it's good to see you. i'm jeff bennet, and as we come on the air, america's secretary of state has just departed washington for a high stakes diplomatic trip to the mideast where a ceasefire appears to be holding. he will visit israel and jordan. now, blinken's mission is to reinforce the ceasefire, get desperately needed relief to gaza and lay the foundation for

future peace talks. none of those are small tasks. now, over the weekend, secretary blinken defended the biden white house's quiet diplomacy behind the scenes of the conflict. >> it was critical to get to the ceasefire. president biden's focus on relentless, determined, but quiet diplomacy is what got us to where we needed to be, which is to get the violence ended as quickly as possible, to stop more human suffering and to at least put ourselves in position to make a turn, to make a pivot to building something more positive. >> again, that fragile ceasefire is still holding with both sides declaring victory. over the weekend we saw a rare show of strength from hamas when hundreds of masked and armed militants paraded through the streets of gaza city, an uncommon public display from a u.s.-labeled terror group that normally operates underground. and back here at home, president biden is denouncing

anti-semitic attacks across the u.s. during the conflict between israel and hamas. biden calling the rise of those attacks despicable. we want to warn you, this video is tough to watch. authorities are investigating the gang-style assault of a jewish man that took place amid demonstrations in times square last week as well as an incident in brooklyn on saturday where a group of young men chased and attacked jewish teenagers on the street. those are two of 200 incidents across the country, according to the anti-defamation league. we start with the diplomat to the middle east. joining me, kelly o'donnell, erin mclaughlin who is in tel aviv, and the president of the eurasia group, ewen brenner. welcome to the three of you. kelly, we'll start with you because this is the highest level of talks on this crisis

that erupted earlier this month. with whom will secretary of state blinken be meeting, and how are these meetings really supporting the administration's goal here? >> reporter: good to be with you, jeff. we talked with jen psaki at the white house briefing today about these issues and the very fragile temporary piece that certainly part of the mission for secretary blinken is to try to give more roots, more foundation to that tenuous agreement to stop the fighting right now. the president has sent his secretary of state there to have these meetings with a variety of stakeholders in the region. and this is a very public face of diplomacy when a lot of what has been happening with the biden white house and administration in this phase of crisis with hamas and israel has been a quieter form of diplomacy in part because of the sensitivities on the international level, and to some degree, perhaps in part because of divisions within the democratic party here at home, the president being sensitive to

the fact that the progressive wing of the democratic party is speaking out in a much more forceful voice than we have sometimes seen in these conflicts in support of the human cost to this in gaza where so many palestinians were killed, concerns about rebuilding and having safety for them and, of course, the u.s. longstanding position of support and friendship with israel and the right of israel to defend itself when rockets from the hamas terror group are sent into israel. so when you talk about delicate balance of all the different interests here with real life consequences and casualties that we've seen play out, this is a very sensitive mission for antony blinken who has been a long-time diplomat, knows these issues in the region and will have a very high bar to meet to keep this on track. that is a high priority for the president who has spoken about

this carefully and in a measured way when he has taken steps to talk about this in public. so working behind the scenes to bring about the ceasefire and now a much more public phase trying to hold it in place. jeff? >> erin mclaughlin there on the ground, when kelly speaks of the delicate balance, give us a sense of just how tenuous this ceasefire is. >> reporter: right now the ceasefire continues to hold, jeff. not a single rocket fired, not a single airstrike in the past four days. a senior hamas leader telling sky news that he believes it is not of interest to escalate things any further. benjamin netanyahu at a whole new level with hamas should hamas break the ceasefire. there is a heightened security presence not only inside the old city but also in east jerusalem.

today there was a stabbing of a palestinian man, according to israeli police, stabbed two israelis, injuring them, the police responded killing the palestinian man not far from a neighborhood that was seen as a flash point in all of this in that neighborhood over the weekend. there was confrontations between palestinians as well as israeli police, and then we saw those clashes on friday at the aloxa compound. all of this mounting to an extraordinarily tense situation, and when you speak to israelis or palestinians, neither thinking this is over in any way, shape or form. they're bracing for more violence at some point in the future. jeff? >> and with the secretary of state heading to the region, this is someone who knows the issue, he knows the players, he knows the politics of the region. what are the next steps for secretary of state blinken here? is it possible for him to really lay the groundwork for real peace negotiations? >> no.

hopefully he's able to lay the groundwork for a more extended ceasefire which both sides really do need. but let's keep in mind when biden was vice president, former secretary of state john kerry spent the entirety of his first 18 months infectually trying to get both sides to a two-state solution. we are much farther from that today. the trump administration jared kushner put together a two-state solution that the israelis accepted, american's gulf allies accepted, but the trump administration didn't even negotiate with the palestinians. the palestinians weren't even a part of the discussion. today the palestinians don't really have a government. they've got the palestinian authority representing them, but gaza and hamas effectively in charge, a terrorist organization that doesn't recognize them to

exist. all we can say, the only way guard to a two-state resolution is farther away than it has been in any point in decades. antony blinken, we know him, he knows the issues and he will spend his tenure as secretary of state with that issue. >> erin, back to you quickly, because i wonder if you can tell us more about this hamas military parade over the weekend. i think we just saw a video of it. how did it all unfold? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. it happened in gaza. hundreds of hamas militants brandishing their weapons in a parade of sorts in the streets of gaza. really what it illustrates is hamas' attempt to project itself as the leader of the palestinian people as a defender of palestinian interests.

it also illustrates sort of the challenges of providing aid to gaza as well. we heard from a senior state department official just today address questions about that in a briefing, how are you going to provide aid to gaza but also make sure that that aid does not end up helping what is, in effect, a terrorist organization, according to international countries. and the response to that is the united states is going to be working with officials, palestinian authority, as well as the united nations, but also reiterating that there are no guarantees, so it's a very complicated picture there right now. >> unpack for us, if you can, the ways in which a strengthened and emboldened hamas really complicates the matter here? >> you've seen hamas' military capabilities are significant. they launched over 4,000 rockets and they have the capacity to continue. israeli officials have told me that they believe that hamas has

many, many multiples of that in reserve. secondarily, they -- i have no interest in engaging in negotiations with israel. their perspective in their charter is that a jewish israeli state should not exist, that that's the palestinian homeland. so the idea that the americans would engage in negotiations with hamas, the idea that we would support direct humanitarian aid to hamas, that's not the case at all. and yet we don't have elections. remember, one of the things that set these demonstrations off, part of it, was that the inexperienced israeli police responded with excessive force to palestinian demonstrations in jerusalem, in east jerusalem. and, secondly, the fact that the palestinian authority has indefinitely postponed elections because they thought they were going to lose to hamas. so the fact that the domestic palestinian authority is so

deeply delegitimized in the eyes of the average palestinian even though the united states and many israelis would like to be able to negotiate with the palestinians, there is no entity that negotiations could actually start with. >> ian bremmer, erin mclaughlin and kelly o'donnell, my thanks to the three of you. now to that rise in anti-semitic attacks. there's a rise all over the country, in addition to a torrent of online abuse. a number of vandalized mosques have also taken place. stephanie has more from new york city. >> reporter: they have identified a 50% spike in anti-semitic attacks since this kicked off in the middle east. on thursday night there were two

dueling protests, one pro-palestinian, the other pro-israeli. a 29-year-old jewish man was attacked and kicked and punched, that someone used crutches against him. when he looked back and saw that video, he said he was lucky to get out alive. it is not the only incident that has happened across the country. also in los angeles, there were a number of restaurant goers who had bottles thrown at them while they were eating. it was a caravan of people waving palestinian flags and another man was beaten up. on the other end of the spectrum, there have been synagogues across the country that have been defaced, including the synagogue that former congresswoman gabby gifford attends. the anti-defamation league has also identified thousands of tweets that they describe as pro-naziism conflict. they are calling on the president and a number of jewish

organizations to do something about it. you had president biden tweeting out that it was unacceptable today, and you can expect to hear more on this issue from the administration and also from those organizations. you also have the president of the muslim public affairs council in los angeles calling these attacks despicable against muslims and jews in this country. he says that kind of violence doesn't help anybody's cause. jeff? >> just unconscionable acts of violence. our thanks to nbc's stephanie goss. a challenge that's facing one city's schools as they reopen their doors today. later, president biden promised a big agenda, but now the clock is ticking on key projects, such as infrastructure and police reform. tomorrow will mark a year since the killing of george floyd. a key witness speaks out about the trauma and guilt he has lived with ever since. >> i think the hardest part for me was when i would sit back and

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personally reimburse him. he said, the lawsuit is ludicrous. mr. pompeo is confident the court will see it the same way. it's the last weekend in may leading up to memorial weekend, traditionally somewhat of a i sleepy time in washington, d.c. but not this week. as families hit the road on memorial day, it's also when the president hits the road with an ambitious agenda, with the cold hard reality of the ticking clock and republican opposition. joining us now, leigh ann caldwell and eugene, thank you to you both. the president has set a couple deadlines, the dates possibly coming and going without resolution. the infrastructure bill, and the policing reform he wanted by

tomorrow on the first anniversary of george floyd's death. where are we on those goals? >> reporter: congress has a lot of balls they're juggling in the air right now, and we're at the moment where some of them will fall by the wayside and others they're going to catch. we're just not sure how it's going to work out. there are the deadlines that are coming later this summer that are set in stone by legislation, including there is a debt ceiling, there is unemployment insurance. the federal benefit runs out later this summer. they also have to fund the government by the end of the fiscal year at the end of september, and then we're running into the self-imposed deadlines that make things more complicated, especially when you combine those two things. especially the closer we get to an election season. of course, we're still a year and a half away from that, but we know that congress likes to campaign for two years before the election. and so, you know, we're looking a lot at police reform,

something that is more likely than not to happen at this point, but then on this idea of the bipartisan infrastructure deal, that looks like it is going to not be bipartisan as republicans and the biden white house are still so far apart, at least a trillion dollars, and they can't even agree on the definition of infrastructure, jeff. >> eugene, at what point did democrats move on infrastructure? that's what lets them move on priorities without republican votes. i think the president even said this publicly, he wants to get republicans on board, but he's not going to wait forever. at what point did they sort of cut on? >> i think what they told us here is the only red line is inaction, and that continues to

keep going if they wait for republicans so sign on, or if they move on having even less money, which is the way republicans want them to go. the white house sources here, they're not saying exactly how long they're willing to wait. jen psaki wouldn't say that today when we were in the press briefing asking her questions about this. but behind the scenes, they are not confused as to the fact that this looks like it's going to end up to be not bipartisan, that there won't be reconciliation. they're trying to be creative in the ways they go to republicans, talking to them about, hey, what's the issue you have, mrs. mayor? don't you want to call your republican member of congress and tell them they need to pass this deal? that's the kind of thing they're working on, but one thing that's really interesting, because you have where the republicans are, but like those democrats like joe manchin, have these negotiations gone far enough long enough to where he feels

like a real bipartisan hand was put out, that the white house has done enough, democrats in the senate have done enough to try to get a bipartisan deal, because at the beginning, him and some other moderates were saying they don't want to do this reconciliation, so that's a complicating factor here. >> it's a good point. the white house also wants to be seen negotiating with republicans. leigh ann, let's put back up that graphic of all the things on president biden's to-do list. infrastructure, policing reform, capitol riot commission, voting rights, gun control, nominations, combatting china, jobless benefits and debt limit. which of those things have the best chance of getting across the finish line? >> that's not a to-do list that even i would want. but as far as congress is concerned -- sorry, i have something in my threat, but i'll get through this really quickly. it seems like police reform is the most likely because there is some bipartisan rank and file

motivation to get it done. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is not getting in the way of it at this point. infrastructure is the other thing. just because democrats and republicans both agree that something needs to be done, and this has been a priority for president biden, but i just don't see republicans coming along with what democrats want. and excuse my voice. >> it's all good. it happens to all of us. leigh ann caldwell and eugene daniels. hats off to you, friend. meantime, the last of the national guard troops sent to protect the capitol after january's insurrection are heading home. after a nearly five-month mission, they're handing over security to the capitol hill police. the senate is scheduled to be off next week and lawmakers are concerned about security even at home. several democrats told the "washington post" that they have paid out of their own pockets to

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we're following breaking news out of southern california. a tragic story where police are searching for suspects involved in the road rage killing of a kindergartner. his mother was driving him to school friday morning when someone opened fire on her car on the freeway. the six-year-old was in his booster seat and he was struck in the back by a bullet fired through the trunk. aidan's family is now offering a reward for information leading to an arrest. >> if anyone knows of anything that can help bring some justice for this horrible event, i would greatly appreciate that, to come

forth and share any information helping to find the killers that murdered my son. murdered my little boy. >> police say they have no firm leads but believe the suspects are a man and a woman, and they have released few details about the moments leading up to the shooting except to say it appears to have been an incident of road rage. joining me from orange county, california is nbc news correspondent guad venegas. >> reporter: most of the details came from the mother where she said there was a white car cutting her off. he drove off and she heard the

gunshot before hearing aiden telling her his stomach was hurting. she pulled over to the side of the road to help him but she couldn't do anything. he was later pronounced dead. they have asked the public for more information. they've also asked anyone who was driving in this area this morning who had a dash cam to reach out. meanwhile, parents and students at aidan's school created their own memorial with ribribbons, a it will be a difficult week not only for the parents but the students who knew aidan. a minute ago we spoke to one of the pastors that works at this school. >> we tried to lay it out to them in a very simple way that they can understand that bad things happen, even to a godly situation. god's in control. we're trying to help them understand what that means. >> reporter: you know, we should also note that this year, 2021,

between january and april, we saw an increase in road rage incidents. 172 just in the los angeles area in southern california. there could be a reason with, like, more people coming out and driving. during 2020 there wasn't as many drivers on the road, but there has been an alert for drivers out there with an increase in road rage incidents, more people coming out on the road, and it's just a terrible, terrible incident. meanwhile, as you mentioned, the family has put out a $50,000 reward for anyone that can give them some details that may lead to the capture of those responsible, jeff. >> i can't imagine that family's pain. guad venegas in orange county, california. guad, thank you. in the last year we've seen a trial, a guilty verdict, nationwide protests and a push for police reform on capitol hill. but for those who witnessed floyd's death, it's been a year of struggle, trauma, and in some

cases, guilt. msnbc's tremaine lee spoke with store clerk and trial witness christopher martin about the day that changed his life, all of this in tremaine's "made for america" podcast. >> before tremaine'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 went the opposite direction. >> reporter: 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, chauvin and a cast of reluctant witnesses. did you have a sense of how seismic this 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 realized because my mind just kind of blocks it out. it won't let me, like, access certain parts of that day. it kind of felt like something supernatural was at work that i couldn't control. i thought it was evil.

>> he said he felt like, quote, the big domino that set everything in motion. i asked if he sees anything differently a year later. >> i definitely do see things a little differently. i'd probably say i'm more the 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 about what if, or like what if i had just told them to leave, drive away, go home or whatever. there's so many what-ifs in this situation. it's like -- it just drives you crazy because you know you can never go back in time and change it. >> that's christopher martin speaking with our own tremaine

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new york city public schools 1 million kids will be back in their classroom in september all in person, no remote. that's the news i think parents, kids, everyone has been waiting for to know we're going to be back strong, ready, safe. >> that was new york city mayor bill de blasio making a big announcement earlier today on "morning joe" that the country's largest school district will be

back with no options for remote learning. students are expected to head back september 13. schools are open today for the first time since the covid surge closed classes there. we're learning many students fell behind or disappeared from school altogether. heidi, it will take years to fully grasp the failing number of students due to this pandemic, but how many teachers have been trying to keep them on track this last year? >> reporter: jeff, as these doors swing open, that's exactly what's happening in detroit and major urban cities across the country who are surveying the damage. here in detroit we're seeing chronic absenteeism, failure rates of students who have been in virtual school failing at 57%, students that have just dropped off the map, enrollments going down by thousands.

kindergartners alone who just never logged on. let's talk to this teacher who likened his job the last year as being part of the fbi. >> a lot of the kids just went dark, and that's where our wellness laws and contact information came into play at. we had to actually -- sometimes you have to physically drive to the student's house. we keep our window open for kids, to parents. we're always making adjustments just to bring the kids up to speed. because i see it's going to be a challenge getting back into the swing of things. r, but i believe that we can do it. >> reporter: so what now? we spoke with a superintendent here in detroit just moments ago, and he said they're going to make an unprecedented investment in teachers, but the question, jeff, is whether that is going to be successful given what looks to be a potential looming shortage.

in teachers just here in michigan we've seen teachers resigning here at 40% since august. >> what's it been like for the kids that went back into the classroom at detroit public schools? >> reporter: the operative word is the kids who did come back. the superintendent said for now they're seeing a lot of teachers, and frankly, students as well who just aren't coming back. i said, what do you do about that? he says they're just exhausted. a lot of these children have parents who are maybe front line workers who struggled all year long with virtual learning and who aren't coming back, even for the summer, so that increases the stakes for the fall to fill those learning gaps. the teachers want to do a lot of one-to-one learning. he's talking about a mass increase in the army of educators here of not just

teachers, but special ed -- educators looking to see if the pay, and they'll increase the pay and just a big bonus to work at the school. the cdc has reported dozens of teams getting a heart condition after a covid vaccine. they are investigating cases of myocarditis for students who recently got the vaccine, but the cdc has not determined if the vaccine caused the condition. we have advisor dr. william shatner. thank you for joining us, as always. tell us how a mild case of myocarditis could compare to if a young person contracted covid-19. >> a word of background first.

most people don't recognize what a comprehensive vaccine surveillance system we have in this country. it's operative all the time, and remember, it picked up that needle in the haystack of the clouding disorder with the j&j vaccine. now that we're vaccinating young adults and teenagers, another signal has gone up that's under investigation. we're trying to discover whether this inflammation of the heart muscle, which can occur even without vaccines, is occurring more frequently among those vaccinated than among people who are not vaccinated. as of the end of last week, there is no sense of a causal relationship with the vaccine. this inflammation can lead to heart rhythm abnormalities, it could keep some children from participating in sports over the long term. many of these cases do resolve, but it requires expert medical care over time.

>> so if i'm the parent of a 12-year-old, let's say, who has a preexisting condition or has a preexisting heart condition, should this revelation give me pause, or should i still get my 12-year-old vaccinated, do you think? >> well, jeff, for sure it's going to give people pause if they have children with a preexisting heart condition. so let's let things calm down a little bit, we'll wait for some more cdc reports to offer reassurance to those parents who have those few children with heart conditions. other parents, parents of children who don't have the heart condition, bring them in to be vaccinated, please. >> so let's talk about the numbers, because cases in the u.s. are now at their lowest point in almost a year. is that about the pace of vaccinations or is this about warmer weather, or is it both things colliding in a big way? >> i don't know about that warmer weather. last summer we had a big surge in cases, so we're not so big on

the seasonal impact of covid. we're watching that but not sure. i think we can give credit to the vaccines. the vaccines are increasingly out there, not as fast as i would like, but they're increasingly out there. more and more people vaccinated, more and more people protected, harder for the virus to find new people to infect. and if everybody else would kind of jump in and get vaccinated, roll up their sleeves, we would see that curve go down even faster. >> dr. william schaffner, appreciate your insight as always. where you could see president biden and vladimir putin in the same room. stay with us. n in the same room stay with us

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one of the questions. our next guest may be able to answer the other. joining us, michael mcfaul, msnbc international affairs analyst. ambassador, multiple sources tell the white house team and me that the most likely location for the meeting is geneva, switzerland. one of the questions people have is why, why does president biden want to give him international legitimate see granting him a one on one with an american president, same as they said about president trump meeting with kim jong-un. >> it's a good question. i think the biden administration and prescribe believes the meeting will stabilize and make more predictable russian relations. he said that before, and so did secretary blinken after meeting with lavrov and national

security adviser said the similar thing. i think that's what they're trying to do. i also think it is dangerous. whenever you give putin a platform like that, the world will be watching. everybody will be wondering what is the purpose of the meeting. my prediction is there will be no outcomes or deliverables as we called them when i worked in the state department. then people wonder why did they have the meeting in the first place. >> is this a setting where you think president biden would bring up russia's election interference, ongoing cyber hacking? the assassinations linked to vladimir putin, or will he try to talk about areas of cooperation like containing north korea, like ensuring withdrawal in afghanistan of the u.s. troops. >> i hope he will do both, i predict he'll do both. i was actually at the last meeting the two gentlemen had. they had different jobs back then. putin was prime minister and

biden was vice president, it was a decade ago so you know, 2011, it has been a long time. in that meeting, they talked about difficult stuff and cooperative stuff, and i fully suspect that's going to be president biden's approach to the summit. >> what about putin's approach. how will he handle the potential meeting and change tactics from the way he handled donald trump? >> well, putin understands that he's not going to have a friend in president biden. let's not forget that friendship didn't lead to many positive outcomes either, four years of happy talk didn't lead to any tangible concrete benefits to the american people or i would say to the russian people, but i do think the very ability of the meeting as you said earlier is an achievement for putin. look at what he has done lately. just a few weeks ago we were talking about he might be invading ukraine again, right?

he had a giant build up of troops on the border there. yet right after that, he is now meeting with the most important leader in the world. so the very act is an achievement for putin. >> we expect more from the white house between the sit down of vladimir putin and joe biden. while we have you, can't let you go without asking about putin ally, strong man president of belarus, lukashenko who essentially hijacked a commercial plane, forced the plane down to arrest a dissident journalist. what did you make of that? >> it is completely outrageous. it is a consistent pattern of behavior with mr. lukashenko. i won't call him president, he didn't win the last election. there's no evidence that says he is president. dictate or, ought krat, not call

him president. he needs to be treated as a pariah. i love that the united kingdom said no more planes will land there, i hope the rest will do the same. it is time to isolate him. the argument is if we isolate him too much, he will be in putin's orbit. he is already in putin's orbit. let's isolate lukashenko, try to engage the belarus people. this has to happen after that completely outrageous act. >> we appreciate your time as always. quick programming note, coming up later on "the beat", three names of the investigations in trump world. michael cohen, jennifer west he will berg, former daughter-in-law of allen weather he will berg, and former adviser stephanie wall could have on the beat at 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that does it for me today. ayman mohyeldin picks up

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