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good day, everyone. this is a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" in brussels. right now in new york the united nations general assembly is debating whether to suspend -- at nato headquarters here in brussels, secretary of state tony blinken and the other nato allies have been meeting today with ukraine's foreign minister, who is making an urgent plea to the military alliance. >> my agenda is very simple. it has only three items on it,
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it's weapons, weapons and weapons. >> but in ukraine, russia's bombardment of cities in the northeast and southern coast continue, even as relieved citizens of kyiv are returning to their homes in the capitol but the threat is still all around them as ukrainian troops try to remain explosive devices that the russian forces left behind. and we are just hours away from an historic vote on capitol hill, where a bipartisan narrow majority of senators is expected today to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court. we start with the latest on the war with ukraine. gabe gutierrez is in irpin, william taylor and admiral james stavridis. ambassador taylor, the u.n. general assembly voting to suspend russia. we've heard from russia, iran,
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russia's allies in the general assembly debate about suspending russia from the human rights council. they're clearly avoiding the security council for this vote where russia would veto it as one of the five permanent members they have an automatic veto. does this mean anything? is it expected to pass? >> sure it will pass, andrea. you're exactly right. the russians have lost vote after vote in the general assembly and in the security council as well. they veto resolutions there. in the general assembly, there are 140, 141 countries who vote regularly to condemn the russians and to support the ukrainians. the russians are able to get about five votes, including their own and belarus and north
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korea and this is part of a larger vote to isolate russia. it's isolating it in the u.n., it's its isolating it in financial terms and from the world economy and isolating it from europe and its ability to sell. this is an overall strategy that this is one element of. >> now, in fact by 100-0 the senate just voted to remove most favored trade preferences from russia and they're voting on other anti-russian resolutions right now in the u.s. senate. the european union yesterday balked at banning the imports of russian coal and that was the least that they could do on the energy front. they were never going to do oil and gas, which is the main purchases that europe relies on so heavily. so there are mixed signals coming from the international community still. >> there are mixed signals and even mixed signals from some of
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the europeans. we hear very mixed signals from the hungarians. i wouldn't say it's never going to happen, andrea. i believe the europeans as they realize the scope, the depth, the horror of this fight, of this war, of these atrocities that we're seeing, it's not just a single place. these atrocities are happening in multiple towns and villages and in mariupol, where we're understand 5,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed in mariupol. so this is going to get worse before it gets better. the europeans are going to be under a lot more pressure to cut off the funds that go to the russian economy, indeed go to the russian budget that pay soldiers to pursue this war, to undertake this war. the europeans are going to figure this out. it's hard, it's painful but they have taken hard steps before and they'll take some more again.
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>> gabe gutierrez in irpin, how are the survivors of the russian assault responding to the global reaction so far? the russian forces have left ukraine for now, they're regrouping, they're going to attack again. they're still attacking in other parts but not in the kyiv area. how are people responding now that they're getting back into their homes? >> reporter: well, hi there, andrea. the residents we have spoken with say they want more. they want the international community to do more. and i'm here in irpin, which as you mentioned is one of the areas where russian forces have left north to belarus, but the fighting continues in other parts of the country, in the east and south. i want to show you what's right behind me. this is an apartment building here in irpin where residents have been returning to today. we're told there's at least one body still left inside that apartment complex. we spoke with another neighbor a couple of blocks away who showed
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us three shallow graves, people that have died just in the last several weeks. we spoke with one man here, andrea, who showed us his fourth floor apartment that it had been shelled. luckily he and his family had escaped before it was bombed and but he lived here for 40 years, since he was born. he doesn't know what they'll do next. local authorities showed us a mine that had just been exploded. this is where the ukrainian counterattack turned the tide. ukrainian forces had actually been in a fire fight here in irpin and you had mentioned that there were other communities to the north, bucha and hostumel that were russian occupied. this is where ukrainian troops held the ground from russian
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forces. people here were traumatized but were so grateful that russian forces pulled out. the fighting continues in so many other parts of this country. mariupol, the concern there is what happens next. local officials say more than 100,000 people still are in urgent need of evacuation from mariupol. as you said, more than 5,000 people have died according to the ukrainian government, about 210 of them children. andrea. >> it's just appalling, gabe. everything that you've seen and i know you've got to go keep on with your reporting, but thanks so much for being there. admiral stavridis, there was a strong message to nato. i want to play part of that for you. >> either you help us now and i'm speaking about days, not weeks, or your help will come
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too late. and many people will die. >> one of the other things he said, admiral, you may have heard is when asked earlier this morning by reporters what is your agenda today, he said his agenda had three items on it, weapons, weapons and weapons. so you know what they need. you're the expert. you were in charge of all the nato military response as the supreme allied commander. what more should we be doing to help turn the tide for real, not just around kyiv? >> he sounds like my real estate agent, location, location, location. i think that's actually a very clever way to deliver the message and let everyone else kind of fill in those blanks. i'll fill in three things i think they need and they need them like yesterday. i think his timeline is absolutely accurate. they need high-reach surface-to-air missiles. so that would be the s-300 would
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be the obvious candidate. that gets them up into that air stack to take out russians. it's a tool that they need to establish a no-fly zone. number two, they need mig-29 fighters. we got to revisit that offer from poland to provide those. they're a good fighter, they're not modern but they can keep one what russia is putting over the battle space. thirdly, we ought to be giving them anti-ship missiles so that they can push back on the russian navy, if the russian navy tries to swing around and conduct an amphibious assault or cut off odesa, a port city crucial to their economy. there's three things that you can fill in with it. >> go ahead. i was reading a "new york times" report about the kinds of land mines that are being used here.
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i used to be focused on land mines when i was covering cambodia and vietnam after those wars, but the land mines that the russians are using apparently have certain types of seismic sensors picking up approaching foot steps and distinguishing them from people and animals but harder to demine these areas, even though you're a navy guy. >> we've had many navy ships hit mines. mine technology has moved on like all facets of warfare. i'll give you another attribute of these mine fields, they can be turned on and off. an offensive force can emplace these minds. they're very sophisticated. some react to light, some to body heat. in effect they're smart mines.
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that makes them more dangerous to humans. as this battle changes from the current status of russia, the attacker, and shifts as i think it will to the russians on defense in the southeast and ukraine the attacker, watch for the russians to use mine technology. >> i'm glad i asked you about that, admiral stavridis, an expert on all of this and admiral taylor and we have breaking news out of washington now. house speaker nancy pelosi has tested positive for covid. garrett haake has more from capitol hill. there's quite an outbreak in washington. garrett, tell us the latest about the speaker, who is in her 80s. >> the speaker is set to hold a press conference that was set to begin about 25 minutes ago. she is late, which is not unusual. while reporters were in the room, we got notice from her spokesperson that the 82-year-old speaker has tested
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positive for covid. a spokesperson said she's asymptomatic and tested negative early in the week. the speaker was at the white house just a few days ago for that event celebrating and strengthening the affordable care act. president obama recently had covid. president biden remains somewhat of a concern for covid at all times. she was fully boosted, including that second booster, which a person of her age would be eligible for. congress is set to go on recess here shortly. she was scheduled to do a congressional trip to asia, visiting japan and taiwan. we're told that will be rescheduled. that's about all we know here. >> i do know something about what's been going on back in washington. i know there was a democratic
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dinner on monday night that was attended by a lot of high-ranking democrats. i don't know if the speaker was there but i know it was a very important meeting and that of course there was also the journalist dinner that i was attending on saturday night. there was an outbreak after that. so i've had talked to a number of people. as we can report adam schiff and others at that gridiron dinner have tested positive, the vice president's press secretary jamaal simmons tested positive who was at that dinner. the incubation rate is pretty short for this variant. i've tested negative in the last couple of days and immediately after the dinner and again today. but, you know, we do know a number of people who have tested positive and a number of lawmakers as well, garrett. >> reporter: that's absolutely right. you mentioned adam schiff, there were a number of administration officials getting periodic statements from other lawmakers saying they're asymptomatic but
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having mild symptoms and testing positive in the last few days. it's worth noting and this comes as washington and the capitol have really been reopening. just last week they reopened this building to some tours. we've seen a lot more tourists in the capitol, the use of mask has decreased to a bare minimum of folks wearing masks. one step towards normalcy and one step back to more covid cases. most have been, at least according to those who put out public statements, asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic cases. >> thank goodness because of the vaccines. one of the speaker was the commerce secretary, she tested positive, as did merrick garland yesterday. he was at the head table. our best wishes for a mild case for the speaker of the house. coming up in our next hour, i'll be talking to ambassador of the
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u.n. linda thomas-greenfield. that's at 12:00 eastern here on msnbc on that general assembly vote, an historic vote against russia that is right now in progress. and weapons, weapons, weapons. that is what ukraine's foreign minister wants to talk about at today's nato meeting. we'll get to that in a moment. the underdefense secretary -- the former underdefense secretary will join us next. we are live in brussels, only on msnbc. y on msnbc. [copy machine printing] ♪ ♪ who would've thought printing... could lead to growing trees. ♪
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two weeks ago it was enough to say what will be given. today it's more important to know when it will be given. and this is something that allies have to sort out and find appropriate solutions. >> that is ukraine's foreign minister, his urgent plea. he told nato his agenda is three things, quote, weapons, weapons, and weapons. this comes as questions are answered before the senate armed services committee about ukraine. joining us now, michelle
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florinoy. what more can be done? we're told javelins are moving very quickly. what do you think of what is being supplied to ukraine and the speed of the delivery? >> well, this is a critical moment when we need to pull out all of the stops as russian forces are redeploying, resupplying, reconstituting to focus on theies. now is a moment we need to flood as much as we can into ukraine to help them disrupt if not defeat a new russian line of advance. ante aircraft, and the surface-to-air missiles, eastern
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european countries could provide and obviously anti-tank systems, we're supplying javelins and anti-drones that have kinetic effects but also as admiral stavridis said, anti-ship missiles. a lot of the bombardment is coming from russian ships in the black sea area and we need to think about anti-artillery systems, which we haven't discussed and now based on what russian forces are leaving behind, we need to provide demining capabilities as well. now is the moment to pull out all the stops and be as responsive as we can to ukrainian forces as the battle intensifies in the east. >> are the ukrainians trained on anti-ship and anti-artillery weapons? >> the honest answer is i don't
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know to what extent they are but i think that we've heard some reporting that there's some limited training that has -- we've been able to undertake as we put new weapons in and my hope would be we could figure out how do that safely outside of ukraine as we supply them with those systems. >> colonel, i want to play something that general milley just said this hour at the senate hearing. >> what does winning look like? i think winning is ukraine remains a free and independent nation that it's been since 1991 with their territorial integrity in tact. that's going to be very difficult. it's going to be a long slog. this is not an easy fight that they're involved in. >> what do you make of his assessment? just a few days ago he told the house side he thinks we have to measure this war in years. do the ukrainians have the ability to sustain years of war
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against the russians with more forces and air power and long-range artillery fire. >> i think he's exactly right in the sense that this could go on for years. of course it could go on for months. none of us have got the crystal ball that's going to predict exactly how it's going to turn out. i think the real challenge here is that we look to the continuation of the will of the ukrainians to fight and this extraordinarily poor performance on the part of the russians and we start talking not on in terms of winning but ukrainian victory. that is conceivably what is in the mind of the ukrainians and a lot of us who observe this. >> it didn't seem conceivable certainly when we went into this. that wasn't the assessment going in, michelle, the best minds
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were saying within two to five days the russians with that number of forces amassed on the border of belarus, would take kyiv, which is just about 50 miles, in a matter of days. that did not happen. it wasn't against all of the mistakes that the russians made and the remarkable resilience of the ukrainian people, the heart and soul. now that we see the devastation and the crushing ability of the russians to go after civilian targets, the raping, the murder, the thousands of bodies buried under collapsed buildings, how does ukraine deal with this economically and physically? >> well, i think, you know, i think that putin has conducted these war crimes and directly targeted civilians to try to break the ukrainian will, but ironically it's had the opposite effect.
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this kind of carnage, this brutality, these war crimes have actually not only motivated the international community but is really motivating ukraine. and i think the morale boost for the ukrainian military and territorial forces having succeeded in pushing this superior military out of the area of kyiv and having them complete lip redeploy from the area, right now the will to fight on the ukrainian side is only higher -- is higher probably than it's ever been. again, we need to seize this moment and figure out how to take advantage of it and really support the ukrainians in pushing back russia in the east. but i also think it's a moment when we have to ask the larger question of how does this end? we need to be thinking not just about today but over the horizon. what are the different scenarios that could play out? who do we make sure that we get to the best possible outcomes
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from a very tragic conflict. >> and that's partly what is responsible, i believe, in my reporting on this, for some of the ambiguity in the initial statements about war crimes. i was questioning secretary blinken about it yesterday and the how does it end does have to involve putin at the table in some fashion, if there's ever going to be a cease-fire. so, you know, the accountability for what has happened is going to have to come after that or be built into any kind of a negotiation. >> this is the problem is putin has made himself such a pariah that he will ultimately be held accountable by the international community. and the question is can we find some off ram many for him to back off of his goals and his
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objectives and stop the invasion while also backing up ukraine in maintaining its territorial integrity and its future as a free and democratic state. and, you know, that's a diagram with a very small area of overlap that will be very challenging to achieve. but we have to help the ukrainians set the table to be -- to go into those negotiations in the strongest possible position. that's what these nato meetings are all about today. thank you very much. it's really good to have both of you today. there is going to be an historic vote, another subject. just hours from now, the final vote to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson as the first black woman on the supreme court. what to expect from that and the future coming up next. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." we're live in brussels today
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in just a few hours senators are going to vote to confirm judge ketanji brown jackson to the supreme court, fulfilling president biden's campaign promise to put the first black woman on the supreme court. i want to bring garrett haake and melissa murray, a professor of law and msnbc legal analyst. garrett, what's happening on the floor right now? they voted earlier on the russian trade preference and what does the timeline look look for the final vote on judge jackson? >> the discussions on russian trade relations took a little longer than some folks expected after the house passed their version of that bill quite quickly around the same time as the president's executive order but the senate did pass their updated version suspending normal trade relations with russia and belarus today, 100-0.
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on a recorded vote, a bit unusual to see a recorded unanimous vote. now that everybody's on board, everybody wanted their vote to be individually counted. on judge jackson, we expect that vote to happen sometime in the early afternoon today, perhaps around 1:45 or 2. the procedural process that got us here had the side effect of taking some of the drama out of this vote. we know, for example, where all the republicans lie on this vote. three republicans voted for all the procedural steps and came out saying they would support judge jackson, and the surprise there, mitt romney of utah, who came away quite impressed with judge jackson told me earlier in the week after meeting her he felt that she was well within the judicial mainstream, democrats are very happy to get this process done, to get it done on time and to get it done with bipartisan support, which they think is good for the
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senate and good for the legitimacy of the court to have this justice confirmed by the end of date today with bipartisan support. >> and, garrett, it really makes the point that those meetings are not just rote. they're not photo opportunities. they're for those who are thoughtful senators and care about the outcome and not just listening to their leaders and obeying the whip counts, people like mitt romney really wanted to hear answers and so did lisa murkowski and susan collins actually. >> reporter: it's so true. you saw a senator who voted for judge jackson at the lower court level vote against her here. he told me he didn't even go to her hearing the last time around. he was less interested in supporting her for a supreme court nomination but on the other side mitt romney having a personal meeting, taking the time to dig into her jurisprudence and coming out in favor. collins and murkowski both,
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murkowski in particular is known on capitol hill as being extremely difficult to lobby on things like this. you give her the information, you give her the answer to every question she asks and you wait for her to make a decision and that's the way the white house played this with judge jackson, making her available for a personal meeting in private and for follow-up questions and the results have borne few here in this bipartisan vote expected this afternoon. >> one final point to you, garrett, about all that is i think an unwritten story is the role of doug jones, the former senator from alabama who knows the senate, he knows his colleagues and was the so-called sherpa walking her through the process. she was reportedly very good when she was getting confirmed for the previous court last june. that was one of the recommendations that went in her favor when the president was making the decision, but bringing him in as a former senator to walkmer through it, knowing the ins and outs of some
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of the republican senators was a smart move. let's talk about what this means to black women in law and women everywhere and the rest of the country to have a black woman with her credibility, her stature, her dignity in handling in process now ascend to the high court. >> it's incredibly fortuitous that i am teaching gender classifications in our constitutional law class. i can point to this historic nomination that will be happening as we are in the classroom today. and i think as a black woman it's incredibly gratifying to see my own voice reflected on the high court through judge jackson, soon to be justice jackson but more importantly i think she really showed how qualified, how capable and often how overlooked this population of women lawyers are. black women are a sub substantial part but we are not
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always represented at the higher echelons, certainly not at the supreme courtin and even in large law firm, we are an underrepresented group. the depth for the short list makes clear this is a deep pool of talent that has kbon untapped for too long. >> and in clerkships, is it becoming easier for black women to also get those treasured supreme court clerkships, which she was a clerk for justice breyer. >> so i will say when i clerked for justice sotomayor, i was the only a.m. woman full stop. that is changing but change does come slowly. one of the things that has been great about the biden
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administration is they've been diversifying the courts at all levels and that will be reflected at the time these now new judges are selected. >> she's talked about what it was like to go to harvard and be discouraged by some. counselors in high school and to end up in harvard and how alone she felt going through harvard yard the first time, just all of these steps along the way where inclusion makes such a difference down the road. too late but at least something happening there. thank you very much. today is a great day in history. i'm sorry, melissa murray. i'm sorry, a little jet lagged over here. and congress have having a busy day. the house has voted two top aids
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scavino was at trump's side and navarro was supposed to be the trade minister. >> reporter: these two former trump aides are remaining extremely loyal to the former president. they have both cited executive privilege as reasons why they are not willing to cooperate with the january 6th committee but the courts have turned that argument down over and over and over again. but despite their resistance and the court's ruling in those ways on various people, they are still saying that they're not going to cooperate and so the committee acted. and then the house of representatives acted. they voted almost very partisan. there was two republicans who joined all democrats in referring to this department of
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justice for criminal contempt charges. those two republicans are the only two republicans who are on the select committee, liz cheney and adam kinzinger. now this heads to the justice department where it's up to merrick garland and the d.o.j. to determine if they are going to indict these two people. they join steve bannon and mark meadows as they're in the same company, but only the justice department has acted regarding steve bannon. they have not yet acted regarding mark meadows. despite pressure from congress and attempts to persuade the justice department from congress, it is really up to them to determine -- the justice department to determine how they are going to act and if they're going to move forward on these cases, andrea. >> and they have had the mark meadows recommendation since december 14th, leann. and of course that's why the pressure on merrick garland, the attorney general, has been so intense from democrats. thank you very much for your reporting. >> and in arizona, republican
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attorney general there has dealt a major blow to former president trump's false claim that the president actually did not lose to joe biden in arizona in 2020. the state attorney general wrote in a report there was no mass fraud or conspiracy in the 2020 election in maricopa county, the major county there. joining us is vaughn hillyard, an arizona native by birth and i guess it's most of your life there. . >> we spent some time there. let's talk about arizona and what is going on there with the government and how impactful will this attorney general decision be? >> it is opening day for the diamondbacks, you're right on that front, andrea. this is the same time here we're having the conversation about the senate report here from the arizona attorney general.
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and why is this so significant? well, it's because mark bernovich has been vying for the support of the former president. he called the president a, quote, good guy and said i think he's going to do his job. he said there was enough mass fraud and a conspiracy that ultimately cost him the arizona election. but what you just a saw in that report yesterday was no such allegation being made by mark bernovic. a week after mark berovic went up on tv and said there was no evidence of mass fraud that would have overturned the election. not only under pressure from the former president but also notable prominent republicans in arizona, it was just last fall there, mark burnovic after
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announcing his run for the u.s. senate as we hi used -- which he used his attorney general's office. and it leads to ultimately the attorney general unable to uncover any major allegations of fraud or evidence that would have overturned the election. now this is also big because clearly the former president, this will draw his ire here. and what we are seeing are the leading candidates for governor, secretary of state, not only in arizona but the likes of wisconsin, also up in michigan over the course of this weekend. and their leading gubernatorial candidate on the republican side, these individuals are still not willing to say they would have certified the 2020 election. but for those that are in office and are being pressured to prove that mass fraud like mark burnovic, they have been consistently unable to do so, andrea. >> what's going to happen now? donald trump is going to knock them silly, right?
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>> that is the struggle here, for anybody that is in office. the likes of brian kemp for arizona governor doug doocy, when they've been tasked to prove this conspiracy, they've been unable. it's notable at that last rally in january, who was not at the rally? it was mark burovic, they were at the rally there and meanwhile it was president trump, you can see him up there on that stage there in january in arizona. he was calling on burnovic to find the evidence of fraud that would have overturned the election but clearly this is an attorney general that finds himself in a very difficult position, trying to get the respect of the former president but unable to do so. >> thanks so much, vaughn hillyard. and good luck to your
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diamondbacks tonight. and the u.n. general assembly has now voted. they have voted to expel russia or suspend russia from the human rights council for three years and the vote was 93, i so, 93 votes in favor. we'll talk the u.n. ambassador coming up in the noon hour. and the families in mourning. up next. what one devastated mother told us about surviving the russian attack that killed her son. you're watching a special edition of "andrea mitchell reports." . we're in brussels. we're in brussels.
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in ukraine, more families are are trying to bury their loved ones in the wake of russian violence. the u.n. general assembly reacting to all this. that vote just correcting the final vote was 93-24 to suspend russia's involvement in the u.n. human rights counsel. symbolic but important.
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there were 58 ubstengszs. but as the families are burying their dead, nbc's molly hunter was near bucha, where ukrainians are grieving for all those that they have lost. >> reporter: marina waved us down as we arrived. it was horrific here, she says. you have no idea. my neighbor had to bury our son in her backyard, she says. you have to come see. she takes us through the back gate to the shallow grave but goes to get her neighbor, tyesa. 80-year-old tyesa has buried both her children. she says her son, roman, was 57. she'll rebury him in a cemetery when this is all over. she tells me roman was shot in the back by russian troops as he was walking away. the next morning he was dead.
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the russians are liars, she says. they're all liars. her grandson came over but it was too late. how did you find out your father had died? >> when i go here. >> reporter: so, you came back expecting to see him? >> yes. >> reporter: he's angry. >> it's bull. [ bleep] it's all [ bleep] >> reporter: heading east to fight with his father. and tyesa taking my hands, you need to have a happy life. she wants to show us pictures at her apartment. that's roman when he was little. what was he like? he was smart, she says. he spoke english. he brought me tulips on my birthday. says she doesn't have any recent photos. so, this is how she'll remember her boy. thank you so much for letting us share that.
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>> thank you, molly. >> reporter: go ahead, andrea. >> no, i was saying thank you for bringing that story to us. talk to me about her and about the people you've been meeting there. >> this was about 30 miles from kyiv, about an hour away. when i say we met her within five minutes of arriving, that's not an exaggeration. her neighbor flagged us down crying and so badly wanted to tell us and she insisted we go back to her house and that's where we met tyesa who walked us to the shallow grave where her son was buried. there's no cell service in much of the country. you saw her grandson had no idea his father had died. he came home expecting to see his father. but there was no way for her to
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call her grandchildren or any family members. we're seeing as people come up from underground after russian occupation in the suburbs outside of kyiv, they're finally learning the news from their families and it's heartbreaking. >> molly, her son being buried in their yard. and showing you those pictures of him and this handsome young man in uniform. what these people have suffered. i was watching and listening to the u.n. ambassador speaking to the general assembly and describing a woman who had been repeatedly raped time and time again for days by the russians and then had to go and see a psychiatrist when they finally left. these are wounds that are not healing, even for the survivors, molly. >> reporter: these are wounds that will stay with these survivors for a very long time.
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interesting about that specific story. that is a story line, andrea. rape is a weapon of war we have been following very closely and been trying to report it out here. interestingly, tyesa's neighbor, who flagged us down brought us init to her home, introduced us to her daughter and actually told us she'd been hiding her daughter under a pile of clothes because she was so afraid that the russian troops would come and rape her. it is something at the forefront of these women's minds, andrea. >> molly hunter, thank you for all your reporting. your stories are just so compelling and heartbreaking and real and personal. thank you. and thank you for staying with us for this special edition of "andrea mitchell reports" in brussels. we're moments away from new remarks here by secretary of state, tony blinken, concluding his meeting with nato allies and
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ukraine's foreign minister, who told his foreign diplomats that it's critical to success on the ground during this respite while russian forces are regrouping. the u.s. and allies taking further action against russia, voting to suspend russia's membership in the u.n. human right's counsel, just days after viewing the horrors in bucha in a video played for the security council by president zelensky. and house speaker nancy pelosi says she's tested positive for covid. she was at a white house event attended by president biden and former president obama celebrating the passage of obamacare and the affordable care act. we're a few hours from history being made with judge ketanji brown jackson becoming the first african-american woman to be confirmed by the senate to serve on the sup

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