good afternoon, everyone. a short time ago, president biden said that the united states will buy 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine and donate them to some of the world's poorest nations. that is on top of the 80 million doses the administration has already committed to sharing with those countries. the president said during his speech near the site of the g7 summit in southwest england that it's the right thing to do. >> we will help lead the world out of this pandemic, working alongside our global partners. this is about our responsibility, our humanitarian obligation to save as many lives as we can. and our responsibility to our values. >> the announcement cams hours after the president held his face meeting with british prime minister boris johnson. the two leaders signing a new atlantic charter aimed at strengthening the relationship between the two nations.

all of this comes as russia -- a russian court designates a group run by navalny as an extremist network, banning it from future politics, raising the stakes for next week's summit between president biden and vladimir putin. here at home, the fbi director made his first appearance before the house since the january 6th insurrection, facing questions about what the bureau knew before the attack took place. also, defense secretary lloyd austin telling a senate committee that he supports taking sexual assault investigations outside the chain of command. some lawmakers say more needs to be done. >> we want to take all serious crimes out of the chain of command, carving out uniquely military crimes. that's what the best legal minds who look at the military justice system have recommended. it's what our allies have done.

we begin this hour with day two of the president's first foreign trip. joining us now, chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. she is in england near the site of the g7 summit. matt bradley is in england. and also with us is ravi agerwall. andrea, what message is president biden sending with today's announcement on selling vaccine doses with the rest of the world? >> reporter: he is trying to show there's american leadership, that america is contributing to covax, the global consortium for vaccine doses. he is striking a different pose, certainly, from donald trump, coming into a g7. trying to prove that america has humanitarian issues at heart,

that america is also bouncing back from the pandemic. leading the way in terms of economic recovery, which will spur the global recovery worldwide and that as he puts it, america has to do its part when the rest of the world is suffering. but it's also in america's self-interest in terms of national security, economic growth, because unless the world comes out of this pandemic, america will not as well, will not fully recover economically, while it's still spreading, while there's mutations around the world. this is 500 million doses starting in august with 200 million this year, 300 million next year. some critics, including some of our medical contributors and experts whom we speak to all the time, say it's not enough. there needs to be a billion from america. we can do more. it's pfizer, which is meaningful in one way in that it's very

effective against the variants. the down side is, it's two-dose vaccine, it has refrigeration requirements. it will be more difficult to distribute globally, especially in many of the countries, nearly 100 lower income countries, largely in africa, asia, south america, latin america, where the refrigeration obviously is an issue. the president said that they can do this, that they do it not only as a humanitarian gesture, it's because that's what americans do. that's what america does. also, out of self-interest and with no strings attached. very clearly that unlike china and russia from the american perspective, this is not part of vaccine diplomacy, it's not political. it doesn't require what kind of government you are. no favofavors, no demands. >> matt, let's talk about the

signaling that's coming out of russia. the u.s. has its own messaging as it meets with its european allies. what we see come out of russia was interesting. you had the russian government sending a message to the u.s. by declaing navalny's network banned from the political process. your thoughts? >> reporter: yeah. it puts them up there with neonazi groups, terrorist groups like isis, banning them, wiping them off the face of russian politics. it's really tempting to lock at some like this and say, this is the russian government, vladimir putin sending a signal to the u.s. ahead of the meeting in geneva. it probably isn't quite that simple. at the end of the day, this wasn't the government. this was a court in russia. while they don't necessarily aren't as independent as in the states they are somewhat independent. this was a court decision. really, if they are signaling,

it's signaling domestically. vladimir putin has been signig a law that would restrict extremist organizations from running for elections, specifically the elections that are coming up in the fall. that's why a lot of politicians throughout russia are getting rounded up by the police. navalny is not alone in facing that kind of pressure. it seems as though in russia, there's a new attitude where a lot of people are afraid for putin, within putin's inner circle, many are worried that the upcoming elections, they probably won't sweep him out of power, they could damage his authority and expose some impatience with vladimir putin's very long position leading that country. i wouldn't necessarily say this is aimed directly at the president and timed for that meeting in geneva. >> matt bradley, andrea, thanks for starting us off.

let's break this down with you, ravi. start with russia. what would success look like for a biden/putin summit, given what we see play out? maybe not necessarily a direct message to the americans but something that american lawmakers and politicians are very mindful of, what happens to navalny. they have been calling for support for him and his organization. >> two answers to that question. on the one hand, there's rhetoric. on the other hand, there's progress or tangible achievements from the meeting. i think on the rhetoric front, i think that side is going to be easy. what biden will focus on the most is to present a very different face than the one that trump did. that's not going to be difficult to do. instead of appearing to be ply -- pliant, he will be tough. that will set the tone for the

relationship. that will set the tone for how the two countries extend their relationship over the next few years. that's the broader rhetoric. we will all be looking out to parse how biden appears to be around putin. more substantially, as was said, i think the navalny issue will be front and center. syria is going to be a major part of the discussions in that we know that the u.s. wants to try and pressure russia to try and ensure that aid gets into syria, which russia has been stopping on several opening points into syria. that's going to be another issue. of course, europe, biden would have just come from the nato summit. the issue of conflicts across europe's borders, in fact, the very issue of borders not being secure is an issue that i think europeans will worry greatly about. in no uncertain terms, i imagine they will tell biden to press

putin on that. >> let me ask you about america's standing in the world. there was a new survey of people in 12 countries. overall, they found that 62% of people in those countries have a favorable view of the united states. that's up from 34% a year ago. 75% of people in those countries express confidence the u.s. president would do the right thing regarding world affairs. that is up from just 17%. take a step back for us, if you can, when you look at the announcement of the covid vaccine the united states wants to buy and distribute. what is that and those nudges -- numbers tell us? >> the key word is expectations. the poll numbers came out before the u.s. announced it would try to get a billion vaccines to the world. those numbers represent expectations, they represent the way in which the world has a

very different sense and hope for biden than it did for trump. they would see the world -- they would see allies with suspicion that the u.s. wouldn't want to engage. we know that. with biden there's hope. i have to say, i'm not so sure that the announcement that the u.s. will try to push for more vaccines goes far enough. the world can do a lot more. we know from the imf it would cost only $50 billion to ensure vaccinations are available to much of the world. even now, this is going to be a discussion at the g7 i'm sure, a lot more needs to be done. for two reasons. one, of course, is that if the rich western countries don't move quickly to ensure that the rest of the world is vaccinated, they will let them down. there could be mutations that could come back to hit the west. more than all of that is the

moral argument. it would be a missed opportunity for the biden presidency, but also i think for european leaders, were they to not think about equity, were they to the not think about the way in which they could easily mobilize money to then ensure a speedier distribution of vaccines around the world. let's not forget, countries arndt world are looking at the u.s. and at europe and they are seeing how these countries are printing money, how they are putting forward giant amounts of stimulus to resuscitate the economies. they can do the same for the world. >> thank you so much for that insight. i appreciate it, as always. good to see you. back here at home, the fbi director is still testifying before the house judiciary committee for the first time since the january 6th riot at the u.s. capitol. for the first time since a senate report says profound intelligence and security failures contributed to one of

the most worst domestic attacks. he said he is not aware of any investigation into donald trump contributing to the riot. ken dilanian joins us from washington. good to see you. i want to play for you a little of what house judiciary chair said at the start of the hearing. >> the fbi's inaction in the weeks leading up to january 6 is baffling. it's hard to tell whether the fbi headquarters missed the evidence which had been flagged by field offices and was available for all the world to see or whether the bureau sas saw the intelligence and failed to act. >> how did the director respond to that? >> reporter: not clearly. he said the fbi was aware of chatter about violence pre

january 6 but had no intelligence that hundreds or thousands of people would swarm the capitol. of course, what he didn't say was what exactly did the fbi know and what did it do with the information? in that sense, this has been a missed opportunity. i know from my own reporting there's tension in the fbi about how to handle violent postings by domestic extremists online. a lot of people say things online that they never follow through with. he even said today that almost none of the 500 people that have been charged in the capitol have been previously under investigation. underscoring how hard to predict this violence. what the fbi missed is that the social media itself was a signal. even if none of those people who posted about bringing guns to the capitol and arrests members of congress, even if none of those followed through, what it showed was there was a desire for this to happen and perhaps authorities should have beefed

up defenses at the capitol. as it turned out, the fbi passed one intelligence report on, the night before. it had no impact. we didn't get a lot of answers about how and why the fbi handled that intelligence today. >> let me ask you about the other big story that's dominating the headlines. that is ransomware. many of them, the recent attacks, are believed to have come from entities inside russia. last week, the director compared it to the challenges that were created by the september 11th terrorist attacks. what more did we learn today, if anything,fbi is addressing this? >> reporter: he painted a dark picture. he said that the ransom payments -- victims had tripled recently. he said the fbi was investigating 100 variants, each of which has hundreds of

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major news out of the pentagon. at a senate hear, lloyd austin signalled he is opening to handling cases of sexual assault outside the military chain of command. a major shift. >> let's not be afraid to try new approaches and to change our minds. so that we can truly and fully address the scourge of sexual assault in our force. what we have been doing hasn't been working. one assault is too many. the numbers of sexual assaults are too high. the confidence in our system is still too low. >> joining me now, covering national security and the pentagon, courtney kube. talk to us about the changes. how big of a deal that secretary

austin expressed his openness? >> reporter: this is a big deal for the military. what this means is, right now the way -- it's going to change the way that the military prosecutes sexual harassment and sexual assault. right now, if there's an allegation of harassment or assault, that's handled within what the military calls the chain of command. if you needed to report one of those issues, you would go to your boss. they would decide whether it's serious enough to move it into the court-martial process. this change, which would take congress to change, because it would be an actual altering or changing of the uniform code of military justice, this would change this into a civilian -- some sort of a civilian would take over the role of looking at the evidence and deciding whether it needs to go through the court-martial process. it's very -- it's a huge step. this is the most serious step

that we have heard from secretary austin since this has been discussed. critically, one of the biggest advocates for making this change, senator gillibrand, she was there when austin said this at the hearing today. afterwards, she spoke with kasie hunt on msnbc. she reacted to it. here is what she had to say. >> what we heard from the general as well as our secretary of defense, they are both open to removing all sexual assault crimes and related crimes out of the chain of command. that's a huge step in the right direction. they have never said that before. they are both open to it. >> reporter: gillibrand went on to say that this is really a once in a generation kind of change to make this change. the question is, would the hill actually go forward and pass the law? right now, it looks like secretary austin is going to make that recommendation to president biden. it's the first real movement we have seen on this in addition

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here are the facts in the pandemic as we know them at this hour. johnson & johnson vaccines are good to use a little longer with the fda extending their shelf

life by six weeks. putting an end to concerns over the potential expiration of thousands of doses reportedly piling up across the country. moderna applied for emergency approval for its covid-19 vaccine for 12 to 17-year-olds. moderna would be the second manufacturer to vaccinate kids with pfizer rolling out their vaccine to teens last month. in a divergence from the eu, the european parliament is pushing for waivers for vaccine patents. the parliament says any steps to accelerate production are necessary, emphasizing vaccine needs in africa saying, we are not on track to inoculate 70% of the globe. in the united states, president biden's july 4th target of 70% of americans having at least one dose of the vaccine is fast approaching. the vaccination rate is slowing down. dr. fauci says a key factor in

the stagnation is regional challenges. here is what he told my colleague chuck todd. >> we have a big country. there's real disparities and differences in the percent of people who are vaccinated. there are some regions that are well below 50%, which is really unfortunate, because those are the states and areas that are going to be most vulnerable. >> joining me now to break down the decline is steve kornacki. what are the numbers? >> first of all, what you see, this 52%, this is the total population of the country, everybody, adults, kids. 52% have at least one dose of the vaccine. that july 4th target you are talking about that biden laid out, he said this second number i'm about to show you, he wants that to be 70%.

the adult population, with at least one dose. it's 64%. if you took the current rate of vaccination and locked that in for the next three or so weeks, right up until july 4th, that 64 is on pace to get to about 68. under the 70. like you say, week to week to week, we have been seeing the vaccination rate slow. if it continues to slow, we may come in 67, 66, even lower. it would take a significant uptick to hit 70% by july 4th, as it is right now. it looks like it will be close but not there. if you look at one other age group, senior citizens, nearly 90% with one shot there. these are the fully vaccinated. more than half of adults, three-quarters of those over 65. here is the case curve.

this is basically when the vaccine rollouts begin. we were at 250,000 or new cases or so when the rollout began. right now, we average 14,000 a day. just getting up those numbers to where i was showing you, that's been the decline of cases that has come with that. you can only imagine if you get more vaccines on there, how much lower that could get. it's worth keeping in mind. >> significant numbers. see if we make it across the finish line. steve, thank you. as americans see cases fall and start vaccinating teens, some countries are in the midst of a third wave and don't have enough doses for even just their health care workers. less than 2% of coronavirus vaccines have ended up in africa. cases are now rising in 14 countries there. international organizations are pleading to richer countries to send aid.

the u.s. responded as we mentioned earlier today with that call pledging 500 million pfizer doses to the global vaccination effort. john sparks travelled to africa where he got a look at the efforts of one mobile clinic. >> reporter: this is a mobile clinic with a doctor and a nurse who provide health care. this is a mountainous territory which sits on the roof of southern africa. they have been given a critical task. they must deliver covid-19 vaccines to the nation. there is a terrible shortage here. we have to fly 200 kilometers to pick up a couple of dozen jabs. how many doses do you have? >> for now, 30 doses. >> reporter: how many are you going to need? >> in total, we need -- let me

estimate, 2 million doses. >> reporter: we flew to another place where key health workers and vulnerable adults have not been protected. the pilot put us down on the mountainside. our special cargo was handed over to a nurse. it won't go far in a district of 10,000 people. how many people have been vaccinated here so far? >> so far, 73. some of our colleagues, staff members. >> reporter: you are going to need a lot more. >> especially for the people here, yes. >> reporter: it's an isolated spot. the message has gone out about covid-19. as a third wave of infection in africa takes root. we watched as they began to

congregate. why do you want to get a covid vaccine? covid vaccine? >> reporter: do you think the virus could come here to the mountains? >> reporter: they were gathered in a room warmed up by the sun and given the first of a two-dose vaccine. the recipients said they were grateful. >> reporter: the lucky people, the fortunate people. the supply of vaccines in africa has almost ground to a halt, with the world health organization pleading with rich countries to donate their stocks. in some countries, they are talking about vaccinaing children now. here, you are still vaccinating

health workers. how do you feel about that? >> we are not comfortable. it has to be ruled out as quick as possible. this pandemic is killing people. >> reporter: the kingdom in the mountains has been left behind in the race to vaccinate the public. as this virus encircles the world, this should be everybody's responsibility. john sparks, sky news. >> thanks to john sparks for that report from africa. a congresswoman is taking heat from some democrats and now leadership is responding. we will have the details of that after the break. f that after the break. i'm here and suddenly... ...my migraine takes me somewhere else. where there's pain, and nausea. but excedrin pulls me back in a way others don't. and it relieves my symptoms fast

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facing criticism for this tweet she posted on monday. the post linked to a conversation the congresswoman was having with tony blinken discussing investigations by the international criminal court. some democrats viewed it as equating the united states and israel to hamas and the taliban. some defended her and omar herself released this statement clarifying what she meant. joining me now is correspondent garrett haake. as we expected, this escalated quickly. now the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, weighed in. what's the reaction from the democratic leadership? >> reporter: for folks just tuning in, i would urge you to look at the tweet and the video

that's associated with it. the video provides context that i think is a little absent in the tweet and is part of how we got here. >> shocking. >> reporter: has that ever happened before? >> never. >> reporter: jumping back to what i think will be the end of the controversy for now, this statement coming out from a unified group of democratic leadership, including speaker pelosi, says two things, really. it says that congresswoman omar has the right and we in a democracy have the necessity of criticizing democrat says -- democracies. they welcomed she wasn't trying to make a moralequivalency, which appeared to be the case in the tweet. remember, omar has become something of a foil for republicans.

there was a vote that dealt with bigotry based on previous comments she made. the hope from democratic leadership is clear. they welcome this clarification from omar. they want to put a lid on this entire discussion and keep their conference as unified as possible. >> garrett haake live on capitol hill. thank you. >> i like that. >> good to see you. former white house counsel to then president trump was worried trump's handling of the mueller probe would spiral out of control. don mcgahn testified. the transcript released yesterday, he confirmed details from robert mueller's report. one of the most striking findings was that trump wanted mcgahn to tell the deputy

attorney general at the time, rod rosenstein, to remove mueller. mcgahn described that friday as an inflection point saying, in part, with that i meant a point of no return. if the acting attorney general received what he thought was a direction from the counsel to the president to remove a special counsel, he would either have to remove the special counsel or resign. joining me now is nbc news political contributor jake sherman. what were some of your biggest takeaways from mcgahn's testimony? >> not stepping away from anything he has said previously. i guess there's two thins to -- two things to look at. he confirmed everything we had known about the mueller investigation and the surrounding events. the president called it a nothing burger. i don't think it was in any way, shape or form. it was confirming for everything we knew. number two, on the other hand, this is two years late.

the investigation into the mueller report and the related events have ended for the moment. if this testimony had come two years ago, this would be a different story on capitol hill or on capitol haake as we call it. listen, it's -- this is the story that never ends. the events of the trump administration and all the oddities within are just completely strange and will be looked at for a very long time. >> to your point, let me pick up on that. it has been two years. it has been months since president trump left office. why do you think it was important for the house democrats to continue to pursue mcgahn's testimony long after president trump's first impeachment and after leaving office? >> it's a precedent thing. congress cannot cede more power to the administration or to

anybody. the president at the time, donald trump, the former president now, did not want don mcgahn to testify. that was the subject of back and forth. you can't just give up. you have to follow through. congress retained some of the power. congress has absolute power to compel testimony. in this case, had to follow through. there was no choice. congress couldn't back down. >> some of the reason had to do with how that subpoena power works. democrats introduced a bill that includes reforms to expedite the congressional subpoena process. now they have a democrat in the white house. do you see bipartisan pathway to pass this reform? >> probably not. any time you start messing with powers of this nature, it gets messy. as you and i have talked about so many times, congress has a to do list that stretches from one side of the capitol to the other. i don't see this getting any legs. i could be wrong.

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they built what became known as the arsenal of democracy. now a new generation of american men and women working with today's latest technology is going to build a new arsenal to defeat the current enemy of world peace, health and stability, covid-19. >> joining me now is maryland democratic senator ben cardin. he is a member of the foreign relations committee. welcome back. let's start with what we were just hearing there. president biden said that tomorrow the g7 nations will announce the full scope of their commitment to fighting covid-19. how important is this trip for, reaffirming our relationship with our allies, and, how far will donating 500 million vaccines go to shoring up american diplomacy? >> it's good to be with you. this is president biden's first trip. i think u.s. leadership and

making available the vaccines to the poorer nations will provide the impetus for other nations to join us. we can make a major difference. we recognize the only way we can get this global pandemic under control is to make sure that th distributed around the world. but also, to build the capacity to deal with the next epidemic whenever it may occur that we have the capacity to respond to global health needs because it is not only the right thing to do, it also is what we need to do for our own security. >> senator, for the president's summit with vladimir putin, the chair of the foreign relations committee was on this program yesterday. i asked him about it. he said that the biden administration should take a more aggressive approach to russia rather than prioritizing stability and predictability. do you agree with that? do you think president biden needs to take a harder line towards russia? >> i agree with the chair of the

committee but this is the first opportunity for them to meet in person, going to be a relatively brief meeting. i hope that president biden can establish a working relationship with put vladimir establish a working relationship with putin to make it clear that we won't tolerate interference in our own country and look forward to working with any partner towards a world stability and to deal with the hot spots in the world but you can't ignore the fact that russia invaded ukraine and interfering in so many countries and we have to take a firm position. >> let's turn to the capitol riot. you had fbi director wray saying he wasn't aware of an investigation special cli examining former president trump's rhetoric. does that undercut claims that an independent commission is

unnecessary because of ongoing investigations? >> you can't do an investigation by having one person appear at one meeting on capitol hill. investigations are methodical. you need the resources to understand what happened. it is in the national interest to understand what happened january 6. i was on the floor of the united states senate as we saw the insurrectionists enter the capitol of the united states. the american people need to know how that happened so it never happens again. this is a protection of the democracy. you doan do it by one witness before a congressional panel but through an independent commission investigation similar to what we have on the floor of the united states senate for consideration. >> i know on police reform you have been vocal. the bipartisan negotiators hope to have a draft within the next few weeks according to soushss to nbc news. you tweeted on the anniversary of george floyd's death urging the senate to take up and pass

the george floyd justice in policing act. do you have confidence that the senate can get this done in june? >> we have been getting update reports from the negotiators and i have been encouraged by the statements that have been made. the american people recognize that we have a problem in policing in america. we saw the global community respond to the george floyd tragedy. congress needs to respond. the senate needs to take up the bill and pass the bill. i am hopeful that we have a working majority in the united states senate to take up a meaningful police on policing reform and confident senator booker who's the chief negotiator will bring us that type of bill for a vote. >> i know that democratic colleague tester on with chuck todd this afternoon. and talked about a bipartisan group being very close on an infrastructure deal despite the

white house and senator capito suspending those talks, if you will. gop senator romney said there is a quote tentative understanding.

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hi there, everyone. it's 4:00 in the east. the real duly elected president of the united states president biden on his first foreign trip today seeking to align the quite with the world's democracies. while here at home the other party, the republicans, continue a campaign to undermine our democracy all in service of a twice impeemped disgraced

ex-president and nowhere does that campaign fueled by the big lie of a stolen election collide so straight than arizona home to a democratic senator stands in the way of voting rights reform that can put a stop to the gop led voter suppression bills and where the sham audit of the ballots is essential to fueling and keeping alive the big lie. a call for help today from arizona democrats to senator sinema to support filibuster reform to clear the way for democrats' sweeping reform bill. they write this, we all on you to do everything necessary up to and including reforming the filibuster, to pass the for the people act. our democracy is too important to be sacrificed at the altar of archaic anti-democratic senate procedures. all this is happening as the sham audit i