votes against a social media company, taking steps that could lead to a u.s. ban on the popular chinese-owned social media app tiktok. national security concerns at odds with the platform's 170 million american users. we will talk about that and the prospects in the senate. the judge in georgia dropping three of the 13 federal charges against donald trump ahead of his trial. what the judge is calling into question and how that could push the case past election day. warning signs, as vladimir putin talks about nuclear war. nancy pelosi joins me on new house efforts to force a vote on aid to ukraine. ♪♪ good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. there's big news today from capitol hill. in a rare moment of bipartisanship, the house voted overwhelmingly, 352-65, passing a bill that could lead to a ban on tiktok over national security concerns. specifically, the potential that the platform's chinese owner would have access to sensitive personal data on more than 170 million americans who use the app. the bill now heads to the senate where it does face significant opposition. if it passes, president biden said he will sign the legislation which would require tiktok's parent company, bitedance, to sell the app within six months or be banned from the u.s. joining us now, julie tsirkin who has been all over this. now that the measure passed the house, it got the two-thirds, more than it needed that it did require to pass, what are the prospects in the senate? >> reporter: that's a great question. certainly one that house members i was talking to are wondering. they point to the vote total, 352-65 as a sign that senate leadership were looking for before deciding whether to put the measure, that was fast tracked, before deciding to put that on the floor. a couple of minutes ago, the senate majority leader chuck schumer released a tepid statement saying the senate will review the legislation when it comes to the house and that's it. yesterday, he said he is talking to his committee chairs about the steps forward on this. certainly, as you mentioned, there are concerns, including from some on the right to civil liberty protection, some on the left alsopointing out this reaches 170 million americans. there are first amendment concerns here as well. there's the issue of the former president. former president trump who himself tried to ban tiktok but was challenged in the courts now flip-flopping on this issue saying that it would make meta more powerful, owned by zuckerberg. that didn't seem to play in at all as a factor to the many republicans who supported this in the house. they ended up voting against this, matt gaetz, a major ally of the former president telling our intern that, no, trump was not a factor when it came to his vote in favor of the bill. we will see the steps forward in the senate. but schumer is in no rush to put it on the floor. >> i want to ask you about donald trump. there's questions about why all of a sudden donald trump, who supported restrictions on tiktok back when he was president and there was an executive order, it was overturned by the federal courts, now all of a sudden he is in favor of supporting tiktok and all of a sudden a huge investor in bitedance, $20 billion investment was at mar-a-lago. trump talked about his change of position on this. lindsey graham seemed to change his position on "meet the press." what's going on there? >> reporter: you are in an election year. you are several months away from november. of course, it's actually democrats that have pointed to president biden needing youth engagement from the app. i'm talking about people like senator dick durbin. as i was talking about, you have a very small number of republicans who seem to actually be listening to the former president. i asked them why he is flip-flopping on this issue. for example, chip roy had said the former president is not going to play a factor in how this moves forward. again, you only have 15 republicans in the house out of a larger number than that, we are losing count because of the retirements we are seeing, who didn't support this effort to move this bill forward. i suspect it will be a question that plagues some senators. >> julie tsirkin, thank you. let's turn to chris krebs. it's good to see you. talk to me about the national security concerns about bitedance, chinese company -- chinese-owned, where china has laws that beijing, the government has access to everything that is in their companies. there's no such thing as privacy or a barrier. >> this does get to the heart of the mechanics of the legislation, seeking to gain a change of control. the objective of the legislation is to break the bitedance/tiktok relationship as congress sees it. the chinese communist party has the ability to influence how bitedance manages, operates the platform. there are significant national security concerns, at least on two prongs with tiktok. first is data collection and access. all the user data collected across the app gets pulled up into the cloud effectively. that has historically, by tiktok's admission, accessed by bitedance personnel in china. that's obviously a privacy issue. that's a national security issue. the second is the ability to influence content on the platform. it gets to the heart of the algorithm question and how information is presented to users. that's another aspect that i think the congress is trying to deal with. perhaps have a different company -- if you think back to the way president trump with his executive order sought to break the financial relationships, it would have had a takeover by a u.s. company. the hope is any algorithm influence would not have chinese communist party influence or really direct pressure on. >> one of the issues that swisher, who is so knowledgeable about this, was raising on "today" was, even if it is sold -- it would be very, very difficult, not to say impossible for bitedance to be sold within six months and get around this, nor has the ceo who has been on the hill lobbying and famously was testifying against this, talking about this. but even if it was sold, wouldn't the new company get the algorithms, still have them? so beijing still has access to those algorithms. >> perhaps. i think there is a model where there could be a transfer of an instance of the algorithms that would then be separated, segmented off, bifurcated. >> for the future. but they have everything they have got already. >> from that point on, the algorithm would be independently managed. you would suspect over time, whoever would take control of the tiktok platform, would subsequently be able to -- they would be responsible for maintaining the code. that code over time would be updated. it would not have that direct influence potentially. that is one of the concerns, particularly as we look ahead to the 2024 election, that someone with ulterior motives can get in and adjust in real time how the algorithm presents and suppresses content. if you have that break in six months -- we are getting there in the sense, they have to act if folks want to see this get into law and deal with the six-month divestment period, at that point then the hope is that the algorithm would be separated from any net new influence. >> commerce secretary romando expressing her concerns about it. >> tiktok presents serious national security risks to the people of the united states. significant national security risk. >> you would support a ban? >> i would. i would. >> she was in china when she did that interview. she did an interview with us, talked about concerns about chinese data collection from evs -- from ev technology. she has national security regulatory power now. >> i think it's important to step back and look at the broader relationship between the united states and china. there's no question that over the last several years, going back to the trump administration, there's been a concerted effort to address chinese aggression, particularly in the digital domain. think back a couple years ago, we had similar legislation that forced the u.s. government to stop procuring certain technologies, huawei comes to mind. this is another step forward in the national security community, stepping up and saying, we are concerned about digital aggression and broader chinese aggression, and we're going to take action to remedy that. this is a much broader commercial and consumer impacting step. there will be legal considerations and litigation. >> you can bet. >> absolutely. >> the impact of this, of course, in an election year where their influence -- they have tried this before and been successful at times. >> i will point in the worldwide threat assessment report that the director of national intelligence released monday, it cited chinese proxies that interfered in the 2022 election. this is not theoretical. this is here. this is today. >> i interviewed haines about that in december of 2022 at the reagan defense forum. she raised concerns about it when i asked her about tiktok. it's the first time she had spoken out about it. you are the perfect guest today. appreciate it. breaking news, the judge in fulton county, in the election interference case has dropped six charges from the indictment and three of those charges had to do with donald trump. the others were his co-defendants. what that means coming up next. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." we will be back in 60 seconds. s. help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need... ...without the stuff you don't. so, here's to now. boost. 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is there another procedure? there are other ways. is there any way to get this to the floor? >> first of all, we want -- there is strong bipartisan support. there are some hesitating. strong bipartisan support in the house. that's why we are saying to the speaker, just let the housework its will in a bipartisan way. yes, we have these parliamentary approaches that we can take. i don't want to show too much of a hand on that. we are in the course of signing the discharge petition now. hopefully, we will get to 218, which will bring the vote to the floor. it takes time. time is really important. i think it's important to note this. i heard this again and again, especially when i was in munich. i saw you there. the russian army is bigger now than it was when they first went into ukraine. they are buying support in other countries, in other parts of russia to entice people to sign up to fight in this war. their goal is to have a million and a half in the russian army. they have designs on other countries. the fight in ukraine is a fight for democracy, not only there but in the other states surrounding it and a challenge to all of us. that's why we are saying to the speaker, the right thing to do is to honor the wishes of the house, the strong bipartisan support that's there, and give us a vote. that's the fastest way. we have other techniques. they take a little more time. time is a very valuable commodity when you are getting shot at and you don't have the proper equipment to initiate or respond to. >> these congressmen signed up to serve. they swore an oath to support and defend the constitution. all they need to do is muster the courage of ronald reagan, channel their ronald reagan and protect democracy, nurture democracy, fend off authoritarianism. >> the issue is they switched because of donald trump. that's the big change. donald trump orban from hungary saying -- he was down in florida at mar-a-lago. he is saying that donald trump will not agree to a single penny for ukraine. what about trump's opposition? >> it's significant. the speaker is very close to donald trump. we know that. i hope that he is closer to honoring his oath of office to protect and defend, because as we support the effort in ukraine, we are supporting defending our own constitution and our own democracy. the thing is, orban is really has destroyed democracy in hungary. it's a shame. he shouldn't be in the eu. it's hard to get them out. when he went in, it was with a different value system. the last ten years he destroyed democracy. let's not talk about them. let's be positive. the president had the prime minister in his box at the state of the union. we are very excited about that. there are many positive things that are going on. let's not dwell on trump, except to say, we must win this election because democracy and personal freedoms that spring from that are on the ballot. i'm pleased that within the last 24 hours, joe biden has racked up the nomination for the democratic party. onward to victory. >> just to point out that we are not stopping, we are not leaving the ukraine issue here. we are about to show an interview with the polish foreign minister as well. thank you both so very much. appreciate it. as i said, my conversation coming up with the foreign minister of poland who -- which is the nato country most at threat, the largest nato country bordering ukraine. we will be right back. we need to scale with customer demand... in real time. 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>> we have -- that's rhetoric. he is right we should be spending more in europe. poland is spending well over 3% of gdp on defense. we placed $50 billion worth of defense orders in the united states. >> how afraid are you of russia invading you? you are right there on the border. >> they have done it many times before. what they're doing in occupied territories, stealing children, torturing people, deporting ext culture is unacceptable. you may not change borders by force. putin can stop this war in five minutes with one phone call. unfortunately, ukraine can't. >> donald trump is ahead in the polls in america. it's a very tight election. how worried are you about what the next american presidency could mean in terms of poland's security and nato? >> poland wants to have excellent relationship with the united states irrespective of who is in charge here. president biden, of course, is a transatlantaist. he voted for joining nato. america has interests to do with credibility. when the u.s. has spoken that kyiv will be defended, if that were not acted upon, it would be noticed by allies around the globe. i hope the u.s. will help the ukrainians, because they are defending themselves. >> without the u.s. weapons, if congress does not act, do you think ukraine would be defeated? how long can they last? >> we in europe are buying weapons, too. we have just had a merry-go-round of donations for the so-called czech ammunition initiative. we are about to pass a european defense budget, european peace initiative, 5 billion euros, that will mostly go to the help of ukraine. on a per capita basis, many european countries are helping ukraine more than the united states. it's just that you have the first class defense industry and stockpiles. including stuff that you will otherwise spend money disposing of. please, give it to the people who need it. >> how long can ukraine hold out? >> that's not a question for me. i hope not only will they hold out, that they will eventually win. i don't think russia can sustain this war for more than a couple of years. they are replacing the tanks that the ukrainians so successfully destroyed with refurbished stuff from soviet stockpiles. these are older and older. b, those stockpiles are running out. we just need to help the ukrainians for a year or two more. they can really win this. >> my thanks to the polish foreign minister. the race is on with the general election rematch set. all eyes are on the fight to get 270 electoral votes. the path ahead in the electoral college for president biden and former president trump. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. repc yep, tough day at work, nice cruise will sort you right out. when i'm riding, i'm not even thinking about my painful cavity. well, you shouldn't ignore that. and every time i get stressed about having to pay my bills, i just hop on the bike, man. oh, come on, man, you got to pay your bills. you don't have to worry about anything when you're protected by america's number-one motorcycle insurer. well, you definitely do. those things aren't related, so... ah, yee! oh, that is a vibrating pain. 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>> i think that democras got lucky in 2020 in georgia. they had warnock on the ticket. that generated a lot of enthusiasm among democratic voters. how strong is donald trump with black voters? is he going to be able to peel away any voters from joe biden or are black voters not going to turn out this go around? president biden, we're going to talk about this later, but president biden chose to go to milwaukee today. i thought that was an interesting choice to launch his wisconsin headquarters right there in milwaukee. it shows how central turnout of african american voters is going to be in 2024 for the presidential winner. >> jim, the president is heading to wisconsin. it's the swing state. it's also, of course, where the rnc is going to be in july. after yesterday's closed door meeting with the teamsters, the president is hoping for a lot of labor support there and for their endorsement. reportedly, pointing to donald trump's comments to cnbc suggesting possible cuts to entitlements, the third rail of presidential politics cutting social security. how do entitlements rank among abortion and the border, foreign policy? >> oh, boy. donald trump seems to have stepped in it now. he gave biden a very big win here when he came out this week for entitlement cuts on social security. in the dial testing of the speech the other night, the number one best testing line that joe biden said was don't touch social security and medicare. donald trump then went straight at it and said that he would do exactly that. the biden campaign is on the offensive on this issue, like abortion where they are on the offense. they are going straight at it. of the three midwestern states, the easiest path is to win those three midwestern states. the democrats have won six out of the last seven. the hardest is probably wisconsin, which is why they're going straight at it today. you have a campaign that's feeling a lot better than they were ten days ago. >> governor, abortion is reportedly on donald trump's mind as he considers his vice presidential choice. does that signal the party sees reproductive rights as an advantage for democrats they have to counteract? >> of course, we know it does. we have seen what's happened in ohio. we saw what happened in kansas. i don't think they will back away from it, but i don't think he will pick somebody that says there shouldn't be exceptions or some degree of reasonableness in this. this always gets down to is what happens with the independent voters. the republicans that don't seem to like donald trump. it's going to be an issue around the age of biden. there's one other thing i would like to mention that i notice keeps cropping up. that's the impact that somebody like kennedy can have on this election. these numbers that you laid out there are so close. 10,000, 12,000, you get somebody like kennedy running with ventura, can they pick up enough votes to make a difference in how this turns out? they don't have to have a tremendous number. any of those numbers can really throw this thing into disarray. i know that the democrats are scrambling and trying to do everything they can to keep kennedy out of the race. it doesn't seem as though he wants to listen. >> in fact, i was going to ask you about that. there's a new poll which shows rfk even before he mentioned these possible vice presidential picks at 9%. i have seen others that have him higher. you have west and stein. she was an important factor in 2016 taking the election away from hillary clinton. that third party issue, governor, is a real question. now robert kennedy -- a lot of people will vote for him, democrats, reagan-type democrats will vote for him because his name is kennedy. there are people who vote for him because his name is kennedy. they don't know his positions on vaccines and other stuff and the fact his family is against him doing this. the other piece is that he has confirmed he is considering ventura, the former governor of minnesota, we know how controversial he is, and aaron rodgers, popular football player, very conservative. >> i don't think -- i don't think aaron rodgers is going to do in new york unless something changes with his football acumen. but look, it's a serious issue. i know, i talk to democrats. they're very concerned about this third party. for a while it was no labels. they're still lurking out there. they're not going to capture a big chunk of vote. but in elections that are this close -- messina, you agree with that? that's a cause for real concern for democrats. >> oh, governor, you're exactly right. this is a reason i don't sleep well at night. right? the big yost fear isn't donald trump. the biggest fear is these third parties pulling off -- and democrats have real ptsd on this. ralph nader gave george bush the presidency in 2000. to andrea's point, jill stein and gary johnson in 2016 pulled enough votes off hillary in the three midwestern states. so you know, these folks want to have a little fun with these third-party ballots, but what they're doing is helping donald trump. and i think it is the biggest fear that democrats have, or at least should have. i completely agree with the governor. >> well, democrats can ponder that. elise jordan. that report comes from u.s. intelligence. what that means for israel, the war and the administration. that's next. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. ndrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. new science shows listerine is 5x more effective than floss at reducing plaque above the gumline. for a cleaner, healthier mouth. ahhhhh. listerine. feel the whoa! 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