situation. we're seeing that. this is too top down, too linear. it's always a pleasure to see you. that wraps up the hour for me. thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin picks up with more news right now. a good wednesday to you. craig melvin here. we are following several major developments this hour with russia's invasion of ukraine. in about 15 minutes we expect to hear from secretary of state antony blinken. and also congress taking new action, striking a deal to send

nearly $14 billion in aid to ukraine. i'll talk to the bipartisan co-chairs of the congressional eu caucus about that and what more the united states can do. this morning ukraine's president warning the scale of the threat in his country is at its peak. he also has this warning for russian soldiers invading his country, that the only thing waiting for them in ukraine is captivity and death. the war itself has been a magnet for ukrainians scattered around the world to return and fight. on tuesday alone, in fact, ukraine's state border guard service said that as many as 12,000 ukrainians arrived to defend their homeland. our own richard engel talked to one soldier who is now an american citizen who previously fought in the u.s. military. he returned to help. >> we're on the right side. i mean, they came to our home trying to destroy us. we don't have a choice.

we stand divided, we fall. so that's it. >> and there are new urgent concerns with this crisis getting major attention this hour. according to the u.n. population fund, an estimated 80,000 pregnant women are due to have their babies in ukraine over the next three months. coming up, i'll talk to a u.n. representative in ukraine right now about what's being done to help them specifically. plus new corridors have been set up to get civilians out of ukraine to neighboring countries, and it is not an easy journey. that's where we are seeing moments like this. listen for a second. ♪ ♪ >> our own jay gray is going to join us in just a few minutes. he shared that video of a man at the polish border overnight playing "imagine" by john lennon in the silence of the night.

let's start with our reporters on the ground, chief correspondent richard engel for us once again on the ground in ukraine's capitol and chief white house correspondent kristen welker at her post at 1600 pennsylvania. richard, i'll start with you. before i come to you, though, i want to play part of your report from this morning from inside a ukrainian hospital. let's start there. >> reporter: russian troops are trying to grind out a victory by beating ukrainian towns and cities into submission, but so far all that russia is doing successfully is killing ukrainian troops and innocents. at an intensive care unit in kyiv this morning, a doctor showed us the ward, the windows all covered to prevent sniper fire, a victim of russian fire, all civilians. a man shot in the legs. a man whose house was bombed was

trapped under the rubble for two days and just arrived here this morning. vladimir putin says the russian army is not bombing civilians. >> that's a lie. it's an obvious lie. >> reporter: down the hall, an entire family, they were escaping their neighbor north of kyiv. a russian soldier told them it was safe to leave. as they started moving in their car, another russian soldier opened fire. she was shot in the back. tanya was shot 12 times in her legs. >> what's the situation right now there on the ground, richard? >> reporter: so you had just talked with all those pregnant women in their country. there's reports now that a children's maternity hospital was bombed in the city of mariupol.

no casualty figures confirmed yet but the video was reposted by the president of this country, zelenskyy. mariupol is surrounded. the ukrainian foreign ministry that they are holding several hundred people hostage in the city. because they're surrounded by russian troops, people are not able to leave, they're having to break into supermarkets, according to witness accounts and now a hospital there has been struck. so here in kyiv they are bracing for an attack, they are bracing for potentially something like they have already seen in mariupol or in kharkiv. most of the fighting is concentrated to the north of the city. that is where you're seeing the images crossing from a northern suburb, across those wooden planks, heading into the center of kyiv.

the city is bracing for more violence and, as you mentioned earlier, people are coming from around the world. ukrainians are coming home and they are coming back here to have potentially a final stand against the russians. the mood, i would say, is still quite optimistic. ukrainians will say that they are winning, that every day that they hold on against vladimir putin is another day that ukraine is stronger and that the russian military campaign looks weaker. >> richard, quickly before i let you go, you mentioned optimism. you've been on the ground for a number of weeks now, would you say that's a justified optimism? >> reporter: i think it is. war is tragic and every day people are dying here. 2 million people have been driven from their homes so clearly there's nothing to celebrate about any of this. but amid this darkness, ukrainians are finding unity,

they are finding a sense of patriotism. they're proud of what they've been able to accomplish so far, that they're vastly outnumbered by the russian military yet they are still holding on, that the russians even 14 days into the assault have really only taken one relatively small population center, kherson, in the south, and even there they are not able to control it. ukrainians are going out into the streets, they're standing in front of the armored vehicles, they are standing in front of the armed russian soldiers and they are not giving them a moment of peace. so, yes, ukrainians are proud of what they've done so far. they know or suspect that worse days are coming and that's why there's now several initiatives to create some sort of lasting peace cease-fire. because all we've seen thus far have been several attempts to open humanitarian corridors. often times they've broken down but that is far short of a

cease-fire. they are temporary battlefield arrangements. often times after a humanitarian corridor, you see more intense fighting because both sides can say that they have now given the civilians an opportunity to leave. >> chief foreign correspondent richard engel on the ground there. thank you and stay safe my friend. i want to bring in jay gray now. jay is once again in poland at the border where ukrainians are fleeing by the hundreds of thousands. you've been bringing us these stunning images of humanitarian crisis that gets worse by the day. what are you seeing and hearing there at the border? in full disclosure, before we came to you, i saw a little girl who scurried past you there and i saw your eyes light up as only a father's can.

>> reporter: yeah, no, craig, there's so many children involved in all of this. it's heart breaking to see them going through this and heart warming to get a smile from one of them. we're in a refugee shelter. 800 beds here but this play is amazing because just two weeks ago, craig, this entire area was a shopping center, vendors on each side. a doctor who lives in the city said i've got to do something, convinced the vendors here to move downstairs and turn this into a center. first of all, he's got catered meals every day. you can see them bringing in some food now. and this is a constantly moving place. he put in showers. he did all of this, by the way, in 48 hours. two days he had people come in. you've got a wash room where you can wash and dry clothes,

desperately needed by those who have been on the run for days. and if you come down this way, you get here late, the food's not out for catering. you make a sandwich, you've got a microwave here, food, vegetables, drinks here. one of the most important parts, this area here, 24/7 a doctor is on staff here. they're taking care of people who come in. i talked to one of the doctors today. she said, look, it's vital for me to be here almost in tears saying i studied in ukraine. i became a doctor in ukraine. i had to come here to help my people as they flee their country. >> jay gray for us there in poland. thank you for that, sir. kristen welker, the united states now in the middle of this rift with poland over fighter jets. we learned that the pentagon believes that vladimir putin still has nearly 95% of the combat power that he started with. so what is the white house doing now to try and provide more

military aid to ukraine? >> so first to the issue of the fighter jets, craig, essentially what happened yesterday is that poland announced that it would send fighter jets to make them available for use in ukraine and the white house essentially said it had been caught off guard. three diplomats calling this a surprise announcement. they are in touch with poland about the matter but adding, quote, it is simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. we do not believe poland's proposal is a tenable one. why? the thinking inside the biden administration is this move could potentially escalate the standoff and the crisis with moscow and that is the concern. they don't want this war to escalate into a world war, particularly with a nuclear armed vladimir putin, who is

increasingly isolated and according to various experts is increasing live erratic. so that is the key concern. all of this is the back drop to the vice president traveling to poland. she will arrive later on today. this will be front and center. she will try to work through the very challenging details of this matter. will they be able to reach some sort of compromise. this is the vice president's second trip to europe in the month and the goal is to reassure allies to ramp up the pressure campaign against vladimir putin and this is undoubtedly a complicated factor. and the question what is your administration doing to get more military aid to ukraine? congress just struck a deal for $15 billion that will be sent to ukraine, that's actually more than the ten that the white house initially asked for so that's still making its way through congress. by all accounts it will pass within the coming days and that

will get more humanitarian and military aid to ukraine. obviously based on the reporting from richard and jay that support and that aid cannot come quickly enough, craig. >> that would certainly seem to be the case. kristen, thank you. molly hunter is in western ukraine for us. molly, we've been seeing this new video this morning from the ukrainian government that shows people being evacuated on busses from the kharkiv region in the east, and evacuating residents from battered areas all over the country. what more can you tell us about these efforts? >> reporter: yeah, craig. residents in five different cities and all five different suburbs around kyiv and they woke up thinking that there might be an opportunity for them to get out of their city safely. well, we just got a message from the ukraine interior ministry adviser who says humanitarian

corridor agreements mostly did not work on wednesday. so we've been talking a lot about the northeast town of sumy, craig. according to the red cross, 5,000 people got out yesterday. we do not have a total for today and we've been focused heavy on mariupol. the situation there is dire. we saw busses and eight strucks loaded down with humanitarian heading there yesterday and the plan was for civilians to get on those vehicle and head out and we have no evidence that they did. all of these people in the southeast and the northeast trying to get out of those cities that have been bombarded for weeks now are trying to get to the west of the country where i am. this is the absolute destination from the east, it is the departure point for anyone trying to get out of the country for anyone from poland.

of all the people are there are lot of internally displaced people. they believe in their sons and husbands and think if maybe they wait a little longer, they'll be able to return home but i think that is getting increasingly difficult by the day. >> molly hunter, thank you. any moment we expect to see and hear from antony blinken. also, new efforts to evacuate civilians. and i'll talk to the democratic leaders of the congress an eu caucus, what they have heard

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again, we are keeping a very close eye on the state department because we expect to hear from secretary of state antony blinken any moment now. he is meeting with his counterpart from the united kingdom. he came in specifically to talk about what's happening in ukraine. when that starts, we are going to take you there live. meanwhile, though, the vice president of these unions, kamala harris, in the air right now. she is on her way to poland. this is the scene a short time ago at joint base andrews. she's making one of two visits she'll be making there. she'll also be heading to romania. her visit to warsaw got a bit more complicated over the public rift over supplying fighter jets

to ukraine. i'm joined by admiral stavridis. the vice president's appropriate is meant to promote unity among nato allies but looming over it now you have this rift after the d.o.d. rejected poland's offer to have the u.s. take custody of soviet air of fighter jets over ukraine. how can this get worked out? >> i think this makes a lot of sense the ukrainians know how to fly the jets. yes, there are some technical

differences. hard to figure out where to fly from. i would consider putting them in lviv, put ukrainian markers on them and tell the russians don't even think about attacking nato. i think the deal makes a lot of sense. i hope the vice president can perhaps work toward a breakthrough. more than likely it will be my good friend secretary of defense lloyd austin figuring this out with his counterparts. i'm hoping for some movement here because it makes a lot of sense. >> to be clear, you do not believe these jets should be housed at a u.s. military facility. >> i do, i agree with that. i think we need to be extremely careful about anything that puts the u.s. and russia in a pure live confrontational position.

but if they are ukrainian and given to the ukrainians, i don't have a problem with it. >> let's talk about sanctions for a moment. it would seem as if global sanctions are rattling the economy there in russia in the last 24 hours, mcdonald's and coca-cola, they've cut off business ties there. i want to play a part of what the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine said to my colleague savannah guthrie about vladimir putin's calculus with regard to that. >> i think everything we've seen is that putin is not yet on a path to an off ramp and that he will double down. and the ukrainian people are the ones that are going to pay the price, but so are the russian people and i think that's important to remember. >> given russia's military footing right now, admiral, do you agree with that assessment, that putin is going to in fact double down? >> unfortunately i do. and we've seen his play book. it called syria, craig, where he

just unleashed the dogs of war and started pounding building after building. go look at photos of the city of aleppo after the russians took it apart. he is frustrated, his commanders are frustrated. they are verging into war criminal behavior by indiscriminately bombing and shelling residential areas. just breaking shortly ago, a russian attack that attacked a maternity ward. these are war crimes. unfortunately i think that's the tool they're going to reach for because they've been frustrated by their own logistic failure, their command and control failure and their strategic failure. >> what's the end game, admiral? >> i think that russia will continue to pound away on the nato and the west. we're going to continue to supply the ukrainians. a lot of this will revolve around president cherminski.

here's the good news, it's a big country. they can retreat into the depths of their own country. i can see a government in exile from kyiv setting up in lviv, right on the poland border. by the time the russians deal with those long, long logistics lines, it's going to be very difficult, especially if we give them a ukrainian no-fly zone zone, the missiles, but, craig, this is going to go on for months. >> admiral, thank you, sir. as we mentioned again, we expect to hear from secretary of state antony blinken any minute now from the state department. it would seem they're running just a few minutes behind but when they start, we will take you there. also, congress close to approving close to $14 billion in aid for ukraine but what will that money do and does the ban

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a, quote, humanitarian obligation for the whole world. that is what ukrainian president zelenskyy is calling the crisis in his country this morning as he urges the west for more financial and military aid for his people. a bipartisan deal was just struck to spend some $13.6 billion in aid. the house is said to vote on that bill today. i'm joined by brendan boil and congress joe wilson. they are the co-chairs of the congressional european union caucus. and, congressman boyle, we'll start with you. the major funding del, part of a 1.5 trillion omnibus bill of which $13.6 billion will go

directly to the ukrainian people in aid. how quickly do we expect that money to get to the ukrainian people? >> the short answer is as quickly as possible. that's covering many different things, the help with refugees, the economic help they need and weaponry, most crucially of all. and this is in support of a situation in which we need to cut with the bureaucratic red tape. we simply don't have the type. i was on the call with zelenskyy saturday morning u.s. time. it is quite clear that the urgency of the situation that literally every hour the situation on the ground in ukraine can change. so i'm proud that we're doing this in congress. for the normal congressional timetable, we're acting actually at lightning speed here. >> that is true. that is undeniable for congress. this is certainly lightning speed. congressman wilson, as you know,

the president yesterday made that move to ban russian oil and gas imports. so far the european union has not done the same. would you like to see the eu ban russian oil imports as well? >> craig, i certainly would. first of all, south carolina appreciates craig melvin, we appreciate your success. what putin has done is actually brought democrats and republicans together. he's unified the european union. 27 country, six of them are not part of nato. they have joined together to provide funding for military aid and i'm really hopeful that we can work together to stop the sale of russian oil, which finances the mass murder that putin is extending in putin's war against the people of ukraine. >> one thing that struck me so far, gentlemen, is and this is rare as you know in washington, it would seem as if, and you

correct me if i'm wrong, it would seem as if vladimir putin has, at least for now, managed to unite the lion's share of republicans and democrats on the hill. is that an accurate assessment? >> yeah. actually, you saw that physically at the state of the union address where the first 15 minutes or so of the president's speech was about this crisis in ukraine, crisis in europe. and you saw every member, democrat and republican standing on their feet and applauding. i would also just second what my fellow co-chair said in terms of nato allies, in addition of co-chairing the congressional eu caucus with joe, i was in brussels two weeks ago. we can sometimes have contentious meetings at nato between the french and german delegations with, say, the baltic states. none of that was on display two weeks ago. remarkable unity. i had an ambassador in my office

yesterday from one of the prominent eu countries behind said he's never seen you're and the west united as it is now. this can be a shining moment for us but we have to deliver for the ukrainian people. our freedom, the freedom of all of us and that world that we've built is at stake. >> president zelenskyy continues to call for a no-fly zone. so far western allies have not made that move. what say you to that, a no-fly zone in ukraine? is that something we should be doing? >> i'm concerned about a no-fly zone zone but do i know we need to work on every form of armament. i previously praised president biden for providing javelin missiles. it was president trump that provided the first javelin missiles. we need to provide the equipment of ukraine to defend themselves and that's substantive and symbolic. i'm grateful we'll are working

together in the tradition of the churchill bust, recognizing the wartime leader. i want to work to have a bust of president zelenskyy, a war time leader who is representing democracy and his country around the world. >> gas prices have never been higher. there is concern that they are going to continue to go up. congressman boyle, what would you say to americans who are watching or listening on siriusx siriusxm radio? >> i pumped gas not long ago and that hurts. there are a few things that we can do to make sure that we stand up to the brutal russian

dictator and no longer basically give him blood money, yet at the same time make sure we help people at the pump. one of which is releasing 60 million barrels of oil from our strategic reserve. the other is looking at how we can increase domestic production here at home. people have missed it. over the last 15, 20 years, the u.s. has far more domestic production today of energy than we did 15, 20 years ago and that's through democratic presidencies and republican presidencies. so if we can make this a moment, i think joe manchin has actually spoken about this, if we can make this a moment in which we marry our short-term needs with our long-term goals as well of basically weaning ourselves to something that's more sustainable and clean for the environment, this could be a win on all of the above, our foreign policy concerns, our economic concerns and our environmental concerns. >> congressman boyle and congressman wilson, it's good to

see the two of you standing next to each other there in the capitol. police give my regards to the family. so good to see you again, sir. folks, we've got another bipartisan interview this afternoon. chuck todd is going to be talking to democratic congressman gregory meeks, republican congressman michael mccaul. >> and we expect to see antony blinken any moment now. we will take you there just as soon as the secretary starts his remarks. meanwhile, they are some of the most vulnerable refugees who have fled ukraine, pregnant women and mothers and babies and toddlers. up next i'll talk to an official who is on the ground now about the help they need. >> you left your husband?

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i saw a lot of bombs. and the bomb in my home city is really bad. >> that was a 17-year-old boy sharing his story with nbc news. he just arrived to one of the busiest border crossings between poland and ukraine today after walking a full day on foot. nbc's kelly cobiella has more on what boys like that are facing when they arrive in poland. >> reporter: it's just not letting up. the number of people coming across the border from ukraine continues day in and day out, in this town, at this train station, thousands are coming

through every day. there's a lot of help that they can get here. the world central kitchen is here, handing out what is likely the first hot meal in days, there are signs here for free system im cards, people can find free rides here and women and children can actually go into this waiting room, what was once a train station waiting room and just take a break, get warm and think about where to go next. there are volunteers here who speak all different languages and they're helping these families on the next stage of their journey. what they're being told now is because of the huge numbers arriving on the border, there is simply no place to sleep here. they have to move on to another city. more and more we're seeing people who don't have family members in poland and in other european cities and they simply don't know where to go. we spoke to a family earlier today. they were headed to warsaw after

traveling for two days. they didn't know what they would find there, if they would find shelter. if they didn't, they said they might try germany. these are the experiences people are having, again, traveling out of a war zone with very little on them, just a suitcase and bare necessities and then trying on this next stage of their journey to just find shelter. >> and there's more urgency to this growing humanitarian crisis. the number of women and children enduring the violence. one woman describing fleeing kyiv to romania with her one and a half-year-old son. >> you know, to be this little baby and run away from my family, from my husband, from my sister and parents, it's very hard because i am alone here and i have no support here as well

because my family is still in kyiv and still living in the war. >> according to the u.n.'s population fund, an estimated 80,000 pregnant women are due to have their babies in ukraine over the next three months. i want to bring in jamie nadal, he is in ukraine right now. jamie, first of all, how are you? are you in a place that's safe? are your friends and family okay? >> yes. we're fine. we're staying for the women and the girls of ukraine. >> good. at the top of the hour, my colleague richard engel referenced a strike that president zelenskyy says the russian troops carried out on a

maternity hospital in mariupol. this is video of that strike. he called it an atrocity. he said the children are under the wreckage there. if women and children aren't safe in a maternity hospital, where can they go for help that they may desperately need? >> they are going to the basements of buildings, they are going to makeshift shelters, metro stations. they have nowhere to go. nowhere is safe in ukraine. we are trying to make sure that wherever they are they get proper care, proper services. so delivering, giving birth in those circumstances does impose an additional threat to them. the situation is dramatic, is of a massive scale. we're talking about thousand, if not hundreds of thousands of women who are currently pregnant and expected to deliver in the

coming weeks and months in ukraine and if the situation continues to worsen, they have nowhere where they can give birth safely in the country. >> how much confidence do you have in the six humanitarian corridors that why set up for refugees to get out of ukraine? >> so they're getting population out of the areas that are being targeted by the main operations but also a steady flow of supplies and medicine and equipment that can guarantee that the basic services, life-saving services are made available to those women. so we're really counting on some sort of agreement that will enable this corridors to be implemented. >> jamie, thank you for your

time. secretary of state antony blinken right now at the state department. let's listen in. >> against ukraine but on a multiplicity of other things because our countries are joined in having shared interests across virtually every significant issue before the world now. we were just in brussels last week with minister from our fellow nato allies, the european union focused particularly on continuing what has been extraordinarily close coordination and cooperation in response to moscow's unprovoked and unjustified and increasingly brutal war in ukraine. we are codifying a united response with allies and partners across europe and indeed beyond. at least in my experience of doing this for nearly 30 years, i cannot remember a time where we've seen such unity in the

transatlantic relationship, both in policy and in principle. we're united in strengthening our security assistance for ukraine, for its heroic ukraine and increasing our assistance to the people of ukraine who are suffering due to the growing humanitarian catastrophe inflicted by moscow's invasion and has already displaced more than 2 million ukrainians. 175 million pounds has been added, bringing the total to 400 million pounds. this pays the salaries of ukraine's public sector employees, who are keeping critical services running where they haven't been bombed by the russians the u.k. was one of the first european countries to send

defensive security assistance to ukraine. and sanctions have been put on those who aid and fuel these aggressions. president biden banned all imports of oil, natural gas and coal. and we're also united in call thong kremlin to immediately allow ukrainian civilians to depart cities a besieged by russian forces. this is not the time to equiv kate by calling on both sides to allow civilians to leave safely.

doing so has the basic fact as around why these corridors are necessary and who's blocking them. russia invaded ukraine without justification. russian forces destroyed much of their critical infrastructure. leaving people without water, electricity, access to food and medicine and russia's relentless bombardment, including of civilians trying to flee -- and it's offensive to suggest they should seek riffuge from the government that's given so little for their live said. and another city shows this is possible. but it must be allowed to happen on a much broader scale. it's united states, europe and

uk working together. we also share great concern about iran's nuclear advances. together we discussed our work to achieve a mutual return to compliance of the iran nuclear agreement. either way we're committed to insuring iran can never acquire a nuclear weapon. and the belfast good friday agreement he views as a treaty to insure the people in ireland. and resolve differences. before handing it over to liz, let me just make one final point. it's not just the british government that's stepping up to help ukraine. we're seeing incredible solidarity and compassion from the british people. someone is leading a campaign to

buy second hand ambulances and drive them packed with supplies to the border. and someone who, on the second night of russia's invasion, sent a message to a facebook group appealing for donations to help people of ukraine. i believe one reason we're seeing such an out pouring of support from the british people is they've been through something similar. the blitz in world war ii, killing more than 60,000 british civilians. it's impossible to see the images of people seeking refuge in 2022 and not think of those who sheltered in the london underground in 1942. the compassion, determination britains exited eight decades

ago that inspired the world is what we see in ukraine today. with that, over to you. >> well, thank you very much, tony and it's great to be here with my friend and ally, secretary blinken. and we've certainly seen a lot of each other working very closely with our allies. putin's illegal invasion of ukraine is causing immense pain and suffering. yet, he is not making the progress he planned. since the build up on the border, the united states and united kingdom have led work to challenge putin's aggression. before the invasion, the united states and u.k. called out his playbook of false flags, attempts to install a pupal regime in kyiv. we worked with our allies poowarn he would face severe

costs and determined ukrainian people. we have surprised putin with our unity and the toughness of our sanctions. hitting the banks, the ships, the planes, oligarchs and oil and gas revenues. the brave ukrainian people have surprised him with their determination and their leadership. now is not the time to letup. putin must fail. we know from history that aggressors only understand one thing and that is strength. we know if we don't do enough now, other aggressors around the world will be emboldened. and we know if putin is not stopped in ukraine, there will be terrible implications forple european and global security. we'll send a message that sovereign nations can simply be trampled on. we must go further and faster in our response. we must double down on our sanctions.

that includes a fill s.w.i.f.t. ban and ending the use of russian oil and gas. the united kingdom this week announced our plans to stop importing russian oil and the eu have announced plans to reduce their dependency too. we want a wider group of countries to get on board with our sanctions efforts. 141 voted against russian are agregz. and we must continue to supply defensive weapons to ukraine. i'm proud the united kingdom was the first european country to do that and i welcome the decision of germany, japan and many others to send military aid. since the end of the cold war, we took our eye off the ball but we're stepping up together and we must never let our guard down again. we're determined to strengthen nato.

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good day. this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. maternity hospital in mariupol has been attacked by russia with children trapped in the refuge. zelenskyy tweeting this video after the aftermath. as richard engel has been reporting from kyiv. >> reporter: vladimir putin said the russian army is not bombing civilians. >> that's an obvious lie. >> and we're