across the street on capitol hill from where i'm sitting now. janet yellen says two days. thursday is the day something has to happen. will kevin mccarthy be able to get enough votes to lift the debt ceiling and prevent a kprie christ sis that we have been laying out all morning? >> it could be catastrophic. jonathan? >> white house sounding the alarm on that topic. we expect to hear from president biden today about it. and even just talking about it, even just playing bringsmanship could lead to real trouble. >> that does it for us this morning. swrd judo picks up the coverage right now. ght now. good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. this hour in new mexico, a failed election denying republican candidate under arrest accused in several shootings at the homes of

democratic officials. republicans are demanding more answers from president biden over his handling of classified material, but the white house says those answers do not exist. we'll explain. in ukraine, hope of finding survivors is fading after a reportedly russian missile sliced an apartment building in half on saturday. we're live with the latest. on capitol hill, a battle is brewing over the debt limit. the deadline to raise is two day was. congress isn't in session, so what happens on thursday? and a new policy goes into effect today for miliary veterans in crisis. how it could help millions. we begin this morning with the arrest of a failed republican candidate accused of being a master mind behind a series of shootings at the homes of democrat you can lawmakers. police took him into custody yesterday calling the shootings

politically motivated. back in november, he lost his race for state representative and complained the election was rigged. police say he confronted the democrats a the their homes with documents proving he had won his race and that's when things allegedly took a turn. vaughn hillyard joins us now what more do we know this morning? >> as the maw your of albuquerque said yesterday, this was not only a conspiracy dangerous to these individuals, but a conspiracy that was dangerous to democracy here. the prosecutors, the u.s. attorney outlined what they contend and allege him to be the master mind of. this is an individual who to note, he was running for state representative as a republican chalking the uncouple bent democrat in new mexico. he lost his november election 74% to 26%. but in the days after his election defeat, he went to the homes of not only county

commissioners, but also state legislators but what he alleged showed fraud in his election. he makes the case that his elections was rigged. but then days after going and presenting what he claimed to be evidence of the election rigging, he put out on twitter that he was not going to concede and he was, quote, now researching my options. prosecutors now outlined that in those following days, he conspired and he paid cash money to tour other individuals to go and shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislatures. there were four different days in which the shootings took place. beginning on december 4th and then the final incident, that fourth incident was january 3rd. prosecutors allege that he himself on that fourth incident went to pun oneself of those homes and attempted to fire a weapon himself. a weapon malfunctioned and hours after that, the pulled over a vehicle that was registered to

him. there was a different driver inside who was arrested. several weapons were confiscated inside that vehicle, but this is a serious allegation. and none of those individuals were actually believed to be physically harmed in this incident. yet clearly, there was a conspiracy and somebody who was living in a different reality who sought to take measures into his own hands. >> vaughn hillyard, thank you very much. now to the push for transparency over president biden's handling of classified information when vice president. he says he's not giving up his quest for answers. this after there were no visitor logs for the president's home near wilmington, delaware, where classified material from the obama administration was discovered in recent days. >> we wonder if the secret service had records. that's our next question because he still had secret service protection. and you would assume that the

secret service would vet people that would be allowed on the premise of the dwelling for the president of the united states. so there are other areas we're going to look. >> the secret service says it conducts background checks on people who come into contact with the bidens at their home, but only retains those records for a limited time. with us to talk about this is chief white house correspondent kristen welker. capitol hill correspondent ali vitali and "washington post" justice department reporter perry stein. what do we know about where the white house goes from here? >> reporter: they are going to continue to get these questions. and the question is to what extent will they be able to answer them. on the question of those visitor logs at his home, the second location where classified documents were found, the secret service is saying, we don't independently maintain our own visitor logs because it's a

private residence. that's what we're hearing from the secret service. the white house counsel's office reiterating that. but these questions continue to mount. at the top of the list is why the white house wasn't more court forthcoming and why they didn't make the public aware of this when the documents were discovered in november and before the term elections and when did the president find out. and we're in this extraordinary circumstance where you have a current president who is under investigation and a former president being investigated by a special counsel for his handling of classified documents. and the white house continuing to try to draw distinctions into the two cases that we are talking about hundreds of materials that were recovered including 100 that had classified markings. in the case of the mar-a-lago search, that happened after former president trump refused

multiple requests to turn those documents over. but the politics of this is really stunning. it comes as president biden has said he plans to headache an official announce the about whether he will run for reelection very soon. >> other than that we're talking there were classified documents, there are zero similarities between these two cases. now what do we know about what the house really investigation is going to look like? >> it's beginning in earnest at this oint. they are in the fact finding phase. there was no time wasted in issuing letters, asking for information, demanding documents and setting some deadlines for the end of this month and into early next month. so we'll see what happens and it these committees are willing to be more aggressive on this front. we're not even clear which compete is necessarily running point when it comes to looking into these biden documents on the house side. nevertheless, here's kevin mccarthy talking about what this could look like going forward.

>> we ought to see all the information. the white house tried to say it was cleared up on thursday. there's a the lot of questions that we continue to raise and we want to get all the information possible. >> and on the senate side of this, we though that the intelligence committee has asked the director of national intelligence for a damage setsment. it matches what they did after the mav la go documents became ublic. they are acting in the same fashion after both instances trying to get a picture of what was actually in these classified documents that were found in both of these places, though i have to say when you talk about the similarities ending simply at the having of classified documents, and for house republicans as they push forward, you cannot malign the biden administration and the president himself for having classified documents without also delving into the fact that

former president trump, a member of their own party and their leader, still did this and worse in terms of ab instructing and not giving back these documents. that's going to be one of the catches to these investigations in the house. >> i'm just wondering what the justice department likely will be asking about this. >> they have not. they have appointed a special counsel. so they haven't been saying much. they provided a general timeline. i don't think in the near future we can expect them to review all the details, but i'm sure they are having and are interested in how the documents got there, who knew what and when. and obviously why. but just because they are investigating doesn't mean that there will be -- that they will find reasons to are the some. this is just an investigation at this point. >> i know you took a closer look at what classified information

is and the penalties for miss handling it. what can you tell us a about that? >> classified information is information that is not generally available. it's thot available to the general public. if exposed could pose a risk to national security. and so generally, these are serious crimes. if someone is found criminally responsible for this, it could be a prison sentence. but again, the typically prosecutions like this, they have to find out that the person deliberately retained this information. so it can't be a simple as ien accidentally left this in my briefcase and took it home. they have to have deliberately retained it. it could be in the point of the investigation where they retained it or purposefully mishandled it and took it home. >> kristen, the president is set to meet with the prime minister of the netherlands next hour. what are they expected to talk

about? >> i think at the top of their agenda, jose, will undoubtedly be ukraine and president biden has really made one of his key foreign policy goals trying to unify nato, ever more so in the wake of the invasion into ukraine. the administration sees this moment as critical in the war effort. they are expanding their training of ukrainian forces. in germany, because they want to bolster ukraine trying to head off any further russian incursions that could potentially ramp up this the spring. this is a critical moment in that front. so i think that that will be front and center. but you're going to have issues like trade and the global economy with concerns about a potential recession looming. but there are going to be reporters in the room, including peter alexander. we'll be shouting questions trying to get some answers to this question.

>> thank you all very much for being with us this morning. up next, we're going to go live to ukraine with new details about the missile that slammed into an apartment building killing dozens. plus an update on the fate of three small children rescued from an island near the u.s./mexico border. we'll play what their mother says happened. they were all by themselves. take a look at that. a little 1-year-old child in the arms of his sister. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." atching "j diaz-balart reports.

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15 past the hour. new details about one of russia's deadliest attacks. the death toll has risen following the devastating ain't iowa tack on an apartment building. according to a local official, 44 people have died including 5 children. the uk's ministry of defense says russia used a missile designed to destroy aircraft

carriers and the weapon is highly inaccurate. joining us from kyiv ralph sanchez. what's the latest on the search and rescue there? >> reporter: three days after that strike, authorities have suspended the search and rescue effort. they do not believe it's possible anyone is still alive under the rubble of that apartment building. the death toll, as you said, is at 44, including 5 children. this is one of the deadliest strikes for civilians this the entire war. it could rise higher in coming days as the number of people are still unaccounted for. ukraiian authorities have been sifting through that rubble and we have been learning more about some of both the victims and the survivors of saturday's strike.

i want to tell you about just one family's story. the mother was pulled out of the rubble after 20 hours on sunday. her family says she has been deaf since childhood. you can see her on the screen there so she may not have been able to hear rescuers as they were calling out for her that rescue was scene as almost miraculous at the time. but it is now emering that both her husband and their 1-year-old son are unaccounted for. they are presumed to be dead at this point. this family has really become a symbol of mourning. their pictures are all across social media here. this is a stark reminder of why they need those advanced american air defense systems to try to protect civilians. u.s. authorities have been fanning out across the region

over the last 24 hours. we had the deputy secretary of state here in kyiv meeting with ukrainian officials. we also have mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. he was in germany visiting ukrainian forces who are being trained there by u.s. troops. and the consistent message from ukrainian officials is what kristen was mentioning from the white house a moment ago. that the western powers need to send weapons now to head off any future russian offensive. they fear vladimir putin is regrouping his forces and preparing to attack, possibly here in kyiv as he tried and failed at the beginning of the war. more likely in the east. ukraine says it needs weapons now to be ready for a weapons onslaught. >> raf, thank you. evelyn, the uk ministry of defense believed they used the anti-ship missile. what's your reaction to that?

>> right. it sounds like clearly the russians are using very expensive missiles to hit civilians, and they don't want the ukrainian air defenses to succeed. because the ukrainians have probably surprised the russians be being able to knock down the iranian drones. in the past several months, they are looking for ways to continue to terrorize regular ukrainians and then also to knock out the infrastructure as much as possible to get ukrainians to leave kyiv and to get the international community to try to force ukraine to a negotiating table. so it's really a horrendous strategy. these tactics are against all international laws. >> to think they are using missiles and these iranian-made drones to specifically attack civilian infrastructure n this case an apartment building. so meanwhile, overnight,

zelenskyy asked allies to speed up decision. what more do you think the u.s. can do to help ukraine prepare for this spring? >> first, i have to say as cross the world, because it's not just europeans, but the asian countries as well have really been puching in to help ukraine it's been increasing over time. the problem is that we always feel like we're one step behind. and it gets increasingly dangerous if we don't provide ukraine what it needs to win and to win fast. and also frankly we put ourselves in a bad moral situation. so what the ukrainians are saying is give us everything we need to defend our innocent civilians, give us the missile defense system, and then give us everything we need to take the offensive to push the russians

out of our country so they can stop terrorizing us. so hopefully this means we'll see a breakthrough there as well. >> so today marks a second anniversary of russian opposition leader returning to russia after recovering from being poisoned. he was arrested upon arrival on charges the u.s. calls politically motivated. what do you make of russia's domestic issues? >> vladimir putin is really walking a tight rope now in terms of maintaining his hold on power. the military defeats have caused a lot of decent within elite circles. we know that because of some of the media reports. and the oligarch who is are being killed have expressed discomfort with the war in ukraine. he's also having some infighting in his military and all of that, he has to keep an eye on what people are thinking on the

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founder of punch bowl news. good morning. how are democrats and republicans preparing for what is expected to be a huge political fight. >> a massive political fight. and i think they are not preparing yet, which is probably of some concern. now republicans say they want very badly to get corresponding budget cuts. that's something joe biden has seen in the obama administration. i think that's going to be very difficult and republicans raise the debt limit under president trump multiple times without any concessions. so this is a somewhat new standard for them. >> so let's talk about that. so they raised it a number of times. what's changed now? >> a democratic president is in the white house. this is the posture that republicans tend to take when a democratic president is in the white house. but i would have to say there are other ways they can raise the debt limit. they can do it through a discharge position, to take

every of democrat and just about five republicans to discharge a bill from a committee. it's basically a way to bring the bill to the floor without the leadership's consent. that's one option. republicans can decide to suspend the debt limit, which allows the u.s. to accrue more debt without raising it by a specific number. but i would say this. we are a couple days away from officially hitting the debt limit, but this deadline won't come up until the summer. there's plenty of time to get something done. and speaker kevin mccarthy has said he wants to talk to joe biden well in advance of this it deadline to begin negotiating on this. >> so meanwhile, the house speaker took somes questions about em battle congressman george santos who are admitted embellishing his resume and apologized for it. here's what he had to say when asked about allegations against santos. >> i never know about his resume or not, but i always had a few

questions about it. >> what about pretending to be your chief of staff? >> i didn't know about that. know they corrected, but i wasn't notified until a later date. >> did you speak to him about it? >> yeah. i didn't know about it until a later date unfortunately. >> it seems like there's an unlimited well of stuff. are republicans feeling any pressure to do or say more about santos? >> mccar thu's osture is that he thinks that if he pushes santos out now, he will have to push out any republican with any allegations against them. i think that's going to become a less and less tenable position. this is somebody who had a staff member or whose staff member impersonated the chief of staff. these are very serious allegations. to be fair mccarthy did not

support san toes. but still, they feel pressure. this is a massive disand will continue to be a distraction until there's some sort of mechanism that forces him out. >> jake sherman, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. up next, dus tushing video of a toddler walking around with a loaded gun. where authorities say he got it. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports."

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he's due in court as soon as today. now an jup jup date on a story we have been following here about three unaccompanied girls ages 1, 6 and 9 from el salvador. they were found in a small island in the middle of the deadly rio grand river near eagle pass, texas. the video shows mexican authorities rescuing them last week. the youngest child was found in the arms of her sister who was 9. we spoke with her mother who told telemundo that she paid huge traffickers $9,000 to get her and her three children across the border.

>> she says that they tricked her, and that she wanted to turn herself over to u.s. immigration authorities, but they cold her being were being deported and it was better if the three children crossed first. the girls currently under the care of mexicanen authorities. their mother says mexican officials told her she will be deported with the three girls el salvador where she fears for her life and the lives of her daughters. now to the extreme weather in california. president biden will travel to the state to visit areas devastated by the series of storms. california's long and costly recovery is only just beginning after at least weeks of rains. the families now faced with figuring out how to start over. take a look at this landslide in berkley that forced the evacuation of ten homes yesterday. >> probably about 10 or 12 feet high of mud and debris and dirt.

so it's extraordinary. i don't really know what we're going to do. we'll figure it out. >> dana griffin joins us now. how is this affecting people and businesses? >> reporter: good morning to you. here there are a line of businesses right along the beach that have been shuttered for several days because over these past few weeks, the waves and wind has just battered these businesses. many have windows broken. there's a piece of the wharf zitting inside one of these business ps. one owners took us inside his restaurant so we could see the floor boards that have been torn up. take a look. >> you can see the beams are coming up. and the entire thing is going to have to get taken out. it's scary to think of the force of these waves underneath.

>> you have to cut all the floors out and relay them. i hope we can get some of these opened by spring break. spring break is a big deal here. >> reporter: it is a big deal because this is a tourism area. so they are hoping to learn more information when the president visits. they want to know how are they going to get this money. those are questions they are all trying to figure out. >> dana griffin, thank you so much. this morning new information about nepal's deadliest plane crash raising more questions. a spokesperson has con termed to nbc news that the pilot requested a runway change moments before a plane crashed in clear weather on sunday. that request was granted. authority says they have recovered bodies of 70 victims and have just started returning

them to their devastated families. holly mustn'ter joins us. what's the latest in the investigation here? >> as you mentioned, the black boxes were recovered yesterday. according to authorities, they were in good shape. that's good news for the investigation. according to authorities, the black boxes will be transferred to france. the aircraft was made in france. so the french will be very involved in this investigation. those black boxes will go to france for the investigation. we also understand today that the french are going to be on the ground on site joining the investigation. but they will be looking at everything you mentioned. the clear skies in the video. they will be looking at efrl from environmental factors to wind speeds to any increment weather event that may not be obvious to the naked eye we have even videos from outside and inside the plane. .

we have asked aviation experts to look at these and nailz them before we get the information from the investigation. two things really stand out. when you look at the video inside the plane, one of our experts notes that there doesn't seem to be any kind of announcement from the cockpit about an emergency coming. so that's evidence this is happening really fast. it shows them descending and banking hard left at 90 degrees. now the aviation experts we have spoken to say that's an evidence of an aerodynamic stall. that will be key and prominent in the investigation. >> thank you so much. up next, starting today new life-saving care for military veterans in crisis. we'll talk about that, next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." atching "j diaz-balart reports.

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million people. joining me to discuss this is matt zeller, a former cia analyst, combat vet and an advisory board chair at the association of wartime allies. it's good seeing you. how big of a deal is this? >> this is a paradigm shuft. it's huge. put yourself in the per spect oif of a veteran in crisis. prior to this announcement, there's so things going on in your head. the emotional crisis, the mental health crisis, but the last thing you want to think about is what is the financial cost this is going to add to me if i seek had help. veterans no longer have to think about what is this going to cost me financially, what is this potentially going to cost my family. if they are in crisis, they know without any shadow of a doubt they can reach out and get the help they need free of charge.

that is huge. >> and it is ndeed huge. many vet respondents don't receive health care because the burden is something that for a veteran feels mentally and emotionally overwhelming. there's so much paperwork. i have been a part of it. there's another form you have to fill out or you didn't fill out the form correctly and you have to do it again. this is a pyre dime shift. no longer will they have to have completed the enrollment ross. if they are in crisis, pick up the phone and call for help.

they can go to the nearest hospital, their nearest medical facility and ask for that help. again, with full confidence that this is not going to financial lu put them out of in a bad way. it's not going to impact their family. it's something that should have been there all along. it's quite frankly a shock it took this long to get to it. thank goodness we finally have this policy. >> what else can we all do to support veterans? >> it's a great question. one of the reasons why veterans are having a profound suicide crisis has to go back to the afghan evacuation kpas prauted the moral injury of veterans in a way that simply has not been seen in a generation. the last time that something like this happened was the abandonment of our vietnamese alies at the end of that war. if people really want to continue to support veterans and our mental health care injury

knee, i would implore them to contact members of congress and beg them, pass the afghan adjustment act this year. it is the best piece of legislation out there that could address this moral injury that is plaguing veterans. it's one of the leading causes of suicide. while we have this great tool now available to help veterans in crisis, we need to address the root problems of those. and in particular, the afghan evacuation and the moral injury they are suffering from is at the top of our list of concerns to be looked at. >> always a pleasure to see you. thank you for being with us this morning. if you know someone, veteran or not, who needs help, call the national suicide and crisis line at 988. text is available 24 hours a day. you can also text the word "home" to 741-741.

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today we are marking the end of an era at nbc news. kerry sanders is saying good-bye after reporting on everything you could think of. here's a look back. ♪♪ >> kerry sanders, nbc's super resident hero, on earth he was our every man. no ego. no fear. >> i'm not looking down. >> he was just a guy asking the questions we would have asked. >> did you know he purchased these weapons? >> no, i wish i did know. >> oh, how he went there. >> this is where the bar garbage winds up. >> there's more than just

cattle, there's a big cat. >> discovering magic in our own backyards. >> can i say, wow? yeah. >> how do you feel when you see this plastic? >> she's standing on her head. >> he introduced us to the most wonderful humans. >> it's eerie. >> eerie to be here? >> yes, it is. >> i feel like a young rooster. >> the characters we never will forget. >> are we ready? >> in the field, it was always "why don't we" or "i've got it." >> we have a baby dolphin that washed ashore.

>> his range vast. >> casey anthony -- >> students are being urged -- >> incredibly anxious moments -- >> always on top of breaking news. >> this is the third tornado he survived at this address. >> whoa, that wind is blowing. >> he weathered over 100 named storms, holding his ground during political turmoil. >> the fighting has been fierce for two days. >> and then there was everything in between. >> true to his word, in 20 minutes, the pizza guy is here. >> for three decades, day after day, up with the sun and with us after dark, we often wondered when he slept. >> the wonderful wizard of oz. >> kerry said no, there was too much to discover, too many people to meet and too much to tell. just a kid at the start, he joined team nbc in 1991 but never lost that eagerness, heart and curiosity, and from his

first to his last live shot, it was clear, he loved every minute of it. >> i already won the jackpot in life. >> thank you, kerry, for a job well done. for "today," kerry sanders, nbc news. >> and kerry sanders joins us this morning. kerry, where has the time gone? >> we have done it together, josé. we have done it together. >> it's amazing to think back, i guess it was 1991 when i first had the privilege, the first chance to work with you. i see you there on the right there, that night of hurricane andrew in 1992, and you were underneath a car under an overpass with steve snyder. remember that? you have been an extraordinary journalists and you continue to be that. i want to know, how is it you are able to show so much

passion, compassion and intelligence in every single story you do? >> well, thank you for that. i think it comes down to curiosity, and most people don't know that i have -- i have challenges reading because of dyslexia, and anybody that ever looked at my script probably understood that kerry can't spell and sometimes his words are out of order, and when i got a chance and this was the best field trip every day when i got a chance to go feel, taste, touch, engage, and so my learning has been out there that way rather than reading about it or going through a history book. i just feel so -- i feel so blessed to have the opportunities and truly, you know, you talk about the privilege, i will absolutely echo it, the privilege to be part of telling other peoples' stories. >> kerry, you have travelled, you know, all 50 states.

how many places around the world you have been? >> i did because somebody asked me to look it up, and i counted, and it's either 65 or 66 countries. i have been on every continent and have been to what was just floating ice. i went to the north pole as well as five years later making my way down to antarctica. it's remarkable. i have been to places that i can admit, when they said you are going to bhutan, i was, like, where is that? i had to look it up on a map. i have been to places i didn't know existed. that's the treasure of the job as a reporter to be to go around and see things and share what you discover with the viewers, who have been right along with me. i have to say, i thank each viewer who has been complimentary to what we have tried to do at nbc news and what i have tried to do in terms of just sharing information and

educating people of what is going on. >> kerry, i learn something from you every single day. i stand in awe of your extraordinary career. i know that you are just starting many aspects of your life. we will keep in touch. >> thank you, kerry, for everything. joy reid, chris hayes making strides becoming more an equitable and justice society. that wraps up the hour for me. i am josé diaz-balart. thank you for your time. lindsey rogers picks u