what did she do? she dislodged the pizza. his parents met her and say they are beyond thankful. >> she did exactly what she would have done if it was her children. our family is eternally grateful. >> i'm a mom. my natural instincts kicked in. i did what i did. i saw a child needing help and i helped him. >> natural instincts of a mom. it was first time she had done it. grayson told nbc news new york that he is going to skip pizza at lunch from now on or at least for a bit. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can reach me on social media. you can watch clips from our show on youtube. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with

more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," former president trump, today scrambling for a half billion dollars in cash to post bond in the new york civil fraud case against him and the trump organization. while saying democrats hate israel and any jewish person that votes for democrats hates their religion. that's a quote. that set off a political firestorm. this after president biden and prime minister netanyahu argued over rafah. president biden saying they can root out hamas without a full-scale invasion that would kill thousands of civilians. today, netanyahu says, there's no way to eliminate hamas without entering rafah. american's allies on russia's border. nato's front line against an aggressive russia. stunned by congress' failure to

vote for needed help to ukraine. ♪♪ good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. trump said the democratic party hate jewish people. his spokeswoman issued a statement that the democrat party, her words, hates israel, has turned into a full-blown anti-israel, anti-semitic group. it's important to hear donald trump in his own words.

>> this as mr. trump facing a monday deadline to post a half billion dollar cash or liquid assets that he says he doesn't have, for a bond so he can appeal the new york civil fraud judgment against him and his organization. this morning, trump sent out social media posts slamming the ruling say -- mr. trump calling it a ridiculous decision and he would be forced to mortgage or sell great assets. that's because at least 30 companies have denied trump's request to back him up and

secure that $464 million bond. his lawyers say, gathering the cash is a practical impossibility. if mr. trump doesn't pay up by monday, new york attorney general james could seize trump assets, possibly even iconic properties. we start with garrett haake who covers the trump campaign. not an easy assignment. former assistants district attorney catherine christian and andrew weissmann and peter baker. garrett, start us off. how are jewish lawmakers on the hill -- of course, the highest ranking jewish lawmaker ever elected, chuck schumer -- how are they reacting? >> reporter: the condemnation of the comments started to roll in

quickly after that podcast was first posted online yesterday. news organizations began to take notice of it. chuck schumer, the majority lead er was quick to condemn it. he said the comments were part of a hateful rant by donald trump. it's not just democrats. the head of the adl, he said they are defamatory and false. he said serious leaders who care about the alliance should not be making them. looking back, donald trump has spoken in this manner many times, suggesting -- leaning into the dual loyalty anti-semitic trope that exists about american jews, that their loyalty is divided between israel and the united states. this is as far as i have seen him go in making similar comments like this. i'm curious to see throughout the course of the day, president biden is on the road, does his

campaign highlight these comment comments? what do congressional republicans say as they return today? >> just in, peter, we have for first time a white house comment on this. let me read it to you. president biden put his foot down when it comes to violent, unhinged anti-semitic comments. the deadliest attack committed against the jewish people since the holocaust. continuing with the white house statement, there's no justification for spreading toxic, false stereotypes that threaten fellow citizens. president biden was moved to run for president when he saw neonazis chanting the same bile heard. he will not give hate any safe

harbor. this is from andrew bates. peter baker, take us through this as garrett just pointed out, this is not the first time we have heard this over the years from donald trump. it was all in one place. it's at a critical time. it's in response, obviously, also to chuck schumer and to vulnerability that they see on the part of the president ramping up his criticism of bibi netanyahu. >> yeah. it's remarkable but not surprising. we have seen things like this from the former president time and time again. remember in 2022, he had kanye west and nick fuentes to dinner at mar-a-lago. trump didn't disavow them. he talked to his staff about how he was jealous about hitler's generals. if he had generals like hitler had. he has time and time again

played to forces of -- that have been hateful in society. he criticized benjamin netanyahu after the october 7th hamas attack and praised hezbollah, saying they were smart and capable. it's not exactly like he has had a consistency there, other than in playing to those who traffic in sort of these hateful stereotypes and history of anti-semitism. >> catherine, let's talk about the legal issues on the former president's plate. what are his options for the $464 million bond? what does the state of new york do if he can't post it? we haven't seen anything like this. >> unless the attorney general is going to retract her past statements, she has said that if donald trump does not come up with the bond or the cash by march 25th, which is monday, she

is sending her attorneys into court to start the process of seizing his assets. his property, his liquid assets. she said she can see 40 wall street from her window. 40 wall street is one of his premiere buildings in lower manhattan. if he doesn't come up with that or if the appellate court doesn't stay the enforcement of that judgment, the attorney general, as i said, she hasn't retracted it, is going to try to seize his assets. >> andrew, there's also judge cannon in florida. she issued an order yesterday requesting arguments on jury -- i guess it's, you know, charges to the jury when the -- instructions to the jury when they haven't seen set the trial date or chosen a jury. and in those instructions, she gave them options including some very strange options, things that he is not charged with.

arguments that the trump lawyers had made to her. >> yeah. you are right that the first thing that's unusual is the idea that the parties are supposed to address jury charges at this stage when there isn't a trial that is even contemplated. the timing is sort of quite unusual. more than that, it's the choices, because both of the choices are legally wrong. there's just no basis for either one. my analogy is, she would like the parties to address first what to do assuming that the earth is flat and then the second option is the jury charges that the party should propose if she goes with option two, that the earth is square. of course, neither of those is correct. very, very bizarre. in addition, of course, this is a string of rulings where she has consistently been getting

the law wrong and always in favor of donald trump. it's very, very hard to not view her as both a neophyte and partisan. this is going to lead to, i'm sure, some very deep thinking on jack smith and his team's part about how and when to take her up to the 11th circuit. at what point is it a bridge too far? there was a ruling last week where she again tried to avoid making a ruling so that she couldn't be appealed. there's a whole variety of things that are building up. this is something to keep an eye on as to what jack smith does. it's clear at this point, they have to do something given the very bizarre nature of her most recent ruling. >> of course, the bottom line is delay, delay, delay. peter, i want to ask you about

the reports that convicted felon paul manafort might be brought on his staff. they labeled him a great counterintelligence threat due to his connection to russian intelligence. he was convicted. i think andrew weissmann was the prosecutor. why would he be brought in? >> it's a great point to make. not only did they say he had these russian connections, he made a fortune off of pro-russian interests over the years, but he was determined by andrew weissmann's investigation and the senate's investigation to have given internal polling data to a russian intelligence agent. that's not the kind of resume that is good for a top campaign position. that seemed to be the kind of thing that doesn't bother former president trump. he was convicted of multiple

financial fraud charges, spent time in prison. not the usual background for a top campaign official. he did get a pardon from former president trump. obviously, it's a sign of just how different this campaign really is, how different this candidate really is that somebody like that would be seen as an asset. >> let me ask andrew how you feel about all this. >> well, it's really not a question of my sentiment. to me, i just look at the -- if the reports are true, it fits in very much with the former president's comments about the people who attacked the capitol on january 6 being hostages. they are defendants duly convicted after either taking a guilty plea or being found guilty by a jury. the idea that you have a republican -- republicans used to be the law and order party. they touted themselves that way.

the idea that they are run on a ticket of freeing criminals and having a convicted criminal run the campaign for the leading candidate is a remarkable comment on where that party is today versus its historic traditions. >> garrett, andrew, catherine, peter, thanks to all of you. shutdown averted? lawmakers on capitol hill reach a deal they say to keep the government funded. time is not on their side. that's next when "andrea mitchell reports" is back in 60 seconds. stay with us. ts" is back in 60 seconds. stay with us what, i'm running this kitchen. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon.

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divisions between republicans and democrats over immigration and the border still run very deep. they haven't seen the text yet. the speaker will need democratic votes to get this over the finish line. homeland security funding was the final component of the annual spending legislation that needed to be settled to avoid a shutdown or force congress to vote again for another last-minute continuing resolution. joining us now is ryan nobles. man on the spot, right yan. can the speaker take the risk of using democratic votes without being taken down? >> reporter: there is quite a bit of optimism on capitol hill they will get this over the finish line before the deadline of midnight friday. that optimism is based in just the readout we are getting from congressional leaders in white house. we have yet to see this text as you point out. that's where there could be

hiccups to this plan. as you rightly point out, mike johnson is going to need democratic votes in order to get this bill passed. especially because it looks as though they are going to try to pass this under suspension, which means they would avoid the rules committee, which is stacked with members of the house freedom caucus who have come out in opposition to the appropriations package. that would require a two-thirds vote in the house of representatives. this would mean democrats would have to be on board. to avoid a shutdown, there was going to have to be some bipartisan compromise. that's the nature of congress right now, with the thin margins in the house and senate. this had to be something that both republicans and democrats were going to agree to. so that's the stage that we find ourselves at right now. will this be enough to get it to where it needs to be friday? then, what could the potential fallout be for the house speaker mike johnson? it was a similar deal that kevin mccarthy hatched with democrats

to avoid a shutdown last year that ultimately started the process of conservative republicans revolting and booting him from office. at this point, there doesn't seem to be an appetite for the same sort of punishment for mike johnson. we won't know for sure until this bill passes. >> i'm betting that they have some families with airplane tickets for spring break. that's maybe the only -- >> reporter: that's a safe bet. >> the get out of town factor. ryan nobles, thank you. boiling point. tense talk between president biden and prime minister netanyahu over israel's plans for a potential invasion of rafah. u.s./israel relations coming up next. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. e watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. it wasn't always this calm uc went everywhere i did. wondering when it would pop up next was stressful doing a number on my insides. but then i found out about velsipity a new once-daily pill,

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the prime minister says he will move forward with in any case. the white house insists it will be a mistake and there are other ways to get hamas. joining us is richard haas and raf sanchez. raf, to you in israel. tell us about the call between president biden and the prime minister and what netanyahu said today. >> reporter: yeah, you really have an american president and israeli prime minister on a diplomatic collision course. the president telling netanyahu during that call yet that going into rafah in a major ground offensive would be a mistake. he says there are alternative ways for israel to achieve its objective of destroying hamas without going into rafah in a full-scale way. prime minister netanyahu appearing in front of an israeli parliamentary committee said there's no other alternative than to go into rafah with ground forces. if israel does not destroy the

remaining hamas battalions in rafah, then it will lose this war that it has been fighting in five months since october 7th. so the next step here is this delegation of israeli military, intelligence, humanitarian officials heading to washington potentially as early as this week. they will hear out the biden administration's concerns. they will see if there's some kind of compromise that can be reached between the u.s. and israel. after that, potentially in terms of off ramps here, the only thing that netanyahu has indicated will stop an attack on rafah is if there's a breakthrough at the cease-fire negotiations in qatar. >> richard, this is unusual. we don't usually see -- not in years have we seen anything this contentious between an american president and an israeli prime minister. it's in wartime.

israel is at odds with other leaders around the world. the u.s. has coming to israel's defense at the u.n. in a very -- it's not been an easy task to defend israel for this administration. but they have been holding firm to it. but the president is walking a tightrope. is he not? between wanting to criticize israel but not wanting to go too far. he has not conditioned aid. >> you are exactly right. he has been trying to thread a needle. so far, it hasn't really worked. he has been showing constraint but the israelis have not been taking it on board. i think the president would prefer not to condition aid. but my guess is, he would do it if the israeli offensive in rafah turned out to be really large, using a lot of aerial bombardment. my prediction is at the end of the day, the israelis will dial down what it is they do there. they will use ground forces,

probably a lot of small forces. i think they will come up with a compromise that the united states and israel can live with. >> richard, to follow up on that. the president is being criticized from his progressive left, strongly criticized. they are going to have a hard time getting the israeli aid package through with a large number of democratic senators against it, unless the weapons are somehow conditioned. not just bernie sanders now. the white house has been reluctant to attach conditions to the aid. it does seem like it's a lose/lose situation for the administration politically. >> it seems to me there's a difference between placing conditions on the use of u.s. military equipment and denying

the transfer. israel faces threats from hezbollah in the north in lebanon. what knows what would happen with iran. my guess is the administration is loath to deny focus. want to focus efforts on how it's used to avoid civilian casualties. link it to the provision of humanitarian aid. most of all, but i think you will see a lot of effort with tony blink. >> announcer: -- blinken talking about introducing some political. you have to do it with diplomacy. you have to show there's an alternative path for palestinians to realize at least some of their legitimate political goals. so far at least, i do not see the israelis willing to introduce that. >> in fact, that's one of the chief criticisms that the white house has, raf, that the

israelis are just talking about occupation and not turning it over to a combined unified palestinian organization. the palestinians have recently signalled again an unwillingness to reform themselves by appointing a caretaker prime minister who does not match anything the u.s. wants. on both sides there, they have been failing any kind of u.s. test for moving forward with a real plan. the secretary of state thinks he has a plan from the arabs to move in, rebuild, help secure it and a long-term economic benefit and peace benefit for israel from the arabs. blinken in a speech today, or in comments today in manila, said that gaza is now the first population that is entirely suffering from famine. >> reporter: yeah, you heard jake sullivan saying yesterday at the white house podium that they have not heard from israel a coherent plan to win the peace

in gaza. you have heard the administration say repeatedly that they believe that the gulf arab allies believe that the palestinian authority is the only entity that can administer gaza after this war. it's the only authority with the capacity to do so with some shred of credibility to do so. yet, that is not something prime minister netanyahu nor his far right government will agree to. you are hearing the prime minister sketching out a vision in gaza that looks a lot like the occupied west bank, where you have israeli forces moving into the cities at will, where they can go anywhere, where they can arrest anyone. that is really the opposite of division of a two-state solution that you have heard from president biden, from secretary of state blinken as being the only long-term way out of this. the secretary is heading back to the middle east tomorrow.

he is going to be talking a lot about this effort to get more aid into gaza. you mentioned that really devastating report that came out yesterday by thisu.n.-backed group saying half of civilians are facing famine. >> richard, could you comment on donald trump's statements about democrats being anti-semitic or people being anti-semitic if they vote democratic? we played the quotes earlier. the comment from his campaign manager that democrats are anti-semitic. >> i can tell you a lot. i will say it's beyond offensive. i don't like to be lectured how to practice my religion and what makes me observant or not.

politically, i would say, i never thought not criticizing is a sign of loyalty. i thought i not only have the right, i have the obligation to speak up. it doesn't mean i'm not pro-american, i'm not patriotic. if i think we're doing something that's not in our self-interest, i would say the same thing about israel. i support the jewish state, but israel makes mistakes. when it does, i believe those who care about it have not just the right but the obligation to speak out, without donald trump or anyone questioning my motives or my loyalties or anything else. >> i should point out, richard, for decades were involved at the highest levels of the state department working on behalf of peace for israel. thank you very much. richard haas, raf sanchez. ukraine's military low on ammunition, lacking air defense, losing ground to russia. waiting for congress to approve

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senator lindsey graham of south carolina, a trump ally, was in ukraine yesterday trying to persuade president zelenskyy, who is desperate for direct u.s. military aid, to settle for a loan instead. white house says a loan is not the best solution. ukraine is struggling to hold the line against vladimir putin's forces with ukrainian soldiers on the frontlines

exhausted. joining me now is the foreign affairs minister of finland, russia's neighbor to the west, and of course a nato alliance member now. thank you very much for being with us. from your vantage point, what does the blockade of u.s. aid or the block on u.s. aid to ukraine mean for the war? congress will leave friday night. they won't be back for two weeks. they won't begin until april to start addressing this issue. >> thanks for having me. i think it's very important that we in the west keep supporting ukraine, because ukraine obviously is not just fighting for their freedom, their democracy, but also those of the entire world and for the validity of the u.n. charter. we do see that russia, with its

imperialistic agenda, will not stop unless it's effectively stopped. therefore, we have to be more effective in supporting ukraine in this fight. >> right there with the border with russia, you have made the very important decision to join nato after always being neutral -- deliberately neutral because of your proximity to russia. how concerned are you about being drawn into a conflict if ukraine does lose? >> we're not concerned about us, ourselves so much. finland has invested a lot in defense also prior to joining nato. we were strategic partners with nato even before joining as was sweden. within the european union, we have collaborated very deeply as

well when it comes to security issues. we are very concerned about the world and a ruler like vladimir putin can, at will, change borders or attempt to do so without the rest of us not acting against it. we don't -- ourselves, we don't experience any immediate military threat. we see russia does pose a threat toward european security and that of the entire world. >> you have said, as has france's president macron, that western countries, including the u.s., nato, should not rule out sending troops to ukraine if conditions worsen. that, of course, is putin's red line. the white house says no to u.s. boots on the ground. do you think nato should come to ukraine's aid if they lose more territory and are beginning to lose the war?

>> our position is very clear. we are not thinking about sending any boots on the ground right now. it's not even needed. it's not in the cards. for long-term, of course, nothing should be ruled out. that certainly is another discussion at some point in the future. what is so important right now is that we keep on sending military aid and defense material to ukraine, especially ammunition, which they are lacking. i greatly welcome and appreciate the efforts that the european union has made just as recently as yesterday. of course, we do see that it is also in the interest of united states of keeping aiding ukraine. everybody, of course, wants the war to stop. but we don't see any other way of stopping the war than aiding

ukraine. russia effectively has been waging this war for years now. it's almost exactly ten years ago when they illegally annexed crimea, a part of ukraine. of course, it's totally unacceptable. for so many years, we tried the model of appeasement and not really effectively going to help ukraine. now i think with the full-scale invasion of ukraine that russia has engaged in, we no longer have the option. if we stop aiding ukraine, then it could be at some point there's no ukraine any longer and there's just an emboldened russia who has a very

imperialistic agenda. >> the foreign minister of finland, now a critical member of nato -- of the nato alliance, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. "nbc nightly news" anchor lester holt just sat down here with the faa administrator following a string of scares involving boeing planes. here is part of their conversation. >> you recently paid a visit to boeing, were able to see some of their manufacturing process. what were some of your impressions? >> well, my impressions were similar to the culture survey that just got completed at boeing and our audit, which that there are issues around the safety culture at boeing. their priorities have been on production and not on safety and quality. what we really are focused on is shifting that focus from production to safety and quality. >> what were certain protocols not being met in terms of how they approached production?

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and history is watching. >> joining me now from kyiv, evelyn farkas, mccain institute executive director and former deputy defense secretary in the obama administration. great to see you. thank you for being with us. so, even if u.s. aid to ukraine is approved, is ukraine able to win this war, especially with vladimir putin now emboldened after his re-election, if you can call it an election, to a fifth term? >> the assistance to ukraine, they can hang in there, and it may be a question of hanging in there. right now the russian government obviously vladimir putin is feeling very strong after his rigged election victory over the weekend. and he's also feeling good because he's been able to get a lot of munitions from north korea, from iran, from building his own defense capability.

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