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headquarters in new york city on this presidents' day. there are high stakes today. joe biden, the first president in modern history to travel to a war zone without u.s. troops already on the ground. the message his visit is sending to ukraine, america's allies and the american people as he gears up for another run at the white house. how is vladimir putin responding to the president's diplomatic slap in the face as the kremlin tries to spin something positive out of a war marked by frustration and failure? we'll have a live report from moscow coming up. and ron desantis welcoming political attacks from his fellow republicans saying this morning if, quote, people aren't firing at me, then i'm not doing my job. but how long until he starts firing back? a lot to get to. let's start with president biden already on the move, heading to poland following the unannounced and unprecedented visit to ukraine taking the opportunity to literally stand with

president volodymyr zelenskyy and virtually every stop we'll show you in kyiv, moments far beyond symbolism, implications for the future of ukraine, the european alliance, even president biden's own political future. biden so close to the russian attacks you could hear the air raid sirens in the distance. [ sirens ]. >> that moment followed by this one, the president bowing his head as he stood before ukraine's wall of remembrance showing the pictures of more than 4,000 soldiers who died fighting russia since 2014. in fact, the day was full of memorable moments. the two leaders shaking hands outside the palace, later emerging from st. michael's goal domed cathedral. in a different kind of support, president biden vowing another

$500 million worth of military aid, with all of this coming before a pivotal meeting with nato leaders, the president's clear message is that the u.s. is in this till the end. >> putin thought ukraine was weak and the west was divided. as you know, mr. president, i said to you at the beginning, he's counting on us not sticking together. he's just been plain wrong. plain wrong. it reminds us that freedom is priceless. it's worth fighting for for as long as it takes, and that's how long we're going to be with you, mr. president, for as long as it takes. >> we'll do it. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> nbc's erin mclaughlin is in kyiv. mike memoli is at the white house, rick stengel served asunder secretary of state and

currently an msnbc political analyst. rick, the whole point of the meetings is to make sure allies stay the course. how important do you think the visit to kyiv was toward accomplishing that goal and basically i think putting down a marker for the rest of the west to say we're not going anywhere, you shouldn't either? >> chris, i think it's historic. it's like when jfk went to berlin in 1963, when ronald reagan went to west berlin in 1967 and said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. it sent a powerful message to moscow that we're there to stay, a powerful message to our european nato allies that we're there, that an american president went into a war zone without american troops on the ground, i think it's powerful, and i think we do have to stay the course. it's not just symbolism. it's actions, and when he's going to poland, he's supporting

a nato ally that hosts more ukraine refugees than any other country, several million. the pols have been incredibly generous and i think the american people need to be generous back. >> mike, i was reading an article that said a lot of aides were worried, they didn't want the president to go to kyiv, they thought the security risk was too high. do we know why he ultimately decided to do this? >> reporter: chris, it's significant in that the president, i'm told, had always wanted to try to make this symbolic visit to ukraine. the security risks, also the safety on the ground, the kind of apparatus needed to travel with a president anywhere he goes, the military assets involved with that as well were always seen as a barrier to the president making this decision. how high a risk is it? some of the officials still here in washington planning to travel with the president didn't know about this this morning. they're still planning to fly on a separate plane tonight to meet

the president when they arrive in poland. the real catalyst for why the president was able to finally pull this off was president zelenskyy's clandestine visit to washington about two months ago. it was the public reaction that surprised some of the white house officials involved in planning zelenskyy's trip to washington which included the speech to a joint session of congress that accelerated and put into motion this kind of planning to get the president there today. it's really notable all the ways in which this was a secret to those even closest to the president. the white house even putting out a statement last night with a travel schedule that still had him leaving the white house tonight. one of his top advisers from the podium of the briefing room on friday saying they're ruling out the idea that the president might detour to ukraine as part of his trip to poland. i'm also told that part of what the president's message was there on the ground today is one he'll repeat and emphasize when he gets to poland, meeting the

poland's president, meeting with the so-called bucharest nine, the other eastern flank nato allies, which is while a year later rush is scrambling still, having thought it would topple kyiv quickly, the president was able to stand there and western solidarity is as strong as ever behind the ukrainian government. >> erin, there's the symbolic show of support and material show of support. i want to ask you about both of those as the shot behind you looks beautiful in a country devastated by war. i can only imagine the emotional ups and downs this country has gone through. i wonder at this hour if you've been able to gauge what this visit meant to the ukrainian people, but also that very tangible show of financial support, another half billion dollars and whether that's going to get the stuff that the military needs to them quickly enough. >> reporter: well, this latest round of military aid pledged by

the united states is being seen here in kyiv as important. it's unclear when this military aid, this latest round, will reach the front lines. we know there are reports of ammunition shortages and the ammunition included in this package is seen here in kyiv as absolutely essential, especially considering where this conflict is at present. there's a much vaunted russian offensive. what the ukrainian military has been trying to do at this point is essentially hold the line, stop russia from gaining any more territory, buying time in order for those promised western tanks to arrive so ukraine can launch its own counteroffensive and seize back some of this territory that has been occupied by the russian forces. now, absent from the package

announced by the president today are those long-range missiles, the fighter jets that ukraine leadership says is absolutely essential for them to push the russians even further back and win this war. nevertheless, this is an emotional moment for many ukrainians that i have been speaking to here. i was speaking to one man who says it's as if the world now sees our sacrifice. in the eyes of many ukrainians they see this as not only their fight for freedom and democracy, but they see themselves as fighting for the entire western world. >> erin mclaughlin, thank you so much. we appreciate it. rick, we've talked about concerns within the administration, heavy supporters of the ukrainian cause that it could be harder to get congressional support because republicans now control the house. on sunday in interviews obviously granted before this visit became public, two republican leaders said this.

>> we've been very slow at getting these weapons in in the name of it being too provocative, whether it be stingers, javelins, short-range artilleries. longer-range artillery can take out the ukrainian drones in crimea and also aviation like the f-16. if we put this stuff in from the very beginning of this conflict, a year from now may have been very different. the longer they drag this out they play into putin's hands. >> you have a handful on both sides, both sides, pamela, who have been cautious or said they don't support or want support to come to an end. that's not the over 400 -- there are 435 members of congress, there are probably 400 that are for continuing this direction and this path. >> you think there are 400, rick? if congress is on board with sending some of these more -- i'll call them for lack of a better word, controversial or undecided whether they'll send fighter jets, do you think that could push the biden administration to get on board?

>> chris, i don't think they're wrong. i don't know that there are 400 republican members. i don't know if there's the majority. but they're sufficient enough that you can have a majority in the house and a majority in the senate. 65% of the american public is in support of supporting ukraine against russia. i don't disagree with the congressman's point either aing we need to look ahead, what will we need to be giving the ukrainians six months from now, a year from now. maybe we should be doing that now. the administration has made a distinction between offensive and defensive weapons. in some ways that's a false distinction. we need to think about what the ukrainians need to survive and even to win. if that means f-16s, maybe we should accelerate the process by which we give them. >> rick stengel, mike memoli,

thank you. appreciate it. abroad president biden is honoring former president jimmy carter over the weekend. at 98 years old, he's under home hospice care in plains, georgia. locals there sending messages of love and respect for the man they know as mr. jimmy. >> kind of become like a second father to me when my father passed away. he probably doesn't even know that. we're going to miss him. >> to me he's a friend. to a lot of us here he's a fellow church goer. >> it was there in those pews that fellow members of the baptist church prayed for the president this weekend. the "atlanta journal constitution" sharing he would always make sure to take pictures with visitors there, telling one of his last groups, quote, my doctor tells me i have to sit during photographs. please don't take my sitting to mean that i think i'm better than you. i want to bring in nbc news senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell who is in plains

for us and has covered jimmy carter for many, many years. kelly, the "atlanta journal constitution" notes that people in plains love to tell visitors they have a pair of famous exports, peanuts and a peanut farmer turned president. i wonder what you're hearing from folks there. >> reporter: that is very much the sentiment here. the history of jimmy carter as a president and world figure is very much intertwined with the local culture and local identity in plains. there are people who obviously know him as a neighbor, fellow church goer, someone they have gotten to know in person over the years, and also there are people who their own community here is very much reflective of the 39th president, the carter family. and what seems like a simpler time in american politics really when you think about it. so we definitely get that sense here. there's also a tremendous respect for the kind of leadership that jimmy carter has

shown in his time after the white house. he came back here to georgia, and from here he really launched a global outreach on democracy, on human rights, on trying to prevent disease around the world, on caring for his fellow man by building homes through hab tate for humanity. very practical, very tangible, very real ways that hee and rosa lynn carter, the former first lady lived their faith, their values and their political views. an author, a nobel prize winner. so many ways in which he was honored in the highest of heights among global elites. and yet here in plains, he was simply the neighbor, the friend, the person who has deep roots here. you really get that sense here. to just give you a sense of how people are reflecting on his life and his contributions, here is some of what we found in talking to folks here. >> he's just always been our

hometown son. he's always -- he's just like the rest of us. >> reporter: you get a sense of the connections here. certainly this is a time where people are choosing to celebrate his life, think about him, knowing that the carter center put out this word that this is a choice that president carter has made to be at his home which is not far from him. his presidential campaign headquarters, just a small structure is just a half block down the street here, to give people a chance to sort of get a sense of where he is in life at this point. he's had hospitalizations recently. he decided he doesn't want to have that medical intervention anymore. it's an opportunity for people to reflect on his public service, to think about his contributions and to wish him and the carter family well. that is very much what we're

seeing play out here in plains, georgia. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you so much for that. we've got breaking news from turkey and syria where a powerful earthquake, 6.4, has hit the region again according to turkish officials. it happened just about an hour ago in the exact same area devastated by the massive earthquake two weeks ago. the death toll from that quake nearly 45,000 now. we'll keep track of the developments surrounding this latest earthquake and have them through out these two hours. meantime, ron desantis showing strong signs he's eyeing a 2024 white house bid. why his trip to illinois is stirring up trouble. countries around the world watching president biden's historic visit to kyiv. how will putin and the russian people respond. a somber day at michigan state university as campus reopens, mixed reactions from students. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. reports" only on msnbc it?

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on this presidents' day, we're learning florida governor ron desantis is amping up his travel schedule maybe, maybe a sign he's preparing to jump into the 2024 republican primary. he has three stops today focused on law and order. new york city, suburban philadelphia and chicago to talk to law enforcement groups ahead of at least three other visits, alabama, texas and california next month. on new york's staten island this morning the florida governor blamed what he called woke policies for the rise in crime. >> why is crime a big issue in new york or chicago or all these other places? the reason why you have what you have in some of these other jurisdictions is because they're putting woke ideology ahead of your safety. what have we done in florida? when they were talking about defunding police and slashing budgets, we said not on my

watch. >> nbc's shaquille brewster is in chicago. we're joined by "washington post" political reporter isaac arnes door of. good to see you guys. shaq, this visit to elmhurst illinois for that law and order stop is causing quite a bit of controversy in the chicago mayor's race. what's going on there? >> reporter: definitely, chris. a lot of it goes to the message that you heard that you just played from florida's governor ron desantis. i'm told the message we'll hear from him in chicago will be similar to what we heard from him in new york and about an hour or so ago in the philadelphia suburbs which is part of a recruitment tool. he's saying, hey, in these cities, it want you officers to come down to florida. you can move to florida. we have a welcome home for you. but it's also a chance for him to tout his agenda, his pro law enforcement agenda in his words, talking about different legislation that was passed over

the past couple years in florida that makes it easier, makes it better in his words to be a police officer there. all of this has caused the firestorm. you saw it from eric adams tweeting this morning about desantis saying we can teach you something about values in new york, to this tweet from governor pritzker here in illinois saying essentially ron desantis' dangerous and hateful agenda has no place in illinois. every candidate hoping to hold public office in the land of lincoln should condemn this event. that connects to the mayoral race, a very competitive race, a nine-way race right now. that election coming up next week. one of the front-runners in that race is endorsed by the very group that desantis will be speaking to later today, paul valles. valles in a statement says, yes, i disagree with desantis. i'm pushing back in his message and i'm disappointed in the fraternal order of police. you're hearing him get a lot of attack from other candidates

including the current mayor of chicago, lori lightfoot who sees this as an opening for someone they already call a republican, and this is another connection to the republican party in this wide-open mayoral race. very chaotic. it shows the impact desantis has just by going and appearing in and around these cities, chris. >> isaac, let's talk about the impact on trump world. clearly and understandably the trump campaign sees ron desantis as its biggest threat. they're the early front-runners. i know you talked with several people close to trump who told you he wants to make ron desantis think about whether he should even get in the race. how can he do that? isaac? >> yeah, that's right. it's sort of like in "the godfather" when they say it's not personal, it's just business. in this case it really is personal. trump is really looking at

desantis as someone whose political career started with him. the thing he says to people close to him is he made that guy. he's a young guy, why doesn't he just wait. he wants to make it painful for him to run against him. he wants him to think twice about challenging him and he does view -- his team does view desantis as the most serious challenge. you don't need them to tell us that. like you mentioned, the polls show a mixed bag between the two of them leading both nationally and in the early primary states. >> it's also fascinating what you write about their personal relationship. because there's been this collapse of the trump-desantis public relationship. what's going on there? >> well, you know, there's always been this idea that they were close allies, and that was never really the truth in private. the fact is based on our reporting they were both using each other. trump thought desantis was good

for trump. and desantis thought trump could be good for desantis. as long as that was true, they were aligned. when that wasn't the case, they haven't been, they've been at odds. that relationship has been up and down over the years. they've had these tiffs and in the past and then the wheels really came off last year as it became clear that desantis was going to challenge trump for 2024 and that he was going to be a serious challenge, that in a lot of republican eyes desantis was overtaking trump as the heir and standard-bearer. >> the conventional wisdom has been that desantis probably won't announce for months until the state legislative session is over. that's fine with trump. it might encourage more people to get in. that makes trump's 30% or so more powerful in the primaries. so that begs the question,

should desantis consider getting in sooner? would his entry in the race even maybe discourage other folks from getting in, if for no other reason than desantis would look up a lot of the campaign cash? >> i actually think it's smart of desantis to wait because it keeps him from being a target. i think everyone knows, including the other candidates announced like nikki haley and possibly larry hogan know if desantis gets in, there's really no room for them. desantis gets a free road right now to work out his message, figure out things before he announces. he is the most formidable opposition to donald trump. the question for desantis is, once he gets in and once he demonstrates he's going to have fund-raising strength, two, he'll be shown to be at least second in all the polls in this. can he clear the field soon enough so it's a one-on-one race? that's the fundamental question. it's okay for now, the next six

months, eight months, whatever, that he doesn't announce. once he gets in, can he clear the field so it becomes a one-on-one race. >> you lead me mat rally to what the former governor of maryland, larry hogan, said to chuck todd on "meet the press." he made some news there. take a listen. >> if you thought your candidacy was going to contribute to inadvertently helping donald trump, would that be a reason not to run? >> that would be a pretty good reason to consider not running. i don't care that much about my future in the republican party. i care about making sure we have a future for the republican party. >> but i wonder how many other republicans who are considered possible hopefuls feel that way. might that be something they should consider? >> i think it's a great question every one of them should be asked. a question that reveals what are you in this for. my guess is people like nikki haley, whose ego seems bigger

than the room we're all sitting in, she's not going to be pushed back by it. it's a great question. i think what will happen is once desantis, if he gets in, his prowess will show that these other candidates have no room to take on donald trump. i actually think that governors pritzker and eric adams and other democrats attacking ron desantis in this actually helps ron desantis in the gop primary. it allows him to stay out long enough to build his message and get ready for a tough race against donald trump. >> so interesting, matthew and isaac, stay with me. shaq brewster, thank you so much. biden's trip being called one of the most difficult sigh sive moments of his presidency. how will putin respond to the surprise visit? we're live in moscow next. 're l. . thank you aetna. yeah? well, i'm loving that zero dollar monthly plan premium. thank you, aetna. ah-ha. smartest move we ever made.

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have fallen under russian control long ago. just moments ago, nbc news learned that the president had the option to go to cities easier to access, cities closer to the polish border but chose the longer trip to kyiv to highlight the capital is still standing. i want to bring in nbc's chief international correspondent keir simmons in moscow. it would be an understatement to say this past year hasn't gone the way vladimir putin had planned. what does he plan to do now to convince the russian people this is a war still worth fighting? >> reporter: keep going, i think is the answer to that, honestly. there are those who think he might be having doubts, but there is no sign of it. actually, chris, we just saw what we think may have been the president -- president putin passing where we are here. certainly there was a heavy police presence, the road was closed as he came by which suggests -- and that way is to the kremlin.

suggests he's heading to the kremlin getting ready for his speech for tomorrow. he may have looked up to his tv screens to see president biden in ukraine. i think tomorrow you will see in that speech there will be no compromise. i think if he does mention president biden's trip to ukraine, he's very likely to portray it to the russian people as another example that, in fact, this is nato, the u.s. and western europe in ukraine, backing ukraine, that this is a fight for russia against those forces which the kremlin likes to depict as negative forces. i don't think that president putin has any option in many ways. i think certainly he will see losing as an existential threat for his leadership and he won't countenance nah. the diplomatic tectonic plates are shifting, chris.

the national security adviser was with president biden in ukraine. meanwhile china's top diplomat is in hungary and on his way to here in moscow. antony blinken was in turkey talking to the turkish foreign minister. so many, many things are shifting. the thing that doesn't seem to be changing is the uncompromising position that the kremlin and president putin takes. >> listen, we don't know what the reaction has been. we can certainly speculate what the reaction might be to putin looking up and seeing that the president is there with zelenskyy side-by-side in the capital of ukraine. how unusual would it be, keir, at 9:00, 9:30 at night for vladimir putin to be going to the kremlin? >> reporter: not unusual necessarily. tomorrow is kind of his state of the union address.

he'll stand before parliament. he does that on an annual basis. he's moving to be ready for tomorrow. as you know, he has many different places that he can be based. the kremlin is just one of them. that's not necessarily surprising. i do think that president putin will be working very hard on that relationship with china. as i mentioned, china's top diplomat coming to moscow. that is pretty crucial for the kremlin and to china, of course, those talks taking place with evaporating trust, the u.s. accusing china of considering sending lethal weapons to russia, remember at the same time china needs to try to sustain its economic relationship certainly with europe and certainly with the u.s. as well. so, again, these are times in

which the positions that people are taking around ukraine are beginning to signify where each country kind of stands in the world. that's how much of a global picture this really is at this stage. it's not just about ukraine -- it is about ukraine, of course, it is about russia, but it's also about a changing international picture. >> every year we watch that speech closely, but maybe much more closely tomorrow than we have before. keir simmons, thank you. we appreciate it. shifting from the optics in moscow to the ones in washington, d.c., i want to bring back msnbc senior political analyst matthew dowd. matthew, the president is facing a couple of big challenges as he heads into the 2024 campaign, the first to show he has the energy to be present. everyone is talking about his age. we should mention he decided to take that ten-hour train ride to get to kyiv today. it's a pretty grueling schedule he has. the second challenge is to show he's fulfilled the promises he made in 2020, one of which was

to rebuild international alliances, reposition the u.s. as the global defender of democracy. he talked about that this morning. >> for all the disagreement we have in our congress with some issues, there is significant agreement on the support for ukraine. this is so much larger than just ukraine. it's about freedom and democracy in europe, freedom and democracy at large. >> do you think this trip has the possibility to help him achieve the two goals of showing that he can still handle the job to lead america and, in fact, to lead the world? >> you know, chris, it's interesting. to me this is an instance where doing the right thing, defending an ally, and it being the best political thing are completely in sync. i think this was really smart for all the reasons you mentioned. it shows, one, he has more vigor than a lot of people have thought, especially his opponents thought. here he is on a quick trip over

there, long, grueling trip in the midst of this. it also provides actually an interesting contrast. what he's saying is i stand with ukraine gets russia and those other guys, trump, the gop, they have a tendency to stand with russia in this. if he can over the next year and a half, if he runs, make this an i'm fighting for democracy and freedom both internationally and at home, at home and abroad and that's what this is about, i'm going to do the economy, i'm going to do that, but this is a fundamental moment for democracy at home and ab board. and doing that in this way and standing with ukraine and making the contrast with vladimir putin, as i say, which the gop has had a tendency to be overly friendly to, is a smart thing but also the right thing. >> there was an article that in 20 to the election was a choice, competency versus crazy. it worked against donald trump. can it work if the gop nominee

is someone other than donald trump? is that a message you think will continue to resonate as he shows this is how, at least how the white house wants him to be presented, this is how a grownup acts? >> that's a great question. a lot depends on where we are in the economy and where we are internationally. he wants it to be a referendum if the economy and internationally things are going well, joe biden wants it to be a referendum. if those things are mixed, the economy is mixed, internationally he wants it to be a choice election. my guess is it's going to be mixed to a degree, so it's going to be a choice election. it's much easier to make that a choice election with donald trump, a person that everyone knows and has made decisions about and has a higher negative rating than donald trump, he could do that with a desantis or someone else because of their positions, because of where they are. again, we don't know how people stand under, as you know, chris, having watched this for years, how people do under the bright lights.

everybody thinks ron desantis is strong. we all know what happened to scott walker. we all know what happened to rick perry. we all know what happened to mayor giuliani in this. right now, it depends where the economy is and where we are internationally, whether he wants it a referendum or choice. my guess is choice. it's much easier with donald trump. >> you also remind me of such a good interesting question about 2024 which is will donald trump still have the ability to get under the skin of these candidates and how deeply. matthew dowd, we'll talk about that going forward. we appreciate your time. u.s.-china tensions deep pen as china tells washington to stay out of its relationship with the kremlin. the latest from beijing coming up. y get a job. the house whisperer! this house says use realtor.com to see homes in your budget. you're staying in school, jacob! realtor.com. to each their home.

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censorship. nbc's jacob soboroff has more. >> reporter: from "matilda yts. >> -- to "charlie and the chocolate factory" to "james and the giant peach," all of the roald dahl books are considered classics in children's literature. new generations of readers might find passages altered from the original text. hundreds of changes made to uk's edition by the roald dahl story company. edits to subjects like weight, gender, physical appearance and more. in "charlie and the chocolate factory," the enormously fat agustus. is now just enormous. and the cloud men from "james and the giant peach" are now cloud people. >> those who work with young people, recognize we're dealing

with children's literature and there has to be some sensitivity about topics that didn't exist in times past. >> the changes have a backlash. roald dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. another person writing sensitive readers shouldn't be near roald dahl. he expressed anti-semitic views in 1990. the author's family issued an apology for the hurt his statements caused. now, the roald dahl story company says reviewing a work's language is not unusual adding any changes made have been small and carefully considered. other media companies are grappling with similar issues. disney plus added a nonscreen disclaimer to classic films, including peter pan, and aristocrats. it includes mistreatment of people or cultures. these stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.

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