remains uncertain and the nation repairs for the one-year anniversary of mr. floyd's death, one month after a jury found former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin guilty of murder. geneva switzerland is likely for the summit. and the cease-fire between the israelis and palestinians continues to hold for a fourth day as secretary of state tony glifrngen departs this hour for travel throughout the region including a stop in jerusalem. that's where we find chief foreign affairs correspondent and the host of this show, andrea mitchell and andrea, secretary blinken has a huge tank ahead of him after the trump administration spent the last four years embracing benjamin netanyahu and freezing palestinian leaders out of their discussion. how is he trying to bring everyone back to the table? >> well, for one thing he knows

he cannot bring anyone back to the table. there is no way to bring the long-term process of bringing palestinians who have long been excluded into the process. the first is to make sure that the cease hire folds and that's what a senior official told us today, trying to make sure that the cease-fire holds for the time being and also rebuild gaza with the humanitarian relief needed. the u.s. doesn't have an estimate on the back of an envelope, but to rebuild gaza with humanitarian efforts to get the help they need and to do it without channeling money and weapons to hamas and that's the hard part. the secretary talked about this a bit on abc yesterday. >> that has to start now with

the grave humanitarianism in gaza and rebuild what's been lost and critically engaging both sides in trying to start to make real improvements in the lives of people. so that israelis and palestinians can live with equal measures of security, of peace and of dignity. it's vitally important that the palestinians feel hope and opportunity and can live in security just as it did for israelis. >> and this is, of course, the first time in four and a half years that we're hearing a u.s. official secretary of state talking about equal measures for the palestinian and that is so important. it's weak in the west bank and their rivals in gaza, hamas, have been strengthened around the palestinian world by their ability to fire rockets and cause so much harm to the

israelis. so that is the strategic problem here as well as the fact that prime minister netanyahu is strengthened by as far as the israeli people are concerned in his success in fighting off hamas. the first effort is to keep the cease-fire and then try to get the palestinians back in the game. >> andrea, i want to lean on your expertise on another strategic challenge for this white house. our white house has a potential face to face meeting with president biden and putin can come face to face this summer in geneva. there's no love lost between these two leaders and what are the expectations for that meeting? >> it's a critical meeting that the stage was set for last week and secretary blinken met for the first time before prime minister lavrov when they met in iceland on the side talks during a climate conference in iceland and the problem that they hope

to address is how to be tough with vladimir putin in russia in the areas that you think they need to reach out and you've seen that in the conversations that president biden has had with vladimir putin telling him that he has to do something to stop the hacking, not only the winds against the military intelligence of russia's government, but the private cyber hacking organizations that stay on russian soil and are harbored by the kremlin. so those are two things and plus navalny, and alexei navalny being in prison, the opposition leader and the attempted assassination and all of that in ukraine and the 100,000 troops amassed in ukraine. there are 80,000 there and they've left tanks and heavy armored equipment there and that is a major issue for the u.s. at the same time, president biden has made it clear he wants to work with russia where they

can on arms control and as well as trying to get iran back into the nuclear deal in compliance and other areas where they think they can work on climate, for instance. so that's both sides of the equation and so far no signal from putin that he wants that kind of relationship and this is obviously a very important summit that we are watching. you can expect it will be in geneva after the g7 meeting and after the nato meeting that the president is also attending. it will be quite a busy june. >> yes, it will. our chief foreign affairs andrea mitchell doing what she does best. i look forward to your reporting from the region the rest of the week. thank you. president biden is reacting to the rising tensions here at home with the spike of anti-semitic violence across this country with a tweet this morning saying the recent attacks on the jewish community are despicable and they must stop. i condemn this hateful behavior

at home and abroad. it is up to all of us to give hate no safe harbor. joining me is stephanie gosk in new york, shannon pettypiece and rick stangel, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy for john kerry at the state department. the anti-defamation league is just one of many organizations calling for a statement from the president after some of the attacks you've been reporting on in recent days. what more do we know about these incidents? >> well, garrett, we know we have seen in the past when there's been an increase in the violence in the middle east and a conflict like this in the middle east. there's been an uptick in anti-semitic violence back here at home, but this is significant. nothing quite like this. the anti-defamation league says it's a 50% increase in the number of anti-semitic attacks in the u.s. since the conflict broke out in the middle east and the new violence and it's not just in one spot. it is across the country and

here in new york there was this dueling protest and pro-palestinian and israeli protesters and during that moment there was a 29-year-old jewish man who was attacked and the moment was caught on someone's phone. he is being kicked and punched and hit with crutches. he said after looking at that video after the incident it almost looks like he was lucky to get out with his life. across the country in l.a. there have been problems as well. there were restaurant goers that were pelted with glass bottles and one man was beaten up and there were instances of vandalization including a synagogue where gabby giffords goes. so you've seen this uptick and you've had the condemnation and now with other jewish organizations asking for the president to step up and do more. you are also hearing from some muslim leaders as well condemning the violence and adding that these kind of violent measures on both sides

are not a way to further your cause, garrett. >> shannon, the white house is obviously paying attention to this recent violence here and they're looking ahead to this trip that secretary blinken is taking and you heard from andrea that they can't get everybody back at the table here. so what are they focused on? what are the realistic expectations for this trip? >> reporter: i think you used a good phrase there, realistic expectations and the white house administration is not trying to say they're going reach some sort of grand bargain. it's such different language than we heard from the trump administration which literally on day one was talking about a peace deal that was going to be brokered by jared kushner. all along this administration was much more moderate about what they think they can achieve from this region from talks and conversations between the two sides. we know we heard from the president on friday saying that he believes the two-state solution is the only real long-term solution and that in

order to get there, other arab countries in the region need to acknowledge israel's right to exist. the president also said that the israelis have a right to exist peacefully. so he is trying to make sure that both sides are represented in these talks. the secretary of state will be meeting with the palestinian leader and that was something we did not really see under the trump administration except for very early on, but all through the first few months of the biden administration the middle east has played lower on the priority list foreign policy wise. the president's focus has been on china and russia to some extent, as well. the middle east, netanyahu was one of the leaders the president got to serve in the second round of world leader call, but certainly the events of the past 11 days have elevated the middle east and you really see the focus here now in the white house and with the secretary of state visiting the region. >> it was the tom friedman

column saying if you were the president of the united states you may not care about the middle east, but the middle east cares about you. rick, you care about the middle east. you have deep contacts there. what do you think the u.s.' position is in the region there. shannon was alluding to the jared kushner effort to end the conflict there in the last few years, that obviously didn't happen. what's our role there? what should it be? >> garrett, it's a good question. i think what we're seeing is a kind of first thing's first, back to basics diplomacy. they don't want to get involved. as shannon mentioned, the trump people boasted on day one about the grand bargain and the idea that biden and blinken are looking at us and let's do the things that we can do and let's settle the things down that need to be settled. we don't need to do some grand bargain. we need to just make sure that people are stable. in fact, that was the phrase that biden used about the relationship with russia. we want a stable, predictable

relationship. i mean, again, between the line, that is absolutely the opposite of what the previous administration did. it wasn't stable. it wasn't predictable. so i think they're not going for the long ball when it comes to diplomacy. they're saying we're back and getting back to basics and they don't want to stir a hoshet's nest any per than it already is in the middle east. over the weekend as andrea mentioned secretary blinken said we want to make sure that this cease-fire lasts because remember, the conditions on the ground haven't changed at all. it could spur up again at a moment's notice. >> to that point, i don't think we saw our colleague richard engel, and he's been saying that this conflict has made hamas more popular in gaza than they ever were. rick, do you see a role for our government to reverse that at all. is there a way to put back the palestinian authority and have a

partner there, someone to actually negotiate on the palestinian side? >> again, jared. it's a good question. all of this israeli and gaza is probably about public relations and the deaths are horrible, but it's who comes out more strengthened. i was very relieved and happy to hear president biden talk about a two-state solution. a two-state solution is harder when the palestinian side has its own differences, right? the palestinian authority as all of us have said today doesn't have much authority, as you said and now it just makes the bar higher because the palestinians are not united either which is another reason why they're just not going to go for some gigantic grand bargain. >> it's going to be a tough week to be tony blinken.

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republicans in maricopa county, arizona, are threatening to sue republicans in the state senate there for push ahead with the so-called audit of the 2020 election set to resume this hour. a trump supporter's non-profit is helping to decide who gets to count those ballots. this after arizona secretary of state katie hobbs warned maricopa county that they might need to buy brand-new voting equipment saying the voting system's integrity was

compromised after it was handed over to the firm running the audit. she spoke to my colleague stephanie ruhle earlier today. >> they had access to these machines that election officials lost the chain of custody when they handed them over. those machines were locked in a room where there were no cameras. our equipment expert was not allowed in there. so we have no idea what they did and there's nothing in place where we could determine that the equipment has not been tampered with. i'm glad to use the air quotes around auditors because this is anything, but an audit. >> vaughn hilliard, air native arizonaan, and erin caldwell and senior washington correspondent phil rucker. you spoke to one of the republicans threatening to sue. what's going on out in arizona? >> i think it's important for folks to understand, this is more than pushback from democrats' secretary of state katie hobbs.

this is a quarrel between the state legislature and the republicans in the state legislature, specifically the state senate and the republican maricopa county board of supervisors. its a republican majority. i just talked just a few minutes ago with supervisor clint hickman who voted for the president in 2020. he even got a shoutout at the last arizona rally, that final week of the election, and he pushed back saying the question is how far is a bridge too far? because these narratives, they just keep going and going. every time a suggestion of impropriety by the state senate and these contractors who the state has hired have put forward, they've been debunked and there was one last week that a claim that the county had deleted voter databases that were unfounded. these improprieties and they demanded to send a letter to the state senate saying they must,

as well as the contractor, who there are still serious questions about who those contractors are, in that letter from the county attorney to the state, because of the wrongful accusations that the county destroyed evidence, they may be subject to or have legal claims likewise, we have reason to believe this audit is not being done in accordance to arizona law as set forth in detail below, you must preserve all documents related to your audit. again, this is a process here, a so-called audit that we not only expect to take week, but potentially months, because these individuals who are running this, they say that they have just completed counting 25% of the ballots. i actually want you to hear from the republican board supervisor who i spoke to moments ago after that process has started, and

take a listen to my conversation with hickman. >> to pick up and move the ballots to somewhere and then they bring them back and then the machinery leaves and i don't know if we even see the machinery on camera anymore. it's just -- it's just troubling. it's just not the way the county does business for its citizens. >> that's an individual who voted for the president and he said how far is a bridge too far because this bridge keeps going and keeps going and he's concerned about what it means for 2022, garrett. >> a bit of buyer's remorse out there. leann caldwell, republicans on capitol hill are divided on the big election lie and how that relates to the attack on the capitol on january 6th. marco rubio came out in opposition to the commission. susan collins sounds like she's open to it. what do you see happening there?

>> garrett, republicans are divided, but it's not an even divide. republicans who are contemplating voting for this commission are in the slim minority of republicans as most have said in the senate that they're not going to support it after minority leader mcconnell came out dismissing it. most republicans after that, they are in the firm "no" category. there are a few, though, who are traying to get to yes including susan collins. let's listen to what she said over the weekend about it. >> the two issues that i think are resolvable, one has to do with staffing and i think that both sides should either jointly appoint the staff or there should be equal numbers of staff appointed by the chairman and the vice chairman. the second issue is i see no reason why the report cannot be completed by the end of this year.

>> reporter: so the question is, are there ten people like senator susan collins who are willing to try to work with democrats to perhaps be able to vote for this legislation to set up this commission? it seems highly unlikely, though, garrett, when someone like richard burr, someone who voted to impeach the president said he's not going there. there could be a vote in the senate as early as this week. democrats saying if they want to go there they can offer a mendments and change it on the floor and we'll see how this process plays out. it's not looking good. >> if the democrats can't get the other conviction votes in favor, they'll have a problem counting to 60 here. phil rucker, you have states like my home state of texas, the bill being proposed by the legislature would make it much harder to vote, potentially if you live in one of the big urban contes like dallas county or barrett county. is this a part of the broader

republican policy now? >> i think that's right, garrett. we see this going on in a number of states. georgia, and the effort you mentioned in texas and there's another effort in florida where republicans control legislators and including restricting the way they can obtain absentee ballots and giving more powerto poll watchers. apologies for my puppy barking in the background. i'm sorry about that. >> axel furious about voting restrictions. >> he sure is. >> the ostensible purpose for this audit other than to find malfeasance that doesn't seem to be there is to restore confidence in the voting process. i wonder if the sloppy way this has all been conducted, did it give confidence to anyone? if you look at this audit thing,

they're not finding anything, i guess. maybe the vote in arizona was actually just fine. does anyone feel better about the process there based on what we've seen with the cyber ninjas over the last few weeks? >> the question is at what point will they actually come forward with the report? because right now the folks -- only the folks that are using this to their perceived advantage are the like of matt gaetz who is in arizona on friday with marjorie taylor greene, but not just them two, they were joined by two arizona congressman, andy biggs and gosar, and they were calling this a launchpad not just for maricopa county and other states. there were others in the legislature who just last week who alluded to future audits like this one which suggested that this might not be the only time the republicans if

dissatisfied with the outcome will find an outcome to fill the narrative. it might not be decertified in arizona even if they come out with a string that they claim to fuel their conspiracies, perhaps they can count that as a win to convince at least part of this electorate that they are fighting on their behalf, garrett. >> we have just a little bit of time left, but vaughn just invoked four members of congress not typical with legislative success, with the vote-suppressing shenanigans like arizona. do you see that as part of the strategy that the republicans used going into the mid-terms last year. >> it's a strategy that the democrats will use heading into the midterms last year and the problem is when you have people like marjorie taylor greene, matt gaetz, paul gosar and andy biggs taking a lead on the messaging regarding the last election and moving forward into

the next election and their silence from people like house republican leader kevin mccarthy who doesn't want to engage and doesn't want to silence them. you know, you see where the party is moving and it's giving democrats a big platform to run, garet? >> we've got to leave it there. phil, leann, axel, thank you for joining us. >> footing the bill, why a former ambassador who testified in former president trump's first impeachment probe is now suing mike pompeo and the federal government. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. snbc what happens when we welcome change? we can make emergency medicine possible at 40,000 feet. instead of burning our past for power, we can harness the energy of the tiny electron.

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of state mike pompeo for nearly $2 million. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins me now. the focus is on legal fees and why is all of this about? why is gordon sondland suing? >> you're right. he's a former trump administration official who said the u.s. told ukraine that the u.s. would resume military aid to ukraine if ukraine would launch an investigation of an energy company which included hunter biden on its board of directors. in the new lawsuit says he had no choice to testify because he was served with a subpoena. government lawyers would not represent him, but he says the man who was secretary of state at the time mike pompeo and other senior officials told him at least four times that the government would reimburse him for the full cost he incurred when hiring lawyers on his own. that changed when fired by trump

and pompeo. the government reimbursed him $86,000 and his legal fees are more than 20 times that, $1.8 million. he has a couple of claims. first of all, pompeo's repeated promises amount to a legally binding contract which the government must honor, but he says, if pompeo did not have the authority as secretary of state to make that commitment then pompeo is accounting outside the scope of his office which is fraud and therefore pompeo should have to come up with the money out of his own pocket. if he was not acting in his capacity and promising to pay the legal fees and he was doing it for his own reasons homing ambassador sondland would not implicate him in his testimony to congress. >> gordon sondland was a hotel executive. he wasn't exactly scraping by. do you think this opens the door for any other witnesses, anybody, junior staffers who were dragged down to the house

basement and forced to testify or subpoenaed to testify, can they also make claims to get their legal fees paid for? >> this shines a light on the side of what happens in washington. we often don't pay enough attention to. when people are called before congress or before courts they can rack up some pretty high legal fees in the city where lawyers are not embarrassed at all about charging high hourly rates. so it depends, if the government -- i found myself in this position once. i was -- i was subpoenaed to testify when i was a government official, but there the government did represent me. if the govern -- and they usually do. they almost always do. it's rare for the government to say, no, you're on your own and i suppose even rarer for the head of the cabinet number to say don't worry, we'll make you whole. >> we'll have to do another segment on the testimony, but for now we'll have to leave it there. pete williams, our justice correspondent, thank you. a week before the 2021

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he has a genuine relationship with them. >> the president has urged congress to pass a police reform bill named after george floyd by tuesday, but negotiations continue without a deal likely by the president's deadline. floyd's brother spoke about the need for federal legislation with the reverend al sharpton on "politics nation". >> if you can make federal laws to protect a bird. you can make federal laws to protect people of color. >> nbc's shaquille brewster is in minneapolis where he spent much of the last year. i know there were rallies in minneapolis and new york city on sunday. what's the mood there like now? >> that's right, garrett. we are right in the middle what will be three days of commemoration since george floyd was killed in minneapolis. today the george floyd memorial foundation is having panel discussions, but they're calling for a virtual day of action, asking people to call their

local politicians and call their member of congress and keep the pressure up for that police reform in the wake of george floyd's death. we know that yesterday there was the rally where we heard from the family attorney benjamin crump. we heard from our very own reverend al sharpton and we even heard from george floyd's little sister bridget floyd and not only the conversations with those speakers, but the people who were there at that rally turned march was where does the community go from here? yes, they see the change that has taken place, but they want to see more. i want you to listen to the conversations from the people who attended that protest or rally turned march yesterday. >> so many people say there's been change in the past year since george floyd was killed even by the people who are coming out and protesting. do you feel that there's been change in the past year? >> definitely? >> are you satisfied with that change? >> to a certain extent because it has encouraged conversations,

conversations with people who don't look like us. >> there is more change to be had, to come, this is just the beginning. this is nowhere near the end. >> and one thing that you continue to hear from people who continue to show up to events like this is that it's not just about george floyd. they want the focus to be on policing broadly. people mentioned dante wright who during the trial of george floyd, who was killed by a brooklyn center police officer about 15 minutes from where we stand right now. it's a bigger picture that you hear people mentioning as we mark one year since george floyd lost his life. garrett? >> nbc's shaq brewster in minneapolis. thank you. during the derek chauvin murder trial we stood from several witnesses who stood feet away from george floyd when he died including chris martin. tremane lee spoke to martin

about witnessing the murder, his life before and ever since. >> before chris martin's testimony was on the nightly news, before he witnessed george floyd being murdered, and before we ever knew his name, chris was just a teenager trying to piece together a life that had come undone. at just 17, he found himself in a dark place in rehab for substance abuse, but he was beginning to see some light. he was back in school playing soccer and living with his mother and sister above cup foods where he landed a gig as a sales clerk, part of what he called a happy work family. >> it looked so happy and peaceful and then it just, like, went the opposite direction. >> may 25, 2020, george floyd walked into cup foods and passed what turned out to be a fake $20 bill to christopher. prompting a fateful 911 call that drew together floyd, shoafen and a cast of elected

witnesses. did you have a sense of how seismic that shift in your life would be? >> in that moment, i knew it was a big deal because someone had just gotten their life taken away, but i guess in my mind i didn't really connect the fact that everyone was recording. >> the killing of george floyd ripped open the festering wounds of racism in america, sparking a worldwide movement, but for christopher martin and the other eyewitnesses, there are ripples of pain slow to heal. >> i think i am a lot more traumatized than i realize because my mind kind of, like, blocks it out. it won't let me access certain parts of that day. it kind of felt like something supernatural was at work that i couldn't control, and i thought it was evil. >> he said he felt, like, quote, the big domino that set everything in motion. i asked if he sees things

differently a year later. >> i definitely do see things differently. i'm more of a medium-sized domino. over time and the more i analyze the situation, i feel less and less guilty about it. >> after he testified, martin says he just cried. >> it was like an ugly cry. i think it was relief, honestly. >> what was the hardest part for you? >> i think the hardest part for me was when i would sit back and think of, like, what if? or what if i had just told him to leave, like, drive away, go home or whatever. there are so many what ifs in this situation, it's, like, it just drives you crazy because you can never go back in time and change it. >> chris martin no longer works at cup foods. he and his family have moved out of the apartment above the store and he enjoys his job at adidas and one day hopes to become a

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is the u.s. turning a corner on the covid pandemic? the signs are pointing increasingly towards yes. cases are at their lowest levels in nearly a year and more than 60% of american adults have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. this weekend we saw scenes we s life getting back to normal with packed crowds for the nba playoffs and fans swarming phil mickelson to congratulate him on an historic pga championship win. bill de blasio making a major announcement on "morning joe." >> it's good news. new york city public schools, 1 million kids will be back in their classroom in september, all in person, no remote. >> the cdc is investigating reports that a small number of young vaccine recipients have experienced heart problems after getting their shot. joining me now is dr. patel, a physician and former health policy director in the obama

white house. dr. patel, let's start there. the cdc says there were relatively few cases that may even be unrelated to the vaccine and the condition, myocarditis may be less severe than getting covid. how concerned should teens and their parents be? >> good to be with you. i would not be concerned as a parent. what i would say is this is a good sign the cdc is being transparent about this. we have reports from israel as well as some reports when the department of defense gave the covid-19 vaccine to military personnel. given the fact that we have not seen in other countries which have used moderna and pfizer, the similar pattern, it's hard to make the link. having said that, it's critical for physicians and other people such as myself to make sure we are reporting any adverse

events, if this is a true adverse event related to the vaccine. for parents and anybody not received the vaccine and wondering, myocarditis is an inflammation of the heart muscle, the muscle that helps pump your heart. we see that after other viral illnesses. that's the part that we need to tease out. is this vaccine, or something we would expect to see normally with cases of myocarditis in young adults? it's mostly young adults and mostly male. anybody who sees this pattern should report it to the vaccine adverse event reporting system that the cdc has set up. >> do you think there are lessons that health officials learned or should learn from the johnson & johnson pause and the effects that had on public perception of the vaccine? i wonder if health officials might be gun shy about hitting the pause button if they find other situations like this.

>> yeah, you know, that pause button was criticized by many, including myself, because we were concerned about what a pause would send as a signal to people. i think that what we have learned from johnson & johnson as well as other experiences is we want to make sure that we do a true investigation, whether there's a cause -- a causal link, as we call it. two, that really as clinicians we need to be on high alert so if you see this reaction within several days of a vaccine, you can ask about it quickly. pediatricians and primary care physicians alike, emergency room physicians and clinical personnel. i think we have been learning lessons. let me just reassure people that getting covid-19, even though cases are dramatically declining, is not something that is trivial no matter what age you are. getting the vaccine still, the benefits far outweigh the risks. we will continue to look at the

risks very a assured that we have seen fewer than 200 cases. >> that scale is really important. we heard from dr. fauci on the show talking to andrea that k s under 12 likely won't be vaccinated by september. do you think school wills be ready if you have a largely unvaccinated student population coming back? >> people like myself and schools are working together. that's the way it should be. we are preparing schools of all sizes to be fully in-person. it's highly likely that kids who are not vaccinated might need to wear masks. because we know this is airborne, cdc updated and said this is airborne, ventilation matters. we are looking at open windows

where possible, outdoor classrooms where possible and having teachers who are vaccinated and faculty vaccinated for the most part will be critical. also, having students take precautions. i'm hoping -- as we see the viral level of activity decrease, if that continues, that means it can be a safe environment even for unvaccinated individuals, especially children. i hope that trend continues. this is the first week we have seen the fewest hospitalizations in a seven-day period, about 1,300. never thought i would see these numbers by may. we should hopefully have a bright fall for the kids in school. >> we have 15 seconds. is that viral decline why we are seeing pictures of packed stadiums and things like that, even with vaccination rates only where they are, about 60%? >> yeah. briefly, we are breaking the chain of transmission. we need to get everyone vaccinated. when you have even one out of two people vaccinated, it breaks

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