visit the white house, this has republicans are starting to question u.s. spending on ukraine. in fact, their latest temporarily funding for government funding doesn't mention ukraine aid or disaster relief, and is that a deal breaker for democrats? >> a deal breaker for me, for sure. this is extremely important. you can't have somebody go over and just take over sovereign property and want to keep it. we have got to stand for the long haul. we know what vladimir putin wants. he wants to try and wait this thing out, see if donald trump and the republicans can maintain control in june. he's playing the game of waiting to see if he can get his people in, so yes, it's extremely important that we make sure that we continue to support ukraine. i think overwhelmingly, the members of congress will. it's important and the world is looking at what we do. >> congressman, i appreciate you joining us. thank you so much for your time. that does it for me this hour.

josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it's 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart. moments ago president biden wrapped up his speech to the u.n. general assembly, and his message about beating back russia. in less than two hours, ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy will address the crowd. and then the aircraft that disappeared 24 hours ago crashed. how do you lose track of a $100 million airplane? then on capitol hill, what we just learned about the first impeachment hearing. and an nbc news exclusive. the number of migrants crossing at the border for hopes of a better life in the u.s. is on the rise. just moments ago president

biden wrapped up his remarks before the u.n. general assembly, delivering a high-profile address centered around top global challenges like international security and climate change and reaffirming his commitment for the forces in ukraine, and expressed the need to protect democracy around the globe. >> allowing ukraine to be carved up, i would suggest the answer is no. we have to stand up to this negative aggression today, and detour would-be aggressors tomorrow. that's why the united states with partners around the world will continue to stand with the brave people of ukraine -- >> this afternoon ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is set to address the u.n. where he will renew his calls for more

international assistance in russia's invasion. joining us now, andrea mitchell, and nbc white house correspondent, mike memoli, and with democracy as a whole, how do you see the global community seeing that? >> i guess the global community is divided as always. i thought it was a very effective broad appeal from the north to the south, to democracy, of course, primarily, and ukraine, but also an appeal on climate change, on artificial intelligence, on all of the other issues that are dividing the world. it was a powerful speech, well delivered, well crafted, and trying to show the united states as the leader that is it, just the de facto leader of the world, and the fact that other members of the security council,

the uk and france were not here, friends of america. obviously russia was in the room with lavrov, not putin, and they were sanctioned by the international court for the taking of thousands and thousands of children, ukrainian children, basically kidnapping them and taking them across the border, and other atrocities in ukraine. the appeal for ukraine, important because support for the war is waning in europe, josé, as well as in the united states. zelenskyy will make his own pitch. this is the first time he is in the audience and he is there, not virtually. he will also go to washington tomorrow and go to congress, and he has done that before, meeting with the president in the oval office, and that's when the bigger pitch for the money will be on the hill, and the possibility of, you know, a government shutdown, all of that

in play right now. importantly, i thought he was reaching out and talking about refugees, talking about the affect of climate change, which all of us have seen, and it affects the global south and africa and other communities, india, more than anybody else. this was an important counter point to china, to russia, most importantly, and to this axis that we are now seeing between the possibility of china crossing a red line and arming russia for ukraine, and the newly reinforced alliance between kim jong-un and russia militarily, which is a big threat to the u.s. as well as the rest of the world. >> mike, what do you think the white house sees as the importance and the impact of this speech? >> reporter: well, josé, when you look at the annual speech a president delivers to the u.n. general assembly, one way to

look at it is something of a state of the union address but for a global audience, and he was talking about topics that on their own could be the subject of an important speech. like the comments he made about artificial intelligence, and the governance, and human rights, and nuclear nonproliferation. what the white house's focus has been and what they hope the break through is is about the importance and expanding the influence of democracy, that democracy, in this moment, is facing a significant challenge. the president laid out ways in which he sees we have to accomplish that. it's important to have partnerships and collaboration, and he says no one country can tackle these challenges alone, and it takes expanding, for

example, extending the security council membership, and i have heard president biden publicly and in more intimate audiences fret about that. and it's obviously a important political moment, but also it's the foreign policy challenge of the day, and making sure autocratic places understand. >> what do you think he laid out the challenges with focus on democracy? >> we have heard the president state this a number of times before, and they were not new messages from the president, but

seeing them pulled together is a more comprehensive look at how this president views the world and his place in it, and he made comments about making this an inflexion point and defending democracy, and what struck me was a statement of a recommitment to the core democratic values, core american values, this president would say, as well. it was also a call to arms. he began the speech by saying the u.s. seeks a more secure and prosperous world for all, and no nation can meet the challenges of today alone. that was a way of reaching out to everybody in the room to say none of these problems we're about to talk, about climate change, russia's war in ukraine, and a number of other issues, but we all have to act together. he mentioned, of course, this inflexion point in history, which we know is a core point for this white house and administration, and on the call

to arms, it struck me, we knew he would talk about continued support for ukraine, and he brought it back to the idea of core democratic values. he said we cannot abandon our core principles to appease an aggressor, and addressed everybody in the room with the line if we don't stand up to the aggressors, can anybody in this room consider themselves safe. i am paraphrasing right there a little bit. but in the sense of democracy, and there were little points on climate change and a.i. and everything else, and this was the overarching theme, it was our shared future is one that every nation has to work together. >> it's so important that you mention this, because it's -- it's so easy to hear words and then say where is the action on it? i am thinking, you know, is the united states, do you think,

committed going forward to helping the people who live under the totalitarian or oppressive regimes? the people of iran, just look in our area. cuba had a 62-plus year dictatorship, and nicaragua, and there are people in the world that long to live in a democracy but get no real assistance. >> this goes back to the basic fact, josé, everybody in the conversation here knows the world is a complicated place. president biden was trying to make clear what under pins a lot of their foreign policy decisions, and it's more complicated than that. ukraine creates a clear lens for which the president biden administration can present that contrast saying we need to stand together against the leadership

of vladimir putin. we talk about other nations, like turkey. i just had a conversation with president erdogan, and this is a nato ally and it's somebody the u.s. and other nato nations clearly need to be working with them and hold up some of the sanctions against russia and restart the green deal that we know affects the rest of the world when it comes to food shortages, and this is not a leader that wholly aligned himself with the policy of the u.s. and the west, and he says he has a relationship with russia and said i trust russia as much as i trust the west right now. these are not clear lines that can be drawn, you know, as a matter of black and white issues on a number of fronts, and they made it more complicated for the biden administration. that's why i think we heard him complete the core values over and over that this is what our

country stands for. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. here to continue our conversation and preview president zelenskyy's speech, it's always great to see you. what is your reaction to what we just heard from president biden? >> on one side, i am happy president biden tries to mobilize more support to ukraine, but i would expect from his messages that support needs to be enough and on-time to enable ukraine to win against their aggressor. the u.n. was created for that, and we are asking just for enough weapons, and on-time whipens. we are not unlimited in our

soldiers. another point from president biden was that, indeed, the u.n. is not helping with the challenges. the u.n. needs a new structure, and it's unexcept for us in ukraine, that the terrorists committing genocide against our people, which is kidnapping thousands of our kids is actually occupying the security council of the u.n. and is banning any decision of the united nations needed to finish this for the people in ukraine. >> look at the united nations human rights commission, and who makes up that committee. you are talking about the importance of aid to arrive and to arrive on-time. what are you referring to? >> well, i am referring to high expectations from ukrainians to take up our land just in land

operations. there were a lot of our high expectations regarding the counter offensive, and it happened without the possibility to fire missiles long range, and while our british colleague, the uk provided us with long ammunitions, and it helped us with our enemy. and americans are still thinking whether or not to provide ukraine with long-range munitions. president biden, if he would be committed to a ukrainian victory, speed up with delivering weapons to ukraine would be happening, and it would be allowing us to fire missiles into russian warships in the black sea, and the russian

military base in crimea, and will help to unblock our ports. i want to remind one of the reasons of the hunger across the world, including in very poor nations is russian invasion of ukraine. ukraine is able to feed the world with our grain and our other food, but we are not able to transport it because russia simply fires missiles from crimea military bases, and warships off the waters of the black sea, and destroys our ports. we are not able to transport the food and feed the world. it's in the interest of the poorest nations across the world to basically help ukraine win and unblock our black sea ports. >> it's something that can

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oversight committee has set the first hearing on the impeachment inquiry for september 28th, which is next week. it is set only for two days before the government shutdown deadline occurs. meanwhile, house speaker, kevin mccarthy, vows to keep pushing forward despite a looming government shutdown and rising tension from the republican majority. joining us, former congressman, a msnbc contributor. >> jake, what do we know? >> they are doing the principle investigations here, and they are taking the lead in the inquiry phase, next week, two days before the government is set to shutdown. this is going to be a long effort. i imagine in the next couple of days, republicans will ask for bank records from joe biden, perhaps, hunter biden, james biden, the president's brother.

this is all going to -- i would imagine, this is going to be before this hearing next week. remember, this is an inquiry. they have not decided to impeachment him yet, and i can't imagine them going down the road without impeaching him, and if the government is about to shutdown, that will take up a lot of oxygen as well. >> yeah, it's two days before the budget deadline. how do you think it will play out? >> well, josé, this further complicates matters on the hill. it seems republicans might need democrats to clear the hurdle to avoid a government shutdown, and house democrats are not going to be in the mood of cooperating or collaborating with house republican leadership. i think all of the chaos on the hill makes it more and more likely that we could see a government shutdown, especially as kevin mccarthy has trouble

corralling the 218 votes he needs to get something passed on the house floor. >> i am just wondering -- jake, i guess we can only look at how past crisis have been solved. you know, the magic cr word comes into play so many times, and a cr for 30 days is in question? >> yeah, well, first of all, let's assume they do get a cr for 30 days. that means by november whatever they are going to have to -- november 1, they will have to get a full year of funding done. that's the unfortunate reality for congress. right now speaker mccarthy is trying to get some sort of legislation through the house for a cr for 30 days so they can negotiate with the senate. whatever the house passes has zero chance of being signed by

joe biden or will the senate pass. you know, if i were a gambling man, i would have to imagine they are probably going to shutdown the government. it's definitely, 100%, going to come down to the last minute. >> josé, i will say a group to watch in the coming days is centrist republicans, those that represent districts president biden won, and they believe a shutdown is bad for them and their re-election prospects, so there has been chatter about centrist republicans filing a discharge in the house, to clear the way for a simple extension of the deadline. that's something to look out for in the next few days. >> jake, what are the odds that what carlos is saying, that maybe republicans need democrats to get through this?

is there any possibility that could happen? >> well, republicans will need democrats at the end of the day. the only problem right now, josé, with what he said is that there is no time for a discharge position. zero -- not enough time. discharge position means you have to inject a bill that was sitting in committee, and it can only happen on certain weeks of the month, and so there's no chance. if speaker mccarthy relies on democrats, and matt gaetz said he will boot him out of the speakership. mccarthy, as we put it in the news letter this morning, is handcuffed. i don't know how he gets out of this. it's a treacherous path between now and september 30th. >> carlos, for example, nancy pelosi had the same amount of people in her caucus, the majority, and we didn't see

these kinds of issues going forward like almost from the beginning for speaker mccarthy. what is different? >> the house republican conference is fractured. they talk about the five families. that's what they call themselves. it's hard to bring the five families together. you have the hard right members that don't care if they have to shutdown the government, and there are zero consequences for them in their districts, and then you have the swing members that do get hurt, and trying to reconcile these five families is very difficult. pelosi always had a history at being much better at whipping votes and enforcing discipline. not the case for long-time republican in the house, and it's proving very difficult for kevin mccarthy. >> jake, what are your thoughts on that? >> yeah, he's right.

first of all, nancy pelosi is a much more powerful speaker than any republican speaker i have ever covered, and i covered the last three, mccarthy, boehner and every single speaker i have covered, paul ryan was not pushed out, but boehner and now mccarthy. there's no recognition of the political reality from republicans. like, they say they want to defund the investigation into donald trump. that's not going to happen. what are we even talking about here? there's a democrat in the white house and a democratic senate. they are in some fever dream in which they control every branch of government, and given that it's difficult to govern. >> the clock continues counting down. jake sherman, and former

congressman, thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. authorities are trying to figure out what happened to a navy fighter jet that went missing for about 24 hours. the debris field that was found in south carolina. the f-35 stealth jet went missing sunday, and the pilot ejected but the jet kept flying on auto pilot. what do we know about this investigation? >> reporter: good to see you. 24 hours later and it's still just as head scratching what happened here. the u.s. marine corps is leading the incident. they said they will be no interviews, and this is a sparsely located area. you see behind me the military barricade. that's where the debris field is. we don't know how far back, but the impression that i am getting

from folks around here is about two or three miles. within the block, i have talked to neighbors that have homes, and what they tell me is kind of harrowing, in terms of where this jet ended up crash landing, in a field with all this wooded area behind me. there's hemingway, which is ten miles in one direction, and another city in the other direction, and it ended up where there is no people. extremely lucky. sunday afternoon, about 2:00 in the afternoon, the house was shaking from side to side and the picture frame fell off and hit her as she was taking a nap. she got out of the house and looked around and couldn't find anything. her neighbor across the street sounded like a plane or jet over his house, and he walked out and didn't see anything. so apparently nobody reported this because it went on for another 12 to 16 hours, until last night we got confirmation

the debris field is behind me. and people are trying to wrap their mind around how it's possible the military could lose track of a jet. you have been stunned or surprised? >> yes, i was. i jumped out of my chair when i heard that news today. so all i can think about is to get in my car, and i want to actually see it. especially, if it costs that amount of money, and this is not something that happens every day. >> reporter: josé, an important note here, the pilot ejected and put the aircraft into auto pilot 80 miles from here, over charleston, and it's a two-hour drive. the corresponder was not working properly, and there are

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now to the latest on the legal drama surrounding former president donald trump and his allies. abc news reports one of the assistant wrote to-do lists for her with classifications and markings.

molly michael also told investigators she grew concerned how he handled the request from the national archives. nbc news has not independently verified this reporting. with us to talk about this, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and a professor to the law university. >> good morning, josé. i would say there are two implications. one, donald trump was writing memos on classified documents after he left the white house and handing him to an assistant suggests the cavalier way in which he behaved with classified documents. secondly, molly michael is an important witness on the obstruction of justice front, and she's telling investigators she became increasingly concerned that donald trump was making statements that appeared to want to deceive investigators

about the status of these classified documents at mar-a-lago, and the issue of the boxes. at one point she said he told her, you don't know anything about the boxes, implication being she should forget about boxes being moved around. she went with him to mar-a-lago and resigned amid the controversy of the national archives requesting those documents back. >> what does this mean for donald trump's legal exposure? >> these revelations confirm the classified documents case on its merit is the least complicated and easiest allegations to prove against president trump. these allegations of using the documents as scrap paper, it

shows that not only he lied to federal officials and he instructed other people to lie about the existence of boxes that had not been turned over. it's very damning evidence in the classified documents case. if i was his lawyer, i would be pretty nervous. >> you said something about this case is the easiest and least complicated for the prosecution. >> it's clear he was not supposed to have these documents, and yet here is ample evidence he had the documents, knew that he had them, and still didn't turn them over. that's consciousness of guilt when he did not turn them over, and lied about it. if the allegations are true, it's pretty serious. >> we heard a single charge was

filed against ray ebbs, a man that was related to the conspiracy theories. >> yeah, the conspiracy theory arose he must have been a government operative, and he was seen having people go into the capitol, and then criminal information would suggest he is going to plead guilty. he never entered the capitol and was not charged with violence, and he is suing fox news and tucker carlson for defamation, and now that he has been charged with the federal crime, it suggests there is no merit to the idea that he was acting on behalf of the federal government on january 6th. >> thank you both very much. now to the latest on the humanitarian crisis at the southern border and an nbc news

exclusive. the number of migrants crossing the u.s. and mexico border has risen since september with border patrol detaining more than 7,500 migrants on sunday alone. and julie ainsley broke the story. why are we seeing more crossings these days? >> typically the number of migrants goes up this time of year as the weather gets cooler, but this is a significant increase. the last time we had public data available was in july when we saw 4,300 migrants crossing per day, and now we are looking at 7,500, and that's just sunday and a snapshot that we have. we are seeing some reports of very large groups, some as many as 1,000 at a time crossing in the del rio sector in texas, and these are small areas that will have a hard time taking in that

many migrants. those migrants can be processed and sheltered and find their way to wherever they may go into the united states. more remote areas, they are seeing a pinch. you are already seeing street releases in arizona and around san diego, california. that's what happens when the areas get overcrowded and can't process everybody at once and they have to release people. this is the first real and true test of the president biden's new asylum policies they started in mid may after the covid restrictions ended. this is a chance to see is that number going to stay low at the border or are they going to have so many migrants they will have to start releasing them into the united states, and will they keep their ability to push some migrants that don't qualify back into mexico, because mexico does have a limit on how many they can take, josé. >> yeah, thousands of cubens on the border on the mexican side waiting to see what can happen

with them, and they are not getting an answer. children as young as 8 years old were being separated from their families this summer? >> yeah, this is from court monitor, appointed as part of the old court case in 1985. this is a pediatrician that went into this summer in a facility in texas and noticed there were children separated from their parents. border patrol said this is done for safety. when they get to overcrowding, they don't want to mix populations, say there's a father in a certain pod that can't be in there with young children, so they start to separate these people. they may not want to put teenage girls in the same pod as teenage girls, and they are separating them out based on past incidents. according what happened to the pediatrician that happened in court, a lot of times these children and parents had no idea how they can contact each other.

we have to emphasize, it was temporary, it only lasted 72 hours, and it was totally different than the trump administration policy of systematically separating 5,000 families with no way of reunifying them. >> thank you. and then el chapo's son pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering during a 15-minute arraignment with a larger than usual security contingent. this video you are seeing is when he was briefly arrested by mexican security forces during a violent operation back in january. he was almost very quickly released by authorities after this incident. up next, five americans that spent years in prison in iran

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55 past the hour. a look at the growing issue of fraud on the elderly. hospice care is a big business, making it another place

fraudsters turn to line their pockets. stephanie ruhle examined how providers are taking advantage of the patients rather than giving them the care they need. >> reporter: you are looking at undercover video of a doctor accepting kickbacks for referring patients to hospice care, patients who don't need it. >> we are expecting more than that. i give you nine patients. what the [ bleep ] you want? $250 apiece. >> reporter: this video from 2017 was part of an investigation prosecuted by the department of justice. it ended in several guilty verdicts. >> this was the largest criminal hospice fraud case ever prosecuted by the department of justice. corporate executives looted our medicare trust fund for over $124 million.

>> reporter: these two men ran the company. they submitted more than 47,000 false claims from more than 9,000 patients. three-quarters didn't qualify for hospice. prosecutors say he bought expensive cars, jewelry and clothing, season tickets to the spurs, and trips to las vegas. >> they lied to patients. patients with alzheimer's, patients with dementia. they put them on services they didn't need, risking their health. >> stephanie ruhle joins us. it's great seeing you. this is grotesque. how can people protect themselves from something like this? >> reporter: this is the worst story. it's the american way. as soon as something is big business, medicare paid hospice care $3 billion. by 2020, it was $23 billion.

fraudsters are coming in all shapes and sizes. shell companies that they are inventing. they are inventing people's names. what with see -- i want to talk about families. they push people to go into hospice who don't need to. that's really important. our message out there to folks -- the government is taking action. the department of justice is prosecuting some of the big fraudsters. medicare is tightening their restrictions and reviewing a lot of the hospice providers. some states have a moatorium on news. when you are in such a vulnerable time, take it seriously. ask questions. do reviews of the hospice providers. look for other references. just as you would in a wellness check, we need to do it at these sensitive times there are bad actors out there. we don't want anyone to fall

victim. >> stephanie ruhle, thank you so much. this is so important. you can watch the whole story at msnbc.com. watch stephanie at 11:00 p.m. before we go, we have good news to brighten your day. look at how a group of teens rallied around their teammate battling cancer. talk about team work. in louisiana. this work the moment the basketball team had a victory off the court. all shaving their heads to support teammate remi cramer who is going through cancer treatments. >> they really love you. >> that support means everything. when you found out your team had decided to shave their heads, what was it like? >> it was great. it felt like we were part of a true family. brotherhood.

>> it's a solidarity, outpouring of love from these young men. >> it's amazing to know that even through a hard, dark time that you know you have so much support and love to get you through. >> you can actually feel that love. >> yes. >> we are all in this together. we will stick to it. we are a family, and we're going to fight it all together. >> they are. his teammates, the coach, his dad all shaving their heads. that wraps up the hour for me. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden on the world stage at the u.n. general assembly, calling on world leaders to continue their financial and military support for ukraine as pre