fairly. >> joyce vance, thank you very much. good to have you here on a very complicated story, one with a lot of political ramifications given what happens with gun laws in our country. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and on twitter and chuck todd and "mp daily" start right now. if it's wednesday after years of resistance, congressional leaders in both parties are backing an effort to ban members from trading stocks. but bullish isn't the word most voters might use when it comes to washington's ability to address what's at the heart of this issue, corruption and income inequality. plus the tied continues to turn against covid restrictions as more blue state governors are breaking with white house recommendations. what it makes for the pandemic and politics up ahead. and as ukrainian groups gear up

for military exercises vice president harris makes plans to travel to europe next week. will it be war, escalation or something in between? >> hello it. welcome to "meet the press daily." i'm chuck todd. in an uncharacteristic move, congress was quickly uniting, two years you don't hear often, around an idea to ban or restrict members from trading stocks. the sudden speed of this renewed efforts raises some questions. we've seen bills written by republicans, democrats and bipartisan teams on this issue, some more restrictive than others, but they all have a similar aim. folks, it's not every day you have massachusetts democrat liz elizabeth warren and montana

governor steve danes speaking the same language. >> people across this country need to know lawmakers are making decisions best for the public and not best for them financially. >> when you're elected to congress, you're elected to serve, not to be serve. you're here to serve the people, not the elite. this i think is an important step forward to restore the faith and trust of people. >> and i do believe in the integrity of people in public service. i want the public to have that understanding, we have to do this to deter something that we see as a problem but it is a confidence issue. and if that's what the members want to do, then that's what we

will do. >> it's one of those cases the people will lead, the eaders are going to follow. why is congress doing now? arguably because they have to. voters across the board have gone increasingly frustrated with their inability to tackle enormous issues like income inequality as they've watched members of congress embroiled in their own controversy to use their wealth or power to erich themselves. the congress can get meaningful legislation to the president's desk that addresses more than justs symbols of that inequality is hardly the real question that voters are going to care about. for now congress wants to immune itself. i'm doing something crazy here today. i'm thrilled to have our panel back in studio during the week.

and brad todd, and "usa today" washington bureau chief susan page. let me let leann frame this a little bit here. i'm obsessed with this not because congress is rallying around this so quickly in a bipartisan way but it's the two parties sort of at their cynical best in that they're aware that there's a lot of frustration about income inequality, about the elites and institutional distrust. here's an easy issue to make it look like we're on their side. it's moving at a record pace. mcconnell and pelosi are all for it. where are we going. >> reporter: that's right, chuck. monday i tweeted that cynicism, it's an election year so here we go with the stock ban legislation.

i got some slack back from a member introducing the legislation who tried to convince me it's not an election year ploy, but it does feel that way. regardless, though, this does seem to be quite popular, not only here in congress but also among the public and the reason i think that is because there's so many various pieces of legislation. there's democratic pieces of legislation, there's bipartisan legislation, republican-only legislation and the fact that speaker pelosi changed her tune in the past month on this issue, she dismissed this just a month ago. and so now that she says she's willing to look at it with a caveat, though, she says it needs to apply to the the entire government, especially the judiciary and she wants her committee chairs to take a look at this. leader schumer said he wants them to come together and find consensus legislation. maybe this moves and we'll see how strong this legislation is once it's completed, if it is

completed. >> i don't want to get into the legal rabbit holes of separation of powers. whether it's the sec, tsa, judiciary. those are going to be interesting to see. but it looks here, this is really about a symbolic move here to show that congress is against elites. is that fair? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, this is the populism that has been springing up sings since the trump administration. even before that. the tea party, this is something the democrats used to own. they have lost it over the last decade, that populism component of their party and they're trying to get it back. and this is definitely an easy way. even though the struggle is to actually have legislation that does something. and the last time this came up about a decade ago there were so many loopholes and that's why

they're bringing it up again. >> i'm sure there are loopholes, that's for the conference committee. thank you for getting us started. >> i thought to make this the lead today because i think there's a lot more about politicians' fear of the voters right now. and for different reasons both fear the voters and this feels like cold medicine. >> it was interesting, speaker pelosi at her news conference today did not say she thought this was a good idea. she didn't say she supported it. she said "it's something my members want to do" and therefore will do it. she was very dismissive a couple months ago, saying was it necessary, they have a lot on the books, members should be able to trade stocks. she sees what's happening with her own members and it was clear mccarthy was going to use this as a cudgel to say we're going to stand up against elites, look what they're not doing.

>> pelosi traded options in google a week -- >> i got to play this pelosi bite from december. it's going to make her sound like a free market republican. take a listen. >> should members and spouses be banned from trading individual stocks while in congress? >> no to the second one. we have a responsibility to report in the stock, on a stock. because this is a free market and people -- we're a free market economy, they should be able to participate in that. >> it's very libertarian viewpoint. >> are you going to attack that? >> they certainly have a right to trade in stocks. the question is do they have a right to do that while they're temporarily in congress. most people will tell you congress shouldn't be a lifetime career so not being able to trade shouldn't hurt you for a

few years while you do service. 67% want some kind of ban on congress. >> i totally get it. to me it's a solution to the real problem that people won't address. on the right it may be sort of the idea that corporate america has too much power, you know, in some form on the left it's income inequality. well, this is a nice band-aid, right? >> but there's also a piece of this -- i agree but there's also a piece that is equally as important and that is corruption. look at the exit polls from last time around. you saw corruption coming up as a top issue in washington. america thinks washington is corrupt and people in washington are corrupt. i think this is an easy point for incumbents to put up on the board and say we're trying to clean up corruption in washington, if either you're a democrat or republican. >> does it have impact if

everybody votes in it? there's going to be a point where people are afraid of voting against. >> afraid of voting against what? how many versions do we see? this is complicated. do you do it for those in congress, their children? does it actually become a law? >> you point out a lot of the sticking point. is there a divestment period, are spouses and children covered? you could get to a compromise. 67% of american people want it, people on both sides have ideas. you could get to a place where people agree. >> and to your point, chuck, does it matter? yes. every incumbent will be out there on the campaign trail saying, yes, i was fighting corruption in washington, that's why i voted for the bill. >> if it does pass, if suddenly

you engaged in trades that connected to votes, it becomes an issue. >> this comes into opposition research paradise. to the point where we see so much hypocrisy, it could dilute the process. >> you have some members of congress who did hundreds of trades in a single year. i think members have to answer for that. >> i want to know if a person who does this for a living does a hundred trades a year. for some people it's a full-time job. >> the voters are going to have scrutiny. >> i want to go back to what the root interest is here, right? congress is trying to get -- they know the public is anti-elite right now. so what they really would like to see on the left is something done about income inequality. i go back to on the right i think they'd like to see some -- this idea that everybody's held accountable the same way,

particularly corporate america in some form. so where does this go next? >> well, maybe it passes, maybe it calls to shame some members of congress, just a few i think, who have actually abused the process, abused the information they got as members of congress to make trades and to make money. in the end is it good policy? do we end up with a better gcht? government? >> are we going to demonize money? it used to split the party and now they're united? >> you have skepticism on both sides, both ends of the spectrum. there was a day when laisse fair barry goldwaterism.

>> so is this going to lead to -- >> no. >> they're not friends anymore. he says they're your friends. >> no because quite frankly there are a lot of lobbyists working this town. any regulations you try to put on corporate america, you know it's going to be a fight tooth and nail to try to put more regulations on corporate america. it's just going to be. this mid-term election is not going to be fought about this. >> i was just going to say. i'm wondering -- we have high levels of distrust, this institutional level that we have. this should scream a reform agenda should have success. might we some some of that this fall. >> what would it be won and lost on? covid, the economy, make

immigration for some people in i think this is issues that members of congress and other candidates would be afraid of but i don't think it is the determinative issue of who is going to win. >> i'd like to propose another theory. we have a wrong track that's at about 78% -- >> we've been on the wrong track for a years. >> but it's more intense than it has been. one party controlling both branches of government. i think there is a pretty good argument that institutional reform have a way voter express concern. people said those are process issues but they spoke to the outside zeitgeists.

>> i've been surprised by the number of people who have brought up term limits. they admitted we were sort of knee jerk against this. i feel like all politicians are looking for ways to communicate we want to fix this place, too. >> i think you have to be about reform. guess what, chuck, we're going to have another change election. >> seven out of the last night. >> and i think people are looking for reform and a change in washington because again what we're hearing time and time again is that city doesn't work, this city doesn't work and is not working for me. >> seven straight years both political parties have been underwater at the same time. and we keep going back and forth. >> and they deserved it. >> that's right. but seven straight years. >> more agreement. >> guess what, susan? imperson panel means you're coming back.

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all troops are set to begin their own military exercises as russia continues its buildup of troops along the border and will coincide with military drills russia said it plans in belarus. joining me is our own matt bradley and ambassador michael mcfaul. matt, let me just start with you. obviously when there are military exercises, there's fears of something getting misread, all of those fierce that come with that, ukraine and russia conducting military exercises. i got to think we are holding our breath here for a bit. >> this is the thing that sounds like we're holding our breath. seems like it should be according to u.s. intelligence

estimates. over the weekend there were so many troops, a massive buildup of hardware, enough troops really very soon to take over the entire country, but i got to tell you, chuck, and i've been saying this over and over and over again, here on the ground, i'm in the east of the country and in the capital off kyiv, you're just not seeing it and most people don't think there is going to be an invasion. that goes all the way up to president zelensky in the presidential palace. they've always been at war for eight years and they believe in is an annual event and they believe this is drummed up by you and i. >> it seems like the ukrainian government likes to use the media as the blame here, that they're pushing that narrative.

is that fair to say? >> the defense minister, we heard from him one day after the assessment came out and he blamed the foreign media. it's a pretty common tactic. had is how people are thinking about this. they really aren't seeing it in front of their faces. and fair enough, because, again, they've been at war so long, they don't see this as new. >> you got to remember the ukrainian people are living in a post-truth world. we are experiencing a post-truth world. if you're a resident of ukraine, you've been living in a post-truth world probably an entire century. ambassador, you've spent your life trying to understand vladimir putin.

>> [ inaudible ]. >> i hear you. at least your professional life. >> it does seem as if it doesn't make sense to do a full invasion. almost everybody watching thinks that but nobody seems to know what he will end up doing. how does he de-escalate here? it seems like he's going to but how does he do it? obviously he wants to do it looking like he's stronger. what would that look like? >> well, chuck, i have spent a lot of time thinking about vladimir putin. i met him in '91, wrote anyway first article about him in 2000 and for five years in the obama administration i sat in the room and listened to how he spoke to our leaders, presidents and others. with all of that background, i want to be very blunt and straut straight forward. i don't know what he wants to de-escalate. i don't know what we're making the assumptions on.

i don't think the president knows or sergey lavrov, the prime minister knows and i don't know that putin has made that decision. he likes everybody talking and he likes everybody flying to moscow and see us negotiate among ourselves, both within the alliance and within the american public and he's achieving all of that by sitting and waiting and not making a decision yet. >> what if that's the strategy, not to make a decision? how long can he keep this up? >> for as long as he's in the kremlin. and that doesn't mean he can keep 100,000 troops on alert on the borders forever. that's too costly, that's too hard. but he can move them in, move them out, keep putting pressure on ukraine. he's basically been trying to undermine ukrainian sovereignty and democracy since 2004. he's using new tactics now, but i don't see that -- i actually do not see that ever changing for as long as he's in the

kremlin. >> hasn't he already -- let me ask you this. it looks to me as if one of his goals is to weaken the nato alliance and weaken the united states alliances in europe. it's plainly obvious he succeeded there. look at germany and france, they would like to negotiate on their own with him. that's exactly what he's looking for. how is he not taking that and declaring victory? >> tragically, chuck, i agree with you. he's framed this crisis the way he wants to frame it, right? he framed this crisis about the alleged threat from nato expansion. by the way, the last major wave of nato expansion was 20 years ago. brussels was not talking about bringing ukraine into nato, the biden administration wasn't doing that. this was completely invented by putin and you're exactly right. what are we debating here in the united states? are we debating annexation as

the greatest threat to european security since world war ii? no, nobody's talking about that. are we debating the enclaves, the independent countries allegedly that putin recognized in georgia? i'll bet you most of your viewers don't know what i'm talking about. instead we're debating this threat he invented among our allies and some of them are not would us. hungary and chechnya, they're not. and how many have written about annexation in the last several months? none have. that is a victory for putin. >> so this seems to be the problem we're in. nobody's talking about

annexation, yet he's made up this idea, boy, ukraine is going to become a member of nato and then want crimea back. he just takes these leaps and this is obviously what they're feeding in their propaganda. you know, how do you combat nonsense like that? >> well, it's difficult and, you know, he's changed the channel, right. a former colleague of mine in the obama administration use to say that about putin. if you don't like the news now, do something somewhere else to change the channel and get everybody to focus on a different shiny object. he's done that successfully. i think the biden administration strategy has been the right one, more military assistance to ukraine, move troops, put them on ready alert for nato allies and save sanctions for later. what they need to do a better job is articulating why they're doing those things. secretary of state blinken gave a fantastic speech.

there's one problem, he gave the speech in berlin. he should have gave that speech in chicago or maybe the president of the united states should have given that speech in chicago to explain to the american people why this is not just about nato expansion or ukraine, it's about the fundamental system, the liberal international order that has kept the peace in europe since 1945 and that's why we want to continue to keep the peace. >> mike, don't up think the problem is it's european city sense that don't necessarily -- that it was european citizens that was the audience for that speech? >> it was. you and i are both old enough to remember when the united states went to war with iraq. you may have remembered millions of europeans protested that war. it's very striking to me how few europeans are pro testing prote

impending war on their own continent. >> that's a great point. we've got a deep discussion on an episode of the chuck toddcast. get it wherever you get your podcast. coming up, it's the latest salvo in the ad wars in texas where henry cuellar is in a fight for his life. y cuellar is in a figh his life i seamlessly transition from near to far. and see every detail in sharp focus. when you see no limits, there are no limits. book now at your local essilor experts to push the limits of your vision. varilux lenses by essilor. there's a different way to treat hiv. it's once-monthly injectable cabenuva. cabenuva is the only once-a-month,

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welcome back. time for a little meet the mid terms. turning to the key democratic race for texas's 28th district. congressman henry cuellar is out with a new ad touting his bipartisan work on capitol hill, not something you see every day in a democratic primary. take a listen. >> get up early, work hard. my parents said this to us every day as they left and it's what i'll do every day for south texas, build relationships with both parties and deliver by passing middle-class tax cuts, creating thousands of jobs, lowering the cost of health care and fully funding law enforcement and border security. while people in washington fight each other, who will fight for us? i will. >> yes, that's not a general election ad. just keep that in mind. very interesting who he thinks is going to vote in that primary.

comes on the heels of a fiery ad of jessica cisneros who hit the democrat hard over an ongoing fbi investigation that involved a search of the congressman's texas home. cuellar said he did nothing wrong. election day is fast approaching in texas. >> now for today's data download. the number you need to know today is 43%. that is the share of american adults who now say former president trump bears a lot of responsibility for violence and destruction of the violence on january 67th. that's according to a new pew poll down nine points just a year ago when a majority viewed trump as responsible. it's not surprise since he and allies have spent the last year gas lighting the issue and

defending rioters and promising pardons. the former president's lack of a mega phone is probably contributing to this out of sight, out of mind mentality for some voters. it is, i would argue, the worst of all worlds for us. we think he's gone away but if you believe he's a virus, he is still there. we're going to talk more about republicans. the number of states dropping mask mandates just keep on growing. two more governors announced changes today, signaling a major shift in pandemic politics. the leaders are following. we'll be right back. e leaders a. we'll be right back. of january or february. stripped of its leaves but not drained of its color. no one experiences a true american winter the same way. but those with the confidence and capability of the all new 2022 grand wagoneer,

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welcome back. new york's kathy hochul is the latest democratic governor to lift her state's mask mandate. she said it's time to give new yorkers the freedom of making

masking decisions for themselves. >> at this time we say that it is the right decision to lift this mandate for indoor businesses and let counties, cities and businesses to make their own decisions on what they want to do with respect to masks or the vaccination requirement. given the declining cases and hospitalizations, that is why we feel comfortable to lift this in effect tomorrow. and now those numbers are coming down and it is time to adapt. >> california, connecticut, oregon and new jersey also decided to lift some mandates earlier this week. while many republican-led states did not have mandates, massachusetts did. governor baker said he would lift the mandate for kids in school. and governor walenski said today

the cdc data is not there yet on getting rid of masks. >> i know there will come a time when we move from a phase of crisis to when covid-19 is not disrupting our daily lives, and as we look forward to this step, i want to instill moving forward from in pandemic will be informed by our data. >> what was it in may of 2021 when the cdc director, to get that vaccination, take that mask off. delta hit two months later. it does seem as if this time they're thinking about that next variant around the corner before they jump on this bandwagon. >> yeah, and they got a lot of criticism from public health officials after that move last spring who kind of says, i don't know, not so quick.

we obviously have seen a number of cycles of this virus where things go up in the winter, they come down in the spring, they go back again a little bit in the summer, go back down, come up again in the fall and the winter. but what the cdc is saying here right now is that their recommendation is that areas with high, substantial transmission people should be wearing masks. if you're in the low transmission area, the recommendation is you can lift those masks. i think a big one to watch is going to be schools. right now the cdc recommendation is essentially flat out everyone in schools should be wearing masks, regardless of what the level of community spread is there. and you're seeing officials today and you can hear that in that briefing starting to kick this down to the local level, saying that this is not going to be a pandemic that affects states uniformly. states like new york hit early on by the omicron wave, cases

going down, that's not the case everywhere. that also raises question of shouldn't they be leading? and a lot of governors are looking for the federal government to lead on this. administration officials were pressed on that today and one of the things they said is that they're sort of in the process of a bit of a listening tour of talking outside of the white house to governors, to public health officials, to state and local officials about what they want to see. so sort of signaling that there is a broader plan coming from the white house that they're trying to get input on that now. of course, you know, as we've seen a number of times with this pandemic, sometimes what the federal government does is steps behind what you're seeing public health officials doing on the ground. >> shannon, are you expecting sort of one of these, for lack of a better description, a made for tv moment where they all come out and say we are in a new phase of the pandemic, almost a

made-for-tv event page turn or less front ant center? >> like a summer of freedom moment maybe? at some point as we see cases hopefully continue to go down, they are going to have to address and acknowledge this. one thing different we have been hearing administration officials say from the spring is now they feel they have a few more tools to help with that. unlike the spring there's now more widespread testing available, boosters, and therapeutic coming. that's another thing added to the mix when they make these calculations. >> and we do need to get people boosted. that number is low. shannon pettypiece, thank you.

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people are tired of the pandemic. they're tired of wearing masks. i bet all of you are. i know i am. we all understand that. our focus is on looking at the data and the science. so there are positives signs, a she referred to, cases and hospitalizations are falling. we're looking at all of the guidance based on the latest

data and science. >> that was the white house press secretary jen psaki making it clear they are not ready to follow the lead of other democratic governors lifting mask mandates and moving toward living with the virus. back with our panel. cornell, state governors are the ones on the ballot in november 2022. the white house is not. should we just be that straight forward about it? >> well, you know, the local and state governments have to deal with reality and people all the time. there's tremendous cross pressure. i listened to doctors on this network earlier today say we should not be lifting these mask mandates. you look at the polling around this and most americans are ready to be lifted up and be done with this. there's tremendous cross pressure. the politics side of this, i worry about, again, two months from now we get another variant. >> the virus always gets a vote. the virus gets a vote. >> this could be a place where

politics gets in the way of science. i think there's so much cross pressure here, what are they going to do in. >> i don't know the alternative. it's been pretty good politics on the right. >> mandates are only good with compliance. rhode island's governor is contemplating lifting their mandates. a third of the population has had covid. vermont hasn't had a mandate since last june and they're second from the bottom in numbers of infections. mandates have not worked. it's time to get rid of them everywhere. >> let's clarify that. the mandates have not necessarily not worked. because americans aren't following the mandate. i want to be clear. the science says we should get vaccinated and should wear masks. >> it's so clear to me politics are infecting the biden decision making process here. but they got some guidance from

the supreme court about how they can implement some vaccine mandates. they've basically said we've seen the polls, we don't want to have this fight. are they going to regret that decision? >> it's not just -- this is for the governors and the president. it's not just a science, medica decision, and it's a political decision where you cannot have the requirements where the public is unwilling to do that, and you wind up with the trucks blocking the bridge from canada if you don't have the will of the public behind you, and we have seen a decline in omicron, and an increase in the numbers of americans vaccinated and feel safe about going out, and they lived with this for two years, and we need to get back to normal. how can i get back to normal in a way that is that reasonably safe? moving in a way where life will get back to normal. >> everybody knows we have lived

with covid long enough -- >> yeah. >> you have to wonder, when this is all over, we have to go back and say what if the government had told the people here's the steps you can make and this is how they can be effective, would we have had resistance? i don't think so. >> we spent a lot of time debating whether we should tell people what to do, right? >> we have to tell people what to do. we keep telling people to get vaccinated, and there's 40% that will not get vaccinated right now, and that's the problem. you know, at some point the government does have to lead and do things unpopular. we have had millions of people across the globe die from this. this is serious. we have had a lot -- >> we are still losing 2,500 people a day right now. >> the government, it would be

irresponsible for them to be hands off today. >> we heard from the political discourse. let's play a little bit of it. >> i think anybody that entered the building and rioted, i don't think that's what the rnc was talking about. >> do you agree with the decision to censure them? >> the rnc -- i think there's a reason why adam is not running again, and i think there's a reason why at the end of the day liz would have a hard time getting in. >> is this a disconnect between the rnc and washington leadership, or the rank and file of the party and the d.c. elites? i could look at it and say the rnc is a weird organization and out of touch, but i could say maybe they are more reflective? >> i have spent a tour of duty at the rnc, and haley was there,

and i feel like state parties and national parties should not try to sensor their membership. i think republican voters nationwide would prefer the rnc spend time talking about the 2022 election and not the 2020 elections. i think that's not the role of parties in the nomination, and you vote them out the next primary. >> in this political environment, are they working for the democrats or republicans here? >> i have to have some fun with this. look, what the rnc are doing is what trump wants them to do. this is sad for a party, because the rnc has become an arm of

trump enterprises -- >> some called it the tnc, it's the trump national party. this was a person that was a republican. >> once upon a time, the folks that helped republicans up and down the ticket, now they are clearly set on what trump wants and they are raising money. the ideal -- and from somebody that worked for the dnc, i was a pollster for howard dean back in the days for the dnc, and i think republicans will now spend money trying to take out their own members that don't agree with trump. come on, that's incredible stuff. >> i don't think most republican donors want to see party committees spending money against republicans, and i think the dems face the same problem with kyrsten sinema. >> the dnc has not come out with

money saying we will defeat kyrsten sinema, that's the difference. >> james carville did. >> well, along comes political discourse. >> when the republicans hear the word legitimate, it doesn't end well for them, if you recall the gentleman from missouri. >> i assure you the republicans will hear that again in ads come this fall. >> the political discourse is something we will hear. >> i will make a prediction, this election will be about the current president and not the former one. >> unless they make it. >> how much? look, yeah -- >> i think that's what they will do. >> the question is what is the number of races that republicans -- people like you will say if it was not for trump we could have won x, y and z?

>> we're going to find ways to screw some of the races up, but you never have seen a situation in february of an election year where the republicans led in every ballot -- >> the democrats don't have to be on tv because the republicans are beating each other up. >> yeah, you are also right and you are all going to find a way to screw this up, because right now trump is finding a way to make it about him and that's going to help democrats up and down the ballot. >> i think it's going to be fascinating to watch mcconnell beat trump, because i think mcconnell's leadership is more on the line than he realized depending on who wins the certain races this year. it was great. test negative. thank you for being us for this

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good to be with you. welcome to the new phase of the pandemic in america. the era of the big restrictions appears to be coming to an end. three more states all announced the end of their mask mandates. the governors of new york and