no. that you don't wait for somebody else to validate you. if the door is closed, you will cut your own door. and nas what we're seeing time and time again. and this is full of women, especially older women, who in earlier generations it was even harder. it was still hard but it is even harder. so said i know what i'm going to do and i'm going to make it happen, whether or not somebody else gives it to me. so we're looking for self-starters and take the initiative and don't let anybody stop them. >> and it is an incredible message for younger women and that is why our summit on international women's day in abu dhabi is called the 30 under 30 list and 50 under 50 and mentoring each other. nominations are open nor the next annual 50 over 50 list. this year's list open to women's whose work is primarily based in the u.s., born on or before

december 31st, 1971. no lying up about your age. that actually happened. nominations are open until august 1st. but sooner you submit, the better. head to forbes.com to nominate someone today or nominate yourself. chief content officer of forbes media and editor, randall lane, thank you very much. it is now one minute past the top of the hour. the fourth hour of "morning joe." and today is primary day across a number of southern states including georgia, alabama, arkansas and texas. in a moment, steve kornacki will break down the major races an update us on the republican senate race in pennsylvania that is headed to the courts i think. still too close to call. also ahead, the latest on the war in ukraine. where an ashamed russian diplomat quits over moscow's invasion. plus our conversation this morning with house speaker nancy

pelosi. it was wonderful. willie. >> let's begin in georgia where polls open a just little over two hours ago. today's vote will have a major impact on the fall's midterms. potentially at stake, the future of the way elections in the state are overseen and possibly how the next president is chosen. one of the biggest battles includes the republican primary for governor which pits former senator david perdue backed by former president trump against brian kemp who refused to overturn the state's 2020 election results thereby drawing the ire of trump. herschel walker, a legend in the state is seeking his party nomination to face raphael warnock and brad raffensperger who defied president trump and is facing jody hice. she voted against certifying the

2020 results and is a a supporter of the big lie. donald trump and his former vice president mike pence are taking competing sides in one of georgia's biggest republican primary races. pence held a rally for governor kemp yesterday calling him, quote, one of the most successful republican governors in the country at the same time that rally was taking place, trump called in a tele-rally to show his support for kemp's primary challenge, former senator perdue who has been trailing kemp in the latest polling. a call in, joe, but not an appearance by president trump who could see the writing on wall as polls have this anywhere from 20 to 30 points for governor kemp. >> yeah. and of course, spreading the big lie continuing to spread the big lie, have the big lie spread by his candidates, it is crazy. and it is backfiring against him. and katty kay, if you're a republican in georgia, donald trump, not your best friend, trump has brought a wrecking

ball to republican politics in georgia over the past couple of years. he cost republicans both senate seats in georgia. he cost republicans, in fact control of the united states senate. he went after the governor of georgia said he would vote for stacey abrams before governor kemp. and he pushed herschel walker, somebody that mitch mcconnell and republicans in washington did not want to be a guy from out of state and doesn't know a whole lot about politics, from out of state. he pushed him to be the senate candidate. now he's behind raphael warnock by five. i mean, everything this guy touches in georgia politics dies on the vine politically. >> raphael warnock is in the senate today largely because of donald trump, right. and perdue didn't manage to make it last time around, i remember driving around the state back then and perdue was trying and

didn't manage to do it. it doesn't look like he's going to make it into the governor's mansion this time around either. i think the race to watch is the secretary of state because that could be where donald trump does have some traction still in the state. it's an important race between brad raffens burger and jody hice. the polling in april had them neck-and-neck. and the only policy studying him is that he supports the notion that the 2020 election was stolen and that donald trump actually won the state of georgia. he could still be georgia's next secretary of state and the question is if that race is close in 2024, which is why in some way s we're watching all of these primaries now, let's suppose that jody hice win the secretary of state nomination and becomes georgia's secretary of state. what would he do if donald trump were the candidate and the call

came to him from candidate donald trump saying, can you find me those 11,800 votes. it is fairly safe to assume he would try to do that. woe try to do what he could to swing the election in donald trump's favor. he said that is what he's going to do. he would oversee the counting and the management of election. it is an incredibly important position and the position at the moment where donald trump looks most likely to get his guy into office this this primary, in this election season. >> well let's bring in right now nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki at the big board. steve, in 2020, we saw the rural vote way down in the special election, the senate special elections that ended up putting democrats in charge. because a lot of trump voters were not interested in voting in election that trump said was rigged. 2022, after us hearing about the new laws being jim crow 2.0, and

how it was going to keep people from the polls. the early voting, the turnout in georgia, record-breaking mass. what does that mean for today's races, do you think. >> it speaks to the incredible high interest. the stats and the early voting in georgia are through the roof. so there is a ton of interest in these races in terms of what it will say about the outcome. it would be a shock if david perdue trump's candidate ends up winning this or even forcing kemp into a runoff. remember georgia, a runoff state. you have to get more than 50% to avoid that. but here is the average of the polling. kemp has been leading by 20 and comfortably over the 50 in the polling we've seen. so that is what kemp takes into today. and you have herschel walker. he does have some opposition in the republican primary but expecting him to carry the primary tonight easily.

as as you've been talking about, this is the mystery. this is the wild card. the one that i suspect tonight in georgia we'll spend the most time watching. we don't have a ton of polling, as katty kay mentioned. despite the drama around the count in 2020, these candidates don't have the kind of name recognition and profile you have in a gubernatorial race. so there is a lot of suspense. but raffensperger and then two other candidates, david belisle who ran for secretary of state in 2018. so there is a couple of questions here. one, does this end up in a runoff? do we end up in a situation where nobody gets 50% and hice and raffensperger becomes a marquee race that then plays out over the next several weeks as the lone statewide runoff in georgia. that is one possibility. again, we're kind of going into this with some mystery here because we don't really know what the polling looks like in

this race. but this is the one i suspect we're going to spend the most time talking about tonight. and if you look at some of the other races, some races voting and key races. this one here, in south texas, on the border, the region of the country that is swung very, very sharply between 16 and 20 from the democrats toward donald trump. heavily hispanic counties on the border. here is a democratic primary. a moderate democrat, henne barely held off jessica cisneros. could she knock him off in the runoff. there are a lot of republicans that hopes she does because this would have been unthinkable and they believe it is winnable for republicans if democrats nominate cisneros. and then the other big race in texas, is this it for the bush dynasty in texas. you have george p. bush against ken paxton and you see the

ground that bush has to make up there. other races, arkansas, and alabama, very interesting dynamic. if you could get the alabama one up here. just very interesting dynamic. because this is the senate race with donald trump endorsed mo brooks and then pulled his endorsement and in the latest polling showing brooks surging and last night mike durant said that if brooks makes the runoff with britt, durant said he will endorse brooks. so despite losing donald trump's endorsement, we are now looking at a possibility that this is fascinating, does he make that runoff and go to that runoff with momentum. >> that is such a fascinating race. it is the to fill the senate seat by the retiring richard shelby in the state of alabama. you have catty britt there that you just pointed out. but talk about the move from month brooks. he was trailing in the polls when donald trump pulled back

his endorsement and said we should perhaps turn the page and look ahead rather than looking back at 2020. he lost that support. but now over the last couple of months has picked up double-digits and right there within the margin of error again. >> if you look at polling average. you have britt in the mid-30s and brooks and durant about five to seven points behind her. the polling was favorable to make durant in this race. he's fallen off over the last few months. it was very significant that i thought that last night he indicated woe endorse brooks if brooks edges him out and getting into the runoff against britt, durant indicating he would endorse brooks. britt's resume, the chief of staff to richard shelby, she was the head of the alabama business council. both brooks and durant trying to run, i know brooks is an incumbent member of congress but both trying to capture the outsider anti-establishment energy to paint katie britt as a candidate of the insiders, of the establishment and it is a

real fascinating dynamic that brooks has that endorsement with trump withdrawn and has suddenly gotten momentum in this race. and if he could get through a runoff with britt, it is not out of the question that he could win. >> we're want to hear from you about the next race. so stand by. pennsylvania's razor thin republican senate primary which still does not have a winner a week after election day is now headed to court. candidate dave mccormick has filed a lawsuit to make sure any mail-in ballots that don't have a written date on the exterior envelope, but were still received on time, are counted. nbc news reports the suit notes that the state supreme court has previously ruled in favor of counting such ballots. and that a federal appeals court ruled friday in a different state a race that rejecting ballots on slight technicality is against federal law.

trump endorsed dr. mehmet oz, sent a letter over the weekend telling counties they should not accept those votes. so steve, what is the latest in the vote counts and then i don't know if you could prognosticate given this court battle. >> we could show you what the universe of remaining bouts is. and so right now you have oz with the lead here. you see state wide of 987 votes over mccormick. so what is left? there are approximately 200 overseas or sorry again i write this seems to happen these days. i'm trying to write the number 200. there is about 200 overseas military ballots yet to be counted. they'll be counted tomorrow. there are about 800 remaining provisional ballots. they have broken exactly evenly so far between oz and mccormick. so the 800 votes, you won't expect it to swing this much either way. so this comes down to, if the number works here, about 5400

max mail in votes. >> you got it. >> so that is the key number here. and that litigation that you're talking about, i think is going to decide how close to 5400 we get in terms of mail-in votes that get counted here. the expansive reading and everything you're talking about, if you end up counting all of the ballots that didn't have the date, but did have the signature, i think you could get close to 5400 mail-in ballots and that number could come down some if they don't get counted. mccormick, he's filing that suit and doing better than oz when it comes to the mail-in ballots so he needs as many counted and if he could get them counted and he needs to win them by an even bigger clip than he's been winning by to erase the 987. but we're in that automatic recount zone. if you're within a half a point, there is an automatic recount that gets triggered.

so for mccormick, catching oz may be too much to do. could he cut it down to 300, 400, could he cut it down close enough where it is plausible in a recount he actually pull as head. because if it is a couple of hundred votes in a recounts, that wouldn't be unheard of it. when it is closer to a thousand, that is tougher in a recount. >> but mccormick does better for mail-in ballots. he's fighting for survival here. >> that is it. and whatever gets counted from the mail-in ballots will tighten this somewhat. mccormick has not been winning them as such a rate even if all of these were counted you were expected him to overtake oz. but again, if your mccormick, knowing there is a recount coming, a mandatory state wide

recount coming if you could cut the gap of a couple of hundred votes then your odds in that recount, that could be close enough. when it is more like a thousand votes and you have a recount, it is much less likely, more rare that you see the outcome actually change. >> steve kornacki, thank you very much. we'll see you tomorrow morning with results from today's races. look forward to that. and for more information on the latest voting rules in your state, go to nbcnews.com/plan your vote. and this morning, a russian diplomat resigns in protest. saying russia, quote, basically got everything wrong and what that means for the larger fight. plus what house speaker nancy pelosi told us this morning about the challenges democrats are facing heading into the midterms. and the investigation that uncovered decades of abuse. and stonewalling of victims within the southern baptist community. the shock waves it is sending

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ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said at least 87 people were killed in a single russian air strike last week in the northern city of chern eve. he does not specify whether casualties were military or civilian. but it would mark ukraine's biggest military death toll in a single strike of the war so far. a russian diplomat at the u.n. office in geneva has quit over moscow's invasion of ukraine. blasting the war as a disgrace in a crime against the people of ukraine and russia. in a resignation email sent to other foreign diplomats on monday, boris bonder wrote in part, for 20 years of my diplomatic career i've seen different turns of our foreign policy but never have i been so

ashamed of my country on february 24th this year. it represents the public break from the kremlin by a russian government official since the start of the war. russia's embassy in washington was not available for comment. and the u.k. ministry of defense has russia has increased operations in ukrainian eastern donbas region. the ministry said there has been strong ukrainian resistance with forces occupying well dug in defensive positions. ukraine's long established joints force operation likely retains effective command and control of the front. russia has however achieved some localized success due in part to concentrating artillery units. katty kay, i want to go back to the diplomat at the u.n. who resigned. we have seen some examples of this. though they've been vanishingly rare, of elites inside russia criticizing the war last week the russian general comes to mind who was on tv criticizing. he immediately or at least a day later came out and sort of

clarified his remarks, probably at some suggestion from the government. i think you would speak to this better than i. but there was some hope that as these images came back from war and the impact at home felt by the russians that there could be a movement to criticize putin that hasn't quite materialized yet. >> i've been doing a round of interviews of europeans and american officials here in d.c. and one of the things that keeps coming up as a surprising factor has been the position of the elites. i think early on in the war, there was a sense that the elites were shocked by what had a happened. they didn't come out and voice a lot of support for the invasion. but since then, they've been remarkably quiet. i mean, part of the reason for this sanctions targeting the oligarchs was an early hope that thealig arcs might put pressure on vladimir putin to reverse the offensive and pull back out of ukraine again. that clearly didn't happen. and now the speculation is that

the oligarchs themselves don't have a ton of power but that the elites have accepted this invasion and accepted what vladimir putin is doing. it is been a source of some surprise. i think to people who watch russia closely to european diplomats in particular who know vladimir putin, who know the kremlin and the circles of power, they expected that there could be more of a break with the elites than we've seen. so this is why in a sense we're also surprised by this diplomat in geneva, because it is so rare. it was interesting to hear max boot say he's done this out of reach of vladimir putin because he's sitting in geneva. andre scrip ol was poisoned in the united kingdom so no one is out of reach off putin's goons. but it is a brave thing and a rare thing that he's done. >> very bold. our next guest calls it the southern baptist a --

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that does. and it is unfortunate some of the republicans who claim to be pro-choice, for the decision, we call it a decision of the women, of the family, with her doctors, her family, make those decisions. but no, i think that it was really important to make that vote. i think it was most unfortunate that those profess to be supporting a woman's decision in this regard found that to be too much because that is roe v. wade, that is the enshrinement of roe v. wade. so in terms of your larger question, i think women, you've heard me say before president lincoln said public sentiment is everything. with it you could accomplish anything, but without it you have nothing. and people have to know. so women have to know how pervasive this is. i mean, as a catholic, i try to talk some of my colleagues,

republican colleagues some years ago into supporting what the catholic church was asking us to do for global family planning. natural family planning. which our law allows to happen. and they said we're not for family planning. domestically, or globally. we're against it. now that was family planning. that wasn't anything beyond that. so, understand what is at risk here and again, i think it is very insulting to women to have their ability to make their own decision hampered by politics. and it should never have been politicized. it should never have been politicized. joe described it perfectly with a transition from where we were to where we are now. and you know what, it is also a cover for a lot of other things that the far right wants to accomplish. >> that is what i was -- what will it mean if and when it is

overturned and is this an issue that could galvanize voters on both sides of the aisle? >> yes, i think so. here is -- we always are running on kitchen table issues. >> right. and there is a lot of them now. >> and how do people pay for food, for rent, for education, for prescription drugs and all of that. and i hope we could talk about that. all of us, we all know that our democracy is at stake. what they're doing to voter suppression, for voting suppression and also the nullification of elections. but that doesn't really hit home as much as a kitchen table issue, the kitchen table issues do. and a woman's decision is a kitchen table issue. >> it sure is. >> so they have now taken freedom, which is on the ballot, and that will tell me that in georgia that women are really --

>> they're galvanizing. >> they're galvanizing is a word i thought but it is even more than that. >> i know you well enough to know you won't entertain a hypothetical about losing the house but let me ask you about the head winds you're facing right now which is inflation at 8.5%, gas around $5 a gallon for some people out in this country. president biden had a 39% approval rating and 75%, three out of four americans believing we're on the wrong track, excuse me. how do you overcome that when the country it looks like said democratic president, democratic congress, and i don't like where we're headed. >> well, we've faced some of that before. and we have been successful. but let me just take -- you mentioned two statistics, let me mention two more. and what we've seen even this morning, that nearly 70% of the american people now say they could with stand a $400 a

emergency. that is almost a reverse of what we had a couple of years ago. another figure is that higher than that, into the '70s. americans have a comfort level with their economic situation. now, let's get to your point about some of the, shall we say, i don't know what in washington, d.c., well history says, well we're not talking about history. we're talking about the future. history said that president loses seats after -- in the off year. well the president gained seats in the on year. this president did not. but he won the election. he helped us hold the house. we helped him win the election. and those of our candidates or our members who won in a -- with trump on the ballot and won in the trump districts are in strong shape. but we want more. we have to offset some changes. but we want more. i feel i have absolutely no

intention of us losing this election. we'll win it one election at a time. we own the ground with our mobilization. we'll have a non-menacing suggestion and they'll have endless money and we'll have enough and we will win. and it is absolutely essential for our country. our democracy is on the ballot. our fee dom is on the ballot. but to get to your point, the kitchen table, we talked about the kitchen table issues, in terms of inflation, so much is being done by this president and we have to mike sure that public sentiment understands that. inflation is a global phenomenon right now. in fact in the u.k., it is around 10%. so that doesn't make it any better for us. what are the things that we are doing to reduce the global inflation and what that means to us. we are in the works now of our

competes act, to address a supply chain, supply is down therefore prices are up. we just passed the other days two news terms of price gouging and market money ip lation and the prices at the pump and that has to do with some of the war in ukraine. we're working on reducing the cost of food for people because of the exploitation again of the consumer by some in the agriculture industry. but over and above all of that, understand this. unemployment, the president created almost 8 million jobs. when unemployment goes and it was cut in half, when unemployment goes down, inflation has gone up. so that is -- and wages have gone up. and that is contributing to inflation. we want unemployment down. we want wages up.

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and belittled victims. the explosive report details 20 years of abuse allegations the every level of the church. and sent shock wave as mong the 13 million southern baptist nationwide. among the reports most unsettled findings, church leaders maintained a list of offenders but kept it secret to avoid potential lawsuits. our next guest was the group's former policy said, who left last year and he called this report an apocalypse. saying it revealed a reality for more evil and systemic than i imagined it could be. joe. >> let's bring in russell moore right now. he's the public theologian at christian today. russell, you and i both grew up

in the southern baptist church. i know your story. we're friends. i think it is safe to say it was the center of our lives growing up. it was the institution that really we spent the most time with. so, i must ask you, how -- how much this hurts you that you actually were pushing for this investigation. you begged them to investigate these claims of abuses. then you got attacked. then lied. repeatedly. i just -- tell me how were you grappling with this? >> well i'm mad at hell, joe. i really expected this to report to be bad. because i had lived through so much. but even i was shocked but the depth of it. i would barely even swipe the screen so go from one page to the next because my hands were

trembling with rage. and a good deal has to do the southern baptist church, it was a safe place, a refuge for me. and the fact that it is not for so many of the kids and the survivors mentioned in the report, it is just enraging. i think about all of the times when people told me, don't say crisis. when you're talking about sexual abuse in the church. it is not a crisis. and they were right. crisis is too small of a word. this is an absolute disaster. >> russell, they lied. they lied to church members. they lied to 13 million southern baptist, these leaders. they kept a secret data base and lied and said they weren't able to keep the secret data base. they knew what was happening among them and they lied. and like you said, you got attacked for bringing attention to this. for calling it a crisis. and it is so much worse. why did they keep lying about

this list that they had of people who were preying on young children? >> well, and what i experienced was nothing compared to the sexual abuse survivors really, really brave people who had come forward for years saying that these were problems. they tried to work patiently within the system. they tried to speak from outside of the system. and in this report, one can see how they're called crazy, they're called satanic. they're called tools of devil. and i think that the clear thing that one could see is the protection of an institution and a protection of themselves from some of these leaders rather than carrying about those who were harmed in the most horrific ways and even worse harmed in those ways in the name of jesus. >> so you're -- >> the very person who stands against that. >> and here is more about what you wrote.

the very ones who rebuked me and others for using the word crisis in reference to southern baptist sexual abuse, not only knew that there was such a crisis, but were quietly documenting it. even as they were told those fighting for reform that such crimes rarely happened among people like us. when i read that back and forth between some of the high ranking staff and their lawyers, i cannot help but wonder what else this could be called but a criminal conspiracy. and you go on to write, we were told that they wanted to conserve the old time religion. what they wanted was to conquer their enemies and make stain-glassed windows honoring them sfz no matter who was hurt along the way. we've been speaking very broadly about this crisis. can you talk to me about the crimes, the victims, the abusers? >> well, we know from this report that there were people contacting some of these leaders and saying, this is what is

happening to my child or this is what is happening within my church. and according to the report, the response was to say, do nothing, say nothing. hide this. that is unconscionable. looking through this report, it looks like a competition to see how many of the ten commandments could be violated and the people who are being hurt are the people who have the least voice to be able to speak to these things. and so my response to all of this is to say for a long time people didn't understand the depth of this and they haven't seen what i saw or heard what i heard. now we have. and now it is right in front of us in black and white. and so action is required. for the integrity of the goss pell and for the safety of the children learned to sing in sunday school, jesus loves them. >> dr. moore, we are getting new details about possible reforms that may be coming of this report in the coming weeks. associated press reporting that

for the first time there could be a public data base of known abusers in the church that everyone would be able to search. the report recommended creating what it called an offender information system. so if there is a reckoning here, dr. moore, what does it look like in your eyes. what needs to happen inside of the church? >> well, a data base is one part of it, so to be able to keep predators from moving from one church to the other and recommitting the crimes. but there has to also be a cultural change of honoring and listening to women and to vulnerable people. that is going to be deeper than just structural reforms. structural reforms are necessary. but that is not enough. >> so, russell, i -- how does this happen? i don't mean to sound naive. i can't imagine this would happen in any of the churches that i grew up. i'm sure there were catholics that felt the same way during

the catholic scandal. but it is not just one corrupt southern baptist leader. it is one after another after another after another. it just leads you to ask and you were there, you were in the leadership, calling this out, demanding an investigation. but it just leads one to ask what in the world has been going on in nashville over the past 20 years. >> i know. and that is one of the reasons why i'm hearing from southern baptist all over the country who are reeling. former southern baptists, there are some by reports there are 1.1 million of us who have left over the last three years. i would venture to say none of us wanted to leave. it is painful to even think of myself as anything other than a southern baptist. and i think that is the case for many of them. i don't know what it takes for this to finally change.

what i would say is what gives me hope is the fact that this investigation would have never have happened if grassroots southern baptist had shown up at the convention and demanded that and so that gives me hope for the

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