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first time since vice president harris has tested positive for covid, with questions still outstanding right now? like when was her last negative test? has president biden been tested since they were together last week? and how will her diagnosis in the near term affect action in the senate? and lloyd austin planning to move heaven and earth to help ukraine. he wants to help president zelenskyy defeat the kremlin. u.s. intel helped ukraine protect air defenses, shooting down russian troops. i'm hallie jackson here in washington, joined by senior correspondent kelly o'donnell and john torres.

in this setting, viewers will see a familiar face, dr. ashish jha stepping into his role with the covid organization. feels like there's two pieces to this, kell. there is the sort of politics messaging piece of this, which is this administration walking this line as they've been trying to do for several months now. covid is here, we have to learn to live with it, and we also have to take precautions. there is also the impact, as you put on your correspondent hat, some things on the agenda like nominations. >> reporter: there is a lot here, and it is just a coincidence, but a very helpful one, that dr. jha is making his first appearance in the briefing room today. that was scheduled to happen, anyway. it is more than timely. it will be very useful to have his expertise in the briefing room because of this positive covid test with the vice

president. you and i went through this with the last president before vaccines. it's a very different world now, but there are implications. it's always a concern when someone in the constitutional line has an illness of any kind. and the vice president has indicated that she's not yet experiencing any symptoms, perhaps she never will. this was a case of she came back from several days in california, her home state, and was coming to work this morning at the white house, and as is the normal routine, the rhythm of testing that she and anyone who gets close to the president goes through, she took her -- first the rapid test. that was positive. then they did a pcr test. that was positive, and she did not go to the oval office to a meeting she was scheduled to attend with the president. she went back to her residence at the naval observatory. she was last with the president on easter monday, the easter egg roll when she was with her husband, the second gentleman, with the president and first

lady for that festive event, and they have not seen each other since, according to aides. that is kind of off the form except for when they were traveling this past week. otherwise it would have been more common for them to be in meetings and close contact. the president did phone the vice president to make sure she has what she needs. she did, of course, have both of her vaccines and both of the boosters. aides say with that, at age 57 without any significant health findings that any of us are aware of, it is expected that she should do well through the course of this. there are no guarantees when it comes to health, but she's got the best medicine and the best health care available to her. still, it's always a concern when you talk about her other job, being president of the senate. there are a couple senators who are also out with covid. it's a razor thin margin, 50-50 in the senate.

the president trying to get some of his nominees confirmed in the senate will run up against that. the vice president has the job of breaking the tie on capitol hill. she will not be doing that at least in the next five days. in a couple instances, there is a bit of a margin, so she would not be needed for that role. there were some nominations that were expected to come on the floor that with the absence of two senators and the vice president, that will likely be held when they have full strength. there are real implications to this, and, of course, the president is 79, due to turn 80 in november, and there are always concerns about his health and wellness. i asked jen psake last week, would it be a failure if the

president got covid? she said no, and there was even a likelihood the president could get covid. the cases are so widespread. she was in california, may have contracted it there. we don't know the source of her infection. even with vaccines and boosters, people are testing positive. hallie? >> kelly o'donnell, thank you for that. vice president harris is double vacced and double boosted. it seems like she'll be fine, especially with all the health care she has access to. >> she'll be doing well. she is asymptomatic, she got tested in a routine testing and that's where they found she was positive. she has two boosters and both vaccines. what they're going to stop you

from is having the severe symptoms, the hospitalizations and dying from covid. she falls into that category definitely. one thing we do know is she'll have to go through that isolation period, which according to the cdc, is a five-day period which actually starts tomorrow. she'll be going through sunday, and then monday she can go back into public but will have to wear a mask the next five days and be careful. unless she starts developing symptoms, ali. otherwise she should be good to go and asymptomatic throughout the week. >> there are still some questions outstanding. we'll see if jen psaki answers those. we also want to get to the war in ukraine and this new pledge for help.

they will talk specifically what about ukraine needs to defend itself. >> so i would like this group to leave today with a transparent understanding of ukraine's near term security requirements, because we're going to keep moving heaven and earth so that we can meet them. >> we're joined by ken delaney who covers national security for us, as well as the intelligence staff to europe. when we talk about helping ukraine in this fight, sharing intel has been a big piece of this, and these very startling new details that you have as to how much of a difference that may have made in the early days of this war. >> yeah, the administration have said they are sharing intelligence, but they haven't been wanting to share the stories. we all dug in and we kept

saying, how we don't want russia to know the blowback plan. i want to make clear everything we're reporting, we've not been asked to hold back. this is something the sources verified. at the beginning of the war, one of the reasons the ukranian air defensive survived the russian attack is because the intelligence were telling them when and where the russians were going to strike. they were hitting them and then hitting empty fields. the other case, they helped ukraine with the russians. they said, shoot down a russian transport full of russian soldiers. it's an important relationship that our sources say have really affected the course of this war. >> caliperry is joining us, too,

of where this fight is on the ground sfchlt talk us through it. >> so the heaviest sfigt in frlt. they daul phase 2, to the eastern part of the as they've talked about fmplt near that nuclear power plant, rockets struking near that facility. thernlt you have wla you're seeing now. this is video outside lirpine, and you're hearing some of this as you were talking to him rememberly, and you have a krogs this country home run you have,

alana is coming home to nothing. she tried techl tumd take a listen to part of what she told us. >> translator: it's scary. it's horrible. it's very scary. andly everything that's been vashl account. a person deprived under the circumstances of everything. >> as you laid out, halley rkts the die metly tmplt trug fund some group to a cessation of violence. on the other side you have germany calling for more weapons, trying to increase the speed of which the united states and its allies are fronting and getting those weapons to them, especially front half of the

country where we're seeing the most fighting. >> it's so comfortable to hear that, cal, and you have them saying the threat of the eastern part of the country should not be lightened down. >> the west complains about our supplying and our friends around the ukranian if fmplt. they gave more for vietnam than the most sophisticated rkts air defense system in the world, so

yes, r it's vlt. like i said, complain all you want. i'm not listening to it. >> our thanks to cal and ken as well. coming up, new clues from the supreme court today t. she may stichld. his claim, he acted in self defense when he tackled the police officer to the ground. plus harvard's $150 million commitment to tie itself to slavery. that's later in the show. e itse slavery. that's later in the show , dad. that's right, robert. and it's never too early to learn you could save with america's number one motorcycle insurer. that's right, jamie. but it's not just about savings. it's about the friends we make along the way. you said it, flo. and don't forget to floss before you brush. your gums will thank you. -that's right, dr. gary. -jamie?

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justices might let biden end the immigration rule. it is being heard on expedited appeal. and questions got into issues of how immigration officials decide when to let the asylum seekers go and when to detain them. >> nothing about this injunction actually requires negotiation with a foreign power, but in the extent that to some extent this court thought it did beats, of course, the foreign affairs powers between congress -- >> i'm sorry, i have to stop you there, general. you can get the other four questions, but what do you mean it doesn't require negotiation with a foreign power? what are we supposed to do, just drive truckloads of people into mexico and leave them without negotiating with mexico? >> nbc's justice correspondent pete williams is here with more. our chief scotus tea leaf reader

for us, pete, so please do the job for us. >> okay. there is not enough detention facilities at the border to detain everybody who comes here to seek asylum. congress has simply never given the government the money to do that, and the government is well aware of that, and congress is well aware of what the government has done instead. what the biden administration says is because it can't detain everybody, it will detain the people who need the most detained, people with a criminal background or an outstanding or some kind of security threat, and many others will parole or allow them to remain in the u.s. while their asylum claims are being considered. what texas and missouri say is, no, if you can't detain them, then you have to send them back to mexico. really that's what the issue is all about, and the question is whether the law actually requires the government to send them back to mexico. that's the position that texas and missouri take.

that's what a federal judge said in ordering the government to keep this program going, but i don't think there are five votes on the supreme court after listening to today's argument that would agree with the states. i think many members of the court were persuaded that what the law says here is that coming into the u.s., can be allowed to stay in the u.s. when would benefit the public interest. what the biden administration argues is that there are many components to that, and not the least of which is what you just heard in that exchange with justice elena kagan, which is there is a big foreign policy cost. you can't just send them back to mexico, you have to ask mexico's permission to do that, and mexico can extract promises in return. so for all those reasons, it did seem to me that a majority of dhhig admittedly super conservative supreme court is going to let the biden administration shut this down. >> pete williams, thank you very much for that. appreciate it. next up how that

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a restorative shower for body and mind. the fourth trial is being started against thomas webster who was attacked by a flagpole. the jury trials ended with guilty verdicts on all counts with hundreds more defendants awaiting their day in court on all charges. let me bring in ryan, who is following this case for us and all others. ryan, what's particularly interesting about this one is this claim of self-defense that this accused rioter that this rioter webster is making here. >> it's sort of a wrongful claim

because he's on restricted at this time. he said he actually pushed the bike rack up against the officer. i'm not sure how this will fly with the jury when they can see on video that there is this push forward and ultimately there is some sort of collision between the officer and the former officer here, and then there's this whole scuffle afterwards. ultimately this former nypd cop ends up tackling this officer to the ground. in court his lawyer started to downplay that and suggested he was bringing him down to the ground to avoid getting hit. but if you step back for a second, this man is part of a mob that's trying to storm the u.s. capitol and he's violating his presence behind the barricade to begin with. >> how long do you expect this trial to last? >> most of the trials have gone pretty quickly, so i think we'll find a verdict probably by the

end of the week. >> all right, ryan. thank you. i'm sure we'll see you soon. democrats are talking about potential dangers under the social media giant's new ownership. here's ro khaana on some questions he wants answered. >> i think there should be a hearing on what is the commitment to make sure this is truly independent, that you don't have situations where former governments have leverage, that you have transparency on who is making the decisions. >> with me now is congressional economic policy reporter for the "washington post," tony ramen. walk us through the concerns that democrats have and why. >> among democrats, the big concern is that elon musk is going to reverse some of the decisions that twitter has made with respect to content moderation, and there is one in particular, and that's the banning of now former president donald trump. remember, twitter banned trump shortly after the 2020 election, believing that he had finally

crossed a line in sharing disinformation and other sorts of abusive or incorrect content on the platform, and there are a lot of republicans who are pressuring elon musk, now that he has taken over this company, to reverse that and to reverse some of the other decisions that twitter has made when it comes to more aggressively policing its content. democrats don't want to see that change. they actually would like to see more content moderation, not just on twitter but on other social media companies. in many ways this transaction has become this political rorschach test in washington about how social media companies should police their platforms. >> what is the tool in the toolbox, then? i feel like we keep coming back to this social media, which is it seems like they want to give more freedom to social media companies but less direction on how to do that. >> right, i think more people on capitol hill want some consensus

on what should be done with social media companies. but at the end of the day, while there is a concern about this, democrats want to see more dependency to police the bad stuff online, and republicans want to see less of that. they have been out there very publicly in criticizing twitter, alleging that there is conservative bias in the platform's decisions even though there's really no evidence in that in some of the decisions he has made. in terms of the levers, yes, they can hold twitter liable for its decisions, they can leverage policy in the day of the twitter elects, but that's hard to do when they don't even agree on what the problem is. >> how quickly would democrats need to move here? >> well, i mean, i've covered this stuff for well over a

decade and we never got a privacy law and we never really did anything on section 30. so i get that elon musk less than 24 hours ago purchased this company and maybe there could be significant changes the way capitol hill looks at this, but some of the laws about privacy regulation, that's been in the books for a long, long time. congress can ask elon musk to testify, or it could force him to testify, and that latter option definitely takes time. but none of the committees that are in charge have gone so far as to say they're going to demand he come up and explain himself. though i will say that social media companies are often dragged to capitol hill. that's not something elon musk has had to deal with very much when it comes to his leadership of tesla or spacex. >> tony romm, the expert on all of this. glad to have you on the show today. up next, a zero covid policy

like never before. in beijing the city races to test almost everyone. an exclusive first look at the burning epidemic on working women years before the pandemic. don't miss this, coming up.

delta airlines says today they're going to pay their flight attendants during boarding as the biggest company starts a union drive. right now flight attendants only get paid starting with when the plane doors close, so this is a new development. people in beijing are panicked, kind of freaking out that the city is going to enter

a lockdown like shanghai because of a small but growing covid outbreak in the chinese capitol. here's more. >> reporter: another day of mass testing for millions here in beijing. there will be three rounds of it for most districts before the end of the week to control these small outbreaks. there is a lot of anxiety here that a lockdown may be coming. that's triggered panic buying at supermarkets where some store shelves were stripped bare, despite assurances from the city that they do have enough food. they are worried after seeing the chaos in shanghai withshort and people not able to get medical care because of massive cases in hospitals. authorities are starting to use tactics to enforce it.

they're starting to put metal fencing outside apartment buildings to prevent people from being able to get out. security guards are on duty 24/7, and still covid cases are on the rise and china's government is not relenting, even though the economy is showing signs of strain. global markets have been tumbling on concerns that china's zero covid restrictions are going to have a severe impact on supply chains, they're going to hike inflation, and for u.s. consumers that's going to mean waiting a lot longer to pay a lot more for goods that are made in china. shanghai is seen as more important for manufacturing and shipping, but the sense is that a lockdown here and in beijing, the capitol, will cause further disruptions on supply chains, disruptions that will reverberate for months and around the world. >> our janice mackie ferrer reporting there. we have developing news on capitol hill with nbc news confirming that meredith

hawthorne has been cited for bringing a loaded gun to the airport today. let me bring in julie from the hill. julie, bring us up to speed. >> madeline hawthorne from north carolina was spotted in his bag when he was going through the tsa security like everyone does when they travel a loaded gun. tsa officials actually seized that gun you see there on your screen and they cited him for possession of a dangerous weapon on city property. they then released him. investigators said he was cooperative with them. but this can be punishable up to a $13,000 fine. we'll tell you, though, hallie, this isn't the first time the congressman has been stopped with a loaded gun. in fact, he actually had one on him when the january 6 riot happened last year. he said he was protected that way. so this is someone who quite often travels and carries around

a loaded gun with him. >> any response from his office yet, julie? >> not yet. we reached out to his office. they haven't responded yet so we'll tell you when that happens. now the pandemic effect on women with this new study finding a burnout epidemic for women who work that's taking such a big toll that some are now considering leaving their jobs or even leaving work, meaning leaving the work force completely. we have ali vitale with more. i know this is the first of this kind of case you've gotten your hands on. >> yeah, they said it was a warning moment because women were in a work force that was stretching them too thin, pulling them at home, pulling them into the work force. now, though, a year later, it seems like the more things change, the more they may stay the same. >> how would you say you feel right now about the way you're juggling it all? >> exhausted. >> reporter: the last year has

been a mixed bag for maryland mom julia martin. >> being able to work from home, still, is very helpful in that respect, because it does let me spend a little more time with my kids and be a little more flexible when they have to stay home. but i think that pressure is still there. >> reporter: we first talked about that pressure a year ago, at the height of the national pandemic's negative impact on working women. >> i think there is a lot of pressure on women to work like there is no other consideration, and a lot of pressure on them to make sure they're spending quality time with their kids. >> reporter: but what one survey described last year as a perfect storm raging against women because of the pandemic is now a burnout epidemic. >> it's not exactly an inspiring trend. >> it's not an inspiring trend. >> reporter: a survey of 5,000 women in ten countries shows widespread burnout. 53% of women saying their stress levels are higher than they were a year ago with mental health lagging and work/life balance

nearly nonexistent, all getting women to look at their current job. >> for employers, it's a massive drawback. for employers that want to retain amazing women, this is a challenge. >> i'm optimistic that i can stay where i am, but i certainly know other moms are changing jobs because they found their workplaces are less flexible or quitting because they don't feel like they can keep up with the demands of going into the office in person. >> reporter: how women are working now is also an essential factor. despite widespread talk about flexible work policies, only 30% of women said their employers offer it. 94% said it would impact their career if they went for it. allowing caregivers, predominantly women, the ability to work from home while

excluding them from the important aspects of workplace life. >> a lot of women are dialing in to meetings. are they going to feel excluded? guess what? 60% of women who work in a hybrid way said they already felt exclusion. >> i feel like we've had a lot of conversations and moms were very honest about how stressed we are and how burnt out we are, and nothing has changed from a policy level, from a public health status. >> do you still feel like women are at front of that conversation? >> absolutely not. i feel like women are being pulled to, well, we'll figure it out. >> hallie, there is a bright spot here, but it's a small one. as i was talking to them, i said, is there anything that's good news here? technically, there's 1% more inclusive companies, right?

they hit certain metrics that these women can score that make them feel they have a flexible workplace with a culture that makes them feel like they can both work and be a parent. but the fact it's only a 1% increase every year is stunning. you had a whole year of a national conversation about the dmachbds that society in the workplace plays on women, and the fact that these women are back in the place of "you'll figure it out" is really stunning. >> what's the onus on the employer here? >> the onus on the employer is to realize this is not a one step approach, and it's not just the matter of make it flexible, because that has impacts, too, of if you're not being seen in the office, does proximity bias start to seep in. it is a warning employers are going to need to heed because there's not only a lot of job openings right now, but it's ate brain drain. you're losing really talented,

amazing women if you don't figure out how to keep them. >> i'm so glad i'll see you in a couple hours in the behind-the-scenes piece of how this all came about. got a little bit of news from that white house briefing we told you about at the top of the show, with these questions around this positive covid diagnosis for vice president kamala harris. dr. ashish jha addressing this. >> i wouldn't say it's just a matter of time, but, of course, it is possible, like the president, that any american can get covid. he is vaccinated and boosted. he's very well protected. he has good protocols around him to protect him from getting infected. but there is no 100% anything. i think the key focus is we have to continue to protect the president. that's what the protocols around him are designed to do. >> so the press secretary off to the side was asked by our

kristen welker was last questioned, and it was yesterday. dr. patel, it's good to have you with us. are you satisfied with what we're hearing from the white house now in response to the highest level, highest profile member of the administration so far testing positive for covid? >> hallie, i didn't get to listen to the remainder if dr. jha touched on this, but i'm disappointed to hear he didn't reemphasize the availability of treatments. we all know the president and the vice president, all the members of cabinet, have incredible access, but i think the american public is wondering a lot of things. well, would he get treatments? is vice president harris going to get paxolivid, for example, if she has certain issues of

high risk? she's not, and the president in so many high-profile events, dr. jha says we're doing everything we can to protect the president. wouldn't that include masking and making sure everyone around him is masked? >> one of the lines the white house has been trying to walk here and the issues they're trying to navigate is what you're touching on, dr. patel, that we have boosters, we have treatments and it's something serious we need to keep up with here. >> yes, absolutely. there is an ability to take precautions and still attend gatherings, engage with people, have celebrations. when those two things are not mutually exclusive, businesses can be open and robust, we need details and precautions. what does that mean? if we're in a crowded indoor space, i'm probably going to

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harvard university today says it will pledge $100 million in this effort to address its role in slavery, part of an initiative called harvard and the legacy of slavery formed by the school's president who announced it all just a few hours ago. >> the truth is that slavery played a significant part in our institutional history. using the intellectual

reputational, and financial resources at our disposal, we will create capacity for meaningful and lasting change as we continue to reckon with our past. >> let me bring in nbc news correspondent trymaine lee. this is essentially a $100 million in essence academic fund, looking into the the roots of slavery at harvard. >> $100 million is a lot of money, but still just a blip in harvard's $53 billion endowment. there had been pressure for decades for the university to not only acknowledge the role that slavery had played in shaping this institution but also to do something about it, and there are some pretty important points in the plan that harvard has presented today, that they'll be creating educational opportunities for those who have descended from enslavement in america, but in

particular those who descend from people who are enslaved actually on the campus of harvard. one other point that i think is really important is that it said it will, again, create programs for hbcus, but also engage with descendants of enslaved people in the south and caribbean. there's a big debate in the reparations kind of community about who should rightly get reparations, people who descend from american enslavement without fully acknowledging that the slave trade was indeed international, and there were ties between the caribbean, the south and new england. that's a pretty big deal. >> we've seen other universities announce similar initiatives fairly recently, brown, georgetown, princeton. is this just a few elite institutions doing this here, or to you get the sense that this is perhaps the build of a better reckoning when it comes to the legacy of slavery at some of these institutions? >> i'd caution with the idea of a reckoning, but we think about georgetown university, brown university, now harvard really with these public acknowledgments with the role

that slavery has played in shaping the institutions but also the great harms that have been done, harbored for 150 years. enslaved upwards of 70 people, right? those are real families who can show real harm, and so this is proof of concept basically that institutions with deep pockets, again, largely grown by the slave trade selling and buying of human beings, this may be the beginning of something, a reckoning, i don't know, but something for sure. >> i know you talked to current harvard students about this idea, this topic back in the fall. what's your sense of how they are seeing this or might see this? >> you know, there is a really active group of, you know, student activists on campus who say that every single day they're walking into buildings with the names of enslavers on those builders, which is especially harmful for those who descend from enslaved people. there have been bones that have been dug up that might actually be the bones of enslaved people. they've been calling for harvard to take some action. i think for many of the students i've been talking with this is a

big step forward in acknowledging the real history and the real pain that this institution has caused. >> trymaine lee, thank you very much. the pennsylvania republican senate primary three weeks away, three weeks until voting day, and things are getting really intense. nearly half of voters don't know who they're going to vote for. the two front runners, donald trump endorsed celebrity dr. me mehmet oz and david mccormack, last night saw them shoulder to shoulder going after each other. >> the reason mehmet keeps talking about president trump's endorsement is because he can't run on his own position. >> dishonest dave is at it again. he went groveling to president trump with these types of allegations. president trump saw right through them, did not endorse him. >> joining us now is nbc news correspondent dasha burns in lieu luzerne county, pennsylvania. >> reporter: this might be the most hotly watched race of the

midterms. on the gop side you've got big money. you've got big celebrity, and you've got big time warfare on the air waves here, and all of that spilled over onto the debate stage last night as you just saw there, oz at every turn touted his endorsement from the former president, the fact that he got that support over his opponent, dave mccormick. mccormick taking every opportunity he could to paint oz as a liberal, as a flip-flopper, a lot of fierce fighting on that stage. we watched with four undecided voters, and i asked them for their reaction just to the overall tone of the debate, and here's what they had to say. >> i felt there was a lot of attacking. there was a lot of back and forth. there was a lot of name dropping. don't tell me what's bad about him. tell me what's good about you. i'm always turned off by negative campaigns. i'm always turned off by -- >> the bashing. >> the bashing. tell me what you're going to do

good. >> reporter: and hallie, the big question here, it cuts to the heart of trump's influence over the party, how much does his endorsement matter to voters. all four of these voters are big trump fans, but what they told me last night is trump's endorsement of oz didn't necessarily make them oz fans. that did not really move the needle. i listened to them audibly groan every time oz mentioned the trump endorsement and the groans grew louder as he kept mentioning that endorsement. they were also frustrated with the lack of focus on real pennsylvania issues. we watched at this gas station, hallie, last time i was here this is kind of a local hangout spot. last time gas was about $3.80 a gallon. they really want candidates who feel the pain. the surprise winner for our crew was jeff bartos.

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