ben rhodes, joins me now.think obviously this relationship was very strained under donald trump, his indifference to putin was trained, refusing to criticize, but it was always the case that the difficulty of this relationship was deeper than trump, and you're really seeing that now. trump's gone, and we can do sanctions and we can collect human rights abuses, but i don't know how much that changes rushing behavior. how do you see the path forward here? >> well, first of all putin tends to make the decisions that he thinks are in his best interests. the u.s. has tried pressure and he has done what he wanted to do whether it is in places like ukraine or syria. we've tried to have reset relationships with russia and he's still done those. so i think we have to understand that putin is gonna make these judgments particularly about how countries people at home on his own, but at the same time we can do is shape those choices, and pose a cost because part of what he is doing in part of what i was throwing in that t

ben rhodes joins me now. was very strange under donald trump. his deference to putin was very strange. his refusal to criticize. but it is also always the case that the difficulty of this relationship was deeper than trump. and you're really seeing that now. it's like, okay, trump's gone and we can, you know, do sanctions and we can call out human rights abuses, but i don't know how much that changes russian behavior. like, how do you see the path forward here? >> well, first of all, putin tends to make the decisions that he thinks are in his best decisions for his own domestic political standing. the u.s. has tried pressure and he's done what he wanted to do whether it's in places like ukraine or syria. we've tried to have resets with the relationship with russia and he's still done those things. we have to understand putin is going to make these judgments, particularly about how he treats his people at home, on his own. but we can impose a cost. because part of what putin is doing, part of what i was referr

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. >>, the deputy national security adviser to president obama was ben rhodes and ben has been kind enoughs here tonight to talk about a few different things going on that i really want to get his perspective on. it's good to see you, thank you for making time. >> good to see you, rachel. >> i want to hear your take on what happened with alexei navalny. he added a 24-day hunger strike in prison in russia. wanted to know what's your take of this? a lot of people were wondering whether putin would kill him, or allow him to die in prison? ? all >> ritual, you and i have been talking about this. i spent some time talking to alexei navalny through the last year for book i have coming out. he knew exactly what he was getting into. he was saying to me when the cell door clanged behind, you and you know they could do anything to you, of course you feel fear. he knew that's what he was getting into. he also said, look, whenever i feel like giving up, i know my family is with me, the people in russia are with me, and i know that i have to fight this corruption in my country. i cannot stand by all th

. >> joining us now ben rhodes. an msnbc political contributor. also joining us, jonathan alter, a columnist for the "daily beast" and also an msnbc political analyst. since you were the deputy national security adviser, your reaction to these search warrants against giuliani? >> well, jonathan, what i'm struck by is the fact that clearly the justice department was ready to do this, wanted to do this for some time, and it was obstructed by the attorney general of the united states bill barr under donald trump. and as soon as merrick garland got confirmed, and lisa monaco who i worked closely with in the obama years was confirmed as deputy attorney general, this is just moving forward. clearly there's not just smoke, there's fire. this was signed off on by a magistrate, and it suggests to me that we're in the beginning of the justice department now being allowed to pull all of these threads. and if you look at rudy giuliani and you look at his conduct and you look at the corruption that was kind of hiding in plain sight, this is the beginning of a

. >> joining us now, ben rhodes, former deputy national adviser to barack obama, and ben, we are continuingnversation in brooklyn center, minnesota, so we may be sharing the screen with some of the images in the street there as we speak. this was obviously an end day, and the withdrawal of troops could be accomplished before that time, but that's the end point for this. >> yeah, and i think that's intentional, lawrence. first of all to essentially make the point that having been there 20 years, we can hold our heads up high and say that militarily we've done everything that we could, first in defeating al qaeda, taking up bin laden and then in trying to give the security forces and afghan government a chance here, but there is a limit to what we can do militarily anymore. the american people will see september 11 as a marker, and we're moving into a new period where we will no longer have troops in afghanistan. president biden not only framed it as the end of our presence in afghanistan but the end of a period that began on 9/11. >> the president said we could see military action there befo

. >> ben rhodes, saying will hold the taliban accountable could sound awfully strange?uffered the people who have suffered so much is going to be a grim conflict between the afghan government and the taliban. that could the could hopefully recover resolve themself. that message is about, within that context, the taliban should not think they should provide safe haven to groups like al-qaeda that could threaten the united states. what we're seeing here is the shift from the afghanistan or the iraq where they have large ground forces in the places, to a model like the model that was pursued against isis. where it's u.s. air power often working with partners on the ground who share our objectives in terms of eliminating terrorist safe havens. it's one that doesn't require 50, 000, 100, 000, or even in this case, two and thousand 500 troops in afghanistan, to be in a country anymore. he suggesting will use air power, if we reengage. >> what has changed in the rift royal decision from the obama white house to the biden white house? >> well, part of it is one, simply the pass

joining me now is msnbc political contributor ben rhodes. he's also the former deputy national security advisor in the obama administration. ben, we know the two sides are expected to meet again next week to talk about -- they decided to create some working groups to sort of go through this process together. what do you realistically think will happen when these talks have all wrapped up? >> well, aaron, the bottom line here is that in 2018, the trump administration pulled out of the nuclear deal and started piling on sanctions, including sanctions that iran was supposed to get relief from under the deal, and then iran pulled out of the nuclear deal a year later and resumed its nuclear program. and so these working groups are looking at these two things. how can iran go back to the nuclear restrictions and roll back their nuclear program under the deal? and how can the u.s. go back to providing iran the sanctions relief it was a part of that deal? the goal of these two groups, i think, is to identify, is there a date that we can put on the ca

of the fire and this kind of be done with it because my hope and i think that what we got from ben rhodes during the obama administration this could be the beginning of something if the u.s. gets itself back into this agreement here what does how does it change the region how does it change iran's situation a visa be its neighbors and its adversaries go ahead. well 1st of all there are 2 important points that we have to keep in mind iran's progress in the nuclear field . after the americans left the nuclear program and as your guest pointed out run waited for a year before it began to creasing its commitments but iran did ultimately increase its nuclear capabilities and that cannot be reverse that knowledge the united states has caused hundreds of billions of dollars damage it has killed people in iran it has killed women children and patients and hospitals so and i don't i really don't believe that obama really was serious about normalization as if he was he would have implemented the human soul and he never did and that was intentional in fact the iranian leader ayatollah harmony said b

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. >>> the deputy national security advisor under president obama was ben rhodes. erent things going on that i really want to get his perspective on. ben, it's good to see you. thanks for making time. >> good to see you, rachel. >> i really want to hear your take on what just happened with alexi navalny. he just ended a 24-day hunger strike in prison in russia. i think a lot of people were wondering whether putin would kill him or at least allow him to die in prison. >> so, rachel, you and i have been talking about this. i spent some time talking to alexei navalny through the last year on a book i have coming out and he knew exactly what he was getting into. i remember him saying to me when the cell door clangs behind you and you know they can do anything to you, of course they feel fear. and he said whenever i feel like giving up i know my family is with me, the people of russia are with me and i have to fight this corruption in my country. i cannot standby while this is happening. and i think what he shows is what putin wants is apathy. he wants his own people to

. >> plus ben rhodes on what our president can do about the russian president.s protesters swarmed the streets for alexei navalny. and steve kornacki in his big core breakdown where we are after 200 million shots, in 92 days. in where there's work to be done. it

ben rhodes, thank you so much. that is all in on this tonight, the rachel meadow show starts right now. rt right now. happy to have you here. >>> a big news day today, president biden announcing we just hit 200 million doses of vaccine administered. you will recall he initially said he wanted 100 million shots to be administered in his first 100 days as president. then when he hit that really early, he doubled the goal and said, okay, not 100 million shots but 200 million shots in 100 days. today's announcement means that he hit that, even that doubled goal, more than a week before the deadline. and this comes, of course, when things aren't all smooth sailing on the vaccine front. this comes of course as we are expecting some word from the of u.s. government, from the cdc and the fda, by the end of the week about whether or not the johnson & johnson one-shot vaccine is going to come back into use. but even with the administration of that one-shot vaccine still on pause for almost two weeks now, we apparently today

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ben rhodes, michael beschloss, kevin barren, thank you. >>> this hour, kim potter, the officer who fatally shot daunte wright, was arrested and charged with second degree manslaughter. brooklyn center, minnesota, ten miles from the murder trial of where derek chauvin is also proceeding. the second day of the defense's witnesses testimony. dr. david fowler, chief medical examiner of the state of maryland. shaquille brewster in minneapolis, cal perry over in brooklyn center. cal, let me begin with you. walk us through this arrest, second-degree manslaughter charge for kim potter. what has been the reaction on the ground there and how is this likely to play out as we go into the evening hours? >> reporter: yeah. former officer potter has been checked in now to a county police facility. she'll be actually, we think, arraigned later today when the charges are made official. second-degree manslaughter charge as it stands in the books, culpable negligence whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another. the charges, no

let's bring into the conversation peter baker and ben rhodes. both msnbc contributors. worked i believe on the paris climate accord and ripped up by the last president. how much damage was done? how much does president biden have to go back and get us out of a hole that we are in? >> well, there were two issues really. one was lost time, that time that the united states wasn't leading on climate or pushing other countries to do more on climate is time that not only did the united states not tack more decisive action but usually takes america pushing countries like india, like china to move more aggressively against climate change and facing no pressure from the united states over the course of the last four years so the climate community tells you that's lost time. i think the second challenge that remains is the rest of the world saw trump pull out of that deal and they look at america saying we are glad you're back at the table, leading but we are would have ried a republican could be elected and pull out again. the legislation is so important because we're putting a t

al joining us, ben rhodes. it was before basement television had figured out way around the lags. also pay dividends politically. the plurality of republicans supporting the turn out, it's impossible to explain how big ta number is in the polarizing country. you have 70% of americans supporting the coronavirus package that zero republicans voted for. how does the white house feel now? >> very good. the white house and biden, as you point out, has believed from the start that of anything he's going to be judged on how he handles the krors. there was a moment in the campaign where everything sort of pivoted to that as a critical issue. it's poured their energy into and the numbers are good any which way you look at them. the coronavirus package that he pasted with two-thirds approving of that and him getting credit for the roll out of vaccine manufacturing and distribution. i think the question now for the white house is how they build upon these early numbers that are quite good and how they take that into the next sort of congressional package that they are trying to push. it's al

. >> reporter: i'm ben tracy off the coast of rhode island. of the plan to tackle discrimination, climate change, and inspire the next generation of black farmers? that's a lot. i'm michelle miller in sloansville, new york. that story coming up on "cbs this morning." >> and all that special coverage and more, "eye on earth: our planet in peril" kicks off monday on "cbs this morning." and cbs news will bring you a series of reports on climate and environmental stories across every broadcast and platform all next week leading up to earth day. >> you are very busy. you're in the ter. this is somebody who just took the red eye in from california. >> that's right. >> he started -- >> i noticed that mark phillips got to go sailing. you got to go waist deep in new york harbor. >> new york harbor. not as picturesque but important. >> yes. >> took the redeye back today. bravo you. i'm choking on my own spit. when humans went into lockdown, you may have heard some new noises outside your window. >> with global traffic noise reduced by up to 70%, there i