inauguration, democrats are in reset mode right now, looking for ways to slice up and salvage pieces of the agenda, i ll ask about the path forward. and the president is on clean-up duty after his marathon news conference. he s warning that any, any move by russia into ukraine will be considered an invasion. we ll go live to ukrainian capitol where officials fear biden s remarks yesterday may have given a green light to vladimir putin. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage with new moves by the january 6 select committee now seeking information from the former president s daughter ivanka trump, our senior legal affairs correspondent paula read has the latest on the investigation.
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he faces a new setback in the senate. a green light for russia. ukraine s new warning that biden s words could help pave the way for an invasion. nato s secretary-general is our guest. and a big win for the january 6th committee. the supreme court decides against trump over hundreds of documents that he wanted to keep secret. now they re headed to congress. we begin this hour with a new concern over the crisis in ukraine after president biden s marathon news conference last night. the white house is now trying to clarify what the president said about what he thinks putin will do, how he thinks the u.s. will respond, and whether nato allies will be unified. it s one thing if it s a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. but if they actually do what they re capable of doing with the force amassed on the border,
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening a snapshot of a restless nation and a president appearing to struggle to satisfy on several key fronts from the economy to covid to his ability to unite the country to some of the takeaways from a brand-new nbc news national poll on the one-year anniversary of president joe biden s inauguration the president ending his first year in office with a 43% approval rating. the only new president with a worst first year number, biden predecessor donald trump. but tonight, the white house is consumed with repairing immediate damage from remarks the president made at yesterday s marathon news conference about a possible minor russian incursion into ukraine. in a moment i ask white house chief of staff ron klain about it but first, here s peter alexander. reporter: one year after taking office, according to our new nbc news poll,
and then he snaps. he lashes out at people in a disparaging way. i m very surprised that he does that to the media out loud. many people do it to the media in private, but for joe biden who s been around the block, who s been with reporters for decades to do that as president, really, i just didn t see that side of him. you know, bashing the press is a time-honored thing. often the press deserves it. i just don t think he does it well by saying that about what was, actually, an obviously legitimate, good question. howard: right. and making it so personal. biden also is taking a lot of media flak for another answer at that marathon news conference, and that was when he was can asked about the legitimacy of the 20 2022 elections, and he couldn t vouch for that. while i m surprised the press didn t play this as, oh, he was just pushing back against trump who continues to relitigate what happened in 2020. what was your take on that
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