Via tiktok the situation that exists in many schools throughout that island. That wraps up the hour for me. Im jose diazbalart. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, primary day in michigan, two frontrunners facing lastminute speed bumps on the way to their nomination. Donald trump trying to ignore an effort from nikki haley. President biden facing a protest vote from the arab American Population over the war in gaza. The president raising hopes for a hostage deal and seize ceasefire before ramada. My National Securities avisor tells me with are close. B bipartisan leaders tryingo avoid a Government Shutdown. I want to thank the leadership for being here today. We have a lot of work to do. We figure out how to keep funding the government, which is an important problem. Good day, everyone. Aisle Andrea MitchellIn Washington. Its primary day for republicans and democrats in the Battleground State of michigan. A state that went for donald trump in 2016 before President Bidens victory there in 2020. Joe biden is facing a backlash over his administrations support for israel in gaza. Mr. Trump is expected excuse me, mr. Biden is expected to win today. They want critics so vote uncommitted. How disappointed are you with the administration . Very. I want President Biden to take us seriously. Im hoping it will tell the Democratic Party that they are making terrible decisions. He has allowed so many people to die, thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of children and people to die. That protest vote could signal potential trouble in the general election for mr. Biden, given Donald Trumps strength in the state. Gabe gutierrez talked to Gretchen Whitmer about the protest vote. What if uncommitted has a strong showing in this primary . There will be a sizable number for uncommitted. I think its every persons right to make their statement about whats important to them. On the republican side, donald trump appears headed for another victory in michigan, despite its messy system of allocating delegates through a primary today and a convention this weekend and a fight over who the republican chair is. Nikki haley, who is yet to win a single contest, is vows to stay in the race at least through next week, when 16 states vote on super tuesday. Gabe gutierrez has been all over the state. He joins us today from michigan. You have been speaking to voters. You talked to the governor. You talked to the Biden Campaign. What are they telling you . Reporter yeah. The Biden Campaign is very optimistic about michigan. They point to several things, including the economy and the endorsement of the United Auto Workers several weeks ago. They also talked about this message on reproductive rights. Thats something the governor reiterated to me yesterday. They are coalescing around that message, criticizing republicans for that alabama ruling. As you said, the story here today is this idea of many voters voting uncommitted, as protest vote, to protest what they see as wrong policies by the administration in the israelhamas war. I have been speaking to voters at this location. Some of them have told me that they have voted uncommitted. Take a listen. I never voted anything but democrat in the last 10 or 12 years. This year, everything is different. I dont feel that i want President Biden to represent me. Else after the most recent policies, i think its a great idea to vote uncommitted to send that message and try to at least trigger a change. Reporter big question will be, how many uncommitted votes will there be . One of the organized groups here called listen to michigan, they want 10,000 uncommitted votes. The Biden Administration says excuse me, the Campaign Says in 2012 and 2020, there were around 20,000 people who voted uncommitted. That 10,000 threshold really isnt that large. Still, Many Democrats are watching how many uncommitted votes there end up being later today. Gabe gutierrez, good luck out there in michigan. Thank you. Joining us now is Michigan Democratic congresswoman Debbie Dingell and former republican congressman fred upton. Rashida tlaib backs the biden protest vote. She voted uncommitted earlier. Listen to what she had to say. 74 of democrats in michigan support a ceasefire. President biden is not hearing us. This is a way to use our democracy to say, listen. Listen to michigan. Listen to the families right now that have been directly impacted. Listen to the americans who are saying enough. No more wars. No more using our dollars to fund a genocide. What is the challenge there . How can the president face this . What do you say to your colleague, Congresswoman Tlaib . What should the president how should he respond to her and her constituents . First of all, i do think we all need to be listening to this community. I lived there for 40 years. I know how much they are hurting. What people dont understand is how many families have really lost family members, mothers and fathers and grandmothers and aunts and uncles and cousins. There are families that have lost 20 family members, 40 family members. I have a different perspective than some. Im glad we are talking about it now and not on october 15th. I also say to my colleague, who i talk to all the time, you do not want donald trump to be president. If hamas had done this under a trump presidency, im not sure that he would have nuked gaza, to be perfectly frank. We have honest, very blunt conversations. I understand how people are hurting in this community and that they are calling for a ceasefire. The race could be close. Just to follow up with you. There is a third party candidate, at least one. Could this be bad enough, if this continues, for the president to actually lose to donald trump . So, first of all, michigan is a purple state. You were one of the first places i publically said in 2015 and 2016 that donald trump could win this election. Nobody believes me. Everybody thought i was crazy. Michigan is a purple state. We know that. Nobody believed me back then. Everybody knows we have a lot of hard work to do. We have to roll up our sleeves and turn out the vote. Everybody needs to know their vote matters. We have to turn out the union vote, women who are very, very concerned about whats going to happen. We know what we gotta do. People are taking it seriously. We cannot let donald trump be president again. It will be the end of our democracy. Fred, talk to us about whats going on on the republican side. Theres a fight over who is the republican state chair. You have a pretty messy situation there. What do you assess nikki haleys chances of doing well in michigan, at least in this vote . A couple things. I agree with debbie. I did believe her in 2016 as well as in 2020. On the michigan side, its a mess. We have two different political chairs. We will see what the courts do. We have two different conventions, this weekend, one in detroit, one in grand rapids. The vote on the republican side doesnt matter much because they changed the rules. They changed the rules so its win are take all. In 2016, kasich got a third, rubio got a third, trump got a third. They got a third of the delegates. Today, elections close tonight at 8 00, theres only about a dozen republican delegates that are available. Trump is going to get most of them. I think nikki, unlike with a, she will win a couple counties. At the end of the day, its the convention on saturday thats going to decide the remaining 45 or so delegates. Its winner take all. All 83 counties have been taken over by the trump team. Its all trump. He will end up with 48, 49 of the delegates no matter how well nikki or trump does today. He has them in the bank come saturday. Its a whole different way and different than we had before. Trump has done this in michigan and a couple other states which is why he is on the path to get the nomination for the republican party. Its sort of over. Congresswoman, since you will have a vote on all of this, the leaders are now meeting. How important is it to avoid a partial shutdown . What about the speaker holding up any aid for ukraine . Im going to talk about that in a minute. Wasnt to go back to fred. Everybody is focused on what the uncommitted vote is going to be. We have always had uncommitted votes in michigan. We had it when president obama was elected. We have had it. I think the vote today, if nikki haley gets 30 , it shows donald trump has been problems here. We cannot shut it down. Its irresponsible. I will not vote for that. We should have stayed in session. If we had leadership that was strong. It would be irresponsible to shut the government down. I have no idea whats going to happen. You hear so many stories. We havent done what we need to do. Lets pray that those meeting produces something so a lot of our federal workers can take care of us every day and can stop living in this nightmare of these kind of games. Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, fred upton, thank you. When will Congress Deal with the Deadly Weapons shortage in ukraine. Thats next up on Andrea Mitchell reports in 60 seconds. Stay with us. You are watching msnbc. You are watching msnbc so, we switched to tide pods free gentle. It cleans better, and doesnt leave behind irritating residues. And its gentle on her skin. Tide free gentle is epa safer choice certified. Its got to be tide. With nurtec odt, i can treat a migraine when it strikes and prevent migraine attacks, all in one. Dont take if allergic to nurtec. 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President biden is meeting at the white house with House Speaker mike johnson and the three other top leaders from both parties, both houses, amid the debate over domestic spend, Critical Military aid has not even reached the house floor. Because of opposition from the speaker and hard right republicans listening to donald trump. Here is what President Biden said about ukraine moments ago. Ukraine, i think the need is urgent. I hope we speak to that a little bit. I think the consequence of inaction every day in ukraine is dire. Ryan nobles joins me now. Ryan, where do things stand . What hope can you give us . Reporter the one thing that we can say for sure, andrea, is that Congress Seems poised to deal with the Spending Problem that they have before they deal with the National Security supplemental. That means they want to clear the deck and avoid a Government Shutdown before they even begin the real conversations around funding for israel and ukraine. They are not there quite yet on avoiding at least a partial Government Shutdown friday. Theres a couple of issues within the Spending Plans that the two sides are negotiating over. There is a degree of optimism that they will have something that they can vote on by friday. But the issue still really comes back to House Speaker mike johnson and whether he can find a way around his conservative flank, which is basically made it clear they will not vote for any bipartisan deal. Theres really no way that the government can avoid being shut down unless there is some sort of a bipartisan deal. What speaker johnson is wrestling with is the form and fashion in which he wants to take that hit, as he was leaving the leaving congress here just a few minutes ago to head to the meeting, he said he will do everything he can to prevent a shutdown. We will see how that comes together as the week plays out. Ryan nobles, thank you. Joining us now is democratic senator Michael Bennet of colorado, who serves on the Intelligence Committee and is back from ukraine where he and a delegation met with president zelenskyy. Senator, what did the president tell you . I was covering him in munich last weekend weekend before this past weekend. He was desperate for the help. Said they were out of ammo. They need air defenses. They havent gotten the f16s they have been promised months ago. You are exactly right. He was very clear. He said that with your support we can win. Without your support, we are going to lose. A big part of it was delineating the things that he is going to require on the battlefield to make sure that the brave ukrainian troops are going to continue to have the successes that they have had. What about the longrange missiles . We were the u. S. Was not agreeing to it. Now they have just agreed to it, but they are not even in the pipeline. He wants them. He wantswants them and he needs. He has earned this. The ukrainian people have exceeded any reasonable expectation or even unreasonable expectation of what they could have achieved. They have driven putin off half the land he took. They won battle after battle. They have thrown, as you know well they have thrown putin Out Of The Black Sea without having a navy of their own. They are fighting not just for ukraine. They are fighting for democracy. They are fighting for the west. We cant even keep the government open here. I wonder if churchill were treating this the way we are on the leadup to world war ii how well he would be remembered by history. We have an amazing moment right now to show what the outer edge of our political insanity is. Thats riding to the rescue, among a group of people who have been willing to fight and die for the sake of democracy. There were 22 republicans its very important for people to know this. 22 republicans in the United States senate who cast that vote two weeks ago to send ukraine this aid, who overcame the objections of donald trump and said, were going to Do The Right Thing for our nationa security, for democracy and our childrens future and our grandchildrens future. The idea the house is spinning its wheels on this Government Shutdown, no one in america could describe for you what purpose is being served by their threat of this Government Shutdown. I can tell you, having seen the ukrainian people literally scraping off a parking lot so that they could put graves there for the bodies of people who have died on the front, this was in kyiv. Putin is give us a complete f youby killing navalny. We are so divided that even though he cant win the battle in ukraine i dont believe he can. He can win the battle here of our divided and dysfunctional politics in america. Those 22 republicans in the senate showed him thats not true. They had a vote that restored our democracy in a sense. I hope the house leadership follows that example. While House Speakers have traditionally gone for years and years to the Munich Security Conference where zelenskyy was making that appeal, this speaker, mike johnson, was in maralago. Is clearly listening to donald trump. While you were at the Munich Conference and while we had a bunch of military people and politicians, putin was executing navalny. While we were in munich he was executing navalny. He was saying, what you care about doesnt matter to impunit. This is not about being tough. Its not about tit for tat. Its about recognizing that putin believes that democracy is on the line here, and he is winning. Xi jinping recognizes democracy is on the line here, and they are winning. Like it or not, this is the one literally, the one place in the world that can show them that they are wrong. Zelenskyy has earned it. The sacrifice of the ukrainian people have suffered in this war on their behalf, yes. On our behalf as well. Its more than anybody could have asked of them. They have fought magnificently. All we have to do is send them 60 billion more, and they can begin to unleash the weapons that you are talking about. I dont know what the final outcome is going to be here. But i know that they deserve our support. I know our own National Security interests, most important, would be served by our supporting them and would be deeply undermined by us turning the other way. Thats what putin is expecting. We have to show him he is wrong. Thank you very much, senator Michael Bennet