going to be a big day in america and for the biden legal agenda facing confirmation hearings. we'll cover this and balance the war coverage on air which means there is another way to join me monday. take a look, a live youtube discuss of judge jackson's hearings. i'll be joined by melissa murray youtube.com/msnbc. or to my twitter page @arimelbur, it sets a reminder. even if the world is doing other things on air. that's it for me. "the reidout" with joy reid starts right now. good evening, everyone. we begin "the reidout" with the humanitarian disaster in ukraine.

6.5 million people internally displaced and the 13 million people currently in regions hit hardest by the war in ukraine. cities like mariupol and sumi are facing what the u.n. described as critical and potentially fatal shortages of food, water and medicine. we're still learning more about the drama theater in mariupol that russia bombed despite clear markings children were inside. 130 people have been rescued but 1300 people are in the shelter. a flee cities like mariupol, many are heading west. in lviv, local officials said several aircraft hit buildings. it's ukrainian infrastructure a detail nbc news can't confirm. residents of lviv are scared the war will soon be at their

doorsteps. >> when you sleep at 2:0 0 a.m., the sounds turn on and it's scary. it's scary now because you understand that now in lviv, it's like calm, it's peaceful situation but we don't know if it will be tomorrow. >> but the city remains resilient. take this powerful photo of empty strollers in front of a lviv city hall. there is 109 of them. one for every child killed since the start of the war according to the ukrainian government and president zelenskyy is making an appeal to russian mothers killing 13,000 russian soldiers died in the war and telling them to check on their sons and love their children more than they're afraid of their government. this as putin continues to shamelessly target civilians shelling residential buildings and a kindergarten in kyiv. richard engel was at the site of that attack this morning. >> reporter: the bomb landed right in the middle of this

complex damaging the apartments around and also a school, supermarket, kindkindergarten. the death toll could have been far worse. this is happening every day now, not just in kyiv but kharkiv, mariupol, where civilians are being attacked without any military targets in the area. >> asked about his own safety today, kyiv's mayor says no one is safe. >> how concerned are you that you're a target? you personally are a target of russian forces for kidnapping purposes, propaganda or worse? and how much protection do you have? >> actually, nobody have the safety in our city. nobody have safety in our country. it's every citizen of our country is target. i don't care about me. i care about citizens given the

rights to defend the interest of the people in my hometown. >> and tonight, the city of kyiv announced since the beginning of the war, 222 people have died there including four children. meanwhile in odesa, russian warships on the black sea are visible from the coast. 80 years ago during the war against the actual nazis, the city part of the soviet union could see german warships approaching. they prepare for the german's arrival fortifying the city and lining it with sandbags and today doing the exact same thing but it's their neighbor attacking this time. >> yeah, we're quite safe because odesa has a brave history. here it was during the war there was a civil counter force, not military but civilian citizens ofodesa so we're not afraid.

>> this third largest city of ukraine is crucial, putting more than 100,000 civilians at risk. russia spent the past few days claiming any targeting of civilians is fake news and wasted time spouting the conspiracy theory there are bio weapons labs in ukraine. this is how linda thomas green field responded. >> last week we heard from the russian representative a tirade, a bizarre conspiracy theory. this week, we're hearing a whole lot more where that came from. russia has repeatedly, repeatedly accused other countries of the very violations it plans to perpetrate. we continue to believe it is possible that russia may be planning to use chemical or biological agents against the ukrainian people. >> with me now from lviv is cal

perry and maxine. cal, i'll start with you. it doesn't appear clearly russia is waging war efficiently but they sure are waging it everywhere. >> reporter: yeah, and i think what we're seeing and we heard from the state department today, because the military seems bogged down in places like kyiv, in places outside of mariupol, what is happening is they're punishing these civilian populations by indiscriminately shelling them. here we woke up to the sound of air raid alarms. there was an air strike near the airport at least four cruise missiles striking at 6:30 in the morning. interesting to note, the air defense system in the west functioning well. two rockets were shot out of the ski you can see there. smoke rose over the city. interestingly enough, the government not confirming what the target is and not letting journalists near to the sight, an indication of the operational security concerns on the ground as they anticipate more air strikes. i want to take you to the city

of mariupol, this is video we've gotten in in the last 90 minutes and i want to warn our viewers it is graphic. it's important to show this is where we're seeing what you're eluding to, which is the punishment of a civilian population. we know in this video some of these folks were underground three or four days, bodies strewn into the streets and we've been talking about a situation so desperate for people there that we're not seeing the ability to bury loved ones. we're not seeing the ability to carry out funerals. the last desperate gasp of any city are the slit chance mass graves and while these videos are difficult to look at, it's important to show what is happening on the ground. a little good news today, we saw the first humanitarian corridor that functioned properly. some folks getting out in the u.n. coordinating with ukrainian officials to get food into the city and water restored to 50,000

it's important, right? you have hundreds of thousands in the city but it is the held early and folks who cannot flee that are stuck in these cities and it is, of course, unaccompanied children, as well, joy. >> city council member, mariupol is your city. what are you hearing out of there including we are increasingly everyone concerned about this theater where 1300 people were shielding themselves from the blasts. do you have any updates on that? >> mariupol drama theater is only piece of the big terrorist puzzle putin is made from mariupol. it's terrible what happens there now. my friends who go, who like to go out from the city yesterday is telling terrible stories

about body which no one can get away or bury and dogs are eating them. it's terrible. people most of the time must stay in the ceiling because of bombing from the planes and because of the non-stop shelling. putin destroyed mariupol today. putin terrorist troops seem to be saying to all the world, look, this will happen to everybody that doesn't submit to us. so as we can see putin's russia only like anyone aggressive. they only understand the one rules, if we don't get him, he goes further. and it's not about only ukraine. he goes for the europe, not any chances he stops.

so if ukraine today don't get real help, we need jet planes, we need offense systems not only hand held systems but special systems so we can close our sky because they don't want to help us. they're afraid putin starts world war iii but anyway, this war is already started so we need to stop putin now because later it will be hell. >> we're looking at all the horn -- horrific and heroic images of them trying to save lives. what is the status of places people are fleeing and as you said, places where people can't flee. they have to continue to shelter. what is the status? how much food is available? how much water is available?

can food and water and resources be brought in? >> that situation is catastrophic. i can't tell you the real situation because every people have different situations. someone have some food stores but some don't have food for weeks and there are no electricity and there are no heat and the only water they can get is water when they melt the snow but now there is no snow but there is frost on the streets, minus six or minus seven without heat you understand it's real genocide. putin held the city only to make -- to punish mariupol, which stands from the 2014 and he need to show that picture of liberation from the fascist mariupol but there are only civil people who want to live on their land and who want to be

ukra ukrainian, not any others. >> let me come back quickly, cal. i understand you're hearing noises around you. tell us what you're hearing and seeing. >> reporter: yeah, if i hear it again, we'll bump off camera. the sound of two explosions as you were conducting that interview. distinct sounds. i can't tell you how far away. they could be rockets shot out of the sky. we don't know who we hear the booms what they are only to say here in the city of lviv, we saw the first air strikes yesterday morning so there was anticipation we could see more. again, in just the last five minutes two distinct sounds of what we think are explosions or as i said this could be air defense systems, way too early to tell but we're letting you know what we've heard. >> yeah, and i want to go back to you city council member. i understand the request for

nato to provide, you know, air cover, they're not going to do that. poland is reluctant to send the planes over that they're willing to give directly send them across, what the u.s. has offered so far in terms of military assistance, is that enough or what pleas would you make to your european counterparts and also to the united states? do you need know? >> at first, we need these planes. the jet planes which poland can provide to us but u.s. government says is too dangerous to give us planes. why dangerous to give planes if they give us javelins and give us any other systems. because the most problem why mariupol today is steadily bombed is all about we don't have planes to shut down the russian planes. and if we get these planes, it will be easier than now and we need not only hand held air

system, we need special anti air systems and don't -- you can't provoke russia more because now they're totally destroyed in ukraine and if you look to putin, not only criminal war crime nil putin, their entire nation of russians are poisoned with war propaganda so they support putin's strategy and it's all about propaganda so we need to have weapons to get offensive from them. if we don't do this, next be europe. >> yeah. city mariupol council member, maxine, these images are horrific. we're thinking of you-all.

thank you for spending time with us this evening. cal perry, we'll come back to you. please keep us alerted if you hear or see anything else. up next on "the reidout" putin's maga style rally. many in the court were ordered to attend. how much support does putin really have for his deadly war? also, as ukrainians courageously defend their country, how far will putin go? are we looking at another fallujah? putin has nowhere else to turn for help but the u.s. is warning china to stay out of it and a preview of a historic week. the confirmation hearings for brown jackson to become the first black woman on the supreme court. "the reidout" continues after this. me court. "the reidout" continues after this

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putin wants his people to see as he wages a costly war in ukraine. that is putin himself holding a maga style stadium rally this morning in moscow for what he's calling a special military operation the rest of the world knows as the mass slaughter of civilians. it's celebrating the illegal annexation carefully staged with banners toting the lie of the denazi of ukraine. many attendees said they were pressured into attending by employers. like wise, students said they were given a day off from lectures if they attended and some didn't know the event was dedicated to supporting the war in ukraine. putin's big performance hit a snag when they cut away to show

a russian nationalist ripoff of bruce springsteen as propaganda are working over time to minimize the significance and using extremists of this country to bolster the message. they've been repeatedly broadcasting the words of madison cawthorne and embrace tucker carlson. he is a hit that a young security worker in siberia is translating and dubbing his show for a russian audience receiving 24 million hits. but the bigger problem is what russian tv doesn't cover. there is no on going live coverage, no acknowledgement what is happening is extraordinary as russian bombs fall on ukraine's residential

areas and the economy enters a tail spin. the nice thing that's nice about a war is not a war but it's easy to look away. joining me is masha. i know you recently came back from russia and i am dying to know what you saw, the folks you talked to, what they know about what is happening in ukraine. >> i think maybe it's more important to think about what they don't know. they don't know that it is a massive war operation and, you know, what is really striking is that even people who are -- and this is a vanishing small number but even the vanishingly small number of people still consuming independent media blocked by russian authorities takes a huge effort to use the virtual private network to see independent media, even they don't quite get the picture that television viewers in the west

get. there isn't as much footage. there isn't as much detail of the just this unending carnage and if people watch russian tv, which most russians do. most russians have it in the background, there are two things happening. one, they're being told russia is waging a special military operation to restore peace or to put a stop to violence, which denazify ukraine depending what you listen to but the biggest thing is how they're being told this, which is in the very sort of routine tone. the news at the top of the hour was five or six minutes. you hear a story about ukraine and then the next story is a romanian fighter plane went down while on a rescue mission and seven people died. it's in the context of things

that happen in the rest of the world all the time. there isn't -- the sense you get in the rest of the world is the world is on fire. the one place you don't get it is in russia. >> it's interesting. in your piece you talk about someone being arrested on the street and people not noticing it. this sort of everything is sort of blandized where nobody sees what is happening around them. you know, i was just talking about with my team earlier today it is as if fox news was the only thing you could watch on tv, there was nothing else, well, a lot of people here wouldn't know what is going on in ukraine. they would see a certain view that is what fox news told them is happening if there is no other option, that's the way i think of it. is that what we should think people are being fed a very selective view of the world so for the most part, lots of people believe it? >> i think yes, for the most part, lots of people believe it but imagine you're watching fox news and you're going out and

seeing empty store shelves. things that were there yesterday are no longer there. like today social media that are still coming out of russia are showing shelves that are entirely empty where sanitariry products used to be, right? which is such an essential element of human dignity that came with life after the soviet union and that just is disappearing again and right now, you're showing the stores that have shuttered from ikea to mcdonald's to h&m and zara, luxs that made up the landscape of everyday life. that's disappearing but you watch russian tv, you hear the special military operation and the government is taking measures to stabilize the economic situation is another small period of hardship and

we'll recover and russians who have survived a lot of periods of hardship say okay, this will end, too. >> then i guess the question would be is there someway it's breaking through? we tend to think of the world as sort of the people who are in urban centers, more educated people and people with social media have more information and we're seeing people using telegram and people using those kind of ways to get information. is there enough of a critical mass of that information getting through when their ambassador to the u.n. is saying the images we see are fake. they're claiming in the u.n. those things are fake. is there enough social media breakthrough to change anything or to destabilize in any way the russian regime, the putin regime? >> in a word, no. for two reasons. one is that there is not enough -- there just -- they lost facebook. they blocked instagram. they're about to block youtube,

i'm pretty sure. so there just isn't -- there isn't the social media in which messages can get through but more than that, people don't believe what they see when they do accidently come across it and we're seeing it from people communicating, trying to communicate with relatives, ukrainians trying to communicate with relatives in russia saying that's fake. you're lying when they're talking to their own family members living through it. more than anything else, this assumption that the truth can somehow destabilize the putin regime from the understanding the nature of the regime is a totalitarian society at this point. it's a matter of survival for russians to buy into the picture of the universe that state television broadcast into them and by buy into, i don't mean to perform something they don't believe. i mean, to actually give up the

ability to form their own opinion. right? so this idea that you could somehow you just got somebody to see something it would magically do something to the putin regime is a basic misunderstanding of how the country works. >> you know, what you've described to me sunds a lot like north korea. i hope you come back soon. i have so many questions. i could do this all night. thank you so much. still ahead, with russian forces on the out skirts of kyiv, the battle is about to enter the bloodiest combat as yet, i'll talk to someone who experienced this firsthand about what to expect. i'll be right back. nd about what to expect i'll be right back

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since the start of the invasion, russia had sights set on over taking the ukrainian capital of kyiv. say far ukrainian forces repelled advances but now russian soldiers are surrounding city for an all out assault. putin hopes ill prepared soldiers will take force in street by street combat. he could be in for a big surprise. ask our own far better trained and much better equipped military how that went in 2004 when a coalition tried to retake fallujah. the insurgents prepared

fortified defenses throughout the city. buildings and vehicles were booby trapped. it took 46 days to kill our capture nearly 3,000 insurgents in a city about .10 the size of kyiv at a cost of some 110 coalition forces leaving hundreds more wounded and thousands of innocent civilians dead. joining me is correspondent at large for "the washington post" who is in kyiv and retired army major john spencer, chair of urban warfare studies with the madison policy forum and author of "connected soldiers." thank you both for being here. i want to start with you. give us a sense of what is going on in kyiv because it feels like the war is coming in that direction. >> definitely. people here are extremely concerned but preparing for the worst. you know, they're seeing what is happening in other cities around ukraine heavily bombed and that

could easily happen here in kyiv. so yeah, i mean, the russians right now you said are outside but i wouldn't say they're surrounding the capital but any means. they're still north of the capital here northwest pushing into the northeast but the southern routes are open. what we're seeing now is a slowdown in the russian advance. the russians were trying to have to wage a conventional war but found a very well sustained insurgency where the ukrainians have been using tactics to stop the russian advance particularly in a city on the northern edges of kyiv, which is what is called urpine. ruckss -- russians are trying to push. when you look at the resources they have, many analysts believe at some point they could very well push into the capital.

>> and major spencer, i want to bring you in here. i want you to get into more detail. in the case of iraq, by the time the united states tried to get into fallujah, the people there had had time to plan what they were going to do, to plan how they would repel. they understood what our forces were capable of and willing to do and they had time to plan a response. in this case, we were much better prepared, far superior to russia and it was 46 days of hell. what this theory would these russian forces looking at if they do enter the capital? >> to be honest, joy, it would be night and day to what we experienced in fallujah and i experience in baghdad. they will face a nightmare on every street. just to be clear, the world's best military, we penetrated fallujah on night one we sat in the middle of it. russia will hit a concrete wall

of ukrainians. there are thousands of them and highly trained ukrainian military backed by the best tank killing machines in the world that we provided them. russia approaches a meat grinder and they know it and they're scared. >> so what would be the, you know, the case for doing it? it does seem to me that they've faced, you know, a very determined population. we made it clear we don't want them there. we face it in iraq. iraq had a government people didn't support. so they weren't fighting for the government. there is nobody fighting for the government. in this case, they are going to fight for that government. they are going to fight for each other. it seems to me -- i guess i keep saying this, it doesn't seem sane to take the city but they are determined to do it. what would be the case for trying? >> they will attempt it. they don't have to take the same -- they aren't trying to get everything out like we did in fallujah. the iraqi government wanted

fallujah back. they had an election coming up. putin doesn't want to take kyiv like that. he needs to get to the middle and raise the russian flag and call a win. that's not what is going to happen. you hit the nail on the head. what do they not have the will to fight? the ukrainians had the will to keep their country. once you've seen what the russians do, you lost the war. he's already lost. >> the question then is how many people are going to end up in body bags before it's all over. everyone, every expert we had on from major spencer on have made it very clear russia is not winning tactically this war. it is a disaster for them. but they are killing a lot of people. and it seems to me at this point killing a lot of people is the point. is that what you're feeling and seeing on the ground? >> well, first of all, i really hope kyiv doesn't turn into fa lee -- fallujah.

i was there and seen 60% of the city was destroyed and there were so many civilian casualties at that time. kyiv is an extremely beautiful city. it's got an amazing opera house and amazing central square and all these beautiful churches around the city. definitely, look, people are preparing for this on every street here you're seeing a fort -- check points, sandbags, trucks and metros and subway trains blocking pathways for potential russian entry. at many of these places you're seeing anti tank guns, anti tank rockets and yes, they have extremely sophisticated weapons like missiles and anti tank missiles so yes, they're extremely prepared and also, the people about one of third of the population have already fled the

city so right now when you're seeing attacks especially on civilian areas, bombardments, the casualty will be higher but the fact is a lot of people have left but there is still remaining a concerning amount of people here and they're all living in areas that are next to fortifications and the entire city is under defense. if the russians enter, you can see a blood bath among the civilian population. >> major spencer, then the question is the fact that the government has stayed in kyiv, they're still there operating out of there, the president is still showing himself even outside saying we're here, what does that portray for how this horrible culmination could look? >> one, i agree we'll see if russia tips this very awful civilian casualty, more than

we've ever seen and it's a war crime what he's doing. zelenskyy is the key to everything. again, soldiers don't fight for -- because you pay them or force them to. they fight for leadership like that, for cause, zelenskyy is everything but the ukrainians have to be prepared to take the shelling that russia does. they will try to bomb into submission but the game here is that ukraine is preparing for a battle of berlin and russia still thinks they're us in preparing for the attack on baghdad in 2003. it's not just my experience, it's my research. ukraine figured out what will win and they're doing it. urban defense is always going to be stronger than attempting to attack it. >> yeah, and the whole world minus a few strange and weird outliers are with them, with ukraine. thank you both very much. up next, a pivotal moment in u.s. china relations as

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those concerns. according to the german magazine "build" sergei lavrov was on a flight headed to beijing but the plane turned around and flew back towards moscow. nbc news has not been able to confirm that reporting. china called for dialogue. joining me is host of "the world tonight." always great to see you. let's talk first about the incentives that china has. china says russia is its good friend. let's put up the graphic how much business they actually do with russia versus how much they do with us. the e.u. is actually the person, the entity in the world that they do the most business with, $828 billion versus $755.6 billion with the united states. we know there are so many products made in china in the united states. they only do about $146 billion with russia. what on earth would be their incentive to side with this country that's essentially

deteriorating? >> some of it is strategic, joy. the idea that russia and china were together against the west when russia had been supporting china in it's expansion in the east. president xi has to try to thread the knee l between maintaining a relationship with the largest neighbor saying it is still a friend of russia while also condemning the attacks in ukraine and not being seen as supporting that. now, china does have a significant amount of u.s. debt. it is technically $1 trillion in u.s. treasury, the largest foreign bank. they have leverage over us and the leverage of the u.s. takes more imports of all of the consumer goods, the semi conductor shortage is largely because of supply chain and production issues in china so they have deeply embedded economic dies with the united states so they think they -- if

they thread this needle right, they can play both sides and keep the trade with the united states and keep their partner in russia happy. >> let's talk about the shift. it has seemed to me their support isn't full throated for what putin is doing and this is from the washington post among shifts in wording, it was xi's decision to call the invasion a war for the first time speaking with german and french counterparts, describing the war the way putin wants it described as a special military operation or situation. they did sort of stand to the side in the u.n. when the rest of the world condemned russia but do you detect any movement in china's direction toward being with the rest of the world rather than being with this rogue country? >> the extension was significant. again, it's just saying they're not going to participate but they usually when it came to the sierran war and invasion of crimea, they would generally support full throated defense of russia but what they're looking at is what putin is also looking

at, that his invasion of ukraine is not going well. he is not been able to take over the country as he suspected and as the chinese and probably been discussing with him after the olympics thinking okay, wait until the olympics are over and then start your invasion. so now they want to be having to be stuck with seven putin at the world's edge, or getting ostracized from all of this economic opportunity. the threat of consequences that the united states has laid on china would be economic sanctions. that is something the deeply worries the chinese, again as, the entire world is looking to come out of this global pandemic. >> in a way, china, and i said this before, is, in a sense, the potential winner in the game of thrones, if russia is no longer a superpower. i think it's clear, they are no longer. they have exposed themselves by doing this invasion. this disastrous invasion. but, china moves up then.

the united states government is already assessed that they are our biggest threat, slash competitor, and in a sense, would russia benefit from the end of russia's top tier status? >> there used to be a moment in u.s. diplomacy, especially post-world war ii, and they were building up their alliances. around the clinton administration, fast forward through obama, you start hearing about a reset, or a pivot, in asia. whether or not that is successful, is another debate. there was a recognition that china is looming large on the world stage. they are the ones who have built straight with southeast asia, and there is the constant threat of their military in the south china sea. if they can play both sides right, if they can pull away from russia just enough to keep the united states happy, you have a hermetically sealed, soviet era type russia, which never had the economic power china did.

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become the first black woman to serve as the supreme court justice. that's a big deal. historic, monumental. now, of course, the confirmation hearings come first, and that begins on monday. but it will not be her first time. judge jackson has been confirmed by the senate on a bipartisan basis three times. choices judge, and wants to serve on the u.s. sentencing commission. born in dc, but raised in miami, she cites her work as a federal public defender as an influence on her judicial philosophy. jackson went to harvard for undergrad, and law school. one of her interest was theater, even performing a role as a duo girl in little shop of horrors with future comedian.

it is also where she met her future husband, patrick jackson, then, a premed stint. they are now in a federal appeals court, and known for her 2019 decision, denying the trump claim of immunity. writing, in her opinion, quote, presidents are not kings. they do not have subjects, bound by loyalty, or blood. her nomination comes as a crucial moment as trump's tilting of the court to the right is chipping away at our freedoms. which is why you have republicans like insurrection fan, josh hawley, saying garbage like, jackson has a pattern of letting child porn offenders off the hook. a desperate, cherry-pick life, failing to mention how judge jackson issued sentences, that were consistent with, or above, the government recommendations and the overwhelming majority of her cases. it just proves how conservatives, really, are having a hard time, finding an effective way to spare her. even americas largest policing organization endorsed judge jackson, which republicans are

resorting to their maga cult playbook. using racism to stoke anti woke rage. putin puppet, and failed cia candidate, tucker carlson, even demanded he needed to see judge jackson sell sat scores, an order, wreaking of anti-blackness, and show me your papers birtherism. while others have been tyrannical. it all boils down to the usual racism, and massage any. the radical black or lady. the unqualified black lady. the black women, chosen only on the basis of race, and gender. rinse, repeat. meanwhile, judge jackson, bringing more judicial experience to the bench than many of the other justices, including chief justice, john roberts. the republicans are going to have a hard time, finding ways to discredit her. now, ketanji and i were undergraduates at the same time, so i can personally attest, she is brilliant. focused. studious. kind. and standing in her way would

be stupid politics for republicans, or they're conservative, democratic friends. we are pretty close to making some remarkable history. but, we are also bracing ourselves for racism, and sexism, to be right in the spotlight, next, week at these hearings. we will be watching, very closely, starting monday, and we know what we will expect, but we are ready for it. so, don't forget to come back. that is tonight's read out. all in with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight on all in. the image putin is trying to project to russia and the world versus the reality in ukraine. then, >> president xi has to decide what he's going to do here. >> biden tried to persuade china not to support the russian invasion. plus, the latest on the ground in ukraine as russia attacks the western city of lviv for the first time. a response from