People s willingness to go. the new harris polling we have shows, unsurprisingly, vaccinated parents, fine with it. unvaccinated parents, only a third would have their toddlers vaccinated. so we have a quote from the ceo of the harris poll that says, watch out ptas. this is the next big fight. certainly, there were some divisions. i know some parents of young kids who are so anxious to get those vaccinations as well. certainly, we re hearing a lot of viewpoints. mike, let s shift gears here. president biden seems to be close to losing the window that democrats have to pass legislation to address climate change. the clock is ticking. it s a midterm year. what can you tell us about this? yeah, this is another supreme court case to watch. we ve been focusing on abortion, but here is another potentially tectonic change. west virginia versus epa. you can t make it up. it s the name of the state. oral arguments february 28th. why this matters is that this may be a chance for the court
Spaced gathering response to russia s aggression towards ukraine. joining us now, one of the recorders who helped break that story, nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli who no one has described as blustery. mike, thank you for joining us, it s a great story and we re glad you re here to talk to us. give us more insight as to how biden views the world leaders. much has been made as biden as a senator ahead of the formations committee had been on the world stage for a long time. but with the exception of putin, these are relatively new leaders, the other ones dealing on the world stage, angela merkel just stepped away as he s getting to know them, how does he feel about them? and do we think this information could impact those relationships? well, jonathan, it s really interesting, thus dynamic as president biden faces one of the biggest foreign policy tests of his presidency. you ve heard him say this
Russian invasion when intelligence seems to show otherwise? jonathan, it s good to see you. yeah, president zelensky obviously has a lot of internal factors to take into consideration with all of the these external factors taking place. so, he s obviously very concerned primarily about the economy. we sat with him a week ago before i left ukraine. and he talked extensively how he wants the u.s. and other nato allies to keep calm and sort of dial down their rhetoric, because he believes it could have a detrimental effect from the economy. that folks would rush the banks, withdraw money and try to flee the country. so he s clearly, genuinely worried about that. but also this idea that there s a lot of political pressures against him, too. the former president was in the streets while i was there, essentially calling hill an illegitimate president and calling on thousands in the streets to take back ukraine. which sounds oddly familiar to
In eastern europe as the crisis between russia and ukraine shows no signs of letting up. this as moscow continues with its military buildup, while ukraine is preparing for a possible invasion. nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent richard engel has more. positive signs from french president s macron s marathon diplomacy, meeting for five hours with president putin. macron arrived in ukraine meting president zelensky and sounding optimistic. saying putin had told him he won t be initiating an escalation of the crisis. and that russia will pull its forces out of belarus soon. though, the kremlin says no deals were made. a breakthrough, maybe. but according to the pentagon, russian troops are still increasing on ukraine s borders. especially now in crimea in the south.
Before, all politics is personal, even foreign policy. since his days on the committee, biden s staff has kept a list of world leaders, all of the travel he s done internationally to catalog and keep track of the relationships. and it is really is striking as you look around at all of the key leaders at the moment, most of the european leaders, especially on the side of our allies are ones he s less familiar with. you have emmanuel macron who took office in 2017. boris johnson more recently than that. olaf scholz has only been in office, as you say, just two months. g7 leaders, justin trudeau of canada is the one he has a relationship the longest. but he s really not a player in these talks in the same way. and so, when biden was running as a candidate, he talked about the fact, how he was trying to restore american credibility and leadership on the world stage he would lean on those relations. but it s actually vladimir putin to the extent you could say anybody has a relationship with