pledging to bring down crime across the country. this is something white house aides have been worried about for quite sometime. crime has steadily visited. most can be attributed to the pandemic and they hope that begins to fade, but they recognize strategies need to change. they have been thwarted in their effort to have a crack down on guns, and they re looking to see if there s more they can do but for now it needs to be this push in giving resources to the states and municipalities to try to bring down crime where it is happening. he is also looking at polling. americans are worried about this. it is happening in their cities and towns. mika, mayor adams will be our guest an hour from now live on morning joe . i look forward to that. let s go to overseas where u.s. officials are accusing russia of planning to release a faked attack video to use as an excuse to invade ukraine. could this work? nbc news chief foreign
wow. the u.s. among several other nations has enacted a diplomatic boycott of the games, citing china s human rights abuses. richard, what do you make of that? what do you make of speaker pelosi s comments? i understand where she is coming from. i respectfully disagree. yes, it is going to be risky for athletes to say something, but let s be honest. this olympics takes place against a backdrop of massive repression in china. the united states government has termed it genocide. it is clearly a crime against humanity. now, china doesn t want these olympics to get undermined, so i actually think there s a bit of deterrence here. i think they re going to think twice before they take actions against athletes because then you could have a massive, massive blowup at the olympics. i think our athletes have more leverage than the speaker was suggesting, but i will be honest with you, mika. i understand there s a risk, but i think individual athletes have to make a judgment, and
prevent the crimes and children being in the pathway of crime. so here is what i am saying. let s look at how we re spending the money, how many police officers we have that are currently doing clerical duties and not public safety. so we re going to tell those officers, you have that gun, that shield, that vest, you should be on patrol. once we do an analysis of how we re spending, let s now use that also to stop the flow of crimes and young people who are living in systemic poverty and conditions that produces criminals. like dyslexia screening, 30% of our prison population in this country is predicted to be dyslexic. that s unacceptable. so we don t want to defund departments. we want to use the dollars correctly to deal with the prevention and intervention of crime in our country and city. hey, mayor adams, good morning. it is jonathan lemire. a number of police departments across the country have made the
nbc news national correspondent gabe gutierrez has details. reporter: under pressure to do more about surging crime, president biden in new york city meeting new mayor eric adams and others. we want to crack down on the flow of firearms used to commit violence. that includes taking on and shutting down rogue gun dealers. reporter: crime is already up 39% here this year, shootings up 32%, rape up 27%. even nonviolent crime like car thefts up 92%. reporter: so for you this rise in crime is real? the rise in crime is not only professional but it is personal and it is real. reporter: mayor adams, a former police captain, telling us he is rolling out new steps to combat gun violence including using facial recognition to identify suspects on the streets and deploying more police. the answer is not to defund
those two are at loggerheads in their picks but in these there s a consensus. in the general election, nevada being a swing state a lot of votes are found in the middle. the question is to what degree is he ee stranging himself too far from the middle. nbc s mark caputo, thank you very much for your reporting this morning. michael steele, thank you as well very much for being on this morning, bringing your mental images. no, thanks for sticking around. still ahead, three big guests on three big headlines. mayor eric adams on new york city s crackdown on crime. nato s secretary general on the standoff with russia. and the white house point person for the middle east on president biden s takedown of a global terrorist. we will be right back. terrorist. we will be right back.