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Andrea Mitchell Reports

many american history, has made the decision to forgo further medical treatment and receive hospice care at his home in plains, georgia. joining me now are kelly o'donnell in plains and jonathan, who authored the only full length biography of jimmy carter, his very best life. so, kelly, joe biden was especially close to carter. i know from my experience decades ago, i think he was the first senator to endorse carter's long shot candidacy in 1976 despite the fact that many of biden's senior senate colleagues were ready to jump into the race. so this is close and personal. this is not a pro forma message to them. >> reporter: very much so. and joe biden's history of friendship with the carters is real, enduring and certainly something that would play out in a time like this.

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Andrea Mitchell Reports

certainly, the current president understands the enormity of this from all his own personal experiences with these kind of painful family times. it is really something to be back in plains, georgia. i've been here before as you have. this is the community that so embraces the carters. it has been their home for so many years. the home where the former president is resting right now is not far from here. it's been their home for more than 60 years. their roots are very deep here. and the community here knows the carters very personally. they aren't historical figures here. they're neighbors. fellow churchgoers. they're part of the community. there's a real sense here of how important the carters are and have been to plains, georgia, and to georgia and to the nation. so this is a time when there are lots of thoughts of prayers and good wishes and concern. all of those things when you

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you know, so it just goes to show that it doesn't matter where you come from. it's all about what you desire and where you can go with that desire. so he's a living example to me. for sure, for certain. a living example. >> so not only a sense of pride coming from bonita, you heard there. she said over the years she liked to cook for the carters and mentioned the former president particularly liked fried catfish, but also we're hearing from others as well. we spoke to a mail carrier. he's also a painter in this community, and he was painting a peanut structure just at the edge of town. that, of course, has worn in recent years. but he shared with us that it was really important for him to get out there and make sure that it was painted, as so many folks come to town in plains, georgia, is in the national spotlight. pam, the former president was once a peanut farmer.

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Chris Jansing Reports

return to classes leaving a sense of mixed emotion on the campus. and you're going to play a sound bite from a student. >> we have technical difficulty with jesse kirsch. i want to thank him for the report. an outpouring for jimmy carter as he begins to receive hospice care. priscilla, the hometown very proud of the one time peanut farmer, who became commander in chief. i wonder what you're hearing from folks there? >> reporter: certainly very proud here as president carter is at home resting and surrounded by family in a place that his grandson described as full of love, and as that is happening, there are prayers coming in from all across the country. even president biden tweeting his message to the carters saying that he and first lady jill biden are quote praying for

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them and that they quote admire you for the strength and humility you have shown in difficult times. may you continue your journey with grace and dignity, and god grant you peace. peace is certainly one of the feelings we're seeing and feeling on the ground in plains. i spoke to a business owner here, and he told me about when he opened his shop 25 years ago, how president carter and his wife rosalynn were the first people to visit the shop. they welcomed him, and they were so warm, and i asked that shop owner what they feel like the impact of president carter has been here. and i want to play some of what he shared with me. take a listen. >> the carters have made a real difference for the better. it's time for us to carry on his legacy, time for us to try and be good people, help people. >> reporter: and he has

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that's because up until fairly recently, the former president was still teaching sunday school classes in this small town of just a few hundred people. that was an opportunity for the different residents here to listen and to hear from him. something that we have also heard time and time again is this community described as believers, that faith so important to the carters and many of the folks here, and victor, bianna, it is their faith getting them through this difficult time. >> hearing from bonita is an example of ow much respect the community there has for him and the country on a bipartisan level for the former president. eva, thank you. dr. megan rainy is the deputy dean of public health at brown university and a professor of emergency medicine. great to see you. obviously, this is a former president, so what applies to him is not what typically applies to the general public. when does one typically become eligible for hospice care?

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The Lead With Jake Tapper

sunday school where he began teaching in the 1980s. the carters and georgia, it's such a close relationship. >> yeah, he sure was missed, especially when you speak to residents here. it was at the sunday school where they may have interacted with them, some of them telling me they brought their kids so they could listen to the former president. i want to give you a sense of the community of plains, georgia, just a few hundred folks living here. as many folks know, the former president was a former peanut farmer, and all day long we have seen peanut trucks coming by here, pretty much peanuts and lumber is all we have seen come back and forth down this road. here is main street. on the other end of main street you have a train depot, and that depot also served as former president carter's campaign headquarters in the 1970s. on main street, it's peppered with cute different little

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stores and shops and in those shops is plenty of carter memorabilia, to give you an idea of how central he is to the community. we met a shop owner who has had the opportunity to feed the carters over the years. take a listen to what she told us. >> you see this restaurant, it's plot right in the midst of where the former president grew up at. for him to come from these humble means to being the 39th president of our united states is just phenomenal. you know, it just goes to show that it doesn't matter where you come from, it's all about what you desire and where you can go with that desire. so he's a living example to me. >> so something that we have also heard time and time again is how central his faith was. we mentioned sunday school at the top. a lot of folks telling me here in the community that they are

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MSNBC Reports

the longest hair raj in president history. talk about the role of this incredible woman in his life. >> when you were around the carters, and i was privileged to be around them on a few occasions, it was as though it was one person in two corporal forms. there was a simpatico that one was not really part of, but they were part of it with each other. it was controversial at the time that mrs. carter i think attended cabinet meetings. that all feels rather quaint now. but she was there at every moment. he wasn't building habitat houses by himself. she was there. he wasn't supervising elections in distant lands. she was with him. i think one thing to remember is at this hour president carter is

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in a very -- a lovely but not especially grand house in plains. in that sense the carters are rather like the trumans, they generally went home. we all wish them the very, very best in this final chapter. >> well said as always. priscilla thompson, eleanor clift, jon meacham, thank you. president biden promising military support to ukraine during his surprise visit to kyiv. we're live from moscow with the reaction there. students in michigan state are back in class this morning for the first time since a gunman killed three people on campus last week, their emotional return. the ceo of train company norfolk southern after the cleanup of a derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals. why residents are skeptical. >> you're still worried. >> oh, yeah. how can you not be worried? you d

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