josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. and good morning, it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m josé diaz-balart. we re following breaking developments out of israel as it expands its ground operation and pushes its military deeper into gaza. we ll talk to a physician with doctors without borders about why she thinks going to a hospital in gaza could soon mean a death sentence for patients. back at home, new questions surrounding the deadly mass shootings in maine, how authorities issued a statewide alert just last month to be on the lookout for that gunman. and new polling numbers giving us a glimpse of the state of the 2024 race, former president trump still running strong in iowa, but now there s a tie for second place. in acapulco, mexico, chaos and desperation as residents form long lines for water and search for supplies almost a week after hurricane otis slammed into the resort town killing almost 50 people. and we remember actor matthew
But i am watching over everybody, jerry. Youre in good hands, okay . Thank you. Youre in good hands, believe me. You can tell the people of new york. Even though i didnt win new york state. I should have won new york state, but i didnt. Mr. President , cathy. I want to return to a conversation we had with ivanka, dean and wilbur on jobs, the work force of the future. As we think about that and think about our skillsets, in new york city alone, our Public High School Graduation Rate is at 70 . But the readiness of our students for college and careers is only assessed at 37 . As we look at the pace of change, we look at the Digital Transformation we all see in business in the marketplace, and look at the skills, this disconnect between what employers need and what our students are coming into our work forces are prepared to deliver. It would be great to get your
thoughts on the priorities of the administration around education, around, again, what i like to call not the future of work bu
into ukraine. so here in the country, they would have to fend for themselves to try and fight off russia for their own survival with the u.s. saying it will provide, it will carry out united sanctions against russia but wouldn t fight against russia to preserve ukraine. richard engel, thank you very much. joining me is msnbc military analyst and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey, he served in the national security council and was a gulf war division commander. general, thanks for being here. i m wondering if you could pull back the curtain for us. take us into the thoughts of the security council right now, the thoughts of the biden administration as they re looking at all of their intelligence, as they re looking at the troop movements with russia, and considering the diplomatic talks, what are they considering right now? how are they feeling right now? what are they taking into account as they see all of these moves being made by russia?
ukraine to evacuate them, that they will be on their own. and to that effect, today, the u.s. embassy announcing that as of tomorrow, it is suspending all consular services at the embassy here in kyiv, and the first major airliner, dutch airline klm, has suspended its flights to the capital as well. okay, erin mclaughlin, thank you for the latest from kyiv. joining me right now, barry mccaffrey, retired four-star u.s. army general, former gulf war division commander, former member of the national security council and currently our esteemed msnbc military analyst. general, thank you, my friend, for joining us. so, you have certainly been in tense situations before. how do you expect this phone call played out between presidents biden and putin? well, probably very badly. look, what s going on, i ve never seen anything like it. since 1850, russian military operations are always masked in
these claims and what he told the committee when he testified behind closed doors. right now we want to start with the latest in eastern europe. josh letterman is in brussels at nato headquarters. richard engel is in kyiv. he ll join us in a moment. he just spoke to the ukrainian president, president zelenskyy. at this moment i m joined by general barry mccaffrey, retired four-star general, former gulf war division commander and for our sake fortunately an msnbc military analyst. european and u.s. officials warning the situation in ukraine is going to get a lot worse. the president in the state of the union said there were dark days ahead. what more are you hearing? peter, u.s. and european officials have been so impressed by the surprising resistance that the ukrainians have been able to mount up until now, keeping the russians from being able to take over most of the urban areas in the city, but they are warning that that