the implementation of a comprehensive agreement, await that comprehensive agreement. >> wendy sherman, thank you so much. and safe travels. >> thank you very much, andrea. and now to ukraine, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel is live in kiev. richard, it has been a horrendous night and day. tell us the latest. >> reporter: well, it has been a very bloody day. the death toll is not exactly clear. dozens certainly. the death toll ranges from about 45 to 100. and protesters in the square behind me are right now holding a very -- memorial before they were holding up lights. now they are singing some -- some songs to remember those who have died today. this was supposed to have been the start of a truce.

and it seems that it was the protesters who first started the truce. that's what we could see today. the protesters say they felt threatened. they felt they had no choice, but they moved on to the police. the police, while they felt that they were being assaulted retreated. and as they were pulling back, then the police used a lot of force, automatic weapons. and that's where most of those who were killed today lost their lives. >> new, the european foreign ministers from poland from france and germany were there earlier in the day, meeting with the president. then meeting with the rebel leaders. and then reporting back to brussels where sanctions are going to be imposed. will that have any impact, do you think? >> reporter: the protesters here are begging for sanctions. people came up to me today and said we want more than just threats of sanctions. we want real sanctions. say that this is a corrupt

regime. that cares more about its finances than anything else. and they think that financial sanctions will have a dramatic impact. and but the ukrainian president is getting very mixed messages. on one hand, you have the europeans and the americans saying they must do more to accommodate the demonstrators to have a dialogue to limit presidential powers which is something the protesters initially wanted. now they want the president and all of his associates to immediately be removed from power, put on trial. then on the other hand, you have moscow saying that ukraine -- allow this, that ukraine, quote, shouldn't be a door mat and should take a much more aggressive policy. so the same way this country is split, whether it will side with or lean toward europe and the united states, or continue its alliance with moscow. the president of this country, the embattled president of this country is facing that same choice. >> richard engel, where the action is in kiev.

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welcome back. one of the leading republican governors for the 2016 primaries if he chooses to run is facing unwelcome scrutiny back home. no, this time we don't mean chris christie. wisconsin governor scott walker

is now under fire after thousands of pages of newly released documents are raising questions about whether his office violated campaign laws in the past. the trove of documents reveals the close relationship between walker's campaign and the taxpayer-paid county staff during the election cycle when he first was running for governor. how could this impact a possible run? joining me now chris, national political correspondent for "the washington post" and the team lead for who broke this story, the milwaukee journal sentinel. daniel, thanks for joining us. please explain the significance of these thousands of pages of e-mails unsealed by the court today. >> well, there have been two secret investigations of governor walker's staff. and we haven't really seen too much about what was going on behind the scenes. but his deputy chief of staff was convicted. and he's appealing the decision.

and as a result of that, they unsealed a number of documents. 27,000 pages of documents. 8,000 e-mails. and what the records make clear is something we all know, that is, none of us would want 8,000 of our e-mails to be released publicly. >> now, among these doubts, a number that raise questions about whether or not there was the proper separation. i want to point out that we talked to governor walker's office for a statement today. so i want to get that on the record right now. and the statement they gave us was the recently released communications of a county staffer from several years ago are part of a legal process that was completed earlier last year. governor walker is confident that during that legal process, these communications were thoroughly reviewed by the authorities. the focus of governor walker remains on moving wisconsin forward by helping employers create more jobs and reducing the tax burden on wisconsin families. and that's from jonathan wessel,

friends of scott walker. let's go to karen first. scott walker has an unique position among all of the governors who are not chris christie. he is one of the real contenders among, you know, mainstream republican party. the. people and the decision makers who are looking for let's say a rand paul and tea party candidate? >> and after surviving the recall in wisconsin, he's really a hero to conservatives. he was just coming off a big book tour. so his profile is very high. it's true, these are old e-mails, they all date from, you know, before he was governor. but let's face it, there's a lot of sort of -- there's things there that question whether in practice, if not in the letter of the law they were skirting this state law that requires that state employees not be spending state time to work on campaigns. but there's also just a lot of sort of embarrassing, you know,

off-color humor. and all the kinds of things that could come back to haunt them. >> and let's go through some of the e-mails in this trove. chris, when we talk about embarrassing e-mails and e-mails that indicate that was what would be considered a very close connection between the county staff and the political team, one was the county executive is asked that we conduct a conference call daily at 8:00 a.m. to review events of the day or of a previous or future day so we can better coordinate sound, timely responses so we all know what the others are doing." that would seem to indicate that they were involved very much the political team and the official team. >> you know, andrea, first of all, not to sound too cynical here. i do think the cross pollination or the close semi permanent me yabl membrane between an individual and the office that he is running for, his or her campaign, it's not all that new, as you point out under wisconsin

law, under most state laws, quite frankly, that would be looked on. i will say this, no matter what e-mails or documents it doesn't seem like a smoking gun here. in the statement you read, scott walker is trying to say, as karen said, this is old news. but the thing you don't want to hear if you're even looking at running for president some 2016, and if you're up for re-election. let's not forget that. 27,000 pages of internal communiques. i mean, there's no good that cups of 27,000 pages including many e-mails coming outside if you are someone who wants to run for president of the united states. so in that, it's quite clearly, whether there's anything good, bad or imdifferent in there about scott walker and the allegations it certainly does not help him. >> daniel bice, when we talk about e-mails, a lot of us do want to see our e-mails out there. it's certainly embarrassing.

the one from thomas nardelli, the former scott walker chief of staff. he's sick lating some kind of joke. i guess he's forwarding this. i can handle being a black, disabled one armed drug addicted jewish homosexual on a pacemake who is hiv positive, bald, orphaned unemployed lives in a slum, and has a mexican boyfriend but press oh dear god, please don't tell me i'm a democrat." it gives a state of mind here? >> yeah, ha, ha. one the issue of credibility. even though the e-mails are old, we've had this four-year conversation going on. the governor talked about this repeatedly. he maintained there was a wall. a large wall between his campaign and the county staff. but the e-mails suggest it was more like a hurdle and a very slow hurdle. and people jump back and forth across it radio petedly. secondly, there's this issue that you're raising right now

the equality of staff. this e-mail, it's racist. and another one that's board line racist. last year, the governor fired a campaign staffer who was posting racist tweets. and he also fired a state staffer who posted anti-immigration statements on facebook. i mean it raises questions about the sort of people. and who exactly is doing the vetting for the people that he surrounds himself with. >> daniel bice, thanks so much. chris, and karen. jimmy fallon scoring big again on the "tonight show" with a new cake on a familiar favorite, featuring brian williams with a little help from other 30 rock emcees. ♪ so far you've heard my voice ♪ but i brought had two friends along ♪ ♪ next on the mike is my hank, come on hank, sing that song ♪ check it out ♪

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a violent clash has escalated in venezuela as president nicolas maduro faces the largest protest in 11 months in office. six people have died in confrontation with law enforcement, including a

well-known beauty queen, miss venezuela. joining me now from miami, thanks so much for being with us. tell us how the protests developed. i know there's endemic trial and economic problems but what was the catalyst that brought it together, the critical mass? >> well in tunisia, i think it was a fruit stand vendor. here in the case of venezuela, i think it came down to the sexual assault of a student on one of the campuses. and it really was the tipping point, andrea for the rampant crime that exists in the country coupled with challenges that the country has been facing, actually years in the making. venezuela with internal problem it's in country is one of the most dangerous countries not just in the region but in the world with 25,000 homicides last year. so i think this has reached a critical mass for the students at the front line of this call for action. are leading a charge, speaking

out against the oppressive policies. >> and lopez was the opportunity leader and he led a rally and surrendered to police. i guess there's a lot of confusion as to why he surrendered did he have to surrender and what his status is. is he still in prison? >> they're awaiting word on what the fate of mr. lopez. what he has done is cast himself in the role of a catalyst to call for change. there's almost an element of martyrdom. it's interesting the government is trying to silence the opposition by taking away any notion of mr. lopez. what he's doing in coming himself out in one sparking the change and asking the people to rise up with and having committed no acts. you see, of course, secretary kerry and even the u.s. government praising his efforts i think it's been very effective

in cattlizie catalyzing the res. >> maduro was elected to succeed chavez. what is his hold on this, given any country that has such wealth, oil wealth, it seems as sto astounding? >> well, maduro doesn't have the leadership qualities that were able to help chavez to lead. in addition to the fact in the country itself there's questions about his own citizenship. whether or not he was actually worn in venezuela. there's some questions about whether he might have been born in colombia. all of this is gone and eroded his standing in the country. so he doesn't quite have the hold or capture the imagination

of the venezuelan people. and his inability to kind of use the political skills that were so effortless for hugo chavez has put him in this precarious situation that he finds himself in today. >> thank you very, fernand. thank you for the update on venezuela. out to the latest from sochi where the olympic medal count has tweem usa out in front with 23 medals. and there is a chance for more today. right now the u.s. women's hockey team is going head to head against rival canada. a gold medal is on the line. for each country's leaders there's even more at stake. check out the tweets, canada's prime minister steven harper who met yesterday said i'm betting barack obama one case of canadian beer per hockey win. team usa is good but we are winter. go canada go.

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which we're in competition with russia. our goal is to make sure the people of ukraine are able to make decisions for themselves about their future. >> ukraine is only the latest crisis dividing president obama and vladimir putin. chris hill is a former ambassador and now the dean of the kobe bell school of international studies at the university of denver. thank you very much, chris, good to see you. let's talk about what feels like the cold war. i know it's not the cold war, but, boy, this relationship with u.s. and russia, we've heard very strong criticism from every level, including john kerry about russia's role in syria, russia's control vis-a-vis other crises and with ukraine, russia saying we have no business being there. what's going on? >> for ukraine, they've had their independence for 20 years and it's been 20 years of political crisis.

but this most recent crisis was very much put into play by the russian response to the ukrainian decision to receive associate member status from the european union. the russians went ahead and announced they're going to boycott trade. it was kind of brutal stuff. so this time, i think the russians have really put themselves very much into the center of the problem. you know, ukraine is an enormous economic issue but it's an even bigger geo-strategic issue in countries like poland whose foreign minister's in kiev today have been very concerned if ukraine were kind of to lose its independence and become sort of associated once again with russia, well, that's the difference between a russia that we know. and a former soviet union. so it's very important to countries in the west, especially poland, that ukraine retain its independence. and i must say, this is about as deep as the crisis has been in 20 years. the number of deaths is much higher than anything we've seen

in the past. so this is a very critical moment and the question is what can be done to kind of pull the parties back from each other. clearly, yanukovych's government can't be maintained. but nor can the opposition demand that he be, you know, fired and put to trial. so they've got to work something out. and i'm very pleased that the german, french and russian -- i'm sorry, polish foreign ministers are on the scene, trying to broker something. >> but russia's role sort of egging yanukovych on, now he's used, you no, automatic weapon fire against his own people. this crosses a line, especially coming after the appeals from the president last night. do we have no sway here at all? >> well, it is rather extraordinary to see the degree to which the russians have chosen to be very much involved in this, including this most recent statement by prime minister medvedev to the effect that unless the government is prepared to be tougher, the

russians are going to withhold assistance. so, clearly, this speaks to the need for very much of a direct dialogue between the united states and russia which does kind of harken back to a previous era. but, clearly, there's got to be some better patterns of cooperation or at a minimum, patterns of communication between the u.s. and russia. you know, we started out last summer with a kind of renewed effort on the issue of syria, and that's clearly fallen apart, as the talks last week in geneva would suggest. so we're really having some troubles reaching some understanding with the russians. you know, there's no senior american representative at the opening of the sochi olympics. i mean, a lot of things have kind of gone off the rails. but, you know, in fairness to our administration, you know, we are dealing with a putin-led russia that is a very difficult entity, much more so than a

yeltsin-led russia was 20 years ago. >> ambassador, let me ask you, just to play devil's advocate, did we go too far in supporting the protesters back in december? our assistant secretary went out into the square with bread. did we provoke russia, sting our finger in the eye at all, do you think? >> i think russia's decision to essentially boycott ukraine over the associate membership issue is what really provoked the situation. that said, i think one learns in diplomatic school, you don't use a cell phone. you certainly don't use -- you know have sensitive discussions on a cell phone. but the fact that the russians would then put that out on youtube really speaks to the fact that we're dealing with a russia that is really -- doesn't know how to behave these days. so i'm not going to blame the americans on this. i think the russians have really created a situation where we, frankly, had no choice but to

take an active control and to try to encourage what many ukrainians want to see, that say better relationship with the west. after all, the ukrainian economy has been extremely weak in recent years. they never recovered from the recession that everyone else is recovering from. this is hardly the u.s. fault. i think this speaks to the fact that russia has really not been a good partner for ukraine. >> thank you very much, chris hill. always good to see. you. >> pleasure. >> and as kiev continues to burn today, we're going to take a look at very different, yet familiar scene since the dawn of the arab spring. the filmmakers behind the documentary "the square" joining me right here next. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts, ♪ 800,000 hours of supercomputing time,

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there are a lot of differences but the uprising in ukraine is reminiscent of another social revolution, the one that took over cairo's tahrir square. the film "square" highlights the throwing over of hosni mubarak. and in the quest for a new life.

>> and joining me now is "the square's" director jehane noujaim and kareem amer. what inspired you and follow through all of these years? >> thank you, i'm egyptian, i grew up about ten minutes away from the square. and i followed the protest movement for about ten years. and really wanted to be in the middle of it all when it happened. i made my first films with penny baker, films about the '60s. it's like time travel when you watch their film. it's like you're sitting in the back of the cab, joan baez in the middle of the streets. i really wanted to understand on a personal level what the fight is about. it's really about three guys that meet each other in the square. become friends and realize they have a lot more in common

personally than they do difference. we followed their journey over the past basically three years. it's about the civil rights movement of our time. >> and what has happened to them now? we've seen the lost hope as we've progressed and you see, of course, what's happened to the revolution. and this is a story not yet finished. but what about your three protagonists? >> well, it's an ongoing struggle. and i think that the three protagonists come from completely different walks of live. one of them, hassan, he's representative of so many of egypt who really found their voice for the first time in tahrir square and thought they can be the authors of their future. and he's will with a leading hollywood actor the star of "the kite runner" and "green zone" and also realize that he needs to be standing in that square. and magedi a member of the

muslim brotherhood and father of five. they all agree on one thing, what's happening in egypt say transformative phase. and that the only way change will happen is by following thee revolution but by also realizing the evolution of change that's required and the evolution of change is a much slower process, much more difficult and it's ongoing. the demands and hopes of what people are fighting for in egypt are going to take time to accomplish. but we're optimistic as are they. because we've seen that it's -- great change has always been created throughout history by the dedicated few that are unwilling to compromise on their principles and keep going. when we zoom out and we see that the images in cairo and tahrir square and kiev and caracas and bangkok and earlier in istanbul all started to look the same, we started to realize there's a global struggle that's happening. the failures of these squares are interconnected. we have hope that the pursuit of these basic civil liberties all

around the world will continue and that active citizenry, audiences like those watching today, the screens, can help level the playing field. >> the protesters had a screening of the film in kiev. >> you were telling me about that. tell me about the perils. i know the differences. y tell me about the moment in kiev. >> particulars of each movement are different. what's uniting them is people trying to change their relationship with their government and people power. and what happened, we had a screening in kiev a couple of weeks ago where the protesters themselves translated the film and showed it in the square. and beamed ahmed in and they communicated with each other, basically talking about what are the lessons that can be learned. >> their square is called myidan and our square is called elmyidan.

>> for someone like myself who covered the whole europe europe movement, this all comes together. thank you so much. we'll be rooting for you big time. >> this is a conversation starter. all of these young people watching it are going to hash tag the square afterwards. >> or at the square film on twitter. >> we'll tweet this out, too. >> when the world watched what was happening in egypt during the initial protest against mubarak, it shifted the conversation, because it went from a lonely fight between the egyptian protester versus the egyptian dictator to a global fight where the world witnessed, protected us who were fighting in the square. >> we'll continue this on social media. >> and to urge to do this for all squares. >> come back soon. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. (meow mix jingle)

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