you very much. good morning. >> hosam diazhosam. good -- happening right now, help is on the way for thousands of people trapped in the besieged city of mariupol. aid workers from the red cross will assist with evacuation. up north, major cities are witnessing new attack on civilian infrastructure. local officials say russian forces are blocking humanitarian corridors there for those flees the violence. richard engel went to a frontline village in kharkiv

where recent fighting drove out russian forces. >> reporter: first u.s. intelligence, now a top british intelligence official says vladimir putin might not be getting a full picture of what is happening, might not be seeing images of this. this is a russian tank. it was completely destroyed by ukrainian resistance, the turret blown clear out. this entire village was just taken by by troops who drove out russian forces. according to nadeau estimates, as many as 15,000 russian troops have already been killed. ukrainian officials put that number even higher, but u.s. and british officials say vladimir putin's general and top advisers are too scared to deliver him the bad news. that calls into questions the useful of peaceful negotiations which are due to resume again tomorrow. if putin doesn't understand,

doesn't want to understand, or isn't being told the true costs of the war, it's different to make good cost/benefits analysis. and it's said that the peace talks have been -- there have been more attacks. >> reporter: kyiv and chernihiv, and president zelenskyy said russia appears to be planning a new offensive out here in eastern ukraine. our thanks for nbc's richard engel for that report. back in washington, president biden is considering releasing 1 million barrels of oil per day from the strategic petroleum research for six months in order to lower of price of gas at the pump.

we're learning details of an hour-long phone call where biden pledged an additional $500 millennium onin direct aid for ukraine. joining us now, jacob soboroff from lviv, and mike memoli at the white house. jacob, what are things like here in lviv. >> reporter: they're as normal as things get here, jose, but normal is relative when the entire country is at war, until marshal -- martial law. can't be believe if you look at the facts on the ground. this is the city of 700,000 in the west of the country, where it was a refuge. on saturday it was hit by two missile strikes just miles from where i'm standing right now. as you heard richard say, there

were promises of deescalation in kyiv over the last couple days and only announced the long-range missile attacks are being seen here yesterday, we talked about mykolaiv, where people were killed in a billing. russia is merely a paw to regroup, redouble their efforts, to continue to attack this nation, jose. >> mike, what can we expect to hear from the president today? >> jose, there had been some speculation in the early days that president biden might see sort of a rally around the flag effect, the boost in his approval ratings, now more than a moon in, we're seeing in fact the exact opposite. our newest policy showing the lowest so far. that's being driven by the enter

section of this -- the top issue is the cost of living. another word for that, inflation and gas prices. we're seeing the president today taking one of the few steps a president can really take, and that is announce fog the third time in just about six months now he will be releasing potential additional supplies of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve. 1 million barrels a day. that's 180 million barrels. that's more than double what the president has done so far. another 30 that he announced at the beginning of the mont right in time for the state of the union address. some of these releases have been coordinated with our allies to do whatever we can to bring prices down. we are even seeing the reporting of this potential move by the president has lowered the price of crude oil on the global

markets just a bit, but the white house also framing this as putin's price hike. they've been trying to show this is putin's fault, not something necessarily in the president's control. >> mike memoli, jacob soboroff, thank you for being with us this morning. with us is luski -- give us a sense of what life is like in kyiv right now. >> an hour ago we heard a loud explosion in kyiv. currently there's not much information. we have to understand that all promises that russia will pull back in this region are turning to be false. >> and when they turn to be false, of the result is what, alexi?

>> the result is we constantly hear artillery fire. ukraine's air defense is working overtime. anywhere in the city right now, you feel that you're in a war zone. even though many residents are trying to get back to normal, we see some kafis opening, we see some small businesses trying to get back to normal, you still feel war. you have people with guns -- defense units all over the capital, the army, military checkpoints, and you constant lid hear fire. >> oleksiy, it's said talks will tim tomorrow. how do ukrainians feels about

the talks and -- >> people feel we have to continue peace talks. people are dying. people in mariupol are trapped in bomb shelters without food, water, medicine, so ukraine is forced to try to get at least a corridor that russia finally promised today for residents of mar i don't want 8. if we're talking about an actual peace treaty or constant cease-fire, i think nobody believes it will happen in the near future. >> when we last spoke, you said if the war ends tomorrow, there's nowhere to return to for many people. more than 4 million ukrainians, roughly 10% of the prewar population have left the country. what happens to ukraine if some,

many or all of them decide not to return? >> i think it's understandable that the ukrainian economy will suffer substantially. we know -- we see reports now that the ukrainian economy will drop from a quarter to a fifth by the end of the year. that's an optimistic scenario. we understand that even if ukraine signs a peace treaty today, the ukrainian economy will for decades be lower than it was prewar. >> you tweeted this morning about how the u.s. and uk have brushed off the ukrainian offer of neutrality in exchange for nato-like security guarantees. what happens if the fighting ends with no guarantee? do you think the west and others

have helped enough? >> i think no. i think we understand that ukraine needs to get whatever it requires, we're talking about the polish migs that ukraine can gets its hands on. the west has though understand that russia is not stopping if it takes kyiv. it's going to go forward. helping ukraine to survive, helping ukraine to preserve its independence, it's the only plausible way to go forward. i think that the u.s. and the uk needs to understand that it's in their interests to save ukrainian statehood. oleksiy sorkin, thank you for

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seeking asylum is a right under u.s. law, but for more than two years, asylum seekers were not guaranteed their claims would be heard. under title 42, the u.s. is allowed to expel migrants all on the basis of public health. they are planning to end title 42 in about two months on the 23rd of may. joining us say morgan radford. great to see you. what does it mean, title 42 will be lifted? >> jose, great to be with you and great question. if this goes into effect, this would be among one of the biggest changes to immigration policy since president biden took office. that restriction, called title 42, was implemented by the centers for disease control.

it essentially forced the vast majority of asylum seekers to return back to mexico without their claims ever being heard. many critics felt it was excessively harsh. just to give you a sense of the numbers, more than 1.7 million migrants have been expelled back to mexico under this policy. that's just in the last two years. interestingly, perhaps more importantly this will not have as much impact on the ukrainian refugees who made their way to mexico to cross the borders, since the u.s. is granting them a one-year humanitarian parole. el salvador has just declared an emergency. it affects people from venezuela, where 59% of

households cannot even afford food. plus those coming from cuba, where citizens are still being jailed because of the protests, and immigrants from haiti still fleeting constant violence. flow, jose, the ngo workers we talked to there told us they blamed title 42 entirely for those crowded camps where there were shortages of food and clean water, not just among latin-american migrants and those from haiti and even afghanistan. >> morgan, thank you so much.

let's take a step back and focus on the thousands of families risking everything to get to this country's border every single day. families, for example, like this one, fleeing the cuban regime, caught by officials at a border crossing, as they tried to make it to texas. listen to this. the little girl there, in the armies of her family -- this is in mexico. they're being transcripted to be taken away, away from the u.s. border. that little girl right there is begging mexican officials, please, i implore you, please do not send us back to cuba. that's what's happening every single day close to the border. joining us is alan -- let's talk

a by about title 42. it's about health, right? supposedly. that's what trump said. they need to confirm, they say with the cdc before lifting it entirely, and yet they're saying they'll make exceptions for ukrainians being allowed in on a case-by-case basis. what's the legal argument. >> it sort of fell away when stephen miller wrote brought this program back from 1984, to apply at the border where he basically said in his tweet it was about border enforcement, not about public health. in addition we have seen several democrats step up to say this is about border control. so if congress las a law and this is a country of laws, these individuals should have the right to apply for asylum just

like everyone else in the country. >> alan, the fact is that if, for example, the justification for title 42 was, you know, covid and the covid pandemic, then covid affects everybody equalitily, it doesn't matter where you're from, the color of your skin, your age, right? to say we're going to make exceptions for this group, but not for others it does seem to show it isn't necessarily all about the silence. >> it's about the racism. al mete the promise that the biden administration made. we heard the promise, and the policy doesn't take two months to implement. it's not a concern about the

number of people showing up at the ports the other ports, thousands show up every day, it's really not a problem. in the world view, when we look at poland, a bit smaller than mexico, a third of the size of the united states has accepted 2 million people in 30 days. not only did they accept them. they gave them work authorizations and medical care. that's the promise we made after world war ii. we're not meeting that promise, definitely not meeting the policy. >> and the biden administration said they would be accepting 100,000 ukrainians in the near future. is that something that is doable? number two, do you think they changes, if indeed in may, two months from now, they lift 42, will that have an impact on the border right now? >> it doesn't have any effect on people dying and suffering at the border right now. i'm glad that we are accepting

refugee from ukraine, and i think the answer should be we're accepting so many ukrainians of different nationalities. and the struggle they have as part of the problem we're telling brown and black immigrants that are suffering from either environmental/economic conditions, their arms are not as valuable, and most of them are children. a third of our court system are people under the age of 18 and 40% of them are under the age of 4. they are not exactly adults in the -- to have basic concern and humanitarian need. and what did stephen miller is a i? people of biblical proportion will show up at the border. i don't know what exactly that means. that's also important to say. the border didn't shut down for

everyone. the ports were still open, so this is exactly at poor brown and black immigrants. that's where the department of justice should say, wait a minute, this is not consistent with who we are, this is not consistent with the promise. refugees are not tied to any specific nationality. all of these individuals who are suffering around the world should have the same entitlement. the united states should step up and take more than 100,000 we are down over the last three year and the biden administration should get it done. we have tons of people to deport people, tons to lock them up. we should change them from processing people into prison and welcoming them into the system and allowing them to migrate to the united states. this year i think we have admitted less than 10,000 refugees already. >> alan orr, thank you for being with us. always appreciate your voice.

we're joined by the congresswoman, a pleasure to see you, your reaction to alan orr's frustration. what's your reaction to that? >> i agree with alan. we do expect the white house to make an announcement for their plans on title 42. i've been calling for the end of this inhumane policy. this was something architect stephen miller put in place to try to shut down the border. it has basically shut down the border, a legal asylum process for people to claim asylum. we have to keep reminding people that it is legal to come to the united states to claim asylum. people have been shut out for two years. we have people waiting on the doorstep of the united states to try to come and seek help.

they have been coming, even when title 42 was put into place. they have been coming, because the situation have been so dire in their home countries. coming to american where we have a process in place of asylum. so i think it's time for us to end title 42. it's inhumane. the key to it will be to be prepared. >> there are camps throughout northern mexico, close to the u.s. border. thousands of people from cuba, from nicaragua, from venezuela, from just virtually a lot of places that are going through real hell politically, economically, a change in their weather and the climate. i'm just wondering, do you think

some republicans will say title 42 should be extended, because otherwise too many people would come to the border? >> that's what my rep counterparts will say. we have to remember title 42 was put in place because of public health concern. i don't think the justification was there. we saw public health officials say the justification wasn't there, but my republican counterparts do want to keep title 42 in place as a tool to shut down the border. that is not what american is. that is not what title 42 is intended to do. so it is time. we have vaccines now, we have testing, we have the ability to fight covid, and republicans are the ones suing to take off the mandates, so it's a bit hypocritical, but that's what they're doing. at the end of the day, this

administration has to make good on their promise. we have the tools to process people successfully at the border, and making sure they have access to the legal process to claim asylum. >> on a separate note, congresswoman, senators durbin and -- is that something that should be happening in the house as well? >> immigration reform needs to happen in both the house and the senate. our immigration system is broken, congress needs to act. i'm glad to hear that the senators are having these conversations. the congressional hispanic caucus has been leading on this issue, making sure talks are continues. we need comprehensive reform, and we know that immigrants add value to this country, and they spur our economy. there's a lot of good reasons to do it other than the fact that it's the right thing to do.

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russia is now responding, claiming that putin is not receiving accurate information, because his advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth. a creme listen spokesman says neither the state department or the pentagon understand what is going on at the kremlin.

this comes after a -- that his backup plan is more attacks on civilian aarons. "new york times" pentagon correspondent helene cooper, and barry mccaffery. helene, what is the latest out of the pentagon about what russia is doing in ukraine? >> hi, jose. thanks for having me. the pentagon is presenting this now as it's so much a case of smoke and mirrors coming out of russia. what the pentagon believes russia is doing is quite different from what russia says it's doing. for instance, russian diplomats at peace talks with the ukrainians said they would cut back on attacks on kyiv, to allow the diplomatic process to

continue. what the pentagon thinking is happening is russia putting the best face it possibly can on the fact that they're not -- their troops have been unable to move into kyiv. they've been stopped for four weeks now, and even 50 kilometers to the north of kyiv, even pushed back to where they're now 30 kilometers to the north of kyiv. so instead of admitting that the ground game is not going the way the russian military may have expected, they're saying we're actually just pulling back voluntarily. they're pulling back because they've been pushed back. at the same time pentagon officials believe that russia's repositions for reviewed attacks on the donbas region in eastern ukraine, that they are not recalculating. this is an area that is more

pro-russian, so maybe there's a possibility they may do better there, and they're going to perhaps go after that region more ferociously then when they concentrated on kyiv and the whole country. so scaling back perhaps what their original mission was, but that's in large part because they couldn't accomplish their original mission. >> general the intelligence pewing is getting bad intelligence is just the latest information that the u.s. has released s what is the your honor try to go accomplish by this? >> by this, meaning by the speculation about whether he's gang ago rat information? i think it is speculation. we really don't know. he is a career intelligence

agent. it's hard to imagine head didn't have alternative sources of information. the general on the military side probably are reluctant to go out and lay out the failure of this invasion, but i think that actually misses the point. the real central issue here is, is putin likely to retreat from his original stated objective of season all of ukraine and reintegrating it into mother russia? he's been dealt a tactical battlefield disaster. it looks, as helene clearly, correctly says, they're repositioning on the battlefield s they probably will try to grab what they can to dominate the peace negotiations, meaning seize mariupol, seize the land bridge, retain the maximum of

donbas. i think they also think they have to go after odesa to close off the black sea to the ukrainians, but i don't think we assume that putin has changed one whit what he's trying to accomplish. chechnya, he took two years and decimated the country. >> without a doubt it would mean an enormous amount of civilian deaths if they indeed do go towards the two main port cities. >> yeah. we shouldn't be surprised by it, either, the consistent effort to destroy civilian infrastructure to force political capitulation. we saw it in aleppo in syria,

and in we saw it to some extent, the same thing in georgia, when he invaded and then seized after a failed initial invasion, a good bit of that country. so putin is in a strategic mire, a disaster. he probably doesn't have many good options right now. the global community is united against him. nato has come together. we're providing i think some brilliant support, though we need to accelerate it. the u.s. and europeans during this period of negotiation, so putin is in trouble. >> thank you for being with us, both. still ahead, jared kushner expecting to speak to the january 6th committee today. we'll bring you the latest reporting from capitol hill. plus we're moments away from nancy pelosi's weekly briefing.

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kushner would become the first trump family member, as well as the highest ranking member to testify before the committee. ali vitali is with us, also jack ie allemany. >> reporter: based on our producers outs the room just a few floors above me, there appears to be some movement in the room, he's appearing virtually. our eagle-eyed producers saying it looks lick there's someone on the screen that looks like jared kushner. there's the optics piece of

this, which kushner is not just family, but a longtime top adviser n trump white house, and who we know was very involved in many of was having as well as the discussions around the white house. he's someone who could speak to the mindset not on january 6th itself because he was out of the country in those days leading up to the insurrection, but potentially to the other efforts around overturning the election results. one of the fascinating things is that we reported that he was invited and scheduled to appear in front of this committee and then we learned of a new wrinkle the committee might want to ask him about, which is the text messages from ginni thomas which referenced the sydney powell lawsuits and the efforts they were taking to overturn the

election results. it's indicative of the struggle the committee has before them, which is wanting to tie up the loose ends to get as much information as they can. you and i both know often times when you're reporting on something, you start asking for questions, often times it can lead to more information and more questions. at what point do they start fact gathering and more to the public vetting phase. >> you have information that the justice department is planning to expand their role. >> they have been clamoring for the department of justice to pursue a more aggressive posture. this news comes on the heels of that pressure, that the criminal investigation into the january 6th attack has expanded to examine the preparations for the

rally that preceded the riot as the justice department tries to determine the full extent of any conspiracy to stop congress from certifying the election. in the past two months a federal grand jury has been convened and they've issued subpoenas to some former officials in trump's orbit, who assisted in the logistics of the rally planning on january 6th. that is with regards to funding, executing and plans the rally, according to people familiar with the matter. i think that this development shows the degree that the justice department has already expanded their investigation from defendants who were actually storming the capitol that day, the insurrectionist far right extremists to people now who were actually involved with getting people there. but this, again, all along is

the tact the justice department has said they were going to take, a bottom up to top approach, moving closer and closer to former president trump, though we should note that this does not directly involve president trump, though grand juries are usually kept secretive for a purpose. >> ali, we're hearing that we'll hear from another senator on ketanji brown jackson's nomination to the supreme court? >> reporter: they're still considering that nomination of ketanji brown jackson. we know as of yesterday senator susan collins will make this a bipartisan confirmation. she is the lone republican at this point who said she will vote to confirm her. when judge jackson was confirmed to her current role on the course, she had three republicans confirm her to that

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58 past the hour as the humanitarian crisis from ukraine grows. cindy mccain, u.n. ambassador, wrapped up a visit along poland's border with ukraine this morning. joining me is nbc news correspondent josh lederman. >> reporter: russia and ukraine make up about 30%. world's exports of wheat and huge amounts of other critical

supplies, soy products and other needed food stuff, especially for countries in north africa, kenya, morocco and others. i asked ambassador mccain what effect this upcoming food shortage is going to have on people who live this those parts of the world. here's what she told me. >> we are now because of this crises not going to be able to feed others who are struggling, ethiopia, yemen, kenya, madagascar. we're already at half rations in many of these countries and now with this particular war, i mean, how do we take food from a hungry child and give it to a starving child? how do you make that kind of decision? so that's what we're up against. >> i also asked ambassador mcgain mccain what her late

husband would be doing and she said he would be screaming at the top of his lungs. >> thank you for the privilege of your time. craig melvin whom i love and admire dearly picks up with more news right now. love right back at you, jose. good thursday morning to you. craig melvin live here in new york city. this hour we are following some fast-moving developments in ukraine, including the incredible toll the war is taking on russian forces facing extraordinary ukrainian resistance. nbc's chief correspondent richard engel is going to join us in just moments after witnessing this dramatic scene in harkiv. >> they had all