in just a few minutes, we will have a live report from ukraine. here in the united states, president biden tapping the nation's strategic oil reserves in an effort to bring down gas prices. and a number of other stories we are following this morning. former-president trump's son-in-law appearing before the january 6th committee. the house passes a bill that would cap the cost of insulin. and we are hearing now from the producer of the academy awards on how police were there in the building, and ready to arrest will smith on the spot after he slapped chris rock. lot to get to on a friday morning. it is april 1st. happy april, everybody. joe and mika have the morning off. with me for the morning, i have got msnbc contributor mike barnicle, host of way too early and white house bureau chief at "politico," jonathan lemire. and former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. good morning to you all. let's get right into it. the russian government is denying claims by u.s. intelligence that vladimir putin is being misled about the russian military failures in