their demands are met. this crisis doesn't seem over yet. >> state secrets, the new hillary clinton book takes a deep dive into her record at the state department. find out what the authors have to say about clinton's next chapter. >> road rules, first lady michelle obama opens up on the tonight show about life in the white house for sasha and malia and this warning for d.c. drivers. >> are they driving? >> you know, malia will be. she's going to turn 16 this summer, so we're kind of dealing with that. ladies and gentlemen in d.c., watch out. >> yeah. >> malia obama on the road, kind of frightening. i have security, so i'm good. >> and russia's ice princess dethrones queen yuna more than 1 million people have signed a petition contesting the result. >> the result last night, it's going to be talked about. yuna kim is we loved and the

performance was exquisite and amazing but it was simpler. and good day, everyone, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. it's hope that today's agreement between ukraine's president and opposition leaders can end the carnage on the streets of kiev, tony is deputy national security adviser and joins me from the white house. what are you hearing about the agreement and whether moscow has signed off on it? >> well, first of all, andrea, 24 hours ago ukraine was on the verge of imploding economically and politically. now thanks to this agreement, there is a way forward and way out of this crisis. we're not out of the woods yet. it still has to be implemented but i think ukraine has pulled back from the brink and that's thanks to terrific work by the european foreign ministers and leaders and united states and

close koordation with them and by the courage of the political leaders in the ukraine to compromise and get this agreement. >> it was unclear from the beginning whether the rebel leaders really had control over all aspects of the opposition. do you think those in the square and those elsewhere in kiev and the western part of the country are going to follow their leaders? >> you know, the council that represents the people on the square voted strongly in spoert of the agreement. and the hope is certainly that the opposition leaders can bring along the people. that will be a critical test. but what is really going to be a critical test is whether this agreement gets implemented quickly and effectively. that will convince people that it's for real. we need to see the coalition government stood up quickly and constitutional reforms go forward. we fleed to see troops pulled back and police pulled back and end to the violence. the proof will be in the substance of what happens in komting days. >> what deadlines are there for

president yan co-vich to comply with the west demands here? >> there are a series of deadlines in the agreement itself to get to a coalition government and reform the constitution and have elections, some in the coming days and by the end of the year. all of that is written down, agreed to and signed. the question now is to make sure it gets implemented. >> now, how difficult has vladimir putin made this whole process? yesterday we saw his prime minister medvedev saying that the government -- the ukraine government had to get tougher with the opposition because otherwise they would be made to door look a door mat. clearly moscow was egging them on. >> i don't think this agreement would have happened without the support of russia. the bottom line is this, this is not and does not need to be a zero sum game between russia and europe and the united states. the fact of the matter is russia has deep ties to ukraine, the

ukrainian people have real aspirations to be more closely joined to europe. these things are not incompatible. russia has a stake in deep vemts there and exports there. if ukraine is not doing well, russia won't do well. the stability that comes with this agreement and the stability that comes from closer integration is in russia's interest and hopefully the russians will see it. >> the parliament voted to lower the charges that jailed two years the chief rival, political rival of the president. is her release from jail part of this agreement? >> it's not part of the agreement. it's a separate tract. too basically sideline a political rival and it is long overdue that she be released

from prison. >> we were showing live pictures there? the square as you've been speaking of people holding up cell phones, it looks like a calm and quiet vigil. quite a contrast to the blood shed we saw yesterday, the make shift clinics people being brought into mass units in hotel lobbies and dying in the streets, according to richard engel who will speak to momentarily. how do you protect that from happening again? >> first and for most it's the government's responsibility to protect their own people and to make known their views peacefully. that is incumbent on the government and that's what we need to see going forward. look, this all started with very peaceful protests and concerns about the direction ukraine was taking. and the real bottom line is this, this is really about who gets to decide ukraine's future and for us that decision needs to be made by the ukrainian people, not by the united states, not by russia, not by europe, but by the ukrainian

people. that's what -- that's the prince principle at stake here. there is a real prospect for that to happen and that can dramatically calm the situation. >> now, the vice president biden yesterday did call ukraine's president with a serious warning but what is the president's involvement been? we've only seen him with break remarks that he made in mexico at the summit. has he had any personal engagement or contact with the russians or other key players? i no he called angela merkel yesterday? >> the president has been deeply involved guiding this every single day. he told us the senior leadership team to do everything we could to defuse the crisis and that's what we've done. we've reported to him every day over the last couple of weeks on the situation in ukraine and gotten direction from him. as you said, he spoke at length to angela merkel yesterday. he'll speak to president putin in the hours ahead. and vice president biden deeply

engaged with president yanco vich and senior leaders working with the opposition, working with the europeans. this has been a very tightly and closely coordinated effort directed by the president. >> tony blinken and what you just said makes news because the president is going to be talking to putin obviously a call has been organized if you're telling us so we expect to hear more later today. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> for more on what's ping in kiev from the streets there, chief foreign correspondent richard engel, you just heard the national deputy security adviser, does the reaction in washington track at all with the reality of what you're seeing in kiev? >> reporter: i think you can hear it now people are dheering and celebrating. there's been no violence today. we've seen somber memorials for those kid and fireworks.

the protest ares feel they have the president here on the ropes. they want -- push for more concessions but certainly feel they have made progress. >> how important is the release of yulia from prison. is that a big demand what parliament has now agreed to? we may have lost -- >> reporter: hanging in the square right now so there are a series of demands that the protesters have. her release being one of them. what they primarily would like to see is the president to be removed from power immediately and put on trial. that is their gut reaction, that is what people will tell you immediately if you ask what do you want. then they have a larger series of political demands. some of which are being met. if this compromised proposal had been put forward maybe three weeks ago, it would have been

absolutely accepted. you can certainly hear from the excitement in the crowd that they consider all of this an incredibly positive development. >> as of now the rebel leaders and opposition leaders are being followed by the protesters. there may be differences of opinion along the edge but they seem to be accepting the fact that this agreement is a good first step. >> reporter: there's been a lot of talk. will these protesters -- accept what the opposition leaders say. how much distance is there between the different sides and how hard line have the people become? when we were in the square we were talking to people who many of them had advanced degrees and not radicals. they said they want to see progress and want to listen to the political opposition but they do have more demands. they would like to see the

president step down immediately and put on trial. that is the key distance there might be between those in the square right now and the political leader with the president signing a deal earlier today. >> richard engel, let me just say as the week draws to a close. your reporting has been extraordinary, brave and brilliant story telling and we thank you for bringing it to all of us. thank you, my friend and be safe. >> reporter: thank you very much. >> ahead, we'll go live to sochi where it is round two on the ice between the u.s. and canada. but first, jimmy kimmel pulled off an olympic size hoax, it appeared to be a wolf roeming her olympic dorm had everyone fooled in thele truth was revealed last night. >> you've only seen half of the clip. this is the whole thing.

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of the matter is the overwhelming majority of americans think that raising the minimum wage is a good idea. that is true for independence and true for democrats and true for republicans. >> you could call it operation do no harm. both parties now trying to paper over their deep internal divisions by avoiding tough issues between now and midterm elections. joining me now, washington bureau chief sus ang page and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. let's hear it for the ladies. susan, the strategy in both parties is remarkably similar, let's not talk about immigration or do the chain cpi or anything that would upset different branches of the party. let's just get through the next couple of months. >> it's only february though. didn't these guys get elected, guys and women get elected to try to address some of these problems? it seems remarkable to me that at this point it's like just pack up, go home and it's just

campaign time. >> you know what's remarkable, not necessarily that they are not doing anything, but that they are being so flagrant about it. couldn't you at least be pretending to be trying something. it's operation like what us govern. i'm pretty frustrated. i like governing, but not personally and i like policy. there are a lot of things that are not getting done. >> there are some controversial issues they will not be able to avoid the key stone pipe line, they can try to delay this but then it will hit them in the face before the 2016 race. they have to deal with the divisions in their own party between union leaders and others versus environmentalists including one that happens to be the secretary of state. >> they have been pretty successful in slow walking -- >> that was hillary clinton who helped manage that as well as barack obama. >> there seems to be no impulse to try to deal with it. i don't know how long they can

go but it's true on both -- americans would like action on the minimum wage and action on immigration. we know that and action on gun control. there's no shortage of things we like, action on americans generally. it is true the one thing you can say that they managed to do, we're not going to have a shutdown on the budget or debt ceiling and for that i think a lot of voters are probably grateful. >> let me change topics, it was very striking michelle obama was on jimmy fallon. i want to play michelle obama as chief mom. xbl you know, they really want normalcy and the white house isn't normal -- they go other places. so i'll say don't you want to invite your friends over to watch a movie? no one wants to come here. >> you hear things just because this is a small town -- small community in some regards, that friends of mine who have kids who are their age say these are

two lovely girls and try to be as normal as possible. but it is offputting when you arrive with a motorcade. >> i suspect no one wants to come here is the actual truth having kids in that general age range. but it is awfully difficult to be a presidential child. there's a lot of benefits to it but there is intense scrutiny, especially in this age when there's tweeting and video cameras and video phones and i'm dating myself and everything else. i think that the obamas to their credit have tried really, really hard to ensure that these young women now have as normal a life as possible, including -- i can tell you this as a mom of a new driver myself, including the notion that malia obama is about to start driving. >> susan and i rep the missteps by past administrations, i remember poor amy carter and

scrutiny she had going to public school no less. it was really tough. then the bushes made the decision to send their daughters to private -- they were already in college. but chelsea clinton to go to private school. it was clearly a private school education that was certainly elite and privileged but gave them the privacy they needed. >> if tlsz one thing americans agree on, they respect the way the obamas have raised their kids and kept them out of the public eye. i would say as mother of two former teenagers they did not want to spend time with us either. >> you're pretty cool. >> it changes and this is my message to michelle obama, mrs. obama, just hang in there. i've got a daughter begging me to go visit her at college. i'm getting on the train. >> i love that. >> i wish i could come with you. >> i wish you could. >> thank you very much. susan and thank you both moms. and the first lady also held her own with host jimmy fallon and will ferrell for the sketch

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york times best seller. very big deal. >> thank you, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> let's talk about hillary clinton. you spent so much time working on this. first to you, amy, is she going to run? >> we're almost certain she's running, 99.9% sure. something really significant would have to happen to keep her out of the race. >> the major themes in the book, how she continued to build the clinton operation while at the state department, not just in terms of her reputation and brand but also really reaching out to business leaders and trying to get them involved in foreign policy, working behind the scenes a little bit on domestic issues and little bit on domestic politics. i think the argument you see in the book is that she's been running all along. it would really be a matter of her having to stop running not start running. >> a lot of business leaders are past fundraisers and bundlers and contributors. >> definitely. i heard you say something about this on "meet the press" recently, a lot of state

department official events that donor class was invited to and around for during her tenure. >> amy, she does have to avoid the quote, inevitability stamp because that connects her to the past, not the future. that's what tripped her up to a certain extent in 2008. >> right, but i think there's trouble even with republicans, they don't know what strategy to take. you had people like karl rove saying this is not a good strategy. there's so much they can focus on right now and then you have people like reince priebus saying everything is on the table. i think the clinton people have been completely silent. they are looking to move ahead and not looking to talk about the '90s at all. >> you talk about her -- her tendencies as foreign policy figure in the cabinet. you say she has a tendency towards bias. hillary harbors a relate the trait that one calls a bias

tendency for action, which influences her decision-making process and can be seen in her approach to going after osama bin laden and her building of a coalition to inconvenient militarily in libya and encourages her aides to innovate and i am pro advise. >> that activist foreign policy to a certain extent a problem with the base, weary of foreign engageme engagements? >> in 2008 barack obama campaigned on his opposition to the iraq war, a huge contrast with her having voted to authorize it. what we saw in reporting on closed door discussions in the national security council is that hillary clinton continued to be at least within the democratic framework a hawk, even more hawkish sometimes than bob gates. by contrast joe biden was a dof on a lot of things. didn't want the afghan surge or go into libya and against the bin laden raid when he was able to cast a vote on that. she was for all of those things.

there's certainly a lot of room to the left of her on fornl policy. >> that's whi bob gates praises her and criticizes joe biden. i want to ask about going back to 2008. you had fascinating back scenes deliberations over her big speech. this is the speech to the convention in 2008 in denver. she said she's been on the mock stage at the convention center bill delivered edits and ripped up the structure and added his own poetic flourishes but she was having none of it. the set of advises she hired from his 1996 campaign had proved disastrous, developing her message and strategy for the campaign. she was the one in the seat now. it's my speech she declared as she left to find bill. that's basically her taking ownership of her own destiny. >> she worked really hard to establish her own brand. i look at her and forget about him and that's the point. they are looking -- they have the same goal but they have

different strategies of getting there. and i think that that's -- they are looking to sort of it -- will be interesting to see how they come together in 2016 and if he can help her the way he helped barack obama, for instance. >> how much do you think her past -- his past in particular is going to be an issue? we have seen the diane blair diary being revealed. it was public all along. but at the initiative of the washington free beacon, everybody knows what's in it. these are the selected lines about monica lewinsky in the scandal in the 109 boxes. there's a lot of policy and wonky stuff between these two fellow professors in the '70s, what everyone looked at was the scandalous stuff. >> the exciting stuff and political stuff. there's certain lines in there that i'm sure hillary clinton wishes weren't out there in the public domain right now, particularly the comments about the packwood scandal about women

accusing of harassment being whiney. that said, i think the past will be out there any time she runs for office, the past will be out there. did not prevent her from becoming a senator. i don't think the clinton past necessarily is what derailed her in 2008. maybe in 2016 it will make a difference. especially if they were to get to a general election. we haven't seen the republicans run a race against her. we don't know how effective that's going to be but karl rove and some of the others are worried in particular about the monica lewinsky line of attack and bill clinton's popularity rose during the lewinsky scandal or tail end of it. hillary clinton's went up as well and seemed to back fire on republicans when democrats picked up a house seat in the 1998 midterm. it was a long time ago but they've got to be very careful with how they do it. some of the past will in fact factor in 2016 should he run. >> jonathan allen and amy parnes, "hrc" a new york times

best seller. >> thanks a lot. >> i would be remiss if i didn't mention how much time you had scoops and readers of fans would like to see your scenes. >> my favorite of all time was the busy bee diner when they asked her about her role with the law firm, i'm not going to be serving tea and baking cookies. that was one of those moments in the campaign. >> one of those moments for history. >> fascinating character, why we still talk about her. jonathan allen, amy, congratulations. >> thank you. >> to the weather, a string of severe storms causing major damage across the south and midwest yesterday. at least seven tornadoes were reported. today is a different brand of severe weather in the upper midwest. mike seidel is battling the heavy snowfall and high winds in ashland, wisconsin today. >> we've had 10 to 12 inches of snow here.

as much as a foot of snow in parts of minnesota, duluth, as much as 15.5 inches of snow. it's now dry and powdery so the wind is picking it up and blowing it everywhere. >> and along the east coast today there's a threat of thunderstorms. here in washington in our area, a tornado watch is in effect until 5:00 eastern.

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it's more and more important for republicans to stop denying the real of default and start working with us to find common ground. >> be as specific as you can with respect to what default or near default would mean for those seniors who depend on their private savings. >> default would put the global economy in chaos, that there's no doubt. >> in politics as in life, words matter, a simple order or phrase like default can make the difference in the outcome of a

national debate like the one over the debt ceiling. doug is the president a former top adviser to al gore and secretary clinton lik. we know each other from campaigcampaign s past and maybe future. i want to ask you a follow-up on amy and jonathan's book. they write about the secretary of state and her campaign to come perhaps. do you have a sense of where she's going with this? is there any logical reason why she wouldn't run for office barring some unexpected event? >> i've got no inside information on that. but knowing -- what i got to know about hillary clinton working with her was that she is really about making a positive impact on people's lives. i know -- i'm sure she's weighing the pros and cons of a run. but i believe she would be thinking of it in terms of what kind of impact can i make and can i make as much impact in the outside the white house as in.

>> as you might expect you're in the book. we should acknowledge that as one of the advisers, she was writing in particular the concession speech basically after the june primaries. and when it was all over, it says, hattaway and hur wits insist she couldn't make the case for obama if they didn't deliver acknowledgement of her own candidacy and at the heart of the matter was a question that plagued the question from the earliest days. how should hillary handle being the first viable female candidate for president? >> i worked with a number of women candidates for both legislative and executive office and it's always a quan dri. women are in a bind when they are running to be in executive positions and we see it in business as well as politics. what i've learned through that, of course when you're running to be president of the united states, you're running to be the president of all americans and people are going to be inspired

by hillary clinton if she chooses to take that path. and i think for her it would be a matter of talking about the way she creates opportunity for everybody in america and that i think she believes a lot of people in women's movement see a lot of issues we're dealing with not women's issues or men's issues when it comes to minimum wage. a lot of people of minimum wage are women. it helps women and helps their families. i think the depth and breadth of interest in this can't be understated. >> when you refer to the special burden on women as the first viable woman candidate running for president, that's the essence of the 3:00 a.m. phone call trying to differentiate herself and the experience she had with her opponent, barack obama. let's turn to words and how they matter. you are one to pur suede that they had to reframe it so it wasn't the democrats wanting to spend more money as hard as many of us tried to persuade people,

this is money already spent, we're just paying the bills. you had them framing it. we saw those hearings where harry reid on the floor and ron widen in the hearing all talking with jack ley about default, default, default. >> this story starts in 2011 when the republicans first played the card. we did a lingistic analysis and see what words define it. we found democrats in 2011 weren't even talking about default. they were saying raise the debt ceiling. it sounds like run up the credit card. >> we're showing the graphic of one of the power points that you probably presented to the caucuses. >> it was a simple turn of phrase, turn the tables on this issue. stop talking about raise the debt ceiling, that's playing in the republicans hands. just use the simple word default that starts a whole new conversation. it wasn't lots of sound bites.

that really worked. when we started this in 2011, about half of voters pold didn't want to raise the debt ceiling and only about a third were concerned about default. when democrats started to talk about it, that raises awareness in people's minds. and now over half voters poll say we should not vote under any circumstances. >> doug, i have a feeling we'll be talking again as the months continue. >> you don't have a expect role right now with clinton? >> no. >> not part of any -- >> no, i'm not. >> i think she's focused on her foundation initiatives working to address issues facing women and girls and job opportunities for young people in this country and early childhood health and learning and that's exactly what she should be doing. >> it's great to see you again. >> great to see you. >> the white house just released this photo of the president'sal. he encourages direct dialogue

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initiative. >> since 9/11, more than 2.5 million americans have worn the uniform. they face down our enemies and liberated millions and show the true compassion of a great nation. they are the 1% of america who kept the 99% safe. and we owe them and their families a deep debt of gratitude. >> veterans groups are taking a victory lap this week after president obama signed a bill into law restoring benefits cut for younger military retirees but the fight continues to protect new enlistees not included in the bill. joining me now, paul rye kost, thanks very much, paul. great to see you. what is your next goal here? you've got the benefits now for the current troops but the new enlistees are not covered. >> that's right, the next fight is to extend it to anyone who

signs up now. this was important because it was congress breaking a promise with folks in uniform. the president should have never had to sign a bill, there never should have been legislation to repeal an unprecedented stupid move by congress. they decided to do it on the backs of veterans. this cut would have meant $85,000 out-of-pocket to a retiring e-7 coming out of the money. it was real money and unprecedented because congress had never come after our benefits sichbs we've been at war. we've got to extend it to new enlistees and this was a line in the sand. if they come after retirement benefits, what's next, g.i. bill? the va funding that's been in place for the last few years? it was an important political fight and we hope congress quite frankly learned a lesson. >> people are bringing it to everyone's attention. you know what a passionate cause the death benefit issue was

during the shutdown, we had five or six troops killed on one weekend and they were not given the death benefit. we turned that around. the next question, what about the backlog? the sequester has cut every department across the board and now the progress that was being made on that ridiculous backlog on claims has just gone back in the other direction. >> that's right, it's stalled since november. you have been great in covering this and we appreciate that. we need everybody to refocus on it. it's stalled. 400,000 vets still stuck in the backlog and washington is not getting it done. the president briefly mentioned it in the state of the union but that wasn't enough. we need concrete action and him personally focused on it and congress to pick up the cause again, 400,000 vets shouldn't have to wait for paperwork. it underscores how far we have to go before we can honestly say we support the troops. what i think congress is seeing, veterans group saying in the marine corps, no better friend,

no worsenm enemy. the american people will stand with us. >> paul, we have an open forum, come often. >> we appreciate it always. >> we have very sad news to report. one of our friends and colleagues veteran nbc news man rick utley joined nbc as a researcher for the huntly brinkley reported and move in front of the camera reporting the biggest stories from around the globe from the vietnam war to the far of the berlin wall. >> news and history still is in the making this morning as the two continue to smash old barriers, today a historic meeting at the new gate way in berlin. >> garrick was the quintessential correspondent, he was collegial and eloquent. reporting from 75 different countries, serving nbc bureau chief in saigon and london and paris. back home he covered

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climatic contests? >> reporter: they have been fabulous. as you said, the women's gold medal match last night was heartbreaking for team usa. team usa led 2-0 in the third period. and canada came back and scored two quick goals at the end of the game and then they actually took their goalee off the ice, there was an empty net shot that usa had and it hit the post of the net, went into overtime and team usa lost. the men hope to have better luck tonight but as you said the score is 1-0 with about 13 minutes left in the third period. and 1-0 in canada's favor. >> in canada's favor. i hope we don't have to see another one of these victory dances but this is rob forge, mayor of tarrant jumping up and down reacting to the win. there's the video of rob ford who is doing his own victory

dance in his own way. so let's talk about women's skating, the figure skating because the long programs last night also heartbreaking. the americans didn't medal. and they finished in the top ten but it was the first time in more than three decades or even longer that there were no women medalists in ice skating, and there's a big controversy online. there's this whole to do between the eventual gold medalist. >> reporter: basically, you had two styles on exhibit in the lady's free skate last night. the first one from russia. she skated a very energetic passionate and athletic performance and then of course south korea who is the defending olympic champion, she was absolutely beautiful. a gorgeous performance.

it comes down to scoring. the simple fact is this is that she had seven triple jumps in her routine and kim only had six and that means that she has a more opportunity for more points and, you know, nbc scott hamilton who is an olympic champion himself said there was no bias judging here, it's a matter that the russian built her program to get the maximum amount of points and performed it nearly perfection and it was a really stumble. she did really well and therefore got the gold medal. that isn't enough for some people. ashley wagner who finished seventh an american skater she said she felt chipped by the judging and she called for an end to the anonymous judging. if somebody is going to put a score to a skater's performance they need to put their name to it as well.

>> i felt carolina has done a beautiful job. >> she's the figure skater from italy and gave a beautiful performance and scott hamilton said if it was up to him on beauty alone he would have given the medal to her. >> ann, thanks for all your reporting from there. beautiful job. come on home. >> reporter: i wish you had been here. >> i wish too. the next time. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." this is the last time at 1:00. we're moving on up. high noon from now on every day from noon to 1:00. take an earlier lunch break. for our friends out west join us for late coffee at 9:00. the earlier hours will let us get jump start on news makers and big interviews. follow the show on facebook and on twitter at mitchell reports.

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right now developing news from the ukraine where there's been a potential break through in the three month long deadly standoff between the government and protesters. we'll get the latest developments in just a moment. first, though, the "news nation" is following the reaction to a juror in the michael dunn trial speaking out about that controversial verdict saying it was not about race. in just a few moments i'll talk directly to jordan davis' father and talk about how he feels about her statements as he joins me live here on the set. in an interview with cnn yesterday, juror number eight talked about what she described as a quote wild scene as jurors debated heatedly whether to find dunn guilty of first degree murder in jordan davis' death. jurors onable to agree. the outcome of a mistrial in that top count has sparked protests and cries of racial injustice which is