this conflict. and breaking this morning, a big announcement on capitol hill. senator susan collins is the first republican to say that she will vote to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. and in just a few hours, president biden set to deliver remarks on the covid pandemic, as an omicron subvariant triggers an uptick in new cases. and we'll have what you need to know about that second booster shot. we want to begin with day 35 of russia's war in ukraine. local officials in the outskirts of kyiv and chernihiv reporting new russian attacks today, one day after russia said that it would drastically reduce military operations there. an adviser to ukraine's president saying in an interview on ukrainian television that the russians are not removing troops from kyiv and the north of

ukraine. they are transferring them to other parts of the country, to give them an advantage in those areas. meantime, the head of the ukrainian delegation in istanbul saying that the russian delegation has left the negotiations, both sides, giving very different views of these talks, but the russians saying that they had not produced anything that would be, quote, very promising or constitute any breakthroughs. meanwhile, ukraine's president saying that the talks had been, quote, positive, but that the developments did not silence the explosion of russian shells. meantime, we're getting a new look at the extent of the devastation, the southern city of mariupol. satellite images showing how weeks of russian bombardment have leveled entire blocks there. ukraine's deputy prime minister saying in a telegram post that three humanitarian corridors have, in fact, been agreed upon for evacuating people from mariupol, and the delivery of humanitarian aid. nbc news correspondent jacob soboroff is joining us now from

lviv in western ukraine. jacob, great to see you. these new attacks outside of kyiv, have they dampened hopes that the conflict is going to end anytime soon amongst ukrainians? >> reporter: i'm not so sure that their hopes were ever particularly high, yasmin. and that's based on what ukrainians live all across this country, day in and day out. you know, ukrainians heard russians say that they would be pulling back on attacks in kyiv, in chernihiv, and the opposite happened overnight. you heard from the governor of chernihiv about relentless attacks. the outskirts of kyiv faced attacks overnight. and it's in some measure, deja vu from what we experienced here in the western part of ukraine on saturday. i stood exactly where i'm standing right now on saturday afternoon and reported that a top russian general said that the nation was going to halt its offensive and focus on the donbas. and instead, hours later, literally, miles from where i'm standing, there were two separate missile strikes on this part of the country, that until

saturday, had represented safety and security in a place where hundreds of thousands, if not millions of internally displaced people were able to pass through this part of the country on their way to safety to become refugees. there's now more than 2.5 million child refugees, according to unicef. the facts on the ground don't bear out anything that resembles what we're hearing from the russians. and that's why i think you hear, i wouldn't even call it cautious optimism from president zelenskyy. he said that he does not silence the sounds of the bombs, even though, and i'm paraphrasing, even though there was potentially progress in the talks in istanbul today. >> jacob, you make a really good point, especially, when you look at the juxtaposition of what we saw over the weekend with the attacks that you're obviously covering on the ground there in lviv, but a promise, of course, that this thing was shifting to the east. we have not seen any of that so far. as always, jacob soboroff for us, thank you. i'll let you get back to it. wanting to take a closer look at this, jonathan la mir, host of

"way too early" here on msnbc and an msnbc political analyst. and from istanbul, nbc news senior international correspondent, keir simmons. keir, let me start with you in istanbul, when we're kyiv making a review of these talks and pick up where jacob left off there. the differences that we are hearing coming out of moscow versus ukraine, right? it seems as if moscow is saying, listen, there hasn't been much positive coming out of these talks. whereas the ukrainians, the president specifically saying, this was a step in the right direction, but, of course, this cautious optimism. what do you make of the difference that we're hearing there? >> well, you know, jasmine, i think 24 hours since we spoke yesterday, as news was breaking from these talks in the building behind me here, it's an opportunity to kind of cut through the rhetoric and look more closely at exactly what was

agreed and what was talked about. and frankly, i think the messaging that there was positivity on both sides doesn't really reflect what's actually being said today, or indeed, the details. so, for example, ukrainian negotiators today are saying that they're positive, but at the same time, are saying that they will need repeating, what president zelenskyy said, that there will need to be a referendum. and in order for that referendum to happen, the russians would neat to retreat to positions back in february 23rd. well, that's a long way from any kind of an agreement with the russians. on the other side, we're hearing from the kremlin spokesman, and he is kind of refusing to talk about the detail, but on one point, was prepared to say thing. and that was about the proposal from the ukrainians that there could be a kind of 15-year plan for crimea. he is saying this morning, dmitry peskov, well, no, we've made crimea part of our

constitution now. so there's no conversation about crimea. so it just reflects the fact that not only has there been no retreat on the battlefield, as jacob was talking about there, but also, that both sides appear to be retreating back into less compromising positions. that being said, i think it's important to note that it looks like most of the proposals yesterday, or frankly all of the political proposals, were made by the ukrainians. the proposal on crimea, the proposal on a new security framework, the proposal on neutrality, it all came from the ukrainians. the russians saying, okay, we'll take that back to president putin. i think it's interesting to hear the russians not really want to talk about the detail of the negotiations. that's fascinating because my analysis of that would be that they have to talk to the president, president putin first. so you're not going to hear the russians say anything about how they think it's going, necessarily, until they hear from president putin himself how he thinks it's going. >> do you think, also, kier, quickly here, that they are wanting to keep it close to the vest, to make it seem as if they

are in the position of power versus the ukrainians? >> well, we do know that the russians, they kind of enjoy the word play, don't they? they kind of enjoy the back and forth, the chess game, if you want to call it that, albeit, admitting, acknowledging that this is a war with terrible consequences. listen, here's the thing. you know, in the end, negotiations like these are very, very difficult. we talked yesterday about that some trust has been developed. but it's likely that therehaveo talks and who knows when we might get to the point where president zelenskyy and president putin actually meet face-to-face. which is what the turkish president thinks is needed. >> the ultimate goal there. la mir, let's talk through this fascinating new news that we're getting here, when it comes to what vladimir putin is actually hearing about what's going on with this war.

his closest adviser are hearing from u.s. intelligence, not telling putin as to what's happening with his own russian army, not telling putin as to what's happening with the russian people when it comes to these sanctions, and the reason we are learning is because they're too afraid to do so. what are we learning about this? >> the u.s. has declassified some intelligence and shared it with reporters. and there had been a sense that in the run-up to the war, that putin was given faulty intelligence. clearly, he believed that his forces could go into ukraine and be a lightning strike that could topple kyiv perhaps in a matter of days. here we are, month-plus mark. that hasn't happened. and it now seems that u.s. officials are suggesting that putin still is not being really kept apprised, candid, honestly, about what is happening here. not realizing how poorly it has gone, perhaps, and how many losses the russians have suffered in terms of both manpower and equipment. >> i can't help but think, how does vladimir putin not know how these sanctions are actually affecting his own people? are they not going outside of his home throughout this entire war? he has made statements to his people, being surrounded by

millions, saying that he is supportive in his efforts. >> there haven't been in political appearances. that one rally we saw in moscow a few weeks ago. but u.s. officials have suggested that since the pandemic hit, putin has been extremely isolated. that he has kept his inner circle to a very small number. we've all seen the clips of him at the long table with the aides at the other end of it. that he has largely stayed away from other people. so it defies reasoning that he wouldn't have any sense as to what's happening, but maybe less so. and on the peace talks, the white house certainly also pouring some cold water on this. deep skepticism that russia is going to follow through. that they're actually willing to cease the warfare when u.s. officials told me, for our news story, reporting out today, that it does look like that they're just redirecting. that they haven't pulled troops out of ukraine into russia, they simply moved them to focus on other areas, particularly in the east and south. >> it seems rightly so. i want to read from some of your reportings. say, despite pouring billions of dollars into modernizing russia's military, putin's forces have been saddled with poor equipment, communications, and morale, all leading to so

far a stalemate against a much smaller and overmatched foe. to that point, one u.s. official bluntly saying, and i'm going to have to not use the word in the piece here, the russians really -- i'll use the word "screwed" -- this up, but you can imagine what's printed there. how is the u.s. assessing how they got it wrong when it came to intelligence assessments on russia's military. >> the u.s. official i spoke to was a little bit more candid than you were just there. >> a bit so. >> you're right. the biggest miscalculation lies with putin. that they thought that they would steamroll ukraine, but the u.s. got it wrong too. because they also believed that russia had a formidable war machine and that they would be able to make pretty quick work of at least some of the ukrainian forces on their march to the capital. u.s. officials thought that in a matter of days or a week or two that they would control a lot of country. that's not the case. and u.s. officials are now conducting their own review as to how they could have gotten that intelligence wrong, how

they could have overestimated the russian military. but the other piece of this, they also underestimated the ukrainian military. and the ukrainians' willingness to fight. and they have impressed analysts and officials so much by defending their homeland with such vigor and such ferocity, and they've been steadily supplied with weapons and equipment from the u.s. and nato allies. >> victoria, let's get into the immigration issue. title xlii, a public health institute allowing the government to bar people from entering the country if there is a threat that there is a communicable disease could in fact spread inside the united states and then allowing them to seek asylum. a leaked document from homeland security saying that ukrainians are no longer subject to title 42. meanwhile, we have a backlog of refugees outside of ukrainians trying to get into this country and get out of what they are facing inside their own countries. so ukrainian is not subject to title 42, however, these other immigrants are still, in fact,

subject to title 42. how does that work? and how is this system going to handle the influx of migrants we have coming into this country when we already have a broken immigration system? >> yasmin, you're absolutely right. we're facing a broken immigration skpm this latest wave of ukrainian refugees and asylum seekers just emphasizes that. and i think that what we're looking at right now is a true pivot point, or at least what i hope is a pivot point. because we know that ukraine has over 10 million people who have led their homes. 4.5 of those have left ukraine and we'll see more and more people, as regrettably, this crisis drags out. and many of those are going to be coming to the united states. so we need to get serious about a reboot of our immigration system. our immigration system was broken before president trump. when president trump came into office, he started dismantling the infrastructure of the state department, not just the policies he put forward of restricting immigration, but the

ability to process immigration, refugee, asylum requests. so what we need to see is a change, for example, in title 42, across the board, but also, the infrastructure to process refugees who are abroad. to process asylum seekers, both from ukraine and other parts of the world in crisis, so that we can start to normalize our system. it's going to take a long time. but i think this is the point to start. >> and we only have a few seconds left here, victoria, that's exactly what i want to say. you're saying a reboot of this immigration system, people are already suffering. people want to get into this country, because they need a home and a place to stay to seek safety. and we need a reboot and how long is that going to take? >> regrettably, given our hyperpartisan situation, i think a complete overhaul, a very long time. but i do think that there are things through executive order, through the white house, that can be done, at least in the infrastructure of personnel to hasten things along. >> keir simmons, victoria

defrancesco soto, thank you all. capitol hill, senators are scheduled to receive a classified briefing. joining us now, nevada senator jacky rosen, who sits on the armed services committee and is among a bipartisan group of senators who recently traveled to germany and poland to get a firsthand look at the -- at u.s. and nato support for ukraine and ukrainian refugees. thank you so much for joining us on this. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> talk to me about this classified briefing you'll be receiving this afternoon. what outstanding questions do you have right at this moment. i can tell you a few weeks ago, we just voted in that $14 billion in bipartisan aid. you referred to the bipartisan codell that we were on, ten of us, a couple of weeks ago. we sent a letter to jake sullivan. we're set up for another briefing with him. but we want to know how quickly

the aid is getting drawn down, what type of aid, because urgency. the sense of urgency. every moment that goes by, more ukrainian lives are lost. vladimir putin is brutally murdering people in the streets, bombing maternity hospitals. we're seeing it on live tv. and so the sense of urgency, how we deliver that aid, military and humanitarian, that's the number one thing we have to think about. >> i want to know what your biggest concerns are here when it comes to aid by the united states given to ukraine. i know that you mentioned this letter submitted to the white house by you and other colleagues. a bipartisan letter submitted to the white house, asking for specifics when it comes to this aid, where it was given, when it was given, how it's being given. what are your concerns with us? >> like i said, $14 billion is a lot of money. and we need the humanitarian aid. we know that vladimir putin is trying to close down humanitarian corridors. we need to get that through. we had an opportunity to meet

with about 70 ngos, who are delivering aid on the ground. we want to be sure that people can get food and medicine. try to stem this humanitarian crisis. and on the military side, everyone wants to win. your prior guests alluded to this. the resilience, the determination, the patriotism of the ukrainian people, how they feel about their democracy. they want to fight, they want to win, and they want to rebuild. so we need to give them every tool we have to win this war, now. not just sustain themselves. to push putin back, continue to isolate him. move him off the world stage, stop this brutality. >> i know that you have advocated for fighter jets to be given to ukraine. zelenskyy has asked for this repeatedly. the u.s. is not necessarily onboard, as of yet. we've been giving them weapons. we've been giving them humanitarian aid. why not the fighter jets? have you got an reason? >> well, the fighter jets, it's

my understanding, that they fight other jets. this would be an air-to-air combat, if we supplied those types of fighter jets that president zelenskyy was asking for. so some of the things we're trying to shore up, drones, surface-to-air protection, anti-tank, all of those other things to fight putin on the ground. i can tell you, the missiles that are coming in, they're coming in from russia. they're not getting dropped by planes, appears not to be at this point. so we have to be nimble and flexible. it's not off table, but we have to be sure that we're giving, like i said, the whole complement of tools to give the ukrainians the ability to fight. >> it's still a bit confusing to me, though. and clarify this for me. tell me i'm wrong, but it's not u.s. pilots that would be flying these fighter jets. and yet we are giving them weapons on the ground. so, again, at the end of the day, this would subsequently be a weapon, flown by ukrainians. why not give them those fighter jets? >> well, i think we're going to

try to ask that in the classified briefing today, to be sure why we're not doing it, what the thinking is behind it. what are some of the other strategies that might be more effective. those are some of the things that we're hoping to learn this afternoon. >> we will be looking, watching, listening, of course, after you guys get that classified briefing. senator jacky rosen, as always, thank you. appreciate you joining us this morning. >> thank you. coming up, everybody, a lot more this morning. republican senator susan collins says that she will, in fact, vote to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. will that clear the way to get more republicans onboard? and later on, we'll talk to a doctor from st. jude children's research hospital, about kids, facing the unthinkable. fighting cancer while trying to get out of this war. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." s war. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports. ♪ well, the stock is bubbling in the pot ♪ ♪ just till they taste what we've got ♪ [ tires squeal, crash ] when owning a small business gets real,

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we have breaking news this morning. susan collins of maine announcing she plans to vote to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. collins is the first republican to declare publicly her support for jackson and boost the judge's chances of becoming the first black woman to serve on the supreme court. last hour, senator collins addressed her decision. >> in the end, i decided that she had the qualifications, the experience, and the credentials that we require of a supreme court justice and warranted my support. >> joining me now, ana palmer, the founder of punch bowl news and an msnbc contributor. ana, always great to see you. talk to me and give me your reaction to hear susan collins say, affirmative, she will, in fact, vote for the judge. >> not super surprising. she had been signaling for the past couple of weeks kind of that body language, that she was open to it. she's also supported several of the nominees of presidents from

other parties. so this definitely signals ketanji brown jackson is going to be confirmed to the supreme court and it's a big win for the biden administration. they wanted it to be a bipartisan vote and that's what's happening. >> any chance other republicans are going to get onboard? any news from romney on this? >> no news yet. he is certainly somebody that everybody is looking to. he has met with her. i think the big question is, can he get onboard? he's probably one of a handful of other republicans who potentially could vote for the justice. >> i want to tick through a few things with you. let's talk, justice thomas, for a moment, referring to his wife, ginny thomas, the text messages she received with then chief of staff, mark meadows. two dozen letters calling on justice thomas to recuse himself from any case involving january 6th. the likelihood he's going to do

it? >> i think very little. there's no sign that justice thomas will change his position. he did not recuse himself before, and just because it's public, it's not likely that he does it now, even though there is pressure on the democratic side for that to happen. >> any other way that democrats could pressure him to do so? >> i think the big question will be, you know, did the january 6th committee, what comes out of that? they are signaling that they will want to certainly, you know, have her come and testify. whether that happens or not, is there any other information that comes out about her role on that day. her conversations with mark meadows, it's hard to foresee what would that i think her posture here, but there's a lot of unknown. >> can we talk about the iran nuclear deal? you talked a lot about it this morning on punch bowl news. particular interest, it seems as if more and more democrats are getting onboard with the resigning of the jcpoa. i'm wondering if there is any motivation here, because we are

now facing a conflict with moscow, a nuclear-armed country. and the thought of having a foe, an enemy like iran, being nuclear armed, is even more terrifying, considering where we are with moscow right now. >> i think it certainly puts into it perspective that nuclear armed deals matter. that conflict across the country and across the world is happening, with a lot of americans paying attention to it. but i think this is much more of a sales job that the white house needs to do, because they know that republicans are not going come onboard. this is about making sure that they can get some support among democrats, so that if a deal does come together, that they aren't going to face an override to a veto? >> what about the missing piece here, the russians that have been integral to all of these negotiations. i know you don't have russians

sitting down trying to negotiate this jcpoa, which would be a win for the biden administration, not something that president putin wants right about now. >> that's what makes it even more tenuous that a deal comes together. there has been some signaling about how close or how kind of stalled these talks have come. the biden administration has put a lot of effort into it. and continues to. obviously, try to be prepared that if in some way, there is a way to move forward here, that they are prepared that they have communicated to capitol hill, they want to be out in front on that. >> ana palmer, thank you. great to see you. coming up, everybody, we're going to go live to the poland/ukraine border, where the first u.s. bishop to travel travel to there since the invasion is speaking to refugees. we'll speak with him next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." ose diaz-balart reports. ing. smokin', yolkin', flippin', dippin'. if you're not oozing, then you're losing. tater totting, cold or hotting. mealin', feelin', pie-ing, trying.

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war-torn nation, the u.n. also saying that 45% of ukrainians are now worried about finding enough to eat. finding enough food. my next guest is the first u.s. bishop to travel to the polish/ukrainian border to distribute critical resources, like food and medicine, to ukrainian families that fled the violence. joining us now is a bishop from the ukrainian catholic diocese in parma, ohio. bishop, thank you so much for joining us on this. we appreciate it. you may be in ohio right now, but you actually grew up in the town in which you are now distributing goods, food, aid to the refugees that are there to seek safety. what are the conditions like there now? >> good morning to everyone. well, first of all, we are part of the european union, so it's safe. anyone who crosses on this side, at least, feels safe. it's mostly women and children. can you imagine if you were

removed from cleveland, new york, or any other u.s. cities male populations from 18 through 60 is the reality now on the ground. those people are exhausted. the truth is a smaller number go across the border. i was just half hour ago in medco, that's the border crossing from ukraine in poland, and they said that the peak was on march 6th and 7th, they had over 30,000 people just crossing through this one border crossing, mostly on foot. >> we know negotiations are ongoing. ukrainians are not very optimistic that anything will be coming out of them. and there's obviously a lack of trust between ukrainians and russians, specifically because what is happening inside their country and all the refugees that have had to leave. in speaking to world leaders, bishop, what do you want them to know about what is happening with ukrainians there? >> first of all, ukraine was a

peaceful neighbor that was attacked by neighbor. and now over 4 million people are outside of ukraine and at least around 11 million people from east to the closest part of the border with the european union. it's a disaster. can you imagine if those 11 million tried to cross the border into ukraine. we pray for cease-fire, for peace in ukraine. and we asking everyone to tell the truth about that invasion. and humanitarian activities. you know that -- >> bishop, it seems as if we're having some connectivity issues. please, go ahead. bishop, it seems as if we're having some connectivity issues with you there, which we understand, of course, because you are on the border with

ukraine there in your hometown in poland, but we certainly appreciate all the work that you are doing with those millions of refugees that have fled that war-torn country and, of course, so many americans looking to you and your efforts for how they can help. thank you so much. we appreciate it. coming up, everybody, there has been an uptick of new covid cases in some parts of the united states, as a new booster shot is approved for some people. up next, we'll talk to a doctor about what you need to know to protect yourself and your loved ones. you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports." es you are watching "jose diaz-balart reports. ♪ ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things.

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a smarter, healthier pet food. delivered. visit tryfarmersdog.com and get 50% off your first box of food. welcome back, everyone. we have some breaking news that we have just learned. president biden set to speakñi. with ukrainian prk3q zelenskyy right now about the u.s. support forçó ukraine. as soon as we get a readout on that, we'll bring it to you. meantime, nbc news has obtained new declassified intelligence thatr not getting aó[ clear pictureu how much his troops are struggling on the battlefield, because his senior advisers are ovt telling him. we havenbalsq, learned that the is now persistent tension between putin and the ministry of defense due to the russians7 president's mistrust of the analyst, andñr a distinguished

research fellow atç the foreign policy research institute. also with me is colonel chrisq i costa, former special assistant to the president for >> there arexdi#"jutt scenarios that we need to look at.ñ you're seeing the russian$u p&y into defensive positions in the corridor here. they've been moved aroundp, to e west, but the ukrainian military here, just outsideçó of5/ irpin. this is where richard engel has been at çóó[here. áu)iking back the russian forces. the questionu

because if they can, they'll cuq off any ukrainian left up here. the questionlp is what do day intend to do in the south?

we've talked about mariupol.jf mariupol is completely under siege at this point. this isq this block by block devastation, indirecte1 fires. but out here again, the ukrainian military has stopped the russian military fromxdñie1 advancing in mykolaiv. the idea that thexd russians probably way too far at this point. the russians are way overextended trying to advance on too many fronts and they're going to concentrate everything that seems like this here, donetsk. >> let's talk about some of thoo this declassified information. putin it seems is not getting accurate information. he doesn't know what's happening with the russian military on the ground in ukraine and doesn't know what's happening with the sanctions inside his own country. on top of that he's got it seems as a stressful moment with his minister of defense, who was one of three of his inner circle people that he relied upon

heavily over the last two decades or so. what do you make of this information? >> so there's no reason to dispute it. it makes perfect sense, right? first of all, the objective of any intelligence officer is to provide truth to power. no one wants to provide truth to power to putin because it's inconsistent with his perceptions. so in short they're concerned with providing truth to him. there would be repercussions. so they're concealing some of the bad news from the boss and that certainly is a dangerous dynamic from a western perspective, we want putin to hear the news of a failing, weakened campaign on his part.