ever imagine. >> i'm happy but my heart is crying because of war. >> love and light amidst all that darkness showing the true ukrainian spirit as we have seen amongst so many of their military members and their people just trying to get to safety and maintain their sovereignty and their independence. that does it for me, everybody. this busy hour. i'm going to be back here tomorrow. you can catch me weekends 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. eastern. "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. good day, this is "andrea mitchell" reports in washington. as vladimir putin's soldiers are now on kyiv's doorstep, and ukraine asset forces and civilians are encountering a russian onslaught. >> the ukrainians blew up this bridge in ordero slow down the russian advance but it has also made it extremely difficult for people to evacuate these areas

that are hotly contested as russian forces try and consolidate their positions and the ukrainians try to keep them on that side of the river. >> the heavy fighting across ukraine causing the flood of refugees to become a tidal wave of people, mostly mothers, children and senior citizens, desperately seeking safe harbor in neighboring countries to the west. >> i just left my home to nowhere, i have no plan. i just wanted to save my child. >> our home still -- >> it's still there? >> yeah. but center is almost destroyed. >> president biden held a crisis call this morning with leaders of france, germany, and the united kingdom to talk about the russian advance and growing pressure from ukraine and congress. bipartisan members of congress for a ban on russian oil imports. house speaker nancy pelosi says

her democratic majority neigh introduce a bill to ban those imports into the u.s., a move the white house was signaling it could support if it were first endorsed by european allies, but there's some resistance there. the national average for regular gas prices is up $0.50 from one week ago, and now it is at $4 a gallon averaging across the u.s. secretary of state tony blinken continuing his tour of the baltic states today. stops in lithuania and latvia. part of the u.s. diplomatic mission to show support for eastern european countries who feared they could be putin's next targets. >> we've seen some scenes like this before in europe. every russian has lived or learn about the horrific siege of leningrad in world war ii. that siege affected millions of russian families, including president putin's whose 1-year-old brother was one of the many victims. the world is saying to russia, stop these attacks immediately.

let the food and medicine in. let the people out safely. >> and wnba super star brittney griner is still reportedly detained in russia after vape cartridges and oils were found in her luggage while traveling to play overseas. griner's wife is asking for privacy as the family and the u.s. government work to try to get her home. joining me now is nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel in kyiv, and allison barber in poland. you spent the day on the outskirts of kyiv where soldiers were preparing for the worst. there was the bridge that the ukrainian forces had destroyed, but people were now trying to desperately get over. we saw that. so what are you hearing now? how close are they? >> so this is until the north. earlier i was in the northwest part of the city, and that is where the russian troops are trying to advance, trying to push their way into the city. and this is a suburb that is

about 50,000. there's about 50,000 people in the suburb, and frankly, they have been fighting there for days now. and it is still contested. so the ukrainians blew up a bridge, a bridge that separates the suburb from the center of ukraine, the center of kyiv. and amazingly, shockingly, surprisingly, the ukrainians are holding on. about 15,000 people according to the local mayor have evacuated from there, heading closer to the center of kyiv. it's odd to think also that people are leaving dangerous areas and coming in to kyiv. but there is still a sense that this is a safe harbor because the center of kyiv has not been attacked, there are no russian troops here. there have been some air and missile strikes. but russia is approaching the city. russia has arrived at the gate. but they are still staying at the gate, and the ukrainians are keeping them at bay for now, but

there is intense fighting as the russians are trying to breakthrough and get their first foothold into kyiv, but so far they have not been able to do it. and a big development today, and i think it reflects back to the difficult time that russian forces are having here. if you listen to peskov, putin's spokesperson, he said the war could end if the ukrainian government agreed to certain demands, and they were considerably less than the demands that russia has been ask for until now. vladimir putin just as of two days ago was saying that the -- he describes it nazi fascist government of zelenskyy, which is of course not true, he says that the government must be denazi fied, demilitarized, calling for a regime change and the destruction of ukrainian

military. peskov said the war could end if ukraine accepted crimea as russia, accepted sovereignty of the donbas regions and agreed never to join nato or the eu. the ukraine could still find those demands unacceptable, but it is a far cry from the total destruction of the allegedly nazi regime and total capitulation and regime change. >> richard engel, thank you so much for all your reporting and allison, i want to play a part of your interview earlier today with a very emotional woman through the translator. she made it from kharkiv to poland. let's listen. >> we have been not sleeping for two days. we're in this terrible life because someone decided that my children should not have home anymore. we just put everything we had in our bag, but the rest of the clothes we left in ukraine.

our city is destroyed. we don't have it anymore. our kharkiv is destroyed. in kharkiv, we left our father in kharkiv. many children are still in kharkiv. who needs it. no one needs it. who wants it, also no one. >> allison, i don't know how you deal with all of this, and all the people you're seeing and the desperation that they're expressing and it's unending, the numbers just keep climbing. >> reporter: yeah you hear stories and you quickly remember that oksana, they are three of 1.7 million people who have been forced to three their homes in ukraine since this war began. you hear and see all of the people back here, periodically you will hear someone shouting over the speakerphone. this is a refugee assistance center. what they're doing is they are calling out the names of cities

that buses, transportation can take people to. we have spoken to so many people here, many people who have stood outside just waiting for a ride who have never been to poland before. they have come here not because they have friends or family or places to stay. but because they were forced to flee with their children. it was the only option to be somewhere safe, and they are in the process when they arrive here of trying to figure out where they go next. oksana who you played that sound from. she was with her 6-year-old son and her 2-year-old son, their father, her husband, is still in ukraine fighting. she said that before this war began, she was making a costume for her 6-year-old little boy because he was going to be in his school play. that play was supposed to happen on march 8th. that was the only thing they were focused on. they have never been outside of

ukraine until today. she told me she always wanted to travel but never like this. andrea. >> allison barber, thank you so much, and let's bring in former fbi special agent and former army infantry officer clint watts, take us through where ukrainian forces now are engaging with the russian forces. talk us through where the hot zones are at this hour. >> that's right, andrea. richard engel who you saw at the start of the segment, he's in an area of irpin, the northwest corner of kyiv. what's fascinating is the ukrainian military continues to bog down both that convoy, which is up this direction, and towards airfield. you remember the airfield last week, right at the start of the invasion was the site of some intense combat as they tried to drop soldiers from the russian military to make a run at kyiv. this is still contested. it's remarkable to watch how well the ukrainian military has done in this sector, bogging down the convoy consistently, moving around as dismounts, we would say, infantry men taking

out tanks in the convoy, and the russians are doing poorly, they're not combining their infantry with their armour. which is why they get bogged down. the convoy is a desperate situation, particularly in their logistics, will to fight, and how they get going. the one thing to look at is the bigger picture. separately what you're seeing is lines of advance from sumy where the russians did not do particularly well last week. if they can bring that in, link up inside of kyiv, along with massive fires from the russian military last week, they're devastating that area with fires but the one thing that is still very confusing through all of this is throughout this area, there are these major population centers, and they done control them. the russians don't control them, which means they bypass these populations and essentially they're going to have an insurgency along their lines of logistics, it's a very dangerous situation. it is really up for grabs here, and you're seeing all sorts of russian air power coming in here, but you're also seeing ukrainian anti-aircraft have

great success against russian aviation. that's where things are at in terms of combat fighting. you're seeing major advances, they have lost ground again. it's a contested area in the south. they have done quite a bit better in the south, the russians have as compared to the north. >> clint watts. thank you so much. and tom don lan,s the former national security adviser to president obama. first to you, a lot of confusion because the u.s. intelligence was spot on as to how they were going to come in and what the goals are, what clearly have been the goals but confusion about what went wrong for the russians from the north. but from the south they have been very effective and what has been clear throughout is that they have just been brutal in attacking civilian populations. >> a number of things, one,

that's true, the russian military has had a terrible time of this i think for a number of reasons, andrea. tremendous resistance by the ukrainian armed forces, also the ukrainian people. second, lack of planning, and operational issues, all manner of operational issues coming into the battle. third, we get constant reports about morale issues and not preparing the force for what it was being asked to undertake here. you know, it's interesting, you know, putin himself is increasingly an isolated decision maker. and my interactions with him, you know, he was always kind of dismissive of his age, right, and i think it's even gotten more intense, isolated over the course of covid. he's surrounded himself with very few aides, most of them come from a similar background, the fsb, kgp, paranoid, backward looking, conspiratorial types. that's the challenge here. the american intelligence and our allies had tremendous

insight into the planning and very creative use of preempting putin with intelligence, pushing against potential forced false flag operations, and a lot of success in that. but now when he's urn the gun here, and getting into his decision making process is going to be difficult because there isn't a system. there's not a system around putin. it's just one person, and i think increasingly isolated i think is exacerbated by covid. >> and one follow up for that, because i was talking to one national security official who said that this person did not think it was purely covid, the isolation, that he is so extremely concerned about his own security and about the potential of nerve gas or some other silent killer. >> yeah. >> that we should not discount that. >> that kind of isolation, that pre-dated covid for sure. he's always had security concerns. he's operated at a distance from his aides and really from the

russian people for sure. but it does make it difficult to read his decision making, and there is no doubt that the advice system around him has deteriorated. fewer people, and you know, the way these dynamics work in an autocracy like this, you don't get a lot of reward for coming in and being the truth teller. you're not really the want who wants to push -- >> doesn't really work in this government. >> it can. it works pretty well here, but in this environment, you don't get a lot of reward for coming in and being the truth teller saying this isn't going to work. these are going to be the prices and what we have seen here is a terrible decision making process by putin, and instead of decisions here which now has his army bogged down in ukraine and at best, taking on a long-term insurgency, fully supported by the west in the ways of unity we really haven't seen. he's basically, i'll finish with this, he's basically engendered almost all of the security

challenges that he said he was worried about at the beginning: nato, more forceful and better built up on the borders around it. more support for ukraine, not less support for ukraine. basically an economic war that he can't really win. so he's put himself in a much worse security position by his own actions and of course unified the world as we start the u.n. with 141-5, with russia, belarus, eritrea, syria, in his corner. >> the question now is with that set of facts, bill taylor, does he retreat or does he, you know, escalate? i just want to play what we heard from the president of the lithuania ahead of his meeting earlier today with secretary blinken before secretary blinken got to latvia, because the baltic states are really frightened. let's watch. >> i will say that strengthening is not longer enough, and we need forward defense here in

place. because otherwise it will be too late, mr. secretary. putin will not stop in ukraine if he will not be stopped. >> so basically what he's saying is you've got to stop them in ukraine or it will be too late. he will not stop. so is poland going to, for instance, step up? clearly the u.s. would like to replace those migs, the polish migs with f 16 and get those in the area with the ukrainian pilots but as secretary blinken said yesterday, that is a polish decision, a sovereign decision, and we haven't seen that coming yet. >> well, we've seen a lot of changes, andrea. we've seen a lot of changes in allied stance, allied position. just look at the german position, changed incredibly. things can change. i believe that the pols will indeed provide those weapons, and i believe that secretary blinken made it clear that we're willing to provide fallback,

fill in replacement for these aircraft. so that will just underscore the unity that tom donolan just mentioned on the part of nato, on the part of the full alliance that the americans have put together. one thing we haven't talked about yet, andrea, that has surprised president putin and that is the resilience of the ukrainians. starting with the president, president zelenskyy has been amazingly firm. he has been amazingly charismatic in his leadership, not just of his nation but of the western world, and that has to have surprised president putin. so president putin has problems at home, as tom donolan just indicated. he's got problems with the alliance that is providing weapons, including aircraft to the ukrainians. ukrainians are putting up an an incredible fight. no one expected them to last, and they are in their 12th day.

this is an amazing tribute and they intend to continue as your reporters indicated. >> i want to ask you about brittney griner, the wnba star. we don't know what's happened to her. what do you think the government is doing, our government can do behind the scenes? we've not gotten trevor reid or paul whelan out after all this time, and now we're at war, and americans are being urged by the state department, get out of russia. what can we do behind the scenes to try to get her out? >> the situation is that americans should get out of russia, because this situation is going to be wearing into an extended standoff with russia, and if there can be a cease fire in ukraine, and i don't see that on the horizon, by the way, we're in for the -- the russians are in for a long-term political, economic, and standoff with the west. that's kind of the first point, and putin has put himself in that position. putin has made himself and his country in a pariah status, and i don't see these sanctions --

>> do you think they're trying to use the wnba star for leverage, will they negotiate her release? >> i don't know the answer on the negotiations but i know this, i know the president pretty well, and secretary blinken pretty well, and they in the state department are doing every single thing they can to get her home and safe. >> thank you so much, tom donolan, thank you, ambassador bill taylor, and at the ready, a firsthand look at how forces in latvia are training in case vladimir putin does move farther west. this is "andrea mitchell reports." you're watching msnbc. is is "anl reports. you're watching msnbc. (coughing) ♪ breeze driftin' on by ♪ ♪ you know how i feel ♪ copd may have gotten you here, but you decide what's next. start a new day with trelegy. ♪ ...feelin' good ♪ no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler,

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secretary of state blinken in latvia today ensuring baltic states of american support and nato protection against putin's threats. >> my message on behalf of the united states, the people of latvia, to all of the baltics is that the united states is more committed than ever to standing with you as our democracy's rise to the challenge of this moment. >> this as we get an exclusive look inside deployment to latvia where nato response force is engaged in active military responses. josh lederman joins me. josh, you were on the ground watching the u.s. forces working with the latvian forces. are they ready? >> reporter: that's right, andrea, and what's happening

here is u.s. and nato allies are practicing the very skills that they would need if president putin were to go beyond ukraine and start to threaten russian -- start to threaten nato allies. of course everyone here hopes it will not come to that. this is what it means to be part of a defensive alliance like nato. and so the way these war games work is they break up the troops into two sides. today, the american troops were playing the attackers, and then after that, they kind of just let it play out the way it would spontaneously. we watched today as a gunfight broke out between the u.s. troops and the italian troops who were part of a multinational force playing the defenders. of course they're not using live ammunition. nobody was in danger but it does help them practice the skills they would need, particularly in cold icy terrain like they have here in latvia. many of the troops here including some from the 173rd airborne brigade, they got here

less than two weeks ago, deployed to the baltics by president biden after russia began to invade ukraine, and today, andrea, we got a look at the 20 apache attack helicopters that the u.s. has moved from germany to latvia to shore up nato's defenses. those helicopters capable of deploying hell fire missiles that could take out tanks like the one russia is using in ukraine. andrea. >> thank you so much, josh lederman, and speaker pelosi sent a dear colleagues letter last night to all of our democratic colleagues saying the house is exploring strong legislation to ban energy products into the u.s. writing that it will further isolate russia from the global economy, so joining us is congressman reuben gallego, a member of the armed services committee and a former iraq war veteran. first, you support the oil ban because some of our rern

european allies are reluck -- reluctant. >> i support the ban and i hope our allies will join us. it's one of the few lifelines russia has, one of the few lifelines to pay bills, pay soldiers, buy weapons. we cane in good conscience allow them to continue to use oil to, you know, wage war. now, the united states does not actually import that much russian oil but it still matters and we need to do something, and i think this is a good first step. >> should we do it unilaterally if our allies won't go along? >> i think we shouldment i think at this point we have been very good at working with our partners, you know, joining in sanctions in lock step. i think this is a very symbolic move that will encourage our partners also to join. obviously they are more dependent on russian gas and oil, but us showing that we're willing to make the sacrifice, hopefully that will encourage them to join in the fight. >> you were part of that zoom call on saturday with ukraine's

president zelenskyy. 300 lawmakers and staff, i understand from others on that call that it was very very emotional, and impressive, a real plea. what was your take away. do you think it really rallied anyone who was not on his side behind the 10 billion that he wants, behind, you know, the migs that he wants to go to poland. >> i think he did a very effective job laying out the need for defense and the united states to fully be on board. i think he actually was able to convince members to move ahead with a ban on russian oil, and i think it also encouraged members to, you know, believe in the idea, that, yes, we can transfer weapons such as migs to ukraine without consequences. now, i don't think we can go to the full vote of what he wants, and no fly zone is just something that many of us feel it's a step too far. but we do believe that his words

have spurred us to move faster, and i think he has been an excellent leader in a very trying time. >> clearly all the expectations for how long the ukrainians could resist, how long it would take for russia to get to kyiv overestimated perhaps the effect of the russian march and underestimated the ukrainian resistance, but they are so outnumbered. we understand now that 100% of the forces that were amassed on his border are now in, that's what the pentagon is telling us. so how long can they withstand this. are we now going to face a real, you know, insurgency, a long protracted fight? >> i don't think russia can actually withstand this much longer. they basically have expended some of their best forces already. they're now going to have to follow up with some type of reserve force in a country that sounds like, you know, is pretty divided on this. and they're going to be using very untrained conscripts which

are meeting the meet grinder, very well trained ukraine special forces and ukraine military forces. that plus if we stick with our sanctions and all stick together, i do think we'll be able to make russia buck and will pull out within a couple of months. let's be clear, russia already lost this. they cannot fully occupy. they will never be able to hold ukraine. there is no political puppet they could put in place that the ukraine public will actually accept, without the russians fully being in there. in a country of that size of ukraine with a population that is determined and now is aggrieved because of the attacks on civilian population, they're not going to just sit aside. so there will be a very dangerous and long insurgency. it's going to drain russia of their manpower, and their money and in the long run, if we stick together, they will be able to, you know, push out russia, and defend themselves. >> thank you so much,

congressman, as always, really appreciate your expertise, your experience on all of this. >> thank you. and the energy balance, if the u.s. bans russian oil, what will that mean for you as prices are already skyrocketing at the pumps? before we go to break, this message from the brother of the mayor of kyiv, also a former world heavy weight boxing champ from a maternity ward where he says 83 babies have been born since the fighting began. >> more babies are coming daily. .

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company nafta gas. he has been dispatched by president zelenskyy to ramp up pressure on the west for this ban. thank you very much, mr. kobalov. tell us how critical is a western ban on russian oil and gas to you, to ukraine's efforts to stop this russian assault? >> convinced that it's critical importance that putin learns a lesson and understands such a big energy supplier of global markets and also to europe. it's not an unconditional indulgence. i do believe that putin treats their ability, their russian ability to supply oil and gas, is something that makes the west vulnerable, weak and dependent, and based on the assumption, he makes those crazy decisions into

ukraine to start shooting at nuclear power plants, and doing other atrocities. that is why the west needs to show to putin that his assumption is completely wrong and the only way to do so is to do full scale embargo on oil, oil products, l and g, and natural gas. this can be carefully crafted so that u.s. and european economists don't suffer. but analysis is kind of the same, that the longer the u.s. government and european government procrastinators of decision is also worse for european and consumers, because markets hate uncertainty. when uncertainty is over and comes, i hope it will come, then marketplace will kick in, they will compensation for production, and then prices will also stabilize, and analyst

predict will also go down. >> the u.s. president has been waiting for europe to come along. they're on the phone as we speak potentially. not ironing this out because europe is so dependent on russian oil. should the u.s. go it alone? we're not that big of a factor in the overall oil market when it comes to russia. >> i'm convinced the u.s. here is an example setter. the sooner the u.s. relates their position, the sooner european countries will move, and given how much there is kind of a new wave of understanding, potential military stress way way bigger than ukraine. as nato countries, i think those economic discussions should be limited in time and decisions should be made, and i do believe that europeans understand this.

for example, one of the simple things that u.s. can do now is to do full embargo on oil and also full embargo on russian lmg. that's a no brainer. those two products can be easily replaced by other suppliers within a short period of time. natural gas in europe is not complicated decision. we do believe, i know how european natural gas market looks like. it's more complex. it takes more time to replace and will take difficult decisions but this is where iranian sanction mode of using old receipts from sale of natural gas can be used as a first compromise but again, i would like to repeat that oil and l and g is complete no brain right now. >> thank you very much, thank you very much for joining us today. we appreciate it. and in the dark, the wide ranging impact of the kremlin's

crack down on information about the ukraine invasion for the people back home. but first, the terrifying scene from irpin just outside kyiv, as thousands run for their lives. sky news correspondent alex crawford spoke with some of the people who escaped. >> translator: i came here and i left my parents to die she tells us and i told my husband you got to go back and bring them here because i can't leave them to die. >> in amongst the suffering and trauma, there are small glimpses of hope, her 81-year-old mother and father are found. and the family is reunited. how could i live without you, she says. could i live without y she says

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and targeting of civilians. "the new york times" sharing a story of a father and son, one in ukraine, the other in russia, divided by a border and what information they're receiving. exasperated and scared that the son told his father about his attempts to evacuate his family. no, no, no, stop, he started to tell me how the things in my country are going, started to yell at me and told me, look, everything is going like this. they're nazis. emerging in a wave of disinformation, clamping down on news reporting and censuring, all messages reaching the russian people. joining us now is a disinformation reportinger, an expert in senior research fellow on the tech and social change project at harvard kennedy school. you were born in ukraine, you still have family there. let me ask you how they're doing. >> i don't have regular contact with them.

last i heard they're okay but that's all i've known for about a week. >> which must be so incredibly stressful, and i know that putin is actively trying to rewrite history in russia, calling this a special military operation. there's a new law that threatens imprisonment, 15 years imprisonment for calling it anything else. he has this mission of denazi fiing ukraine, to the contrary, so how can russians still decipher propaganda and misinformation. where are they getting any kind of straight reporting? >> the propaganda situation in russia is incredibly difficult. over the weekend, the vast majority of free press, what was remaining of it has been shut down in russia. although, of course, putin and his government have been laying the ground work for that for years. they're also arresting protesters by the thousands, and now they're laying new

groundwork, setting new narratives against ukraine to continue to portray it as an aggressor country while bombing peaceful civilians. >> in your latest piece for "the guardian" you write there's a war of bombs, people taking lives and a battle over what can be done. what are they doing to fight the disinformation campaign from vladimir putin? >> there is a huge, huge effort right now to get ukrainian stories in front of the eyes of western audiences and international audiences, and the reason for that is because ukrainians understand the power of a unified voice spoken by many people, so something that we see constantly is ukrainians organizing campaigns on social media to make sure their message is being gotten out. so right now, the message is

stop purchasing oil from russia, and send airplanes to ukraine. ukrainians are coordinating this message because they understand that the best power against disinformation is accurate information. although of course russia's disinformation efforts continue, not just within russia, and not just within ukraine but internationally as well. >> well, thank you so much for all that you're doing, and thanks for, you know, sharing your information to us so we can try also to amplify it around the world. thanks, jane. >> thank you. and strategy session, as hundreds of thousands still flee the fighting in ukraine, and actually the numbers are increasing, the president speaks with key allies about what can be done to help families and children like this little girl in a shelter in kyiv singing "let it go" from the movie "frozen." movie "frozen.

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biden is not a unilateral actor here. there is a lot of political support for defending ukraine in congress and in some ways members of congress are pushing harder than i think this president has been wanting to go. you know, a few days ago the biden administration was really downplaying talk of banning russian oil imports and that conversation seems to be shifting. however, that's going to be a really tough sell with the allies, germany in particular has been, you know, pretty dismissive of this sort of talk. at the same time you talk to experts on russia's economy and sanctions and they say if we really, really want to strangle the russian economy, you can't do it without going after oil exports. in the short term that will mean higher energy prices, american consumers are already seeing gas prices rising so it's a real political conundrum for president biden. a really tough situation.

>> and he's all along wanted to let the allies lead rather than have the u.s. lead the allies. he's not wanting them to take a stand to hurt them more than us. what about the f-16s to poland? what secretary blinken said yesterday it's a sovereign decision for poland whether they'll allow the ukrainians to use the migs but time is rung running out on that. >> it is a sovereign decision. as tight as nato has been, there are certain measures certain countries may not be willing to take. poland here and certainly we know, as michael just said, what germany is doing with the energy imports. it does seem like there are as remarkable as the administration officials have portrayed to us, how remarkably banded together these allies are.

there may be some bridges that are too far to cross and certainly if the u.s. were to unilaterally go ahead with an oil ban, which is something i'm told they're considering, not decided, considering, there is a chance that the u.s. prices will go up here, certainly the u.s. could withstand that, it would have far greater impact for europe if they were to do the same and they would potentially plunge into a significant recession so that is part of the calculus as well. we expect to hear more from this at 2:00 from the white house press secretary jen psaki when she delivers her briefing but it seems the u.s. is at least considering their oil ban with their allies, they'd rather, than doing it alone. now he may be pushed into it. >> michael, what more can the u.s. do unless they get the

allies' support? >> on energy, there's very little can you do. we are such a small part of russia's energy exports that a cutoff by washington is not going to have a meaningful effect on putin's calculus. you would need to get europe and asian allies involved, you're going to have to get help from possibly saudi arabia. there was a u.s. delegation that went down to venezuela maybe exploring resumption of oil exports from there. it's a global game here and it's a very difficult one. >> michael crowley and jonathan lemire, thank you both. that does it for today for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online. kristen welker is in for chuck todd when "meet the press daily" starts right after this. daily" starts right after this. ♪ ♪ ♪

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