congressman jason crowe will join me to discuss the latest. we are learning new details of when we could expect the president to announce his picks to fill the justice's seat and super bowl sunday is days away. we'll take a look at their security. a day without immigrants, a new campaign not to work on valentine's day to demand legal status for millions that make america home. we begin with the latest escalating tensions between russia and ukraine. a senior official told nbc news, kristen welker that president biden will host a virtual meeting, an hour from now on the

situation in ukraine with leaders from several european countries as well as heads of nato and the european union. this comes as tony blinken is warning russia could attack ukraine at any minute. >> to see troubling signs of russian escalation including new forces arriving at the ukrainian border. as we said before, we are in a window when an invasion could begin at any time and to be clear that includes during the olympics. >> blinken urged the americans to leave ukraine immediately. president biden's interview with lester holt according to president biden. >> americans should leave right now. we are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world. it is a different situation and things can go crazy quickly. >> what scenario would you put

american troops to rescue and get americans out? >> it is not. that's a world war when americans start to shoot at one another. >> military exercises between russia and belarus enters their second day and as the russian military builds up along the border, ukraine only gets larger. as a new u.s. military and intelligence assessment says the russian military could take nine different routes into ukraine and reaching the capital of kyiv in a couple of days. with me, richard engel and ambassador michael mcfaul. richard, russia is not only holding exercises in belarus but holding naval exercises in the black sea. ukraine says exercises that could cut-off vital sea routes. what could it mean for

ukraine/russia? >> well, if russia were to cut-off this country access to the black sea, it would be crippling economic blow. it would be a severe blow to the government. and i think that's what this ill all about. from here you can load off the ship and go through the seas. then into the mediterraneans. from here you can connect with the world. if they lost access to this port and the sea exposure, they would be a landlock. it is not just the threat of military invasion. they are worry of a small scale

operation and and combined with subversive act that there could be a staged demonstration that could come before or during or instead of a massive military operation. when you talk about u.s. military seeing nine possible incursion routes from a major invasion, here in ukraine, there are thousands, going from some sort of coup to an active sabotage to a minor invasion and none of them having a positive result. >> i am thinking a coup could be carried out or at least a visible one, right? that's why you see a lot of talk about it because they want, u.s. officials openly said it that they're trying to expose these plots before they become real to

make them less likely. there is been different attempts since january according to western intelligence officials and ukrainian media reports attempt to organize demonstrations and carrying out explosives and turning people against the government. that's just the pressure from within and attempt to change the government from within and all of the looming danger from without to cut the country off economically by denying the ability to export near goods by the sea and potentially taking off a piece or all of the

country. here in ukraine there are many, many different scenarios that are troubling for the government. but, i must say you don't feel it on the streets. people are not nervous, they are calm and dismissive of it all. it comes to the point where the people almost seemed like they had their head in the sand or a bit of self-denial. the government is telling people don't worry that we have all seen this before but ukraine has not seen a military build-up like this before. they had a low-level conflict for eight years but they have not faced this kind of physical russian threat on three sides of their border. when you talk to people and colleagues and other cities experiencing the same thing, the most common response you get by far is what are you talking about and nothing is going to happen. this is all just hype and

bluster and things will be fine. that's not what u.s. officials are increasingly saying with increasing clarity and concerns. >> the hype is 140,000 plus troops on different parts of the border, does not seem like that's a light issue. the fallout vladimir putin could face if he were to attack ukraine, here is what president biden said. >> i have spoke with putin and other leaders, i have brought them together like they have never been coordinated in modern history if putin moves. he has to know if he does the entire circumstance of russia changes worldwide. the cause of russia in terms of reputational cause and economic cause would be profound. >> does putin care of the consequences that russia could face if he decides to go into ukraine? is that a big concern to him?

>> well, he cares. and putin is thinking about his place in his 50 years from now. you are blessed by god to reunite the nation. he does not care what the west and won't worldwide and xi jinping will support him and the representational things that we may think about are not

important. >> ambassador, let me take a quick break from you to reestablish our communication if i could with your permission. but, richard engel, let's talk about that. the fact that putin is not looking at the immediate or -- >> there is not ties or place there in many ways. >> when you speak to the ukrainians they acknowledged they have a long history with russia and that history is one of the last century or more with suffering and pain.

when 3 to 5 million people were killed as a result. but then after collectivization did not work and people here were staring and blame the famine on the ukrainian people. you are not starving, you are officially hording food. they sent send people to search all these horded food and when they found food, they seize it. a famine was made that much more worse. a lot of people don't realize that chernobyl in this country poisoning hundreds of thousands of people.

the president later few years later was poisoned by russia. it was only in 2014 when they finally were able to break away. there was a revolutionary movement in the streets of kyiv primarily and they managed to stand up to the riot forces and overturn the government and send the pro-russian president running and he took exile in russia. for the last eight years, they have been looking west and openly towards nato and looking towards the united states primarily and now we are seeing vladimir putin saying not so fast, you don't get to leave or deny all of that history that we have in the past. you are and always will be a pardon parcel of greater russia and a slavic empire that he's

trying to rebill. it carries out that horrendous and since then and before that. richard, thank you for being with me and ambassador mcfaul, i appreciate your time as well. with me now to continue our conversation is congressman jason crowe, it is a pleasure to see you, i thank you for your time. you were part of a congressional delegation that visited ukraine. you tweeted that you came away from that trip concerned, it is been roughly two months since your visit last week. you were briefed by senior administration officials, what is your assessment of the situation now? >> yeah, thanks, jose for the discussion here. my assess continues to be the dire. the build-up is massive and

different from higher build-ups we have seen in the past. it is not just the tanks and the infantry unit. it is not without substantial cause of vladimir putin. the movement enabling of fuels and cost a lot of money to move this stuff in. the preparations of after the invasion. and the other thing to think about is this is part of a larger mission by vladimir putin to rebuild the slavic empire. he believes ukraine is the corner stone of achieving that goal. do not under estimate vladimir putin. >> congressman, truth from the

airborne division which you served and help americans who flee ukraine in the event of a russian attack. you know this unit, give us a sense of what we can expect from these extraordinary men and women? >> yeah, so i serve in the secondary born division, kind of our premier airborne response forces and capable of the point anywhere in the world within 18 hours. 2,000 troopers that can go anywhere in the world. that's the unit i serve on rotation in that unit several times. they have been doing all kind of combat operations. but as you mentioned it has an important role of a healthy evacuations.

u.s. government will not be in a position to conduct civilian evacuations from ukraine. we are not going to send u.s. force into a war zone with russia fighting. we'll put them on the border to help americans to get out of ukraine. that's why it is important that americans get out now. they will not be in a position to help if this kicks off. >> thank you very much for your time. i appreciate it. >> senators calling for action after revealing the cia has been secretly collecting american information in bulk and other details coming up. ramping up a serge for a new supreme court justice and what president biden is doing this weekend and narrowing down his list, you are watching jose diaz-balart's report. jose jose diaz-balart's report

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president biden is preparing to spend the weekend at camp david. he may be prepare to start the interview process next week. in an exclusive interview with lester holt, president biden said he's done a deep dive on four potential candidates already. joining me now is our senior white house reporter, shannon, what else did president biden tell us choosing a replacement

for the justice? >> we have a lot of insight into the process and where he's thinking. one of the things he hinted at is he foresees potentially nominating a candidate that could pick up republican support. he's looking for someone that's based on their qualifications. here is a little bit more of what the president had to say. >> i am not looking to make an idealogical choice. i am looking someone to replace judge breyer with the same kind of capacity and with an open mind who understands the constitution and interprets in a way that's consistent with the mainstream interpretation. >> the president said he has four candidates he's been seriously reviewing. he's going to spend some time at camp david digging into the rest of these candidates and he could begin the interview process as early as next week. we know the president says he wants to nominate someone by the

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the committee had questions about that. we don't know why there is that gap. maybe it was just destroyed or was not turnedover from the president to the national archive. those are questions are they looking into. >> liz cheney wrote of the upcoming public hearing. what did she say? >> she admits there will be public hearing and also one of the things they're going to do in this public hearing is also to point out there was no foreign interference in the election and that the election was not stolen so the committee still thinks they have the possibility to set the record straight. the former president and a lot of his supporters are still peddling in false information.

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americans. they say they are not allowed to say what this data is. an intelligence official told me this had to do databases on both former and americans. the cia can only look at american data if it is related to foreign intelligence. the cia issued a statement saying the agency recognizes and takes very seriously our obligation to respect the privacy and civil liberties of americans and operate in compliance of the law. senior congressional aide told me the senate intelligence committee has been briefed on this and none of the other members have a problem with it. bottom line we are working to learn more about this. two things to keep in mind, the director of the national intelligence did lie to congress when he said intelligence aides were not collecting bulk data on americans. we remember edward snowden revealing they were collecting

information. big data has been crucial to intelligence. so the real question here whether the spy agency handling data in compliance of the law. >> and the fact that other senator does have a problem with it, two senators may have a problem with it may not be correct. ken dilanian. >> thank you, you bet. all eyes are on the super bowl this weekend. joining us now from outside sofi stadium, nbc's miguel almaguer. good to see you. you spoke to many agenies involved, how are they preparing? >> reporter: we spoke with the department of homeland security and officers work out on the

field, they're in the air and on the ground and actually out at sea covering about 50 miles coastline as they prepare for the super bowl, over in helicopter just above it the department of homeland security also has customs and border patrol agents surveying the sky using high-technology to keep an eye in the sky and there are thousands of officers that'll be here inside sofi in the surrounding areas leading up to game day. right now authorities say there is no credible threats they are facing but like every super bowl, security here is what's called a tier-1 event which is a high level of security. the only thing higher than that would be a presidential inauguration or visitors from overseas of high diplomatic visitors. the security is very high, they have not had any major incidents and they're hoping to avoid those in the next 48 hours here. >> miguel, thank you very much

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graduation did not occur and the psychological impact. morgan radford is join us this morning. it is great to see you. what have you learned of mental health in our community? >> the data is really, really clear. we knew that the pandemic was taking the toll on people, the data shows it made things worse than people anticipated. if you look at some of the numbers here, we'll put them on your screen. here is what we know thus far. in the five years leading up to 2019, suicide rate among black americans went up by 30%. when the pandemic hits, the suicide among black men went up 20% in 2020. this was even as suicide deaths among white men went down by the same amendment in the same time frame. we spoke to miss bryant attempted to take her own life and since launching her own organization focusing on suicidal and mental health. here is what she had to say. >> i was struggling with depression, i was 35 years old, i was extremely tired like i was

walking on molasses. on valentine's day, i had decided to throw in the towel and take my own life because i was in pain. now, i didn't want to die but the pain was so great. >> do you think it is a matter of us not talking about these issues or a matter of not having resources concentrated in these communities? >> i think it is a combination of both. we don't have enough resources. the biggest problem is still that big ask stigma. we have been raised as black people, pray about it and don't claim it, give it to god. it is a sign of weakness. if we don't change the culture around suicide, it will continue with our culture. >> suicide is one of the most preventable deaths. you don't have to be a professional to save a life.

she recommends taking a kind of training called qpr, question, persuade and refer. it is a two-hour course and there is multiple organizations online that offers it. if you or someone you know out there needs help, you can call the national suicide prevention lifeline. that number is on your screen and of course we know there is always strength in asking for help. >> and certainly these numbers include spanish speakers as well. >> it is so important for our community to be able to reach out and getting information and get help. >> there are resources both in english and spanish for anyone who should reach out. >> morgan, it is always -- >> thank you, jose. >> thank you. in front of the surgeon general, bob mendez highlighted data that one and six children

experienced mental health every year. here is what he said on the disproportionate impact on latino children. >> latino children likely to experience a death of a primary caregiver during the pandemic and more likely to contract the virus and be hospitalized themselves. these experiences were compounded by other disparity among latino children including higher uninsured rates and lower access to mental health of services and support. joining me now is dr. patel primary care physician and she's also an msnbc medical contributor. it is always great to speak with you. even as covid cases drop, the mental health effect of this pandemic is still ongoing. what kind of disparity do you see? >> most common disparity that i see in latino women which is the

majority of my patients have been, just what you and morgan have been talking about, a little bit of a stigma. people come in with hair loss but real symptoms and have mental health disorders, it takes time. it is an onion that you have to peel away, for decades and the past year that they have been holding it all in. i describe it with my colleagues that i work with, we feel like the people we are seeing are holding onto life with duct tape at times. it is really overwhelming. and as we are moving in the hospital and in an intense setting, we are just trying to make sure that people know that they can come in and that it is okay to say that they're not sleeping and they have thought about hurting themselves and they cry. the number of moms i have talked to that tell me i can't sleep and i cry everyday. it is heartbreaking. we can help. >> it is. you think of the toll that it is

taking on our communities. so many sons and daughters have lost parents. so many parents have lost siblings and people close to their families and yet this pandemic has forced so many people to just close up even more and remained alone and isolated and masked and separated. you know how do you breakthrough to that? >> yeah, you have to start. i am very humbled, i can only do so much in that of a 15-minute visit. what i acknowledge is life is happening outside of my hospital and i need to help people live life. that means getting jobs, we have people want to work because of pandemic. place of employment will shutdown, we want to help other parts of their life. the number of children who are not in school can be in school

safely is huge and starting with and ensuring of their health, i have grown men who have broken down that they are worried their mothers are going to die. it is directly attacking that and saying i know that you are scared, i am scared, too because i thought that i can die and i got the vaccine and it helps us talk about preventative care and getting your schedule screening. screening for anxiety and sleep disorders and it fathers the men. we don't see enough of them. i want people to feel comfortable to come in and talk to us, we have resources and food and security. jose, people have not been able to get food reliably and now with groceries so expensive, the cost of feeding your family gotten four times higher. >> thank you for speaking that way, doctor, we know the

vaccines play an important part of getting kids back to normal. u.s. officials expect to release data for vaccines for kids under five as early as today. talk about the impact this could have on the efforts of moving forward. i think this is historic, it reminds me of the time when we found out the first vaccine rolling out literally from birth. six months to any age, we have a way to safely protect kids. of course we need to look at this data, i am waiting for it any minute, we have something to offer everyone. we welcome that. we are supposedly receiving the vaccines in the matter of days. i know not everyone is going to take it. i know people will have questions, that's fine. this is a first time in our country and probably in the world that we can say anybody and literally regardless of age who wants a vaccine can get one. >> dr. patel, thank you so much for being with us.

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47 past the hour, time now for headlines beyond our borders. another journalist has been killed in mexico. one of the deadliest countries for journalists. heber lopez vasquez was killed. the director and founder of the news page, he's the fifth journalist killed in mexico just this year. back in ukraine, the government is urging people not to panic despite the fact that russian troops nearly surrounds the entire country on several sides. joining me now from kyiv, cofounder and executive director of the anticorruption center which has played a key role in the fight against corruption against ukraine. dahlia, thank you for being with

me. you made the comparison between what's happening now and world war ii. do you think western leaders trying to figure out how to avoid the conflict now and have learned lessons from our past? >> well, not exactly. some of them do but some from some leaders from some country did not. we have seen a different approach of the united states with the unite kingdom and germany and france. so germany and france are still, they are not providing weapon supplies to ukraine and they are trying to help business with russia and find diplomatic solution, you know, vladimir putin showed that he's not interested in diplomatic solution. and he understands only the language of followers.

it is providing weapons the ukraine. the language of power is actually imposing sanctions on putin's wallets assets all acro europe and in the united states. the sanctions have to be imposed now. we don't need to wait for farther invasion or deaths or air strikes. >> i'm just wondering when you see 130,000, 140,000 troops around the border and these exercises with belarus, how do you see your future? >> you know, it's true that we live in a very surreal world. we have to keep going, we have to keep doing our routine jobs. we have to send kids to school,

we have to cook food, we have to go shopping. at the same time we have to think, okay, will they invade ukraine today? will it be invasion or will there just be cyber attack? will we have no hate? it's really very pressing in terms of leading a normal life knowing any day could be the start of world war iii. >> thank you very much for being with me. i want to keep our conversation going in the following days and weeks. i think your voice is really important to hear and i thank you for sharing it with me this morning. >> thank you. >> still ahead, what would happen if the millions of immigrants in this country just didn't show up for work? we'll talk to the tiktok expert leading the effort next. you're watching "jose

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the 44 million immigrants in this country, they be seen in every facet of life. right now there are immigrants who don't have a voice in washington. a day without immigrants is calling on all immigrants to

participate in a labor pause. carlos, talk about the impact you're hoping this campaign will have. >> i really hope that this puts immigrants back in the conversation in washington. we saw big promises during the 2020 campaign, we're going to do this, we're going to do at that. we stood still all of 2021 with big hopes, big hospital mitch ptimism and nothing happened. are we going to have to wait another 30 years for immigration reform? we want washington to know we're going to keep fighting until we get a path to citizenship in this country. >> the last immigration reform

was in '86. >> what would you like to see in congress that you hope the protest sheds light on? >> there's build back better on hold. we have a slim majority of democrats in the senate and in the house they have a majority. and we have a democratic president, right. and like carlos says, we have been hearing a lot of promises from every single one of them and yet we still have this bill stuck in there. and also, there is a part of the bill that is tackled in immigration but should be pushed through we have been calling for the parliamentary to be ignored. we can talk about these for a long time but we don't have the time. there are the tools that congress has right now to make sure that millions and millions of people in this country have the ability to stay here with citizenship and that we have a path, a right to be here and to work with dignity.

>> they could also just do a stand-alone bill in the house of representatives and senate and compromise to get it through. carlo, you've been using social media to spread the word on this campaign. in what way does it allow you to reach activists? >> it explains how we're living, the radio really promoted the movement, and now with tiktok. if this works out, we might be making history, the first movement to be born out of tiktok. how much time has passed since this movement? 36 years since the last immigration reform. my parents had the time to meet each other, for me to be born and raised and grown enough to lead a movement through tiktok, an application that didn't exist.

we're really starting to see this change. it's great to just see how we're adapting to these platforms and how the movement keeps growing. >> some immigrants depend on daily wages for their survival. is there any concern that the people who need this most can't afford to take day off? >> we have learned that it's real sacrifice to be able to make change. you remember a lot of the movement, we had to get arrested many times and risk deportation. so we're asking our community, you know, take a day. don't buy anything, right? show this country that we contribute so much. and it doesn't have to be just about how much we contribute. we're human beings. people should care because of that. butch we have an opportunity to show that this country really needs us and we hope that we can get people to participate and that we can have allies supporting us as well. >> carlos, as you say, the important thing is to refocus

our interests and our efforts on something that is so important to so many people and so beneficial to the entire country. carlos and erika, thank you so much for being with me this morning. that wraps up the hour. i'm jose diaz-balart. i'll see you tomorrow night on nbc nightly news saturday. look at that picture. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram. thank you so much for the privilege of your time. yasmin vossoughian picks up with more news right now. good friday morning, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian in for craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. a number of stories developing this hour. breaking right now, eyes on the white house. the president slated to meet with our allies about the crisis in ukraine any second now. the