In moments, what to make of trumps and some migrants are not people and for the bloodbath for the Auto Industry if he loses. Our political contributors will join me straight ahead. Ht ahea good day to all of you here from nbc in los angeles. Lets go to decision 2024. Two big headlines at this hour. The Reelection Campaign announcing more than 53 million raised in february. The president is holding st. Patricks day events in the white house today. This while donald trump ramping up dark red or at a rally for a Republican Senate candidate in ohio yesterday making references to migrants, january 6th, quote, hostages and what might happen if he gets reelected. If this election is not won, i am not sure you will ever have another election in this country. Does that make ends . I dont think you will have another election in this country if we dont win this election. The reaction from republicans on the hill. His rhetoric casting january 6 defendants as hostages and patriots. He did not call for the storming of the capital. You would end he would have very strong emotional feelings. Other hostages or patriots . I dont believe they are hostages. I believe in our judicial system. Many times if you plead guilty, obviously, youre no patriot. You are somebody who committed a criminal act. Breaking news on the israel hamas for as they negotiate for the First Time Since the start of ramadan. Netanyahu going on the offensive after u. S. Leaders criticized his handling of the crisis in gaza. The problem is once they are getting it, they are eluded by hamas. There is famine, starvation, dehydration because israel has not allowed food and humanitarian assistance to go in. People dying from a lack of food. All of these new developments for us and lets go to allie at the white house first of all. What are we hearing from the Biden Administration about this today . Reporter we heard from National Security spokesman as he made the rounds on the show this morning. Giving plans for a Ground Invasion of rafah that Prime Minister netanyahu signed off on a few days ago. They said that the u. S. Is still not seen those plans but would welcome the opportunity to do so. He once again stressed how the u. S. Wants to see a robust plan by the israelis to protect and dback rate more than 1 million city into have been sheltering in rafah before any sort of Ground Invasion would begin. The effort by the u. S. Military to build a floating peer to deliver directly more humanitarian aid into gaza. Listen. This is called joint logistics over the shore. It a temporary floating, dock if you will that is transported in pieces. The first pieces are on the way now. Its going to probably take about 6 to 8 weeks or so for all the places to become operational. We are working with partners in the region to figure out the details of how the material will be secured, on and off the floating documents. Howard will be distributed inside gaza. This effort comes as we continue to see the war in Gaza Continue to be a political phone or ability for the president as his Reelection Campaign kicks into high gear. Following him really wherever he goes. According to sources familiar with the january meeting at the white house. The president and his top aides. He was, quote, seething one told that his poll numbers in georgia and specifically michigan had dipped over his handling of the israelhamas war. Think about the uncommitted Vote Movement during the michigan primary late last month. Activists are one in the us is a much more widespread effort across to a battleground states. Certainly a concern for this white house for the president pacifically as he continues to travel at ross the country. His travel really kicking into high gear with a trip out west to arizona and nevada happening later this week. Thanks for all of that group lets go there now from ohio. The day after a trump Senate Candidate rally. That highstakes senate race in Ohio In November could determine what the republicans control in the senate. You are on the ground there. Whats going on . Reporter this is a High Stakes Senate Race which is why there is so much effort being put into this mary. The dynamic that we are seeing here in ohio is alert to what rears being with the Republican Party since trump took the political arena in 2015. Thats the trump wing of the party versus the old guard. First we have Bernie Marino. Not a politician. He was a businessman endorsed by donald trump who was here yesterday rallying to get out the vote to support marino and he represents this wing of the party. Then someone named matt dolan, a state senator here in ohio. He got governor dewines endorsement earlier this week. And he represents the most old guard wing of the Republican Party. Then frank rose, secretary of state. Walking a tight road trying to appeal to both sides. When asked where he fits in, he says that what he represents is what an Ohio Republican is. Something worth pointing out is that all of these three candidates have something in common, which is that they have all expressed to voters here in ohio that they will be supporting trump come november in the general election. The big question here is how impactful is the donald trump endorsement. The questions being asked up anddown ohio. Considering voting for bernie because i am a Small Business owner. Need to actually run businesses. What we are spending money on. The fiscal policy. Is a veteran. Im a veteran. I support the veterans. I like what he has for policies that he likes to put in place to make america more energy efficient, to go back and put america first. I think they are all three great candidates but matt has the best chance of defeating brown. I think that is the most important thing. The big person who will be watching this race on tuesday. It donald trump. If Bernie Marino is able to pull this off in the sense of being the partys nominee, trump will be able to take credit for getting him here. If he does not, the question becomes how impactful really is a trump endorsement . Very good points. All of them. Emma barnett from cincinnati. Lets go to the legal challenges facing donald trump or the New York Times says installing, a timetested legal strategy that keeps working for him. In eight days, he will get a motion on dismissing the hush money charges. Documents between trump, alvin bragg and the Southern District of new york and we are joined by a former Brooklyn New York prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and host of the podcast. Welcome, my friend. Charles, you previously worked for the brooklyn da. Why is there suddenly a consequential fight with fdny over documents and can any of this take The Manhattan Das Case against trump . What we know is that the doj tends to operate on its own timeline. When they provided all these documents, we knew this would be part of the case at this late state of the game. They have to be understanding that they will throw a wrench and what the prosecution was trying to do and accomplish. That being said, we dont know when they actually made the request. There was an agreement they have with the defense bar for open file discovery which means you are not going to fight with the defendants about what you turnover. You pretty much give them everything that you have in your file that could possibly be relevant. If they made these requests they knew that they had to be turned over, then alvin Braggs Office had an obligation to get that. When they cooperated is the question that i ask. Understood that this is such a high profile case, which they undoubtedly did. Why would they have waited till this late stage in the game, anyway that would jeopardize the case in order to hurt alvin bragg . That the question that i have. That being said, im not surprised by trumps teams motion to dismiss. I dont think it will get that far. I think they will get a delay that will be help to them but also its not going to take the case. Thats good to hear. Lets talk about the Fulton County election. Friday, after drug mcafees decision that he would not disqualify da willis. Using freight is like order of mendacity and tremendous of judgment. Potential untruthfulness. What is your assessment of not just the rolling but the language that was used and any potential impact it could have on her ability to now prosecute this case. I understand that this language was very, very strong and it was not favorable to fanny willis. Here is the headline. She is the da on this case and is going to proceed. I think this is becoming a sideshow in no small part due to an unforced error on her behalf due to the decisions that she has made. At this point, with respect to the prosecution, all of that to be put behind her and she needs to move forward. This is what counts. At this point, shes got to refocus our efforts and now trying to prosecute this case and hoping that the Cross Contamination that has occurred not only with respect to this show and this prosecution has not jeopardized her ability to prosecute any more than the other prosecutors in other jurisdictions that are looking to hold him accountable. While this was not necessarily a pleasant opinion, at the end of the day, its something that willis and her office will have to live with that allows them to go forward to the job that they were put in office to do. This washington article is pointing out that race is an ever present source of tension. Not just threats and harassment against her. One of the senior deputies writing that we are both aware as africanamerican women. Some find it difficult to treat disrespectfully. Trumps lawyer said that its offensive, uncalled for, untrue. I want your view on what is going on out there. Im so glad you asked this question. The intersection between race and gender in a professional space highlight the fact that no matter how hard you work if youre a woman, a black woman, there are certain things that you will have to navigate if you work. A white man, for example. There is a level of religion that is enjoyed here and that is simply undeniable for his accomplice and is respected an attorney as he may be to simply scoff and missed that. Its a level of privilege to overlook how this plays out in ways that he may not be with his own blind spots. Trying to understand parts of what it is to be discriminated against, phase things that other people do not face. When you are not a part of a particular group you give that group the benefit of the doubt grade so if youre not a woman, you cannot necessarily tell a woman what is or is not sexism if you have not necessarily experienced it. Difficult to call something not racist if you are not the one who has ever experienced what racism actually feels like grade while i do wonder and or they may have been sort of offended by it is that at the end of the day, truly undeniable that willis has the reputation. With whats going on, its very start fueled by White Nationalism and the rhetoric of donald trump. Look at his attacks on alvin bragg. Look at his attacks on Letitia James and fanny willis. And contrast to the things that he said about jack smith. Theyre attacking his professional acumen. The other is their humanity and qualifications. All of those things are rooted in White Nationalism and speak to the very point that willis was making about that intersection of race and gender. Thank you for that well spoken reality check. I appreciate you and all of that. Thank you, charles coleman. Raking news from russia. Numbers that you may not believe. Plus it cost 7 million and it made a lot of people mad. Ma. Now the woman who helped pay for this rfk jr. Campaign at might find her name at the top of the ticket here we are back in the seconds. Seconds. Thats a different story. I couldnt slow down. We were starting a business from the ground up. People were showing up left and right. And so did our Business Needs the chase ink card made it easy. When you go for Something Big like this, your kids see that. And they believe they can do the same. Earn unlimited 1. 5 cash back on every purchase with the chase ink business unlimited card. Make more of whats yours. Breaking news, polls have just closed in russias president ial election. Vladimir putin posed to be rubberstamped into a race that moscow promoted as free and fair. Fair. Many russians are staging protests against putin at stations today heeding the call of the late Opposition Leader alex novotny in one of his last public announcements. Joining me now, former u. S. Ambassador to russia and International Affairs analyst michael mcfall. Ambassador. Its good to see you, sir. Explain why this vote matters. Moscow has presented this election as some sort of a horse race tween putin and three other edited. The result was never in question. Why does vladimir putin, who wields up the power silence virtually all the sand. Why does he put on the charade that this election is free and fair. What does it say about how secure he might feel in his position as russias leader . Today is just a tragedy for anybody who cares about democracy. Back in the 1990s, i actually started my academic Career Writing about competitive elections when they were competitive in russia. They are not today. This is a complete joke. I do not even like to use the word election. You asked a different question. Why does he do it . I went to them. I saw them. They want to appear to have the legitimacy that democratically elect leaders and real democracies have and thats why they go through the trouble to do these things. That said, though, he fears this election. He took the one guy off who was running on an antiwar platform. He was a very safe candidate and somebody blessed by the kremlin. Yet, even when he began to talk about antiwar ideas, they decided they could not even risk having him on the ballot. Speaking of war, in his campaign, putin pledged to fulfill his goals in ukraine, saying that ukraine and the west will sooner or later have to accept a settlement on moscows terms. Will he view his victory is some sort of a referendum that all of russia is united and that the west poses some kind of existential threat to russia . What could his reelection man for how moscow moves forward in the ukraine war . This is what he wants people to believe. Thats the result he wants from the selection. There are two problems with it. First, a lot of people showed up today at noon as he called them to do as you rightly pointed out. Then his wife and their First Political action as the leader of the organizations that show up at noon to show that we are together. Tens of thousands of people did inside russia where she is today. Thats a bad sign for putin. It shows that not everyone does report the war. Those statements when they were standing in line was antiputin and antiwar. The second thing, putin needs more soldiers. He has been waiting to draft them until the election is over. I think he is going to struggle to get enthusiasm for people to go to work with him and sign up for the draft. Waiting for that until after the election. I think we should see how well he does with those numbers. I would not be surprised if it is a struggle for him. Give me a sense of seeing julie on the phone. I know shes a very dear friend of yours, as was alexi. You saw her right there at the consulate in berlin casting her vote. What do you think when you see her and her courage in the wake of her husbands death carrying on his legacy has asked she can . Honestly, i am in awe of yuliya and her family. I spoke to her the day that her husband was killed. That putins regime killed her husband. She got on stage 30 minutes leader in munich to give what i consider to be her First Political statement. She has now stepped into this role. It never a role she wanted, obviously, but she now understands that she has to carry the baton. She is doing it today. As we are seeing right there. She called on people to show up and they did. Publishing a piece in the Washington Post calling putin a criminal, not a president. And i deeply admire what shes doing despite the fact that i know she is still mourning the loss of her husband. Of yours, she is. With the numbers, the kremlin is hailing that the Voter Turnout has surpassed the 2018 number of 67 point 5 . It was something around 73 today so far. Its a long shot to claim he has received more support than in previous collections which elections which would mean more than 56 million voters this time. You expect the kremlin to manipulate the results . Yes, of course. The higher the votes when you have 87 and everybody shows up, that is more of a joke and when theres lower numbers. That to me underscores the fact that it is not a real election. This feels like the soviet days to me. This feels like elections in central asia in the early 90s and 2000s. When everybody voted for the dictators read and i find it ironic that putin and his people around him dont see it the same way. They used to, by the way. In their earlier elections, putin wanted competition so it felt more legitimate. The hotter these numbers are i mean, we do not know the official numbers yet they are talking about them being higher than ever before. I think this underscores how you know im a falsified these elections were. Can i just ask you to talk about the war with ukraine and how long you think this continues . How do you see this laying out . The extent to which these elections, whether the numbers are touched, manipulated, or not. How does this embolden putin in his approach to ukraine . Number one, it emboldens him. He now thinks he has a mandate and he will be able to