teenager who is on track for another gold medal at the olympics. a lot to cover this morning. with us for all of it, we have former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan with us. the host of way too early and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. and msnbc legal analyst charles coleman. along with willie, joe, and me. of course, willie, you have the top story this morning. yeah. it is an incredibly busy morning, and we ll start with president joe biden promising to give diplomacy every chance, in his words, to prevent russia from invading ukraine again. but he s warning skepticism about moscow s intentions, and an invasion remains distinctly possible, he says. in a speech yesterday, biden said it is too early to assess moscow s claim that it is pulling troops from ukraine s border. the u.s. has not verified that. yesterday, the russian government publicly proposed to continue the diplomacy.