served. with us to start off our coverage, nbc news white house correspondent, monica alba, at the washington national cathedral, melissa murray, a former law clerk to sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian, michael beshlash. reporter: josé, we will hear from the late justice s son in addition to her biographer. as you will hear from president biden and chief justice john roberts, it s remarkable because both of them really first met her in 1981. john roberts was working in the reagan administration, in the white house, he was helping to prepare her for her confirmation hearing, and then, of course, senator biden was somebody questioning her as part of the process, and who engaged with her and even told her that she should use the fact that she was going to be this trailblazer, this first woman to serve as a supreme court justice as something she could use to go out and push the equal rights amendment forward, for instance, and that s something sandra day
be coming true. as the 80-year-old biden is expected to launch his candidacy with a video announcement and that is expected to happen tomorrow. john: a new poll from nbc news shows 70% of americans, including a majority of democrats, do not want biden to run for a second term, saying the president s age is a major reason why. so, can he do anything to calm those fears? our political panel, juan williams and david avello, and ronna mcdaniel are here to discuss the race for the white house, coming up. sandra: a fox news alert, we are waiting national security adviser jake sullivan to take the podium at the white house after the biden administration was forced to evacuate another u.s. embassy in a war torn country. hello and welcome, everyone, as we begin a brand-new week, sandra smith in new york. john: that weekend went quickly, didn t it, sandra? john roberts in washington, this is it america reports. also a pentagon briefing at the top of next hour, diplomats tried f
speech when it happens. and andrzej duda bringing the president to the capital amid the ongoing war next to his country. and as i told president zelenskyy when we spoke in kyiv yesterday, ki proudly say that our support for ukraine remains unwavering. this is hours after vladimir putin delivered his own state of the union, state of the nation speech trying to blame the u.s. somehow for the war in ukraine and you remember of course, it is russia who invaded country a year ago today. and russia would suspend their participation in the new start nuclear weapons treaty as it is known, and russia is already not in compliance and the question is what this means going forward and will russia perhaps break the limit on nuclear warheads set by that treaty, and we begin in warsaw where president biden is going to speak. phil mattingly is there, and cnn national correspondent is there in hkharkiv, and this is not to be a response to putin s speech, and what is the president s mess
crisis from hurting themselves or others, let s come together and make sure that not another family experiences that this loss that not another community is ripped apart and it s very fabric by this type of savage and senseless violence. you mentioned universal background checks. we know most action on gun reform is likely to happen at the state level more likely to happen at state level than it does at the federal level. just give us a sense since being there in washington, and i know you ve reached out to your constituents and we re calling them as recently as last week. asked about their concerns, gun violence was right up there. since you ve been in washington . are you more or less hopeful that this country can and will in fact address gun violence? uh i m always going to be helpful. hopeful i spent 10 years in the state senate in the minority is a democrat and kentucky and worked every day with my colleagues from all over the state and across the aisle to try to make th