Of adjoining is, im sandra smith. John and john roberts, naydamac with martha starts right now. Martha thank you very much, good afternoon everybody, a Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Today as it continues to build at this Hour Cagle blonde new calls for President Biden to step aside from some of the most influential democrats of the obama era. Former House Speaker Nancy pelosi, who stresses to the current president of that time is Running Out for him to make a decision. We have a lot to get to, you will be joined in a moment by what has National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby as president Joe Biden meets with nato leaders In Washington and tries to prove to the world and to some members of his own party that he can continue to be Commander In Chief for another 4 years. [ ] all right, interesting a moment from this morning to John Kirby in just a moment about a said to bring in commanderinchief question, retired general jack keane, now chairman of the institute for
had conversations with the former attorney general already. that s right, the chairman confirming that the committee has spoken to former trump attorney general bill barr, loyalist who made an abrupt and ugly exit after the 2020 election. what might he know about the trump efforts to overturn the results, efforts that reached a fever pitch on january 6th? in a moment, i m going to talk to january 6th committee member congresswoman zoe lofgren about that, as well as where the committee is now and where they re headed in the investigation. plus, a new nbc poll shows major divisions in the country, but one thing that appears to unite almost everyone, fear that our very democracy is in danger. this time, the threat is from within, but democrats in congress say they re willing to continue to fight for it. i think there is widespread understanding of what we have done for the last six months has failed from the policy point of view, it has failed politically. we need to chang
mariupol. just a moment, we ll talk to former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor. it s been 27 months since the first confirmed case of covid in this country. now, the u.s. has passed a stunning 1 million deaths from the virus. 1 million people. we ll discuss how we got there and where we go from here. willie, there s so much to talk about here. of course, we re going to start with the story about the russian generals. it s certainly consequential. but it does seem like we ve all just sort of breezed past that 1 million mark. we all remember back in the spring of 2020 when we had officials saying maybe 70,000 people would die. maybe 100,000 people would die. i remember there was a british maybe it was kings college, but there was a british research institution, university, that said up to 1 million people would die. my god, the chuckling from the maga freaks, the disregard from the maga freaks, the same people who worshipped donald trump for saying it was two or th
story. it is coming up. we want to begin though, with those new comments following the surprise visit to ukraine by house speaker nancy pelosi. and the small congressional delegation as well to meet with president zelenskyy in the capital city of kyiv. pelosi speaking after traveling to poland from ukraine. take a look at this. do not be bullied by police. if they are making threats, you could not back down. that is my view of it. that you were there for the fight. and you cannot fold to a bully. nbc s perry is in the capital of kyiv following the story. bring us up today. we know that this was a surprise visit due to security reasons, as we ve seen in other instances as well. what are we learning about this exchange? about this meeting? yeah, in this visit, the security the surprise of it came through. we have that comment by zelenskyy, which blew the lid off of this but we did not hear about pelosi s visit until she had left. we heard about it this morning and t
president zelenskyy s office announced the rescue effort but no word yet on how it can happen. in mariupol, an official says russian troops are blocking a section of the city right near the plant. it s possible russians will still storm that facility. survivors say they have not seen sunlight for weeks. this is the video of them in the basement. diapers are being reused. food, water, medication are almost gone. in just the past day, ukraine says 50 air strikes have rained down on that steel plant, wounding more than 600 civilians inside. a ukrainian commander from inside told cnn what it s like on day 64 as russians surround them. the situation is critical. it s beyond a humanitarian catastrophe. these are hundreds of people, and they have dozens of children with them. the youngest is 4 months old. we cannot tell you for sure how long we can hold on for. that all depends on the enemy movement and also on luck. with so many lives at stake, the pentagon was asked if vladimi