burns will continue his duties from home and plans to return to the office after isolating for five days and testing negative for the virus. the director last saw president biden on wednesday, but is not considered a close contact with the president. coming up, the latest u.s. intelligence on vladimir putin s shrinking inner circle and a reported disconnect between russia s president and his military leaders ahead of russia s invasion of ukraine. joe yoe is coming right back on a friday morning. come ing righ a friday morning like pulsing, electric shocks, sharp, stabbing pains, or an intense burning sensation. what is this nightmare? it s how some people describe. shingles. a painful, blistering rash that could interrupt your life for weeks.
at a press conference yesterday, a spokesperson said, neither the state department nor the pentagon have real information about what is happening in the kremlin. he also warns such a complete misunderstanding leads to rash decisions that cause very bad consequences. a quote from the creme behind. one u.s. official tells nbc news the united states government has intelligence that indicates some senior russian officials likely disagreed with the decision to invade ukraine. president biden weighed in on the matter for the first time yesterday and seemed to down play the strength of u.s. intelligence. how abomination of desolationly is vladimir putin being misinformed? that s an open question. this is a lot of speculation. he seems to be self-isolate there s some indication he has fired or put under house arrest some of his advisers.
haven t kept their word ever in this. so how do you negotiate with a fundamentally untrustworthy and unreliable negotiating partner? how do you know that you agree to a cease-fire, you agree to let s say let go of some for toir in the east and south, how do you know it doesn t start again in another year or two years. so i think at this point neither side really has much incentive to end the war and come to a negotiated settlement. despite the peace talks, the bombs continue to fall. the russians are cutting off aid convoys. they are not letting food, water and medicine get into mariupol. then there are the economic repercussions of this war. president biden announced yesterday the release of 1 million barrels of oil a day from the nation s strategic petroleum reserve. that s the largest release from the national reserve in its history. our prices are rising because of putin s action.
i wanted something simple. be nice with nice guys and tough with tough guys. make sure you re friends. and what does that mean in this case? when you look at the number of countries that are not participating and working with us and our western allies in the sanctions against russia, the number is vast. it s almost all of ra latin america, most of the middle east, most countries in asia. we need to make sure we re increasing our diplomacy with those folks to grow our posse that is trying to help ukraine. and then we also need to make sure we re giving all those weapons. i said that already, but vladimir putin is not afraid of our support to the ukrainians because we have shown we can do that. that s something that needs to change. congressman, let s turn to your book. it s called american reboot. you opted not to run for reelection in 2020. you have stepped away from
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 de