i -- i -- i, i -- i ask for everyone's support of ukraine at this difficult moment. >> we are seeing an extraordinary rallying around of ukrainians. and our thoughts are with your family. thank you so much, in the midst of all of this, of taking the time to talk to us. ben, thank you to you as well, for your great reporting. that's going to wrap up this hour. i'm chris jansing. jose diaz-balart picks up breaking news coverage right now. and good morning. it's 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart, reporting from our nation's capitol. we begin this very busy tuesday, the first of march, with the latest on the russian invasion of ukraine. while russian forces hit ukrainian cities with heavy shelling, new u.s. intelligence describes putin as increasingly frustrated by his military struggles in the region. today, ukrainian president zelenskyy accused russia of undisguised terror and renewed his pledge to defend kyiv. we have live reports from

ukraine and russia. senator alex padilla will join us to discuss the latest on the crisis. meanwhile in washington, president biden will deliver his first state of the union address tonight against a backdrop of crises at home and abroad. cedric richmond, the senior adviser to the president, will join us on that. and in texas, today marks the first primary day of the 2022 election cycle. we'll go live to the lone star state. and we begin with the latest on the russian invasion of ukraine, which is now in its sixth day. the russian defense ministry is warning residents in the capital of kyiv to leave their homes, as it plans to trike military targets in the ukrainian capital. this comes as these slight images shows what appears to be a 40-mile-long convoy of russian tanks and armored vehicles

approaching kyiv. but the british defense ministry says russian forces have made very little progress in the past 24 hours, because of logistical difficulties. russian forces are also escalating their shelling and missile effects on the country's second largest city, kharkiv. ukrainian authorities say the russians hit the regional administration building as well as civilian areas. the ukrainian interior ministry says at least ten people were killed in that attack. the international criminal court says that it will open an investigation into whether russia has committed war crimes or crimes against humanity in ukraine. in an emotional address to the european parliament, ukrainian president zelenskyy urged the eu to make ukraine its newest member state and accused russia of targeting children. >> yesterday, 16 children were killed. again and again, president putin is going to say that is some kind of operation and we are hitting a military

infrastructure. where are the children? what kind of military factories do they work at? what tanks are they going with? or launching cruise missiles? >> nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the story of one of those children. i want to warn you that what you are about to see is very disturbing. >> reporter: a 6-year-old girl next to her parents at a supermarket was hit by a shell. she was rushed to an ambulance, alive, but just clinging. at the hospital, her injuries proved too much. show this to putin, a doctor told a camera from the associated press. the eyes of this child and crying doctors. >> that's the reality of that war. current and former u.s. officials briefed on the matter tell nbc news that russian president putin is growing increasingly frustrated by his military struggles in ukraine and may see his only option as

doubling down on the violence. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov spoke to the united nationses council today accusing the european union of engaging in a russia-phobic frenzy. as soon as lavrov began his virtual address to the body, ambassadors and diplomats got up, walking out of the room. russia's prime minister fired a warning shot at the west after a french minister reportedly said that they had declared an economic war on russia. lavrov tweeting, quote, economic wars often turn into real ones. with me now to begin our coverage, nbc news senior national correspondent, tom llamas, in lviv, ukraine. keir simmons in moscow. keir, the u.s. and other nations are trying to isolate russia through sanctions. how are the russian people processing this? >> reporter: russian people are

feeling the effects already. google pay and apple pay, they're not able to do anymore. this may seem small and part of everyday life for all of us, but they are an indication of a kind of new iron curtain coming down between the west and russia. and keep in mind, it's worth remembering that you look back decades to the soviet union. now, that was a time when people here didn't know the west. they didn't know the kind of lifestyle that you could have. now, in cities like this, moscow, st. petersburg, people live very much a kind of a developed life, a life where they have access to western goods. and that's the middle class in russia, that's not everybody, but we talked -- we speak to people who are finding that if you like the cultural cutoff, as well as the economic cutoff is something that is really shaking their lives. the question, of course, is will it make any difference to president putin, because we've

heard now today, from this ministry of defense statement, saying that we urge ukrainian citizens who are being used by nationalists to carry out provocations against russia, as well as kyiv residents residing near relay stations to leave their homes. so russia -- russia's defense ministry putting out a warning, as you mentioned at the top of the show against two people in kyiv. of course, there is warfare on the ground in ukraine. there is also a propaganda war underway. and this is part of that. but given what we have now seen with that shelling in kharkiv, there is a real fear that russia is changing its tactics, becoming more indiscriminate, and it plans -- and the plans will be to target kyiv in a similar matter. >> tom, you're in ukraine. what is the past 24 hours been like where you are? >> reporter: you know, people here in the western region of

the country are just ramping up. they're waiting. they are wasting no time. right, i met with a man who goes by the name of igor yesterday, and he took me to a nondescript warehouse where they're making molotov cocktails. they've made 2,700 of them. today i spent time at a volunteer center where they're bringing all types of water, food, winter clothing, baby supplies and putting them in these white plastic bags and shipping them off into trucks. those trucks are headed to the war-torn regions, because there are ukrainians who are suffering right now. so what you have, you have a united country that is standing by each other. if you're a man of fighting age, you are staying here, you're trying to find whatever weapon you can or making those bombs or working at a checkpoint to make sure there's no russian saboteurs that come in. or if you're a family, you're trying to get out, but a lot of families are staying back. we saw children at that volunteer center. they're packing those bags.

everyone is taking a role here. i spoke to a student from kyiv university. and he had just left. he had to evacuate because of the bombing. he's here now and helping out in the volunteer center. and he's convinced, jose, that ukraine is going to win this war. you speak to everybody out here, and they'll tell you that they're going to win this war, that they're going to keep fighting. it's admirable that the attitude and the passion and the spirit you see of the people here, as putin has unleashed just lethal force all across this country. >> yeah, i mean, tom, i'm just wondering, because you have been going to so many different places there. you have children, you know, we have children. you see in the children there this determination to support everyone. and parents, just -- i'm just wondering how you see -- it's amazing to see they're up against one of the most powerful armies in the world, yet there's such a strong spirit, tom. >> it is. and we have to understand that putin is creating two victims in this war, right?

he's creating the victims on the battlefield. the people who are dying, both russians and ukrainian. but he's also victimizing all of those families that are now fleeing. more than half a million, jose. so these children will likely never forget this war. those mothers will likely never forget this war. because they being traumatized in so many ways. they're walking for days, walking for miles. they're sleeping in churches and train stations. they're having to lug their chirp along and trying to keep them content while they're crying. and jose, on top of all of this, they're saying good-bye to their husbands. >> tom llamas and keir simmons, thank you so very much. joining me now, the chief of staff to imprisoned russian opposition leader alexei navalny. thank you for being with me. i want to begin with what we have seen across russia in recent days. according to odvn info, which tracks crackdowns in russia, more than 6,000 people have been arrested for protesting. you and other supporters of

navalny are calling for civil disobedience against the war. war you hoping to achieve? >> well, we hope to achieve to create pressure on putin from inside. and that is to show to the world that russia does not equal putin. russia is not putin. he's not doing it on our behalf. he's doing all of this impossible thing not because kind of he represents russia. he only represents himself. he called for civil disobedience inside the country. to protect -- to prevent -- to keep some dignity, at least. because, wile, of course, the headlines are everywhere like, putin -- russia with ukraine. putin invaded ukraine. there is not much support in russia for this. it's very important for the future for our country. like, to define it right now. that the country was not

supportive of these actions. because while the war will be over, hopefully, putin will lose his war. and then we'll have to rebuild. and trying to see the picture. they'll have to rebuild. and we don't want to have this burden. we want to build a better russia, a diplomatic russia, a peaceful one. there is this burden that will be on our shoulders for generations. so it won't happen if he doesn't resist now. >> i'm just wondering, how does this end? how can this end? >> well, i hope, first of all that many russians will turn out for the rallies that we are just announcing these days, and that they view actually make people realize, in the country, that they can stop this. because once again, like, putin -- putin is in a minority.

he lost the recent election to the parliament, over two-thirds voted against his party. he actually started this war in order to increase his approval. because he needed this crimea annexation eight years ago. second, now this war is hitting everyone. there's an exchange rate of russian ruble going down by 40% over the last two days. it's -- it's also an economic disaster. so then people -- when we show that people are ready to participate, and more people will see and participate, and hopefully, at some point, those, like sleeping passes. these sleeping majorities. those who are still victims of propaganda will realize who is there enemy. and it's, of course, not ukraine. it's putin. >> thank you for being with us this morning. joining me now is garry kasparov, former world chess champion, chairman of the human

rights foundation. garry, it's always a pleasure to see you. in the wake of russia's latest invasion of ukraine, you wrote, quote, early thursday morning, germany invaded ukraine, so did the netherlands, italy, france, great britain, and every other country that has supported russian dictator putin's war machine for the past decade. garry, what'd you mean by that? >> i meant that not -- not just for decades, but for two decades, nobody in the free world wanted to pay attention to putin's intentions. and since his infamous speech in munich in 2007, february of 2007, at security conference in munich, he was very consistent in laying down his vision about a world that he wanted to live in. where the big countries are in charge and they can dictate to their smaller neighbors how to run their domestic or foreign affairs. and this speech followed by the invasion of the republic of georgia in 2008, his support to bashar al asad and annexation of

crimea and eastern ukraine, it's a long list, including the assassination of his critics, both inside russia and outside of our country. and it was inevitable. because he -- he believed that there would be no consequences, as it never happened before. because since his attack on ukraine in 2014, despite so-called sanctions, europe, primarily germany, increased the amount of russian gas they had been buying. so putin had a very simple calculation. i attack ukraine, two, three days, i'm in kyiv, i install puppet government and we'll go back to the bargaining table, negotiating some new arrangements. >> and you know, all of this, of course, on the backs of the ukrainian people, who are dying and who are doing everything that they can to live in freedom and to reject this invasion. garry, i'm just wondering, the west clearly has changed.

ukraine was a change agent for them. we see a lot of sanctions that maybe we wouldn't have ever imagined in the past. do you think that this is, now, a change in how the west has been dealing with russia? >> absolutely. no doubt about it. but, what makes it even more tragic is that even a portion of these sanctions, six months ago, could have prevented the war. army, ukraine, and imposing some sanctions, preventative sanctions on putin could send a clear signal. unfortunately, it was not done. and i wonder, you know, how, how did it go, when president biden met putin at the summit last june or had calls with him. so why americans couldn't convince putin that that would have -- would have such a steep price for russia. now we think that everything has changed. but unfortunately, america is leading from behind. i can tell you. europe now is way ahead of the united states -- >> in what way, garry?

>> in every day. so you look at every element of the sanctions, europe is doing more today than america. and that's -- that bothers me, because you have 27 countries in the eu, and they came to the agreement. because germany has shifted its policy, 180 degrees. and germany is leading, and other countries are following, while america is still trying to make these sanctions piece by piece. no, no, no, it's happening. there's a unity of the free world. but again, i expect america to do more. and also, let's be honest. what we're chasing now is a genocide. and putin who failed to take over ukraine in two or three days is now intentionally hitting civilians. it's a campaign of terror. and it will intensify. and look, the question is to americans, to europeans, so are you willing just to watch it and of course, cheering for ukraine? great. but are we ready to accept the

fact that hundreds of thousands of ukrainians, including children and elderly will be killed, because that's putin's intention. he cannot win the war. he cannot occupy the country. he will be destroying it. and he's doing it steadily. and he has resources still. if the sanctions stay, his economy probably will be living in ruins. >> garry kasparov, thank you for being with us this morning. appreciate you. up next, senator alex padilla joins us. he's been calling for the biden administration to take action to protect ukrainians in the u.s. from being deported. senator, it's always a pleasure to see you. plus, we'll talk to cedric richardson on what the president plans to say tonight in his first state of the union address. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" from washington, d.c. ing "jose diaz-balart reports" from washington, d.c.

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21 past the hour. nbc news has learned that in his state of the union address tonight, president biden will highlight his nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson for the supreme court. meanwhile, the senate judiciary committee has received her completed questionnaire. the president of the senate judiciary committee, senator dick durbin, says that this getting this question fair back this quickly could help schedule confirmation hearings. meanwhile, the fighting is intensifying in ukraine and some members of congress want the biden administration to help ukrainians here in the u.s. more than 40 senators from both parties sent a letter to the president urging his administration to grant temporary protected status to ukrainians already in the

country, protecting them from being deported. with me now is california democratic senator, alex padilla, one of the senators who signed that letter. senator, it's always a pleasure to see you. before i ask you anything, you tweeted just a little while ago that you have tested positive for covid, even though you are fully vaccinated. how you feeling? >> thanks, jose. finally got me. you know, years of abiding by the rules, wearing masks, hand sanitizer, et cetera, you know, i guess it just goes to show how contagious the omicron variant has been. we've seen the numbers over the last couple of months. so good news is i'm feeling great. fully vaccinated and boosted and let this serve as a reminder for those who haven't finished their vaccines or gotten boosted yet but they're eligible to do so, asymptomatic, working from home, and hoping to get through this as quickly as possible. >> that's good news, senator. thanks. before you signed the letter we were talking about, the tps issue, you tweeted late last

week that you were working on this issue with your california colleague, congresswoman zoe lofgren. have you had any conversations about this with the president or any other administration officials? >> not the president directly, but certainly white house officials are aware of our suggestion. we're told it's under consideration, but i think as we see the developments in ukraine play out and evolve on a daily basis, it just speaks to the urgency with which we're pushing the administration to act. you know, if ever there was an exhibit "a" for the need for a program like tps, it would be this. a lot of ukrainians in the united states, northern california, my home state, one of the largest ukrainian communities in the world. a lot of people may be here on visas. and if those visas are expiring in the next month or two, you know, it's probably not going to be safe for them to go home quite yet. we need to get ahead of the situation and understand the dynamics and take action.

>> it seems like it's not that difficult for the administration to carry out a tps for anybody, or for ukrainians, specifically. you and your colleagues received a classified briefing last night on the situation in ukraine. i know you can't talk about classified information, but what are your big takeaways from that briefing? >> look, i'm glad you asked, because i know, there's a lot to feel not so great about. violence, military action is never something great to see. but if there are some silver linings to make us feel better for the midterm and the long-term, it's a recognition of at least this. you know, it's not the united states helping the ukraine by ourselves, president biden has done a heck of a job in rallying not just other nato members, but other allies around the world in support of ukraine and against the unprovoked russian

aggression that we are witnessing. to think that germany would relatively quickly say, fine, we're not going to pursue the nord stream 2 pipeline under the current circumstances and to commit to significantly contributing to the cause through money, for equipment for ukrainians that are resisting, that's huge. so think that not just sweden and switzerland, who has long prided itself on neutrality, is finally picking a side and in this case, obviously the side of the good. that's huge. and that would not have been possible without the diplomacy, without the relationship building, and restoration that president biden has done. and it has boded well for the people of ukraine in the short-term and it's going to be critical as we see the economic sanctions take deeper and deeper effects on the russian economy. >> president biden will deliver his first state of the union address tonight. what do you want to hear from him tonight? >> i think what the whole world will hear is leadership.

leadership, leadership, leadership, what a difference a president makes, both domestically. i know there's a lot to -- that's on our minds in terms of what's happening around the world, particularly russia, ukraine, his leadership has made a tremendous difference in how the people of ukraine are able to resist and respond to the situation. but even domestically. we know that issues in terms of the economy, for example, have been in the news for quite a while now. but to hear the facts, the facts that unemployment has been cut in half since the worst part of the economic impact of the pandemic. the benefit of the child tax credit that was in the american rescue plan that cut child poverty in half. you know, wages are up, unemployment is down. the economy, the nuts and bolts of the economy are strong. there's lots feel good about and better to feel good about as the

year goes forward, the infrastructure law that he signed late last year. our country is not without challenges, not without concerns, but we have a strong foundation and it's our resiliency and our strength that will get us through. >> senator alex padilla, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. continue to stay safe. >> thanks. likewise. coming up, more than 660,000 people have fled ukraine since russia invaded six days ago. we're live on the ground in poland, where refugees continue to stream in. we've got their stories. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." you're watching "jose diaz-balt arreports. where does the stress go when you're driving a lincoln? does it float off into the clouds? daddy! (frustrated grunts) you might have your own theory. but maybe it's better to just let it go. ♪ got my hair ♪ ♪ got my head ♪ ♪ got my brains ♪ ♪ got my ears ♪ ♪ got my heart ♪ ♪ got my soul ♪ ♪ got my mouth ♪ ♪ i got life ♪

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where does the stress go when you're driving a lincoln? does it float off into the clouds? daddy! (frustrated grunts) you might have your own theory. but maybe it's better to just let it go. 31 past the hour. just last hour, secretary of state blinken suggested that russia should be stripped of membership on the u.n. human rights council. >> one can reasonably ask whether a u.n. member state that tries tyke over another u.n. member state, while committing horrific human rices abuses and causing massive humanitarian suffering should be allowed to remain on this counsel. >> interesting who is on that counsel. it's an interesting exposition, one day. six days into russia's invasion,

more than 600,000 have fled ukraine, according to the u.n. refugee agency. kelly cobiella is live at the polish border and joins us this morning. kelly, what are you seeing? >> well, jose, people are still coming in and they're coming in by not just the tens of thousands, but a hundred thousand a day into this country alone, into poland. we're actually in a parking lot for a superstore and it's turned into this massive sort of command central for refugees. you can see all around me, these are actually donations, winter clothes, there are diapers, there's hot food, a little bit farther down. kids' toys, everything you can imagine. and we spoke to these volunteers, because really, we've seen this creation of like a volunteer army in this country, and we spoke to some of them, and here's what they had to say. who organized all of this? >> i came five minutes ago.

>> you came five minutes ago? >> yeah, from krakow. >> why? why did you come? >> because i felt a need. i just couldn't sit still at home. thousands of people are coming here and that's it. you know, they have nothing. they left -- they left homes, they left houses, they're still standing there. >> reporter: and one of the people we spoke to actually is a 16-year-old who came here from poland on -- sorry, from ukraine on saturday. she was here volunteering because she felt like she just couldn't sit at home and do nothing. jose, it's a building crisis, it's been building every day. it continues to build. these people don't want to have to leave their country. they want to go back to ukraine. but there's no sense in how long this will last, jose? >> kelly cobiella, thank you so much. up next, senior white house

adviser cedric richmond joins us with a preview on president biden's state of theunion speech tonight. mr. richmond, good to see you. ot mr. richmond, good to see you.

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russian aggression. and so you've seen that, you've seen the unity from around the world. and i think that he'll just point to that, highlight that, and then preview where we go from here. but it is something that we're deeply concerned about, which is why we've given so much aid to ukraine and why we've been so focused on helping them since the administration took office. >> is there more aid that should be going to ukraine? military aid? >> well, i know we sent more financial aid over the weekend. the president will address any aid further than that. >> the president admitted that this crisis could affect already inflated, very high gas prices. a new poll shows that half of the country believes we're in a recession or a depression, which we're not. how does the president plan to address the economic pain felt by so many in this country. >> the president will highlight the american rescue plan, which

helped us with the largest job growth in american history, the fastest economy in the last 40 years, and a better economy than our other competitors in the g-7. but when we talk about inflation, we are not blind to the fact that prices are increasing. gas prices are increasing. so the president will talk about supply chain. how to get goods to market faster and cheaper. he's going to talk about making sure that competition is out there, so that consumers are getting the best possible prices. all of those things, you're going to hear the president talk about tonight, when he talks about those kitchen table issues. and by the way, the other things we can do to help with inflation is to lower costs. lower the costs of child care. lower the cost of health care. lower the cost of prescription drugs. all of those things will reduce the bills at the end of the month for american families. so that's another way that the president will talk about addressing inflation. >> yeah, and another very

american domestic issue is immigration. cedric, a new survey from an immigrant advocacy group, the nilc, immigrant justice fund shows a majority of voters disapprove of president biden's handling of immigration issues. what will he be addressing tonight? will he be mentioning, talking about immigration? >> what i will say about immigration, i'm glad you brought up the point, is the fact that the president introduced a comprehensive bill to fix our broken immigration system and bring it into the 21st century, on the first day of his presidency. we've also taken extraordinary efforts to reunite families, in the muslim ban, through all of those things, it's not going to be an easy solution that happens overnight. this is something that's going to continue to take presser by the white house, work from congress so that we can do those things that, one, our immigration advocates and our communities want. so it is something that the president has been focused on

since the first day. and i believe it was the first piece of legislation that we brought to the hill. >> it certainly was on his first day a piece of immigration bill that had no chance of getting through either the house or the senate. do you think, cedric, that the president is going to be going forward, talking more about immigration and things that could be done, legislatively, to get something done? >> i don't think the president has ever stopped talking about immigration and how important it is to this country. if you look at what we've done with daca and other things, i think the president is doublinging down on the fact that we have to fix our broken immigration system. and that congress has to act. and we're not going to stop talking about it. that's for sure. >> cedric richmond, thank you very much for being with us this morning. i so appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> and a programming note. house speaker nancy pelosi joins andrea mitchell today, noon eastern, 9:00 pacific, right here on msnbc.

up next, what we know that president biden plans to say at his state of the union address tonight. what does he need to say? we'll dig into that, next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." watching diaz-balart reports.

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46 past the hour. this morning, a powerful moment in poland when a ukrainian reporter confronted british prime minister boris johnson about a lack of military response from nato. take a look. >> you're coming to poland. you're not coming to kyiv, prime minister. you are not coming to lviv, because you are afraid. because nato is not willing to defend. because nato is afraid of world war iii. but it has already started. i see that my family members, my team members are saying that we are crying. we don't know what's wrong. this is what is happening, prime minister. >> johnson responded that, quote, he's acutely conscious that there is not enough that the uk can do to address the crisis on its own. and in just a few hours here in washington, president biden deliver his first state of the union address, to a nation on edge as the country watches this crisis unfold.

joining me now is jake sherman and ayman nawaz with pbs "newshour," a fellow at the georgetown institute of public service. both are msnbc contributors. an emotional plea from that reporter covering the country that she is from. president biden could be facing questions like this in the future. what is it that we do? i mean, how is it that we can confront these issues that are life and death for so many people right now? but that all of us in the west have a responsibility in some measure for. >> yeah, i mean, it's such an important question, jose. and i think those kinds of stories and those kinds of interactions, we are going to see more of, the longer this depose on. this is the challenge for pyatt. particularly tonight, right? because if he was writing his state of the union speech a week ago, you have to imagine he tore it all up one or two days ago. the world has changed. every senior u.s., every senior european official i have talked to say we are living in a

fundamentally different world today than we were a week ago. and the president has to address that. he has to speak not only to the lawmakers in the room, not american public, who are going to be listening very closely for what he's going to do about the issues that matter to them. that is chiefly, the economy, inflation, and covid, but also to the rest of the world. this is a moment that people are looking to see, how far is the u.s. willing to go to defend its nato allies, but also to contain putin. if he continues to escalate, will they also do so? >> the whole issue of nato and about, you know, essentially, some have been asking for a no-fly zone, for example, over ukraine, which would involve american forces directly confronting russians. >> yes. >> nato, you know, ukraine is not part of nato. and yet, nato has a role to play. how do you thread that needle, you know? >> the role for nato to play is chiefly in defense of itself. here's what changed in the last three days, three or four days. is that they started to think, if this escalatory behavior

continues, it completely changes the political and social and security culture of the entire transatlantic alliance. and that's not an understatement, right? for president biden, the administration, the white house house has repeatedly said there's not going to be a no-fly zone. it means putting u.s. troops on the ground, u.s. resources on the ground to enforce it, and that's not going to happen, but the question remains. we do not know how putin will respond. we have seen unprecedented response from the transatlantic alliance, from the eu, from the u.s. and all its allies on economic sanctions, on the provision of weapons and whatever defense capability and military spending that it can offer, but they are not going to put troops on the ground. >> not only would it imply troops on the ground, but it would also imply taking down russian aircraft, you know, americans are. >> a no-fly zone only as good as its enforcement. >> jake, you mentioned in "punch

bowl" that the presidential address comes at a difficult time for his party. what are democratic lawmakers hoping to hear from the president tonight? >> they want a reset, they really. do they feel like they are treading water, and they are not really able to jolt ahead, and he has to speak to the world here, and the world is watching at a time of just unprecedented geopolitical peril, but he also needs to speak to a party that according to polling and based on what we know from history is likely to get pummeled in 2022. the electoral map does not look good for democrats, so what democrats are listening for is what is the president going to say? what does this year hold for congressional democrats who are going to be on the front lines electorally in november? that's what -- that's what they are listen for. the white house has been playing cute about whether he'll talk about the build back better act. the build back better act, you know, did fail. it is not going to get passed, but that doesn't mean the democrats don't want to do

anything. democrats have kind of put their chips in the middle of getting something done on domestic policy as they hold all three branches -- the house, the senate and the white house, so a big moment in -- listen, it's difficult for biden to thread the needle here because he needs to make americans care about what's happening in ukraine, and he needs -- but he needs to also divide his time and talk about domestic priorities as well. >> yeah, and, you know, i bring it back to the conversation with cedric. i mean, immigration is a domestic issue of importance to all, and yet it seems as though it continues to be a semantic discussion and not one which really legislators could do something about. they are just not willing to do it, jay. >> so i don't know about that. i mean, they don't have 60 votes for any sort of immigration legislation in the senate. they could get anything they want through the house within a certain degree of -- for the most part, i would say, but when it comes to the senate it the

would continue to be very difficult. republicans have not been a willing partner when it comes immigration, especially in this construct of government, but i -- that's not to minimize the problem. obviously immigration is a massive problem, and immigration reform advocates do feel, as you indkate, that they have gotten the short end of the stick here, that they have not gotten the attention from this white house, from this administration that they deserve, especially, remember, we entered this congress with very high hopes, democrats, that is, that's what they think. we entered this congress with very high hopes, and we have not gotten what we want, and that's not to minimize the american rescue plan, the bipartisan infrastructure plan. >> sure. >> some very big pieces of legislation, but there's a lot that's still on the cutting room floor. >> right, and in 2013 there was a gang of ten to try to get it done. there's been no gang of ten, nine, eight, seven or even five. thank you both for being with us this morning. a first prime rift season is under way.

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nbc news anchor morgan radford joins us from mccullum, texas. >> we're here in the heart of the rio grand valley and voters here are 90 boston pat latino. you're talking about to and about latino voters inherently. back in 2020 democrats won all four counties here, but each one of those four counties saw a pretty significant shift right, especially in places like farqt county. the republicans gained 55 percentage points so the big question here, jose, why? was this a one-off republicans, or is it the beginning of a larger broader trend? we spoke to people here on the ground. i want to introduce to you david. he is a young man. he's a woodworker and like many latinos here, he grew up democrat and he grew up democrat and he said it was time for something different and then hear from democrats himself, up

of whom is on the ballot. take a listen. >> you haven't been reached out to by democrats. >> no, i never been reached tout by democrats. >> the democrats won the area but there was a signature shift to the right. do you think that's the beginning of a larger right shift? >> it's a onoff. it wasn't that the republicans turned out more voters who in just demoralized. democrats stayed home plus covid did not make it any easier. >> through the trump campaign specifically, they were setting the talking points and everyone was following suit, but i think it's important that democrats are, like i said, not in the defensive but in the offensive during this election cycle. >> reporter: so, jose, the republicans here are running a pretty strategic ground game, and part of what they are doing is really reaching voters where they are, and they are trying to localize a lot of the federal issues. one of the things we heard from the chairman of hidalgo county, the democrats. look, the federal issue that people are talking bess especially when it comes to

latinos may not actually reach those here. things like border security means something very different when it's right in your backyard. jose. >> morgan radford, thanks. >> that wraps up the hour for me. a quick programming note. white house senior adviser and infrastructure coordinator mitch landrieu and governor asa hutchinson joined kristen welker and peter alexander next on a special edition of "white house reports." thank you. ♪♪ and god tuesday morning. i'm kristen welker. welcome to a very special edition of "white house reports." i'm here with peter alexander. >> we tried it yesterday. will try it today. we're here at the post with the latest from our sources and major news-makers, and right at this moment the right is on a collision course with history. in less than ten hours president biden will deliver his first state of the union address with