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>> first up on msnbc, breaking news. queen elizabeth has tested positive for covid-19. this according to the press association. we are told she is experiencing mild cold like symptoms. she does expect to continue light duties at windsor this week. we are going to have much more on that developing story. plus, another shot at diplomacy. ukraines volodymyr zelensky calling on vladimir putin to meet with him, as our pillory fire escalates in ukraine. moments ago, vice president kamala harris warned...

Anti-aircraft operations already in place. second, we came late to the realization that putin was actually going to do this. its interesting to recall that four administrations, american administrations in a row, watched putin get ready to do exactly this and we did nothing whatsoever. putins been in business a long time, since 1999. it came as no surprise that any of this took place, and yet, we shied away from getting involved at the outset and now, of course, its difficult or impossible to pl...

If you have symptoms of cold, the opposition says people need to be able to continue to test to find out whether or not they ought to be staying at home valentine honorary rather than being told to do so by law. —— val —— voluntarily. the government has concerns that free testing costs as well as the devolved administrations who wanted to continue during the first—half of this year, question also about time scale. all of these issues have been bubbling under the surface and a couple of...

Talking about an attack, going back to russian leaders stalin. he said, why did they give up so much? he called it madness to give those republics land and the rights they gave up. he equated anti-russian sentiment verbally with holding weapons of mass destruction against russia. so i think to your point, this is absolutely predictable. the time to stop it was a really long time ago. thats why it was quiet during the past administration. >> i think you could go back several administrations and s...

Relevant than it has been a very long time. there is a deeper need here. you reference past administrations. part of what vladimir putin represents the deeply destructive strain, affective nationalist authoritarianism, that has caused previous wars on the european continent. this brand of politics leads to war. and i think that part of what needs to happen in this country and in europe is a revitalization and fortification of democracy itself. because this is a war on democracy, ukraine is not j...

About 10% of total u.s. energy imports. the concern has been securing an alternative source to make up for that without pushing fuel costs higher. republicans have largely pointed back to the keystone xl pipeline that was suspended by president biden last year. they think the resource that could have supported energy needs during a time like this. >> i recognize we are in a difficult position. but his choices the administrations choices when he first came into office and put us in this tenuous p...

Thats going to be a theme of the speech again tonight. >> and john, youve covered several administrations. president biden now has the second lowest approval rating on record for any president heading into a first state of the union. eclipsed only by trump. what is driving that? and how pivotal is tonights speech? >> reporter: well, the speech is less pivotal than state of the unions used to be, ana. its very difficult to move numbers for presidents now. the polarization that exists in our polit...

Over taiwan and eventually maybe vladimir putin getting his dream of putting back some of the old ussr. how worried should we be about this new relationship? >> we should be worried. its not a true crisis yet but one in the making. look at the cold war. it was a strategy to divide china and the soviet union. we did so. nixon went to china and divided beijing from moscow. what weve been doing, administrations from both parties is pushing russia in to chinas arms. so you see this growing. but its ...

Joining me is aaron taylor ambassador to ukraine under the george bush and obama administrations and the former charged affair at the u.s. embassy in kyiv in 2019 currently vice president of the institute of peace overseeing rausch and europe. good to see you again. i want to ask you about the conversations youve had all morning with people. you had written in foreign affairs a few days ago to truly contain moscow and prevent it from attacking other european countries, washington and nato must t...

And allow the firefighters to move in there and contain the fire. >> you worked in this part of the world. you are the awesome master of ukraine at different points in different administrations. did you think we would be at this point, or this committed shock to you? >> total shock, total surprise. >> really? >> yes, absolutely. in particular, when the russians invaded ukraine in 2014, it was a total surprise. we didnt predict this out all. when they moved in and tried to illegally annexed crime...