good to be with you. i'm katy tur. the effort to confirm a noof supreme court justice begins in earnest this hour at the white house. the chairman and the ranking members of the judiciary committee will meet with the president. they will confirm president biden's choice to fill the vacancy on the court. more on that meeting when it

begins, but let us begin with russian president vladimir putin's first comments on ukraine since december after his meeting in moscow with the leader of hungary. putin claimed the west has ignored russia's top demands including blocking ukraine from joining nato. these comments followed a flurry of new diplomatic talks to stop an invasion of ukraine. the top diplomats from the united states and russia spoke by phone. secretary of state antony blinken and sergey lavrov did not reach a breakthrough. lavrov repeated the claim russia has no plans to invade and the response to the u.s. proposals to avert military action. according to the kremlin that response will be ready when putin, quote, sees fit. meanwhile the united states government has now ordered the families of american diplomats

to leave belarus for what it says are military exercises. new video showing the ukrainian military's antiaircraft missile unit deployed to the southern territory of the country in a place -- in place and ready to guard against a russian air attack from crimea. joining me now from nbc news -- joining me from nbc news and foreign correspondent matt bradley. my apologies for getting tongue-tied. matt bradley, first to you. you are on the eastern edge of ukraine. why are you there? >> reporter: we are in eastern ukraine. this is a really interesting place because it's not necessarily the front lines against russia but against these separatist enclaves that have been at war with ukraine for the

past eight years. this is one of the reasons when we talk about how remarkably relaxed the you krapians are and from president zelensky on down everybody seems pretty cool about what everybody else in the world is really freaking about. that's been a big mystery. they've been fighting against ukrainian separatist who is are backed by russia. i was just in the trenches on the frontline of this. i spoke with some people. it was kind of ragtag like a world war i-type feeling, trench warfare. again, this has been going on for a long time. but they've never had this amount of firepower and manpower to bear. i spoke with one very elderly soldier in the trenches today. here is what he had to say.

some will say the ukrainian military is outmanned and outgunned by the russians. what do you say about that? >> fighting for this land because that's my modeling. >> reporter: so waiting to fight and to die. they might have to but a lot of the experts i was talking to said these regular soldiers probably wouldn't have to fight in the same way. the fact is that everybody is expecting that if russia does decide to invade they will overwhelm the conventional forces of the ukrainian military and it's really going to have to go to something like we've seen before, an insurgency led by the military but probably involving a few civilians against a russian sustained occupation in

the region where i am now. katy? >> matt bradley. i'm presuming that was an interpreter giving the answer of that gentleman because we did not see him speaking during the sound bite. >> reporter: yes. >> just so everybody knows. tell me what vladimir putin said today, and it seemed like i heard him saying that if anything happens in ukraine, it's the united states' fault. >> reporter: thank you, katy. that's the overall. i don't think we learned anything new from him. we've been waiting eagerly for him to weigh in on this. we saw the very standard laundry list of grievances. speculation that if ukraine joins nato suddenly the west would be kind of helping ukraine retake crimea by force. we saw putin reiterate the same talking points we've been hearing on nearly a daily basis now for several weeks from his spokesman, his foreign minister.

a few things i point to point out. vladimir putin, this is a translation, of course, quote, we need to find a way to ensure the security and interests of all participants in the process. ukraine, european countries and russia, but this can only be done with serious, thoughtful attitude to the documents we have proposed. those documents what the russians would call security guarantees. what we've been calling demands, specifically the demands that amount to the dismantling of nato in eastern europe. one more quote. i hope we will eventually find the solution though it is certainly not easy. i am not yet ready to say what it will be yet. vladimir putin not tipping it one way or the other. are those 130 troops on the border a bluff? did putin come in hoping for, intending military action, or signaling he's prepared to use

military action to achieve these ends? we don't know. we're not any closer to answering that question. >> matt bodner and matt bradley, thank you very much for starting us off. joining me is former commanding general of the u.s. army in europe lieutenant general hodges. he just returned from kyiv. thank you so much for joining us, lieutenant. first off, what did president zelensky tell you? >> katy, thank you very much. when matt said a very elderly soldier, i thought he was talking about me at first. i did have the privilege to meet with president zelensky yesterday as part of a small delegation from the united states. i came away from that with three things. he is absolutely not confused about the threat, even though he disagrees with the white house, the pentagon's -- the threat, he is not confused about it. he is focused on the damage to

ukraine's economy and the amount of money they are losing just trying to keep their currency afloat. this is not being missed by the kremlin. i don't think that we're going to see this massive assault -- i never thought that was the likelihood. i think president zelensky is correct it's less than that, actually a kings of what's been happening the last several years. >> and what does president zelensky want/need from the u.s., from the united states and from nato allies? >> a great question. first of all, he reminded us he has never asked for any other soldiers from any other country, american troops, british troops, german troops. what he's asked for are the tools necessary so that ukraine can defend itself. what the biden administration and the uk and others are providing right now. this is moving in the right

direction and he needs to fill the unity with us, and i think the diplomatic efforts now is the best and most comprehensive i've seen since probably 1995. what he really needs, though, is financial support. their treasury is suffering because of the impact on the economy over the last several months and he needs to grow the size of his armed forces. >> the diplomatic efrpts of the united states, there's been a lot of effort to present a united front but it hasn't always appeared so united. germany is the country that comes to mind and their kind of shakiness when it comes to russian sanctions, to arming ukrainians. they've only sent helmets over. how integral is germany in putting pressure on vladimir

putin? >> you are exactly right. germany is the key here. i think the biden administration from the beginning has reached out to our german allies to repair the relationship with our most important ally, the economic power, the leader inside the european union and inside nato. so it's important but it's been very frustrating to see germany be indecisive in its support for ukraine and for what the administration is trying to do. on the plus side we have seen germany along with the rest of nato reject these ridiculous demands that were alluded to earlier. they've been solid there. on the negative side, of course, they're having a hard time saying the words sanctions and instead keep talking about dialogue. i would say that yesterday the

co-leader of the sdd, which is the leading party in this coalition government said publicly that russia is the aggressor here and that, quote, everything is on the table. this is a significant step in the right direction, and i think that's in part due to the effort by the administration. >> i'm going to have to interrupt you to go to president biden, so forgive me. when we talk about sanctions, we've been in this place before with president putin, have imposed tough sanctions on him and the country. it hasn't changed his position on things. even britain considering sanctions. that was met with laughter overseas because of the amount of money that is just washing over the uk that comes out of russia. so i wonder when you're talking about vladimir putin and sanctions, if you take the

pipeline off the table, can you really impose sanctions that are going to be punishing enough? when you respond to this, i will have you hold because in just a second we're going to go to president biden. i don't want to you start talking and suddenly be interrupted by me. i believe president biden is coming in just a couple seconds. let's go right now. been out there in the cold too long, folks. i've invited two good friends down here. we've done a lot of supreme court justices, senator grassley and i, and senator durbin. we've worked together on supreme court nominees. selecting a justice is one of the president's most serious responsibilities and as i always said, i looked back at a lot of opening statements i've made, dick, i've presided over more than anybody else around, which

kind of means we must be beyond 60, chuck, i'm not sure what it is. a little older. >> 50 or 60. >> i started way back early on in the early '70s. at any rate, what we're going to do, as i've said before, i went back and looked at some of the opening statements i've made for justices over the years, the constitution says advise and consent, and i'm serious when i say that i want the advice of the senate as well as the consent, we can arrive on who the nominee should be. there's always a renewed national debate every time we nominate, any president nominates a justice, because the constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights or curtailing rights, et cetera, and it's always an

issue, and there are several schools of thought in terms of judicial philosophy, and we'll see. the fact is that i'm looking for someone who i can -- this is not a static issue. it flows back and forth, what i'm looking for is a candidate with character, with the qualities of a judge in terms of being courteous to the folks before them and treating people with respect as well as a judicial philosophy and it means something including the 9th amendment. i intend to make this decision and get it to my colleagues by the end of the month. that's my hope. and i look forward to their advice on how to proceed. thank you very much.

we're going to get a chance to talk. i want to hear from them today. thank you. >> the president not answering any reporters' questions but did reiterate he wants to get his supreme court nominee to the senate by the end of the month. it is february now, so by the end of the month. let's touch on this before we go back to the lieutenant. joining me is senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. kelly, dick durbin, chuck grassley, the two men in charge of ushering this nomination through the senate. >> reporter: can't say anything more critical than the judiciary committee is where this begins and sets the course for the nominee when the president ultimate patly tells us who his choice will be. this is important outreach, not only about the institution of the senate and a little bit of an old school throwback, it is important in setting the tone and having a republican in the oval office along with his good

friend, dick durbin, who is chair, democrat of illinois, to try to emphasize more of the collegiality at the start, when we've seen that in our modern politics supreme court nominations often go to the far ends of our politics and can be a part of the screeching debate that can take place, to at least begin in a sober, thoughtful, pleasant beginning. and that's where the president started with this. he has not yet taken any questions related to his selections process. we've seen him speak a bit about what he's looking for in a nominee when he had justice breyer with him in the roosevelt room, today now in the oval added a bit more what he hopes to achieve with the nomination. he'll take those thoughts of the senators who are here. we expect he'll do some additional outreach, perhaps talking to other members of the judiciary committee who will be the first who will ultimately

meet and get a sense of the nominee. we have a ways to go internally inside the white house, they're working on building a team that will shepherd this nominee through the process, an arduous process, practically every document this woman has ever written, authored or been attached to will have to be subjected to review, financial, academic, judicial writings, the interview process. it will be an intense month for the president to meet his time line. some of that work has started for those already confirmed by the senate. we're told a list of about a dozen names that could expand but more than what we first heard in the initial hours. we'll be watching this closely. >> let us turn back to what is happening in ukraine. back to finish our conversation is former commanding general to the u.s. army europe, lieutenant general ben hodges. lieutenant general, i will not go through my long question

again, but talking sanctions, a lot imposed up until now if you're taking the pipeline from russia to germany off the table in terms of sanctions, is putin really going to move? >> just to be clear, germany has not taken it off the table. they said yesterday everything is on the table. that's a step in the right direction. i want to make sure that's clear. you're right about sanctions and the problem with sanctions and the idea if you launch a new invasion in ukraine, we'll give you sanctions like you've never seen before, that's after the fact. which means deterrence failed and it's hard to keep everybody onboard. the sanctions they're talking about will have a negative impact on all of us. you mentioned london. people joke about london because

so much russian money in there. if we're serious about standing up for the things we care about then we'll have to impose these kinds of sanctions. the key is, is it everybody? president putin looks on that video screen and sees just the american president, president biden, and he says, i can ride this out. if he sees everybody, and this is why i think germany is the key, all of nato and the eu, i think he hesitates. >> lieutenant general, thank you for joining us and for sticking around during that brief interlude with the president. i appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you for the privilege. >> and still ahead, the news parents of young kids have been waiting for. i'm among them. the fda might soon approve the pfizer vaccine for children younger than 5. new report on the role president trump played in seizing voting

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good news for parents. pfizer could apply for emergency use authorization for its covid vaccine for young kids as soon as today. that means the shot could be available for children under 5 by the end of the month. the ceo of biontech spoke on "morning joe" about the possibility that young kids will need three doses. >> continuing so that kids are going to get a third dose and have to submit our data and request authorization and this will be decided very soon. >> so even though it is likely

kids ages 6 months to 5 years will need three shots the fda will review a two-shot regimen. senior fellow and editor at large, correct me if i'm wrong, it's not ages 6 months to 5 that might need three, it's 2 to 5 and 6 months to 2, so far, the studies have shown that two doses have been effective? >> that's right, katy. what pfizer and biontech did was look at a tiny dose, so a tenth the dose of the adult dose in children under the age of 5 seeing that dose is safe, that there are no safety issues, we do see the protection in the 6 month to 2-year-old range but not in the 2 to 5-year age range this is why they're looking at a

third dose in children under the age of 5. however, i think they're looking at how do you balance getting kids vaccinated sooner. we know it's safe and effective in that age group, and i think this is something of a compromise that lets the kids in the 2 to 5 group get started on their vaccine regimens while waiting for authorization of the third dose. >> some parents are saying i'm not comfortable with that, the idea you're waiting to see if three doses work. a lot of parents out there from 5 to 11 aren't getting their kids the shot. what would you suggest to parents looking at this saying i might hold off? >> what we know is the two doses are safe for the entire age range. the question is, are two doses enough protection versus three?

there's really no down side to getting started on the vaccination regimen, whether your child is 6 months old or 4 to 5 months old, it's waiting for a little bit more safety data and effectiveness data whether they should get a third dose and the fda will eventually review that as well. >> thank you so much for joining us on this welcome news for so many parents out there. and yet another winter storm is expected to impact much of the country this week. prepare now because a 2,000-mile-long icy corridor, you heard that right, is expected to hit more than 35 million people starting tomorrow. weather alerts in effect from missouri to ohio. the storm could cause widespread power outages and major disruptions in travel. the national archives confirms donald trump ripped up

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now to a number of new developments in the january 6 investigation. we learned today, or late monday, that mark short, former chief of staff for former vice president mike pence, testified privately. at the same time the committee is still parsing through all of the documents from the trump white house. the national archives today confirmed some had been torn up by the former president and had to be taped back together to comply with presidential record keeping laws. "the new york times" reports president trump directed his lawyer rudy giuliani to ask the department of homeland security if it could seize voting machines. giuliani didn't make the call but dhs said no.

nbc news has not independently confirmed the reporting from "the times." join me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell, nbc news digital senior political reporter jonathan allen, and the newly minted deputy national editor of "the washington post," philip rucker, also an msnbc political analyst. phil, congratulations to you. much deserved. >> thank you, katy. >> let's talk about the trump stuff first. he talked about want to go overturn the results of the election and wanted his vice president to help him do so. now we're getting reporting from "the times" that he was asking about seizing voting mnts with dhs, and then there is this news that we knew about more toward the time but has now been confirmed by the national archives he was ripping up white house documents and they had to be taped back together.

it's a lot, phil. >> it's always a lot, katy, with former president donald trump. look, the ripping up of the documents we can kind of laugh about but it is a violation of a federal law the documents be maintained for the benefit of history and for the public record and service to the public that he was elected to serve. the committee has the documents, according to my colleague who reported the story last night. they've been pieced back together, taped back together, rather. we don't know exactly what they show but clearly are of interest to the committee and must have pertained somehow to the events of january 6th and the other elements you brought up help build the picture here of just how adamant trump was, trying to use his power as the president overseeing this system to overturn the election.

he made it clear he wanted the results overturned and the statement he issued about former vice president pence, but to learn that he had rudy giuliani trying to see what the department of homeland security could do to seize the voting machines is just another level of action on the part of the former president to try to rig an election and overturn the results. >> "the washington post" was the first to report about these ripped up documents back last year. we don't know what was on those documents, what was contained in the documents, but i guess, as you said, they are pertinent because they were handed over to the january 6 committee. >> we haven't seen the documents ourselves so we can't say exactly what they contain but they are documents provided to the january 6th committee and are being reviewed by the committee. clearly they must have something to do with the events of the 6th and the overall plot to overturn election results.

>> what about the news marc short from vice president pence's office was interviewed by the committee. >> reporter: they think marc short is critical. they will not talk to pence. marc short is the next best person, cheech of staff to the former vice president and worked with pence even when pence was a member of congress. they have a long relationship together. we know marc short was in a critical meeting on january 4th, two days before january 6th, where the president was trying to pressure the former vice president to overturn the election results, and we know marc short was here in the capitol on january 6th. and so what marc short has to say is going to be critical to this committee. we also don't know what marc short said. he was responding to a subpoena. we don't know if he pled the fifth or invoked executive privilege.

the committee is still not commenting on marc short or what he's saying. it's still to be determined on how helpful he was. but also today greg jacob, one of mike pence's top attorneys when he was vice president, was appearing before the committee and spoke to the committee today. so they do seem to be having some access to these top pence aides, katy. >> mark meadows is not, so far, jonathan allen, speaking to the committee. he's invoked executive privilege. that is winding its way through the courts. but you have some reporting about money that was given to a group that meadows is associated with. can you talk to me about what that was and the timing of it? >> that's right, katy. former president trump's political action committee made a disclosure to the federal election commission last night about its fund-raising over the last six months, and one of the contributions it made was a million dollars to the

conservative institute where mark meadows has served as senior partner since leaving the white house. that donation was made on july 26, just a few weeks after the january 6 committee was impanelled by congress. so here's a million dollars going to the chief of staff who would be seen as a key witness to the committee and has refused to cooperate with the committee, refused the subpoena and is facing possible prosecution by the justice department after the house voted. >> very interesting. jonathan allen, phil rucker and leigh ann caldwell, thank you so much. congratulations again to you, phil. and still ahead an nfl legend finally makes it official. why tom brady said he is stepping away from the game, and why didn't he mention the patriots in his good-bye? and from florida to arizona the latest push by republican state lawmakers to restrict teaching about race and sexual identity in schools. ac re and sl identity in schools.

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we're following breaking news this afternoon. a series of bomb threats were made at historically black colleges both yesterday and today. more than 12 hbcu campuses have been targeted including howard and morgan state universities. no bombs have been found, but the threats disrupted classes and caused unease at the campuses. they're also happening at the start of black history month. the fbi says it is aware and working with law enforcement partners to address any potential threats. we'll keep you updated on this. and republican legislatures around the country are pushing for laws that ban or restrict speech about race and sexual identity in schools. in arizona lawmakers are moving forward with a bill that says teachers are not incorporate books or videos showing homosexuality, requests to ban

books that show, quote, inappropriate content. the legislature is trying to pass two bills that would restrict classroom discussion about race, sex and gender. joining me now from tallahassee, florida, is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. vaughn, this is -- i'm not sure what to say about this other than it's chilling. >> reporter: i think it's mainstream republicanism in 2022. it's not just florida, arizona, texas, it's around the country. you are looking at republican legislatures introducing these measures that not only try to limit speech when it comes to race and history but also sexuality. here in florida hb 1557, it's been called the don't say gay bill. it explicitly says that, quote, a school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age appropriate or

developmentally appropriate for students. what does that mean? again, it censors conversations within classrooms having to do with sexual orientation and gender identity. i was able to after several hours track down the republican chairman of the house education committee which just approved this measure to send it to the full house for a vote. take a listen to participate of our exchange as well as my conversation with one of his democratic colleagues. why is talking about sexual orientation a problem with kids? >> because that's something parents should be doing not school employees. >> reporter: what do you tell the young lgbt students who feel they are alienated? >> they're not being alienated. >> it sends a terrible message to youth that somehow conversations about them, about their families, about who they are, are dangerous. these are not dangerous

conversations. >> reporter: now the republican legislator, katy, struggled to justify his reason for voting on behalf of the bill, equated it -- told me it's up to the parents to discuss the birds and the bees issues. i pushed back saying this has nothing to do with sex, the act of sex. this is purely one's identification with their gender identity which is very different than sex itself. katie, this is an issue this legislature is taking up and obviously the question is would ron desantis sign it into law. >> there's an age appropriate time, what is the age-appropriate time to allow students to say i'm gay? >> reporter: exactly. and that's where this republican legislator suggested it was 6-year-olds and primary education goes through high school and you're giving parents the ability to sue and make a

case at what is age appropriate on behalf of their kid and somebody under the age of 18. >> what about what is called the stop woke act? what exactly is that? >> reporter: this is, just at a hearing, in fact, this morning, a bill backed by ron desantis here. i want to you read parts of it from the legislation saying the no person is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive by virtue of his or her race or sex. a person does not bear responsibility for actions committed in the past by other members of the same race or sex. a person should not be made to feel discomfort, guilt or anguish on account of his or her race. again, this is working its way through this republican legislature and has the very real shot of getting passed and signed by ron desantis here and it's hard to dismiss the reality here that we are standing in tallahassee which just about 200 years ago u.s. troops led by

andrew jackson pushed out several native american tribes from these very lands where these bills are now being discussed today. this is a very realish be you here in which we're talking about. >> because the language is just so incredibly broad, are teachers feeling discomfort teaching basic american history, teaching about slavery? >> reporter: right. it hints at the heart whether it be slavery or the history of the lgbtq community. there is a stigma around individuals who are not white or who are not straight when these types of conversations are limited in which one can have a true, honest, full conversation. i think it's clear what the intentions of the republicans are but another bill sb-1300 that would make it easier for community members to object to books insigned of these schools,

and it was one individual, an attorney representing and supportive of this measure who took to the floor and specifically said she didn't like there were depictions of, quote, lgbtq characters. if that's not explicit, i don't know what is. >> vaughn hillyard with quite a story today. vaughn, thank you for joining us. and coming up next, tom brady says he is leaving the game he has dominated for more than two decades. did he leave the door open for something of a comeback? something of a comeback? in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. why does walgreens offer cription copays as low as zero dollars? ♪♪ so you won't have a medicare in the world. ♪♪ fill your medicare prescriptions with walgreens

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so everyone is talking about how amazing tom brady was, and yes, he was. but i'm just curious, why -- the thing that burns in my mind, why did he not say anything at all about the patriots, about bill belichick, about the crafts, about the fans in new england, in his long goodbye? >> yeah, it's weird. it was like a nine-page instagram message. there's some kind of story there. i guess charitable viewers, maybe in the next 24 hours he'll do a -- i'm from new england, it can be parochial, it can be all about us, and obviously this has been noted pretty widely, and he had to do a followup post, i guess, that said, yeah, shoutout to new england, i think he said, all love. so it's a little odd, i'm sure

there's a backstory or a makeup call. tom brady is savvy enough to know how these things will play and to include things and omit things he's mindful of. there's something, and i'm sure we'll learn about it. >> was there a lot of bad blood with belichick and kraft when he left? >> maybe. the buccaneers returned to foxborough this year, they had a big game against the patriots sunday night. there was a lot of emotion spent there, a lot of tears, big ovations and everything. afterwards supposedly brady and belichick had like a 45-minute private conversation in the locker room after everyone had sort of left and no one really knows what was said there. no one knows exactly what water is under the bridge. i'm sure there will be books written about this for years to come. i'm not going to write it. but i will certainly read it. look, it's interesting. everyone loves a back story. >> i'm curious, you might have

bad blood there, the fans have certainly been loyal to him, i just wonder if something is coming, it seems logical. any chance he's not actually retiring but will come back in a year, as you thought yesterday? >> entirely possible. look, it's not like he is in bad physical condition. he seems to be at the peak of his talents. and people get bored. you run through the tape after a long and incredibly intense career and all of a sudden you hit this empty space, it's like, well, i'm 45 years old, i still feel totally healthy, i can still make a lot of money doing what i love to do, and maybe people are sick of me around the house. people always parse statements for this. but i guess, you know, everything could change in a year. >> and he's not getting the $15 million? he announced today, and not after friday? >> apparently not. somehow he's going to make do without it. >> gosh. tough times. mark leibovich, thank you so much for joining me again. >> see you tomorrow, katy. >> tomorrow we find out what

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