continue to fall nationwide, a new study is raising concerns over long-term health issues. the study found increased risk of heart failure, stroke and other problems up to a year after an acute covid infection among unvaccinated people. the january 6th committee is negotiating with rudy giuliani's legal team about giuliani answering questions about the committee. it's not clear whether he will testify. also this hour, i'll speak to david hogg on the fourth anniversary of the marjorie stoneman douglas shooting. we begin with the crisis in ukraine. joining me now, chief foreign correspondent richard engel and nbc white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. first to you, u.s. and european leaders trying to talk vladimir putin into deescalating, no sign of that. they continue to meet both with putin and president zelensky. is there any sign at all that diplomatic talks are going

anywhere? >> no. no signs at all, except the -- from moscow, putin's press secretary said what he was briefing reporters in russia that putin has not been satisfied with responses from the west so far or responses from the united states but that there is still more diplomacy to do, but at the same time, while he's saying that, that there's still a ahead for diplomacy, it's hard to see what that road is or where it leads because the official russian position that they have said numerous times is exactly where russia's position was a month ago, when this crisis began, and it's the same position that nato allies have expressed a month ago. russia says it wants security guarantees that nato will never expand to the east and that ukraine can never become part of it. nato says that's never acceptable, the two sides remain

there. there's a lot of process and the process is continuing. we haven't seen any real progress, the only progress being one meeting leading to another meeting, leading to another meeting, which is all given vladimir putin time to build up his forces. this week is so critical. u.s. intelligence officials have been pointing to this week in particular, and u.s. officials in their public comments have underlined that russia has the capacity. don't forget that russia could act before the end of the olympics. the olympics end this sunday, so when you have that alarm being raised and you have u.s. officials underlying that it could happen before the olympics, the time is now. this is the week. the curtain has gone up, so to speak. we are all just watching and waiting to see if it happens, how it happens and how it would unfold, but the diplomacy piece, it keeps spinning without appearing to have any progress.

>> and that's certainly been my perception from this, you know, this perspective, from washington's perspective, and kelly, the national security adviser jake sullivan is going to be on the hill today. his warning since friday have had the kind of urgency that indicates they had recent intelligence last week about russian intentions because first jake sullivan and the president as well, of course, lester holt, these urgent warnings and on saturday morning, we had an emergency briefing telling us that they were drawing down the embassy in kyiv and moving some small number of diplomats to the western part of ukraine, closer to the polish border, where they would obviously have an easier time getting out if things got really bad. >> so much of the outward demeanor issues remain calm. when you look at the tempo of how rapidly these developments have been happening and the urgency underneath that calm, you definitely get a sense that things have changed and that there is a real deep concern

about kind of the dire nature of what could happen and today, jake sullivan is speaking with key congressional leaders, not all of congress. congress is not fully in town this week, so key leadership from both houses and key committees, and that's important because he can relay the content of conversations the president had with vladimir putin, and ukraine's president zelensky. sullivan was on those calls as a part of the president's team and would have heard that firsthand. in addition, we know that they have been trying to prepare congress for the piece that it could provide in terms of sanctions and so forth, but also just keeping the key players informed as to where things stand. we also know that in the next -- this hour, the president is going to be speaking with uk prime minister boris johnson. that's another step. the president has foreign leader calls often, but the pace of these calls has picked up

significantly, and it's another opportunity for him to relay the content of his calls with putin and zelensky to boris johnson directly, to share that information and with the german chancellor in the region right now, that sort of a time buy-in situation as richard was talking about, the critical nature of this week, when you have foreign leaders in ukraine, that's certainly not a time when we would expect putin to take any action. the window really sort of begins to change as the leaders complete those meetings, and it really is a question about timing. the way that jake sullivan talked about the olympics not being some kind of sort of panacea of world peace, that that would be a critical issue, and so that gives us another piece of information. now, they're not as explicit about what they have learned, but the tone, the frequency of briefings and all of those signs suggest that they have grave

concerns. andrea? >> thanks so much to kelly, and thanks of course to richard engel and joining us is the pentagon press secretary john kirby. thanks very much for being with us. well, we've seen certainly the pace of warnings from secretary blinken in his calls and the fact that his conversation with sergey lavrov got nowhere in terms of their demand about nato and ukraine and are saying that that is a non-starter and the russians also saying that secretary blinken's proposals on arms control were not responsive to what russia is demanding. the same thing happened apparently with the two presidents. so we're not seeing any sign that they are deescalating to the contrary. what is their posture right now, and how many options does vladimir putin have? >> he has a lot of options available to him, andrea, because he continues to add to his military capabilities, even just over the course of the weekend, he has added more force and more capability to the

border with ukraine and belarus as well as of course the maritime readiness that he has established in the black sea and elsewhere in the med as well. this is a military that continues to grow stronger, continues to grow more ready. they're exercising and we believe that he has a lot of capabilities and options available to him should he want to use military force. as he said, it could happen any day. i would go so far as to say, he could move with little to no warning. >> little to no warning, and they could immediately take out air defenses. they could come with, you know, artillery. they could come with, you know, air power, as well as the air forces, the ground forces, correct? >> it could be all of the above. he could do something with hybrid forces like we saw in 2014, little green men, no uniforms, on the ground, messing things up. he could use cyber attacks, and he could certainly use conventional ground, air, and

even maritime forces to put troops ashore in any number of places. i mean, he's got landing ships in the black sea, he's got conventional ground forces along that eastern border of ukraine as well as of course in belarus, so it could be all of the above or it could be something smaller than that. we simply don't know. with each passing day, he gives himself more options for a major military action. >> are the exercises in the black sea de facto, naval blockade right now already? >> it seems to be having that effect. we're clear in the manner in which we object to that. it is an international waterway, free open maritime space, and needs to be respected as such. he is certainly adding to his naval capabilities in the black sea, should he want to use them, and make no mistake, half a dozen or so landing ships are in that flotilla he's got in the black sea. they are designed for one

purpose and one purpose only and that's to put troops ashore. >> and in belarus to the north, are those exercises a precursor to a possible invasion. could one thing meld into the next? >> certainly could. look, i mean, military exercise, we do it too. these exercises are being done, we believe, on purpose in terms of time and space. now, whether he'll use the exercises to just meld right in to, you know, some sort of military incursion in ukraine is unknown. only mr. putin knows what he's doing here. clearly, at the very least, he continues to make sure these forces he has arrayed are ready and sharp, and ready to go if he needs them. >> secretary austin is going to the nato meetings, the north atlantic counsel which is the organization of nato that decides whether or not there should be the response force and whether or not they should be in the military posture. they have not voted on that yet. do you expect that could happen this week before an invasion to

get our 8,500 troops there and get the larger force in place. >> the secretary is very much looking forward to attending the defense ministry. there's a lot to talk about, and certainly what's going on in ukraine is top of the agenda, without question. i can't get ahead of the decision making process. i don't know whether the knack will vote on using the nato response force. what i can tell you is that we've made sure our contributions to that nato response force are ready to go. we put them on a shortened readiness tether a couple of weeks ago. we're monitoring this very closely, and the secretary's message to the alliance will be if you decide to activate the nato response force, the united states, our contribution for it, we'll be ready for that. >> if there were military action from russia, would it be likely that nato troops, u.s. troops as well in italy and germany would move toward poland and eastern european countries? >> look, we have already kind of done that, andrea. we moved in from germany to romania, about almost all of the

thousand troops we have moved are there in romania now. the secretary last week ordered an additional 3,000 from the 82nd airborne to go to poland. we are looking for ways to bolster nato's eastern flank and putting real troops and real numbers behind that. that's on top of the 80,000 u.s. service members that we have in europe already, both on rotational and permanent sets of orders, so we're definitely interesting in continuing to reassure our allies along the eastern flank and i would also mention other nato allies are doing the same. the french announced they're going to move troops into romania, other countries are doing the same and we certainly encourage that. >> at this point, would you expect that we are at risk of getting into a cyber -- an escalating cyber confrontation with russia if they hit ukraine as they have in the past and take cyber actions, how would we respond? >> i won't get into cyber

responses specifically. i think you understand we're careful about talking about that. that said, your point is a good one. if you look at the russian play book, they use cyber, offensive cyber to disrupt perhaps infrastructure, railroads, other means of transportation, other kinds of utilities, and to try to shut down an adversary's ability to communicate, so i think we have to be looking for those signs going forward. certainly we would be of a piece of the way they have conducted this hybrid warfare going forward. we have not ruled that out as an option available to mr. putin, and we're mindful of that. >> how concerned are you about those autonomy talks about the russian areas of ukraine, russian-speaking areas of ukraine, that they for all intents and purposes hold right now. autonomy talks in russia's parliament, that started today, and could be a vote in the next day or two. as a potential pretext for some

invasion scenario. >> sure. one thing that they could be, the card they might be playing here, is we're going to declare these autonomous zones to try to provoke a reaction by ukraine which would then give them the pretext to go in. that could be what some of the play is here. look, we've been very very clear. ukraine is a sovereign state and their sovereignty and territorial integrity must be respected by everybody in the region, and that obviously includes russia. we have been very clear. there's no negotiating on the principle of sovereignty. >> let me just be clear about one thing, if russian troops go into those areas, is that an invasion of ukraine? >> first of all, in the eastern part of ukraine, there are already russian soldiers in there. if we're talking about potentially another incursion, then yes, we would call it that, absolutely we would call it out for that. just to remind, they're already there, and for the last couple of years, there's been a hot war

in that area of ukraine where ukrainian soldiers are actively defending their countrymen, their borders, their sovereignty. they're already there. >> well, thank you so much for your time. you've been very generous with your time. john kirby, thank you, we appreciate it. >> thank you, andrea. good to be with you. and will he talk, one of donald trump's closest allies could testify before the january 6th committee, but will he do more than plead the 5th. potential supreme court picks prepare for an oval office interview. the latest on the short list next, you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. next, you're watching "andrea next, you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc i bring the dove beauty bar home because it not only cleans, it hydrates my skin. i see what it does for my patients and it's exactly what i want to do for my family. as a dermatologist i want what's best for our skin. who doesn't want soft, clean, fresh smelling skin. with 1/4 moisturizing cream

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donald trump's former personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who helped lead the unsuccessful effort to overturn the 2020 election is in talks about testifying before the january 6th committee according to "the new york times." republican committee member adam kinzinger says he expects giuliani to comply. >> he's been subpoenaed, our expectation is he is going to cooperate because that's the law. that's the requirement. same as if subpoena's subpoenaed to court. there may be some changes in date as lawyers do their back and forth, but we fully expect in accordance with the law, we'll hear from rudy. regardless of when we hear from rudy or how long that interview is, we're getting a lot of information. >> joining me now is nbc capitol hill correspondent leann called will, and phil rucker, deputy

national editor at "the washington post." there's some indication that giuliani will cooperate but do we actually know what that means? he's been subpoenaed and i guess the committee could learn a lot from him because he was such an integral part of the campaign to overturn the election. >> that's right, andrea. the definition of cooperation can be really big, and it's unclear if rudy giuliani and the committee have the same interpretation of what that definition is. so we'll have to wait and see, but rudy giuliani absolutely had an integral role in many of the schemes that the former president was involved in from the election day all the way to january 6th. it's been widely reported that he has been part of, perhaps, discussions about obtaining voting machines, about the fake electors that they wanted to send to congress instead of the actual ones that elected joe biden. so if he does actually decide to give information to the committee, it could be huge to

the committee, but again, we don't know what level of cooperation will happen just yet. >> and phil, let's talk for a minute about something completely different which is the supreme court because we now know that the president has narrowed his list down to three. three leading black jurists, women jurists, and there's a lot of lobbying on all sides. in one case, michelle childs, you've got not only jim clyburn from south carolina promoting her candidacy for this nomination, but also now lindsey graham. how important do you think that is to have, you know, she has the support of the president's most important ally down there who helped him get the nomination, and therefore the election. and also a leading member of the judiciary committee, could that tip the scales for her? >> it certainly is an important factor. i think before congressman clyburn started to advocate for judge childs, there was an

assumption here in washington that the heavy favorite in this process would be judge brown jackson out of washington, but childs is a strong candidate at the moment in part because of clyburn's advocacy on her behalf, but also as you note because of senator graham and the possibility that she could attract potentially some other republican senators for support. remember, biden's nominee is going to need 50 votes, plus one, in the senate, in order to be confirmed to the supreme court, and there are only 50 plus one democrats to play with. so the possibility of having support from a couple of republicans could really be helpful to biden and the white house. >> and those interviews are expected to -- those in-person interviews are expected to come pretty quickly, phil, because he has said he wants to do this nomination before the end of the month. he's got the state of the union on march 1st. >> that's right. >> i'm sure he'd be very happy to have a big announcement before that that he could talk

about in that big speech. >> that's right. our reporting at the post is that this process is nearing the final stages. the interviews are expected to happen this week, and we could see an announcement from the president by the end of this week or perhaps early next week, but definitely before the end of the month of february. >> well, to both of you, we shouldn't forget that as a former chairman of the judiciary and someone who has done so many of these confirmations a lot is going to depend on the personal chemistry from these interviews. no matter what lindsey graham or jim clyburn, no matter what anyone says, promoting, those meetings are going to be critical, especially with joe biden. thank you very much, phil, leann, busy time. and the covid consequences, frightening research on the potential long-term impact for your heart from severe disease. this is andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. disease this is andrea mitchell rertpos this is andrea mitchell rertpos on msnbc and they stay there, up, down, up, down.

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positive for covid. as we're learning more about the possible risks that could come after infection. a new study by nature medicine shows covid increases the possibility of heart problems in the year following acute infection. joining us is dr. vin gupta, assistant professor at the university of washington. the covid-19 patients were infected before vaccines were available. if you have tested positive for covid, how concerned should be that you could have heart problems or a stroke. >> thank you for highlighting this. the what do we know, the big limitation of the study is this was done from march of 2020 through early january 2021, so before wide availability of the vaccines. it found among unvaccinated people with mild symptoms up front, it was for that proceeding year for an

additional 12 months after any acute symptoms, even if they were mold, once they resolved that there was an elevated risk of pulmonary embolism, called myocarditis, that we have become a little more familiar with in this era of talking about rare adverse side effects from the vaccine. but if you had especially if a pulmonary embolism, we think about blood clots on a long flight, traveling to our lungs. turns out, a mild infection, if unvaccinated, once you recover from a sore throat or routine noses, increases your risk of a serious medical event, pulmonary embolism, and the severity of the symptoms that impact the heart increases if you had more severe symptoms up front f you needed to go to the hospital, in the icu, your risk of atrial

afiblation, heart failure, heart attack, increases as the severity of the initial up front symptoms increases as well. so really important, to take notice of these results here. >> and how serious overall is long covid, people who just keep feeling symptomatic and are still suffering? >> well, the answer is we don't know, the burden of long covid, chronic pulmonary, even if you had mild symptoms up front is completely undocumented, likely enormous, we don't have enough therapies, rehab therapies, collins that are care for the patients. it's pretty serious. once the mechanism, hey, doc, why is this happening, under the microscope, the virus is invading the cells that line the arteries and veins around our heart, and potentially the arteries and veins in our lungs and throughout our bodies.

that's why we're sewing inflammatory responses, blood clots, arrhythmias, the virus has the ability to invade the veins that sound these organs, that's why we're seeing extra pulmonary infestations. people see me for pneumonia, we have a million plus dead, but there are extra pulmonary symptoms and it's because of that mechanism. that burden completely unknown, we think it's enormous, and it's going to be a stressor to the health care system moving forward. >> briefly, do you think it's too soon to be dropping the indoor mask mandates in the metropolitan place like washington, d.c. where the case numbers really have dropped very very dramatically? >> i'd like to see it, andrea, happen in a few weeks time, yes, i think it's premature but i'm hoping march 15th into april 1st, the broader health care system unstressing happening when these types of conversations will be more safe to have.

>> thank you very much, dr. vin gupta, always great to have your expertise. and the cyber warning, could an attack on ukraine's power grid or other aspects of the infrastructure be a leading edge of a russian invasion. senator mark warner, chair of the intelligence committee joins us next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports," on carb carb. a mitchel reports," on carb carb tissue. . . . . . . . . m. s. n. b. c. m. s. n. b. .

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democratic senator mark warner, chair of the intelligence committee, senator, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> so let's start there. you've got, you know, the tanks, warships, missiles, ability to take out air defenses, critical infrastructure, what kirby also said was that there is a de facto blockade right now with landing ships, so he could be landing forces if he wants to. how concerned are you that we're seeing no sign of deescalation and to the contrary, and that these talks don't seem to be getting anywhere with them still demanding, you know, nonstarter positions from nato and ukraine. >> andrea, i'm very concerned. putin has moved so many forces so close to the border that he may not even have the ability to fully pull back. and whereas intelligence and

jake sullivan from the administration has indicated where potentially before this might have been a small movement in the east. it now appears that kyiv, the capital could be under assault, that you could have a major european land war breaking out literally this week. i do think it's important, and i think one thing the administration has done well is kind of rally nato so as i'm sure your viewers know, virtually every day there's another president, prime minister going to ukraine, the german chancellor is there today. he'll be in moscow tomorrow. we're seeing these images of ukrainians training on the weekend. we hope those images putin is seeing. putin is so isolated at this point, and i think the intelligence community by leaning in and indicating, you know, before russian false flag or an attempt to say ukrainians started this where we're showing, hey, if you see a video of what appears to be, you know,

ukrainians attacking russians with dead bodies, that's actually russians or if you see a coup attempt, that's actually russia, to forewarn. i think that's very forward leaning, so i'm concerned on all of these fronts, and you mentioned one thing before you went to the break about cyber. this is particularly concerning to me because if you think back in 2017, russia attacked ukraine with what was then called a cyber attack, tried to deny service. because cyber attacks don't know geographic boundaries, that attack caused literally tens of billions of dollars of damage to american companies. in they launch a cyber attack before a kinetic invasion, it knows no geographic boundaries, maybe not targeting american companies but hitting american companies means we need to be on guard. what is more concerning to me is if for example, the russians decided they want to shut out the lights in ukraine, and attack their power network, that

could also affect poland, which is a nato ally, and if that were to show cause harm or havoc in eastern poland with nato forces, you know, all of these hypotheticals about what constitutes an article 5 violation where you have to come to assistance of any nato country that's attacked could move from hypothetical to real. this is a very dangerous week. >> do you think that the president is making the right moves in terms of sending more troops, if asked, you know, to join the nato force as well as sending troops unilaterally from italy and germany and moving them to poland and others, you know, closer to russia? >> it's a dangerous balance here, right, he's made it very clear that we're not going to put american troops on ukrainian soil. as a matter of fact, we had a few hundred trainers that were in western ukraine. they are leaving, and the few thousand additional troops that we're sending to our nato allies, particularly poland and

the baltics, that is more symbolic than it is moving tens of thousands of troops, which could be even more provocative. what i don't think is getting reported enough in america is other nato countries are also sending, whether it be troops, the germans are finally appearing to move some troops, hundreds into the baltics, we've got countries like denmark and the netherlands sending ships into the black sea, countries like spain and italy that normally don't lean in are leaning in, and the fact that all of these countries are taking out diplomatic personnel out of kyiv shows that we are very much in a week that god willing we're going to look back a week from now and nothing's happened but we could look back and say a week that changed the future of europe for literally decades to come. >> vladimir putin does not seem deterred by the threat of sanctions. >> no, listen, putin, what we are concerned about is that putin who has been very concerned about covid, has been

very isolated may not be seeing or hearing everything that he needs to hear. i hope he's turning on western tv to hear the resoluteness of nato, the images of these ukrainians training in the streets so that even if the russian military were to take over militarily ukraine, that they would face an ongoing insurgency. i think there was a very powerful presentation made by the russian economic minister about how devastating this could be to putin. i hope putin heard that message, because it could have huge ramifications, as much as 15% of the gdp of russia hit and decreased by these sanctions but, you know, as i think the reporting has shown, vladimir putin 69 years old, he views this as part of his legacy, this notion of bringing back ukraine, which has long-term historical ties to russia. moving on that, what i think he

may have missed is over the last five or six years, these russians' actions have taken ukraine that had some pro russian feelings and turned it completely anti-russian. the indications are in ukraine and parliament is it's about 85% anti-russian. that is very different than six years ago when he took on crimea. >> and is congress being adequately consulted, the gang of eight so called, you're one of those chairs? >> i want a gang of eight meeting this week. i believe we'll have that. i know jake sullivan has briefed the house. he's briefing the senate this afternoon. my hope is that the senate, at least the house is out of session but the senate at least leadership, democrat and republican can act in a unified voice to say we stand with the people of ukraine, that we stand with our nato allies, and reemphasize the fact that there is no democrat or republican position in terms of the level of sanctions that the russian

people, the oligarchs and vladimir putin himself will face should russia invade ukraine. >> senator warner, thank you very much. really appreciate your coming on today. >> thank you. and the super celebrations in l.a the rams bring the lombardi trophy back to l.a. after their big super bowl win. on the olympic stage, all medal ceremonies honoring one russian athlete on hold indefinitely, what it means for team usa. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. sa this is "andrea mitchell this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ ancestry's helped me really understand my family's immigration exence and what life must have been like for them. and as i pass it on to my daughter, it's an important part of understanding who we are.

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the playoff games were until the pass rush forced joe burrow into an incomplete pass and delivered the victory for the rams and we can talk about the penalties, but i guess i shouldn't bring that up here. so talk to me about l.a. it's a city in great celebration. >> reporter: yeah, not talk about the penalties. >> right. >> reporter: andrea, i know, in the past couple of moments heard from coach sean mcvay who talked about the adversity his team faced and the ups and downs in the game. there were a lot of back and forths, the unfortunate injury to odell beckham injury, and what eventually became the game winning catch, and you had fans here really just celebrating what they have been looking for, the super bowl victory coming back to los angeles. they got to see it in their hometown.

listen to what mvp cooper kupp said about what that means for fans. >> to come back to l.a. and, you know, those fans that now have their parents have been rams fans for a long time, parents, grandparents, whatever it is, being able to raise up a new generation of rams fans as well, and to be able to, you know, in five years, be able to bring a championship home to this city i think that's just, it's a great thing by the city. it's what the city demands. >> and andrea, it's not just the game folks are talking about, but we have to mention that half-time performance. it was the all stars of hip hop that performed. i was at a celebration with rams fans, and i'll tell you outside of the clinching touchdown, that was the moment that really got a lot of their attention. >> shaq, you have had quite a time out there. thank you, and at the olympics, more history for team usa. erin jackson grabbing gold in the 500 meters, becoming the first black woman to win an

olympic medal in speed skating and americans on the podium with legend kailee hom free -- humphreys and overnight, russian >> andrea, major controversy overnight in what is turning out to be one of the biggest stories of the game, 15-year-old kamila valiyeva is allowed to compete for the rest of the games but there are some very big caveats on that. one being, namely, if she wins another gold, none of them will be celebrated with a medal ceremony. and secondly, this leading to huge controversy, kind of

tainting the rest of the games, this event for the women expected to be in just a few hours now and this ruling just coming down overnight with about a six-hour deliberation process with an independent arbitrator. important to remember how good she is. this is a 15-year-old phenom, first woman to land a quad at the olympics, wins her first event by about a country mile and is expected to sweep gold, not only for this olympics but maybe for the next consecutive olympics. she tested positive for what's been described as an illegal heart medication on december 25th. so christmas day a russian organization did suspend her but that suspension was appealed so she was allowed to compete in the games. then there was some question about whether or not she should be allowed to continue to compete. this independent arbitrator ruled she should, primarily

because she's under the age the 18 and so she's a protected person. so that ruling was just kind of followed along with that guideline. obviously people are upset, including the united states olympic committee, and former skaters like tara lipinski and johnny weir, saying this maybe is a stain on the sport, if not this year then maybe for the next few multiple years. so this has been seen and met with heavy controversy, but the point remains this woman is allowed to continue to skate. she's predicted to win several more golds and we will see her back on the ice. >> thank you, steve. four years after the parkland massacre. are our students any safer in school? i'll speak with an advocate next. i'll speak with an advocate next

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in florida flags across the state of flying at half staff in remembrance of the lives of the 14 students and three staff members lost during the mass

shooting at the parkland school four years ago. i know this is a terrible anniversary and every day is a sad one for all of you have gone through it. you're here to talk about the biden administration's failures to do more about gun violence. what did you want to see from the president? >> yeah, we've seen some minor actions from the president but the reality is certain things are being left on the table. the president could appoint a national director of gun violence to report directly to him on how the federal government can create a comprehensive response to gun violence in this country that is killing our young people, our older people and friends and

family members every single day in this country. he can do that without any senate approval whatsoever. we're also calling on president biden to create a comprehensive plan, not a piecemeal plan but a comprehensive plan to significantly reduce gun violence in america and present that plan before the state of the union. >> why do you think he has not done more by executive action on guns? >> frankly, i think it's because they're afraid of the effect it is will have on mid terms when the reality is what is the point of having power if you're not going to do anything about it? over 45,000 americans have died as a result of gun deaths since president biden was inaugurated he needs to use the power of the presidency to do everything he can to address gun violence. all the things i mentioned he can do without having to do with a filibuster or anything else in the senate. he can do it right now.

>> what about coming? -- about congress? how can you bring gun violence to their attention when they are so reluctant to take on anything that's controversial? >> honestly by going out there and making these politicians, either democratic or republican, uncomfortable in the first place because the reality is young people, older people and people of all ages are dying because of democrats and republicans being in power. democrats said they care and support gun violence education but here is the reality. the fact of the matter is if you say you support gun violence regulation on that and you do nothing about it, i don't see you any better than the nra because flood is on your hands, too. people are dying because of your inaction.

we need congress to act. even if it's through reconciliation, the cdc and nrr -- nrh need more funding. that's why the president and congress need to work together to fund prevention in violence programs. >> and finally, how are you dealing with this? >> i'm dealing with this in the best way that i can think to, which is by advocating against this happening again. because the thing that i fear most, to be completely honest with you and what i'm afraid is going to happen is another parkland. i don't want to see the president commonly tv after another horrible act. we need young people to join us across the country right now because we can end gun violence.

in order to do that, we need people to text action to 954954. >> david, thanks for being with us that does it for today's edition of "andrea mitchell reports." garrett haake is in for chuck todd on "mpt daily" right now. if it's monday, military officials warn a russian invasion could come this week. this as jake sullivan briefs congressional leaders on the threat as they try to unite around a plan to sanction the kremlin. we'll speak to a house democrat coming up. and early voting is now officially under way in the lone star s