again, 200 attempts for antilynching, just to make it a federal law that criminalizes lynching says a lot about where we've been and perhaps where we are. >> and where we need go. thanks assall a ways, my friend. and thank you also. "andrea mitchell reports" starts next. ♪ good day, this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. as a top russian official claims his country is ready to drastically reduce their military presence outside kyiv. this as ukrainian negotiators meeting with russian officials propose a security and ceasefire plan. but insist they will not give up an inch of theiratory territory. they say russia is still attacking residential areas as thousands of civilians try to flee the violence. in a speech today, president

zelenskyy saying there are still 100,000 civilians trapped in the besieged city of mariupol. today the head of the international atomic energy agency drove into ukraine to assess the safety and security of the active nuclear power plants. and president biden held a call this morning with the leaders of france, germany, italy and united kingdom, one day after refusing to back down on his unscripted comments in response to this question from kelly odaunl. >> do you believe what you said that putin can't remain in power or do you now regret saying that because your government has been trying to walk that back? does your words complicate matters? >> number one, i'm not walking anything back. the fact of the matter is i was expressing the moral outrage i felt towards the way putin is dealing in the actions of this man, just brutality. half the children in ukraine. i just come from being with those families and so -- but i

want to make it clear. i wasn't then or articulating now a policy change. >> joining me now, foreign correspondent in kharkiv and keir simmons outside the negotiations in turkey. and nbc chief white house correspondent, peter alexand aer. so, this morning nato supreme ally commander, todd walters, told a senate committee he could not verify whether those making the claims of the rapid deescalation were both the varsity team or the junior varsity team. so, what can you tell us about who's at the table and whether they represent anyone with any power and there's only one with any power and we know that's vladimir putin. >> reporter: that's exactly right, andrea. it's an interesting way to put it and we're hearing from the chief negotiator in the building behind me but he says he is

going to take the proposals back to vladimir putin. and i think that just gives you a picture. that progress has been made here but that there's a long way to go, including, of course, in the end, for the russians anything agreed will have to be signed off by president putin. in terms of how far we've come, just think about this. at the beginning of the day, there was talk by the ukrainians that their negotiations were being advised not to drink anything or touch any services because of suggestions they might be poisoned. when the two sides met, they didn't even shake hands. now you have two things here i would highlight. one is this proposal by the russians to change -- apparently to change their military posture. no longer -- dialing down, if you like, in their combat position around the capitol, kyiv, in particular, as a way to try and gain trust in these

negotiations. and we're seeing more of what the ukrainians are proposing and to end, part of that proposal appears to be that the west, nato, u.s., u.k., germany, france, and even turkey would help guarantee any kind of agreement so that ukraine could be comfortable that, from their point of view, they wouldn't be attacked again by russia. extremely challenging to implement any of that and it doesn't look like they even got on to the question of what territory would still be held by russia. there is, from the russians,and -- andrea, they would be prepared to see president zelenskyy and putin meet in person. and that would be progress. >> that's something zelenskyy has been calling for, knowing any deal with underlings might not hold. be interesting to think these countries would be guaranteers of any ceasefire or cease agreement.

does that mean if there's a violation, doesn't that bring the core of nato into it? and let's have a reality check from you on the ground. >> reporter: well, i'm very skeptical about all of this, frankly. i think the russians announce that they're pulling back from areas they were losing and now they want some sort of nobel prize for it. they were losing and around kyiv. now they say they're going to pull back from those specific areas. okay. but it doesn't mean they're pulling back from other areas. just a few moments ago, actually moments ago, there were two very loud explosions here in central kharkiv. so, the war very much continues and just because the russians claim to pull back from a few positions in those two locations where they've been performing badly, i don't think it gives peace much of a boost. the idea of the security guarantees is also extremely complicated, extremely problematic.

what the ukrainians say they want is a special framework that would involve 11 countries, several nato countries, including the u.s. and u.k. to have a special arrangement just for ukraine that they would act as guarantee ors of the country's stability. and they wanted, according to ukrainian officials, to be stronger than nato's article 5. so, if this country is attacked again or in the future by russia, it would immediately be a movement to step in, including militarily, including imposing a no-fly zone. that would put nato members directly at odds with the basic nato charter. they're not allowed to launch a war on their own independently against russia because it would pull the entire alliance into it. there was progress today. the fact they had this meeting at all and maybe russian troops might pull back from a couple of key areas is all positive. the fact they have to take this

back at the kremlin and get putin's approval casts some doubt about their ability to negotiate and their authority. so, we saw some words. we had a meeting. maybe some lives will be saved around kyiv and that area, potentially. but they still hold all of -- much of the south, the southern coast. they still hold areas outside of kharkiv. it's some diplomatic progress but i'm not sure how real it is. >> and speaking of the sea, there's stale naval blockade, which is a direct threat to odesa. i keep harking back to the cold war for some reason. but the old point of trusting but verifying and in this case there's not even trust. peter alexander, let's talk about the walk back that is no longer a walk back because it was done by the highest level

officials on camera. speaking at news conference and it was given by top white house officials really within moments of the president's speech, his ad lib remarks. but the president was so forceful in his response, so clear that he's not apologizing for anything. that he meant it. did they realize they went too far in their muddled correction of the president after a speech that was otherwise very well received? >> reporter: i think you're right. you could see the frustration in the president as he spoke to reporters there with a speech that was viewed, even by some of the president's fiercest critics as being a strong one, a powerful message to vladimir putin and the world that he was in this position, that he had to in any way clarify the comments saying for god sakes, this man can't remain in power. that was viewed as a potential major change in u.s. policy, that the u.s. was calling for

the remove of vladimir putin. as you noted, he made very clear that's not what he was saying. he was expressing his personal feelings, the moral outrage he was feeling after having met only a short turm time earlier with ukrainians have been forced from their homes and seeing loved ones and friends lose their lives in their home country. the president, as you just said said he makes no apologies and he's not walking any of it back. it's notable that earlier today the president wrapped up a 53-minute phone call with some of america's biggest european allies, the leaders of the u.k., italy, germany and france and it is the french president, who after the president's remarks said he would not have used those words, saying you have to focus on being in a position where you're not escalating things in terms of actions or words. and significantly, after this call earlier today, it was emmanuel macron who was to be

speaking to vladimir putin again. that conversation said to take place at 10:30 a.m. eastern time. no word whether it's happened yet or what happened in the course of that call. i'm told as a function of the call, the president convened with the allies and really it was focussed on, as the white house views it, the failure of the russian military and their effort to recast this military operation to spin it in their favor, even as they now say they're not going to target kyiv and now focus on the south and eastern portions. very different from what they initially said. >> and they've got to decide whether they're going to join in and agree to be guaranteers of a so-called peace deal and whether that would get them involved in boots on the ground in some fashion. remember how quickly they rejected that idea from poland a couple of days ago. and we're going to hear from the president perhaps as early as

12:45. he's there with the prime minister of singapore. i know you'll be all over that. and we'll come back lively with going the president has to say. thank you and of course our thanks to keir and richard ang aal. joining us is former ambassador to ukraine and former press secretary to president zelenskyy. first to you, do you have any optimism coming out of these talks, the first talks you've seen in two weeks and held under such suspicion, mutual suspicion the ukrainian officials were told don't eat, don't drink, don't shake hands with these people because of problems with others who got ill after some contacts? >> thank you for having me and for this great question. actually, i am optimistic these days. but i'm optimistic, not only because of the negotiations that have been locked in

[ inaudible ] if you are to be strong enough to defend our land and actually to make russia retreat, to make russia lose in many regions. because if russia has justification of losing, it does mean it's true. we're pretty aware ukraine is negotiating with a terrorist country. and it means there is no trust. also russia has killed thousands of ukrainians in recent months and this means doesn't look natural here. diplomacy is pretty new. but the only form of negotiations that is continuing right now and that can bring results. russia told today there is a hope already and looks like truth will hold. russian president can meet vladimir zelenskyy and they start accepting our conditions for the reason that they're

really losing in many a regions. it's really bad to trust russia. it's really outrageous to trust russia these days. because my region is being bombed. my aunt and my mom are sitting in the shelters for all the day today. the houses of my grannies are fully balm abed in the recent days. and the village where they used to live is taken by russians. you mentioned other cities that have been bombed. so, russia is just losing and that's why russia tries to show that they're going forward to the conditions. but russia doesn't understand any other dialect and ukraine was good enough to show we're a strong, independent country and we will be fighting to the very end. >> certainly the response by the ukrainian civilians, the military, the leader, of course, in president zelenskyy has been remarkable.

there's no question that russia seems to be, for all of its resources, and we shouldn't overlook those and the ships at sea, they have all kinds of capacity from the air and artillery. but they're on their back heels. >> they are, andrea. they're definitely on their back heels. they have learned what julia just said. that is ukrainians will fight. they'll fight fiercely. they're fighting for their land, their territory, their independence, their freedom. they know what it's like the live under the russians or soviets. they know this. they can look to see how they're living, how their ukrainian compatriots are living in donbas or crimea or where the russians are in control. so, the you yanians are fighting hard for their own land. they'll fight fiercely and they're having some real success

around kyiv. >> well, let me also ask you about whether or not you think the president should stick to his guns about what he said on saturday night and walk back the walk back and say he has no apologies or what the fallout is from that, ambassador taylor, because he was on the phone today with the brits and the french, macron and there wasn't just macron. there were other allies who criticized it. >> so, andrea, my sense is the president, and he said this. no change in policy. there's not a u.s. policy. president biden never said regime change. the language that he used in warsaw was really a important. and it's not those nine words that you were talking about. i listened to what he said in warsaw where he said that the west is -- the west is engaged

in a great battle for freedom with ukraine and its people on the frontlines. that's the important thing. ukraine's on the frontlines. we need support them. president biden also said that russia would not win in ukraine. ukraine will win this battle. and that needs to be the folks of the alliance, that needs to be the folks of the american people, of -- the ukrainians are fighting our battle. we need support them and that's what he was trying to say on saturday. and he was saying that -- he made a moral statement. a moral statement about president putin. it was not a policy change. >> thank you so much, ambassador taylor. thank you as always, julia. best to you as always and your friends and relatives in particular, everyone in the war zone. change of plans. russian troops seem to be moving away from ukraine's capitol.

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"morning joe." >> ukrainians are actually taking territory back in the north. in the east, the russians seem to be prioritizing the donbas areas and they're again taking back territory and now we see a city being contested. the ukrainians are trying to call it back. >> and joining me is pentagon correspondent and retired four-star general, mccaffrey. the u.s. says it's seeing some movement away from kyiv. following the announcement from the russian defense ministry, what does that signal to you? can it be believed? is it a head fake? or is this just that ukraine has done such a good job driving them back and they'll attack elsewhere? >> first of all, i think the most dangerous phase was conflict termination. you want an outcome where you don't lay down the groundwork

for further tragedy down the line. world war i being the classic skpampal. ukrainian nation in arms has gained a tactical advantage on the battle field in many places. the russians are screwed up. they're trying to unravel the mass, prioritize gains they know they have to have. the donbas, the land bridge. i believe they think they're sure they've got to take odesa. all of that is looking increasingly unlikely. so, nobody ever, in the history of diplomacy, negotiates anything away you won militarily. the only conclusion i get out of this, andrea, is from the nato/u.s. perspective, we must accelerate the delivery of game-changing military technology. air defense missile

capabilities, etc. because nothing will change until putin concludes you've got to stop the disaster that's unrolling for the russian armed forces. >> and john kirby said this morning that a new shipment of aid tied to the 800 million insecurity assistance has arrived in ukraine today. do we know what's included and how quickly it can be distributed? they're moving through a conflict zone, a war zone? are they finally getting zelenskyy what he says she needs? >> i think they are. hi, andrea. thank you for having me. they've been moving at a fairly rapid pace within days of the announcement that more aid is coming. aid has been getting there, both from nato and the united states but also within nato coming in from the borders areas around ukraine. you're seeing javelins, stingers, you're definitely

seeing antiaircraft and antitank weaponry coming in. i'm not as sure about the antiship weaponry but that's definitely a good question to ask the pentagon. they have been moving this at a fairly brisk pace. just not exactly all of the things president zelenskyy has wanted. he's asked for the mig 29s and has not quite gotten them yet because of the old dispute that we've had that's been going on for quite some time with the pentagon. but the pentagon, there has been a distinct change of tone coming out of dod, andrea, over the past few days whereas the first two or three weeks of the war, they were saying russia is stalled. they were willing to say the russian forces aren't going to make quick gains that they may have expected. but everybody thought, at the

beginning, that russia would correct. the russian military would correct. the pentagon is freely saying this is a failed military campaign at this point. things could change but what you're seeing -- what we're seeing is it's almost as if we're not willing to believe the evidence of our eyes is a russian military that is in many places in retreat, not just north of kyiv but in other places and you're seeing the ukrainian military starting to take back territory, not just in the north but in the south, particularly the area around care sawn because that will cut off advances in the south. so, it's interesting looking at the play and the map on the ground, where we're seeing

russian military advancing from different areas. now ukrainian military on the offensive from different areas. >> to your point that it's the most dangerous time in a military engagement is when you're disengaging. you said it better. but what should the ukrainians do will he increase using fire power elsewhere and, take odesa, settle for the land bridge? >> we have to look at the personal history. when they went to take back chechnia, they were repulsed. putin doubled down and took two years. he destroyed a city a where almost no one remained alive, no brick stood on another brick. when they went to georgia, they

completely lost control of their military. this tiny country fought them to a stand still and he redoubled on his efforts. so, we should remain -- i'm sure the ukrainian leadership understand this better than any of us. richard engel just reported and on the ground in turkey where the ukrainian negotiators have to worry about being poisoned by a handshake or touching the surface of the desk. so, putin murders people internally and globally a. we shouldn't trust a thing he does. this is a time for the community of nato to redouble efforts to support the ukrainian armed forces. putin cannot come out of this saying i won. it's important, not just for ukraine but places like taiwan and others to not awar naked criminal aggression.

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today we have new developments in the january 6th investigation. the "washington post" is reporting that internal white house records turned over the house selected committee show a big gap input's phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the peered i of time the capitol was under attack and this is longer than the 18 and a half minute gap from water gate years. this as the committee voted unanimously to site two top trump aids for criminal contempt of congress for refusing to honor the panel's subpoenas. they've still not acted on the

criminal contempt citation in december against former chief of staff, mark meadows. and joining us now on capitol hill. so much going on with that committee. the information they released on navarro and ske -- on their concerns. what concern does the "washington post" reporting raise about what was not turned over to the white house? >> reporter: the committee's been trying to get to the gap in time for quite a while. we reported in february there were several hours missing from the white house call logs after the president returned from the elipgs where we know he was making calls. he spoke to kevin mccarthy in that time, others. but he wasn't making the calls on the official white house phone. he was he talking to and when? the bottom line is the committee a knows what he wasn't doing. he wasn't trying to call off the attack and that is central to their investigation. that will become very important.

it does speak to challenges of investigating a white house that was run unconventionally on the best days and a half hazard ways on the best day getting the basics of what the president was and what he was doing. >> to say nothing of the videos he did before apologizing. rngts and last night they urged merrick garland and the justice department to do his job. they're angry after he still has not taken action on the referral of criminal contempt for the former chief of staff, mark meadows. as they heat up the two new referrals and as adam schiff said last night. he said we cannot do oversight if the subpoenas by congress are going to be ignored. >> reporter: there's growing frustration the doj doesn't have their back when it comes to the subpoenas. these referral recommendations

to hold various people now adding scavino and navarro in contempt. and they've handed it over to the doj and in the case of meadows, since december, they've gotten nowhere. a congressional subpoena is only as good as the enforcement mechanism behind it. and you can see you can put somebody on trial, put the full criminal penalties in front of them. doesn't mean you can compel their testimony. but you can make the threat more credible. the committee needs that to follow up, both for the subpoenas outstanding and if they're going to try to push things further. think of their fellow republican members of congress they want to talk to. trump family members they may want to talk to. if folks know the subpoenas -- you can just not show up and ride it out, it makes it so much more difficult for the committee to do its work here or potentially any other issue

congress wants to conduct oversight on. >> thank you so much. and joining me now is democratic senator, tammy duckworth, an iraq war veteran and member of the armed services committee. her book "every day is a gift" came out about a year ago in hard cover. available in paper back today. >> great to be here. >> wonderful to finally see you face to face after this long two-year plus break. tell me about, first, your reaction to the january 6th investigation with the seven and a half hour gap. we did report there were several hours. but seven and a half hours of phone call records not being turned over the committee is pretty extreme. >> you have the presidential records act and to think someone could be -- first, we need to know whether it's a misplacement or if someone was out there purposefully erasing and destroying records because

that's a violation of the records act, in which case anyone who participated in eliminating or erasing the records needs to be held accountable. and on the other hand, this whole thing with the subpoenas, we have this tension and really the justice department does need to do their job and back up congress when they hold the people in contempt. in order to allow the wheels to move the way they're supposed to. >> and a lot more to come on this if they can get any of these answers from their potential witnesses. let's turn back to ukraine as a member of the armed services committee and you've been in combat. obviously youvt been wounded in combat. you know the valor the ukrainians are showing. the deputy defense minister of russia says russia is drastically -- that's their word -- drastically are reducing forces round kyiv. how coshing should the

ukrainians be? >> first, don't believe the russians and on the other hand, they're not pulling troops back. the ukrainians are pushing them back. this is about the success of the ukrainian military who have been heroic in their efforts. it's one of the things where russia is saying we didn't want to take kyiv anyway. no, you tried and could not because of the fierceness of the ukrainian forces. hopefully we can get to a place with a ceasefire at least. >> and general mccaffrey was saying this is the most dangerous and critical time that you're not giving up territory you've won. are we doing emanufacture to get the equipment, high-tech weaponry to president zelenskyy as quickly as it needs to get? >> we are. we're getting him everything he needs. both american made as well as soviet made. they need those s 300sb, we're

getting them those as well as the javelin and stingers and medical supplies. we have all the u.s. forces on the polish side of the border helping expedite that process. so, yes, we're getting them everything they need. i'm pushing for more tanks to be delivered to poland, for example, to back up our nato allies and we need provide the back field for all of the arms that we have been pushing for from our nato allies to ukraine. one of the things the white house was saying is getting the tanks to ukraine made no sense because they're not trained on that equipment. but poland would be because they have to be. >> i think it's important to get the tanks to poland and get the appropriate weaponry -- appropriate ammunition to ukrainians because they're in the fight now. we have to give them the stuff they are used to. >> what can they do about all of

the stand-off firing from the ships at sea, which help them hammer mare a mariupol and potentially odesa? >> what we can do is push the russians back towards russian soil as nar as possible. but the ukrainians are doing an excellent job. the rest of us need to continue to supply them. we can get more countries to cut off russia from the source of money sdwl are still banks not detached from the swift system and there's still american countries doing business in russia. >> how important is it that india and israel for their humanitarian help, are not stepping up some. >> i think there's more that can be done and we need put pressure on all the entities and

countries to do more. >> and the pergz gulf, uae and the saudis have not pumped more oil and have not been helpful at all. >> that's true. also there are american oil companies not pumping more oil. they own thousands of leases on -- that have thousands of public leases where they already have the permits to pump and they choose not to pump. we'd rather buy back more stock and take advantage of the higher price than we would to lower gas prices. >> having been in combat and knowing just how devastating combat is, how would you describe ukrainian military and the difference in what we expected to be a at most a five-day romp down from russia and belarus to take the capitol city and what has happened and how putin has been so set back, at least by this stage? >> the you yin cranians are

fighting for something worth dying for, their nation. the russians are not fighting for something they want to die for and many didn't know they were going to war. the illinois national guard had just spent a year training the ukrainian military, our 33rd infantry brigade combat team was just coming back this fall. we know first hand how fierce they are, how well supplied they are and dedicated they are to the mission. and in fact, many are getting text messages from the ukrainian military they were helping to train. they're fighting for something, for them, worth dying for. their independence, their freedom. that's why you're seeing the fight we're getting out of the ukrainians. >> have we heard anything important about the readiness of the forces? >> we've learned this is a hollow military manned by conscripts and not very well led, by the way.

>> the book again out to today. a wonderful book "every day a gift' >> thank you. >> congradilations on the book and thank you so much for coming over. >> thank you. and more on the capitol insurrection. he'll speak to congressman of the january 6th committee. obviously a key member, constitutional law professor and one of the strong speeches last night. and shot in the arm. big news for anyone over 50. frrl following an announcement from the fda today. that and more of today's big headlines coming up next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. reports" on msnbc.

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there is growing concern today about the ukrainian port city of odesa, that it could be the next target of russia's attacks. holly munter reports that people are preparing for worst. >> reporter: about two dozen warships are off the coastline blockading the strategic port home to ukraine's navy. one of the highest ranking officers tells us the russian ships have been moving in and calling it psychological warfare. but he says the russians are out of options. you don't think they can take odesa. no chance, he says. we will kill them as they approach. >> molly joins us from odesa. it's such an historic city, the culture, the history there. gives us a sense of how people are trying to prepare and protect their city. from an attack that they expect.

>> reporter: yeah, andrea, they definitely expect it and have been expecting it since the beginning of the war. this city has been preparing i should say from even before the war started. some people here say they expect an attack any minute, it could be as early as tomorrow. one analyst says she doesn't think it will flatten the city. she doesn't think it will attack the city in the same way as he has with mariupol, that he wants to occupy the city, he wants ukrainians to surrender if and when russian troops show up. we've been talking about mariupol, but the reason i bring it up is because what happens in mariupol directly affects how soon an attack happens here. so much of the russian navy and the firepower with the russian navy right now is in the sea of azov, a very busy area with mariupol. analysts are watching for two things that might trigger an attack or suggest an attack on odesa might be imminent.

the first is some of the russian warships start to move from the sea of azov back towards the black sea where odesa is, and the other is if troops in kherson, another coastal city between the two, start to move west along the coast. the either happens, the attack on this strategic and historic city might be sooner. >> in terms of the spirit of the people, you know, are they confident about being able to repel this attack? >> reporter: you heard that senior naval officer there who had strong words, but that defiance extend to the civilian population. the estimate that we have heard is about half of this city has left and that means half of this city is here to fight. they're fighting in all ways. we saw a civilian training facility this morning where people who have never picked up guns are learning how to shoot not just kind of to defend their own homes but possibly to join territorial defense to try to join in actual fighting.

we see people on the humanitarian front. we went to a volunteer facility. they are not only just supporting the community, the people that are staying here with essential goods, they are also directly taking orders from the army out east and they are sending essential goods that way. but they all say people who have decided to stay in odesa, it's a different calculation, deciding to stay in lviv. people here say they will win and stand their ground and never leave. >> molly hunter, please stay safe. take care. thanks for that report. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember, follow the show online, on facebook and twitter @mitchellreports. chuck todd with "meet the press daily" starts after this. ♪

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