it didn't overtake the entire night. yes, "oppenheimer" has swept awards season. this solidified its moment. it's the most popular movie since lord of the rings. this is a movie that really has put big blockbusters back on the map. it made over $900 million internationally at the box office. "barbie" making up the other part that took it over $2.4 billion worldwide. really doing a lot for the box office, andrea. >> a big night for ryan gosling as well. there was a lot of glamour and glitz and great performances. chloe melas, thank you so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." remember follow us on social media @mitchellreports. you can rewatch highlights any time on youtube, just go to msnbc.com/andrea. "chris jansing reports" starts right now.

good day. i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. could the war in gaza break what had long been considered unbreakable. the alliance between the u.s. and israel being tested as never before with prime minister netanyahu openly defying president biden and pressing ahead with plans to invade the southern city of rafah. biden called it a red line. so what happens if netanyahu crosses it? new jersey senator robert men den dez and his wife back in court today pleading not guilty to more federal charges. at the heart of the newest allegations, whether they tried to hide an alleged bribery scheme even after the feds were already on to them. the prosecutor who described president biden as an elderly man with a poor memory set to testify on capitol hill tomorrow. will the hearing undo the president's attempts to put worries about his age to rest? we begin now with the

growing split between the u.s. and israel. unlike anything in the long and strong history of that alliance. the rift has been escalating for weeks, but reached a new level when president biden told msnbc's jonathan capehart that an israeli invasion of rafah was a red line, insisting the u.s. will not tolerate another 30,000 palestinian deaths. a defiant benjamin netanyahu then told politico, we'll go there adding, you know, i have a red line. you know what that red line is? that october 7th doesn't happen again, never happens again. the hope had been that by today, the start of the holy month of ramadan, there could be a cease-fire and a return to religious customs. but in gaza, the tradition of fasting is now a way of life with millions battling desperate hunger. families that used to feast together are now scattered and broken, with loved ones killed in the war and houses of worship reduced to rubble. as one person in rafah told the

ap, you don't see anyone with joy in their eyes. every family is sad, every family has a martyr. the uncertainty extends beyond the gaza strip to jerusalem, home of the al lax xa mosque. this ramadan, the security and tensions there are at a new high. last night israeli police denied entry to scores of palestinian worshippers, even using batons to beat back the crowd at one gate. we're also closely watching a port in cyprus where an aid ship carrying 200 tons of food destined for gaza is expected to set sail. nbc's richard engel is in cyprus. also with us, msnbc host jonathan capehart and distributor david ignatius. both jonathan and david are associate editors for "the washington post." david, you wrote about this. lay the groundwork for us. how wide is this biden-netanyahu

divide right now? >> i think it's becoming a significant breach in the relationship. the two have not gotten along really since the beginning of biden's presidency. netanyahu has not visited the white house. unusual given the closeness of the relationship. biden went to israel when the war began in a gesture that was important to israelis, was a figure really helping unify israel. netanyahu is not a popular prime minister now. i think as biden's anger over the level of palestinian casualties has increased and as he's come to believe with members of the administration that israeli plans to attack rafah could produce a catastrophe, a new humanitarian catastrophe, he's found the language to express his opposition more strongly. he did that in the interview with our colleague jonathan, and i think we're now in a situation where we're going to have to see

exactly what biden means when he talks about a red line. how do you enforce the red line? do you make the shipment of weapons conditional on israeli acceptance of limits? do you begin to do things differently at the united nations where there's cease-fire resolutions that the u.s. has vetoed in the past? those are the questions i'm watching now because i think that's going to tell us whether this is mainly rhetorical or whether it's actually going to be backed by significant u.s. action. >> john sthan, you did indeed get that exclusive interview with president biden and you asked him about his relationship with netanyahu. i want to play part of that. >> do you have a red line? for instance, would invasion of rafah, which you have urged him not to do, would that be a red line? >> it is a red line, but i'm never going to leave israel. the defense of israel is still critical. there's no red line i'm going to cut off all weapons so they don't have the iron dome to

protect them. there's red lines that if he crosses -- cannot have 30,000 more palestinians dead. >> so that brings us, jonathan, back to the question that david posed. what do you do? do you deny some offensive weapons to israel? what do you do? what did the president say about that? >> well, he did not answer any of the questions that david raised. those would have been great followup questions for me if i had had more time. but when i asked the question about the red line, chris, it was specific to the prime minister. if you notice in his answer, he makes a distinction between american support, united states support for israel and his, president biden's support of the prime minister, prime minister netanyahu. david did a very good job explaining the tensions between the two. from what i took from the

president's response is that, when it comes to the iron dome and defensive weapons, weapons that israel needs to defend itself, those are off limits, but when it comes to other things, there might be an issue. if prime minister netanyahu does indeed order an invasion of rafah, then i, too, will be looking to see how the president will then respond because the humanitarian crisis in southern gaza right now is acute. there are about 275,000 people who were living in the rafah area pre war. since the war, 1.5 million people have moved down to rafah, into southern gaza because the idf said to the folks in the north, leave and go south. if there is an invasion, where

are those people going to go? a humanitarian crisis that is acute will become astronomical, also, because egypt is building a wall on its southern border -- on its border with gaza. >> there is no doubt, richard -- and you and i have talked about this for weeks now, if not months -- about the of the nominal human cost that keeps getting worse. we see children dying of starvation now. talk to us from the perspective of israel where that stands. it didn't seem there was any equivocation in the answers that we've heard from benjamin netanyahu, even with this aid ship in cyprus which i understand now is being held up because of ongoing talks. there's, what, 200 tons of food that's supposed to be headed for gaza that's on it? >> reporter: so the aid ship is behind me. i'm at the port right now or overlooking the port. it's not moving.

there's not a lot of activity around the ship. the world central kitchen which is providing the food, is organizing this delivery, says that it's reedy to go. the ship is loaded. it's already been inspected. customs officials did the actual inspections themselves. but with israeli supervision so the israelis know exactly what is on this ship. it's tied down and ready to go, but they don't have the final approval for it to set sail and travel about 200 nautical miles from here to the gazan coast. this is not going to be the solution. this one ship which is being described as a trial run is going to make very little difference. it is a very convoluted way of getting aid into gaza. gaza is not an isolated place. it's right on the mediterranean

coast. if you want to get aid into gaza, it's easy to do, you just open the borders and send in the trucks. right now gaza is ringing with trucks loaded with aid. instead of doing that, we're seeing these planes dropping aid. it is having very little effect. each plane, each c-130 takes roughly the same amount as a single truck. that's happening on a daily basis, or almost daily basis to some effect. sometimes the parachutes don't open. there was the incident a few days ago where five palestinians were killed, crushed by falling pallets. eventually, assuming there is clearance given for this one ship, it's going to take a long time for this ship to get there because it's a very small vessel. we're talking about a ship dragging a barge, and that barge, which it will be towed, has 200 tons of food, canned

meat and other food staples on board. because it's dragging a barge, because it's still winter here and the seas are quite rough, it's only going to travel about 3 miles an hour. it's expected to take three days to reach gaza. world central kitchen, the charity based in the u.s. which is running this, they more or less on their own with their local partners in gaza are scrambling currently to build some sort of improvised pier to receive the barge. what will happen, as the ship goes, it will stop off the gazan shore. then the barge will make the last bit of the journey to land on this pier if they can get it built in time, kind of a home made thing, and then that food would be distributed. we don't know how chaotic that scene will be. that's why this is being described as something of a trial run. aid agencies around the world

say this is not the way to do it. this is not just inefficient, it's almost cruel to the people of gaza who are starving currently, and there are trucks around them with aid. but instead of giving them the aid, a little is being dropped from the sky, sometimes lethally, and they are waiting for this very slow boat to gaza to get permission to finally set sail. >> richard, thank you for that. david, i was reading a quote from someone on the ground in gaza who suggested that maybe if an invasion happens, it will just put them out of their ms. stri. that's how horrific the situation is for many of the people o n the ground. in the same interview with politico where benjamin netanyahu said his red line is to make sure october 7th never happens again, he also said he believes the war will be over in two months. is that possible? is it a sign he doesn't believe he has to negotiate, he's just going to go in and finish it off? what do you read into that,

david? >> so i think you're probably right in that he wants to push on toward victory. his right wing hard coalition seek that as an outcome, i think the question that american officials are asking more and more is whether that is at all realistic. israeli progress in this war has been surprisingly, given their professional military, their history in the past, has been surprisingly slow. the number of hamas fighters killed is such a small fraction of the total deaths -- deaths of palestinians in gaza are usually reported to be over 30,000, but the number of those who are hamas fighters is estimated in the thousands. i've heard numbers like 5,000,

the israelis in the past have said perhaps 8,000. it's a small fraction of the total. i think there's concern that with hamas dug into its tunnels, two months may not be realistic, and how much civilian damage would be done in those two months if that's how long it takes. we remember when the israelis went in hard to northern gaza, the terrible humanitarian cost of that, the disproportionate number of slins relative to hams fighters that were killed. i think biden is saying as clearly as he can, we, the united states, does not want to see repetition of that. if the price is delay in the israeli action, delay in their seeshging to destroy the military power of hamas, which i think most u.s. officials still believe is a worthy goal. they think hamas has been terrorizing israel and gazans as well, i think a desire to delay that as opposed to having a

chaotic and catastrophic end game of the sort that they fear netanyahu is planning, u.s. officials really don't want to see that. again, the question we talked about with jonathan, what is the biden administration going to do about it to make sure that president biden's red line is enforced. >> david ignatius who is writing on this very complicated topic has been so ill lum nating, and jonathan capehart, thank you very much. can't imagine two better people to have this conversation with, along with richard. be sure to catch the saturday and sunday show with jonathan capehart week ends, 6:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. prormer prime minister of israel neftali bennett will join my colleague katy tur at 3:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. president trump is trying once again to delay his hush money trial.

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the fall of 2016. however, cohen was not repaid, and the invoices and checks and false records were not created until 2017 when, as you know, donald trump was serving as president. he says those should be considered as official acts because but for his being president, he would have never had to hire michael cohen as his personal counsel. if that sounds tortured to you, it has also sounded tortured to a federal judge who, when trump trialed to remove the hush money course to federal court last spring, said trump's immunity argument was not even reasonable or colorable, in part because it was based on the portrayal of facts as i just gave them to you. >> so this trial is supposed to get going two weeks from today. what are the chances a judge agrees to the delay? >> i don't think very high. i think trump has already waived this argument. he raised it in front of judge

hellerstein last june. federal removal of a case against a federal officer requires not only that the person be a federal officer, but you identify a federal legal question, here a federal defense that you would raise. judge hellerstein said the immunity defense at that time bus not considerable. trump did not appeal that judgment. you can expect the manhattan d.a.'s office to say in the first instance, he's already waived the argument, irrespective of what the court find. trump had an opportunity to litigate this fully and fairly and he dropped the issue. beyond that, they may also argue his attempt to characterize and cloak this as matter of presidential immunity is really lost, that this was a personal thing he did for campaign purposes and there's nothing presidential about this even if the papered-over of this occurred in 2017. >> lisa rubin, thank you for

that. also in new york today, another not guilty plea from democratic senator bob menendez, a third indictment accusing him and his wife of trying to cover up a bribery scheme, selling his office and influence for cash, gold bars and a luxury car. it all adds up to 18 total charges ranging from bribery to extortion to wire fraud it sets the stage for a trial in may that, unless menendez decides he's not running for re-election will happen less than a month before the senate primary in new jersey. joining me, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, law professor at the university of alabama. also with me, vittive correspondent tom winter. tom, how do these new charges fit into the larger allegation by prosecutors that there was a big scheme going on here? >> you saw senator menendez entering 500 pearl street in that dark navy suit. he was asked how he pleads to

the conspiracy to obstruct justice. he said once again not guilty. very short proceeding as expected. really we're on the march now to trial which is slated to begin in early may of this year. as far as the senator, in what occurred today, i think it's important to see what language changed in this superseding indictment, you made a number of assertions that certain checks and certain things you described were, in fact, either repayments for loans or you provided certain defenses to us and you were not telling us the truth, you were trying to obstruct our investigation or obstruct justice. that's what they're effectively saying today. i think when you look back at one of the businessmen he's am ledged to have been involved in this bribery scheme with, jose uribe who pleaded guilty several weeks ago. if you look at what he said in court that day and what he said he did, it very much closely

matches the language in this indictment, effectively saying the checks menendez was issuing back to him as a, quote, repayment for loan were, in fact, repayment for a bribe. that's where federal prosecutors are going and that's why legal experts think this is a particularly troubling development for the senator from new jersey. >> joyce, let me expand on what tom just said. in addition to the new charges, we did learn recently that one of the men involved in the original diet, uribe, switch his plea to guilty on several counts, hoping to shave time off of what could be the maximum of 95 years in prison. how troubling do you find it if you're menendez or his co-defendants? >> these charges are almost certainly the result of uribe's cooperation. this is the third time the government has superceded the original indictment.

arguably this is the most damaging for menendez. the new charges say that after being charged, he tried to, in essence, have his wife have a conversation with his now cooperating co-defendant, an effort to get their story straight. with these new charges in the mix, prosecutors will be able to argue to the jury that the senator committed the other crimes he's charged with and tried to engage in a coverup showing he had a guilty state of mind, new it was criminal conduct. so i think this is pretty much the final nail in the coffin here. >> so the defendants in this case, joyce, have said it's going to involve millions of pages of discovery. the court determined last week that that includes classified information. could that complicate this trial? do you think they can get all of that resolved in time for a trial in may? >> look, defendants always try to do this when it's available. delay is a strategy that's used by more defendants than just

donald trump. but the reality is that some classified documents are very likely involved here because the allegations include those that the senator was trading favors for qatar and for egypt and that some of that involved highly sensitive information, not like the classified documents case in mar-a-lago, but in the sense that the senator was using information he had access to in his role as a senator to help these countries with financial benefits. so, yes, there will be some classified information. the government will limit it to the narrow and proper scope. really there's nothing here that suggests the trial needs to be delayed. perhaps there will be some delay, but we'll be thinking in terms of weeks or maybe months, not years. >> joyce vance, tom winter, thank you for that. new remarks from former president trump this morning likely less than a day away from officially clinching the republican nomination for president. that is coming up next. that is coming up next

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so how is the campaign shaping up toward that magic 1215? >> i think that graphic work was pretty great. that shows just what tomorrow could bear. donald trump is already -- already the presumptive nominee. but once he hits the delegate threshold, that's a different ball game. he will have won all of the delegates, and so he'll be going to milwaukee with the necessary count here. as for where does this take the campaign? let's be very clear, 7 1/2 months away donald trump has made it clear where he's going to take the campaign. it's not going to be about needling joe biden and his policies, it's going to be about dicking a bludgeon to the current democratic president. listen to his comments at a rally in georgia this weekend. >> people think there's going to be revenge. i say no, the revenge is going to be success. there's not going to be revenge in a revenge stance

it's really going to be success. we're going to turn our attention around. we're going to bring sense -- people say you're conservative. i'm not conservative. i'm a man of common sense. a lot of conservative policies are common sense. >> that was my bad on that. he gave some of the remarks at a rally in georgia. that was this morning on cnbc. you heard him say i'm not a conservative, i'm a man of common sense. our colleague john allen and i have done reporting on this. this sounds like 2016 donald trump or an attempt of that message, us versus them, not so much conservative versus liberal. he realizes there's a broader scope of the american electorate he thinks he can bring into the fray, folks that don't necessarily consider themselves conservatives. that's how donald trump wants to be able to pull off this 2024 campaign. in 2020 there was a lot more talk about the republican party, conservatives being the way of the future.

this go-around he wants to build the umbrella and make it an us versus them. that's where his legal fights tie into it. you heard at the rally this weekend he made fun of joe biden's stutter, made fun of him for coughing into his hands, saying it's a nervous tic. >> if this is what's happening in march, what's it going to look like in october. vaughn hillyard, good to see you back here. thank you. meantime, president biden today is amplifying his calls for higher taxes on the rich. in his newly released budget proposal, president says billionaires should be paying a minimum 25% tax while proposing tax cuts for millions of low and middle income families. like all president budgets, today is mostly a statement of priorities without regard to what can actually get done, particularly given opposition in the republican-controlled house. nbc's christine romans is covering this story for us. hello, my friend, what more can you tell us about what the president is proposing? >> you're right.

it is about priorities, especially in an election year. this is the president trying to show voters and show the electorate what he stands for. much like the state of the union, it's two main points here, affordability, lowering costs for families and what the president calls tax fairness. let's talk about the tax provisions here. a 25% tax on billionaires. he would quadruple the stock buyback tax from 1% to 4% and raise the corporate tax from 21% to 28%. you remember in 2017 then president donald trump lowered the corporate tax from 35 down to 21. the president saying he would make tax cuts for the middle class and almost all regular earners permanent by putting those taxes on companies and the mega, mega wealthy. also in this document, a lot of different ways he would try to invest in lowering housing costs, college costs, health care costs, drug costs, some of the things you heard in the state of the union, but the president definitely trying to

show that his priorities are for working people and making things more affordable with a tax code that taxes rich people more, chris. >> christine romans, always good to have you on the program my friend. thank you. >> thank you. up next, republicans hoping to bring joe biden's age back to the conversation. after a strong state of the union performance, will it matter beyond his base? plus, the doj now opening a criminal investigation into the door plug blowout on that alaska airlines flight. the details coming up. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. watching reports" only on msnbc

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the age question is back with republicans in congress bringing special counsel robert hur to the hill after his report on classified documents called joe biden a sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with a poor memory. biden's energetic state of the union was widely seen as beginning to at least start to put some of the age concerns to rest. nbc's ryan nobles is reporting on capitol hill. also with us, former republican congressman david jolly of florida and msnbc analyst. ryan, how much is president biden's age expected to dominate the hearing? >> reporter: essentially, chris, it shouldn't come up much at all. that's not really the purpose of the hearing. the question is to ask robert hur, the special counsel,

questions about the handling of classified documents by president biden. he did determine it was not a prosecutable offense, decided not to seek charges. but he did reveal sets of concerns he had with the way president biden handled these particular documents and raised serious questions about it. to your point, there's no doubt that house republicans in particular are going to seize on the portions of this report that go into detail about the concerns that robert hur had about the president's memory and his age and, in fact, said that was part of the reason why they ultimately did not bring charges, because they thought it would be difficult to prosecute him as a result of it. keep in mind this is a bipartisan hearing. there will be both republicans and democrats. it's going to extend over a significant period of time. whether or not that particular topic is the dominating one through out the day, we'll have to wait and see because democrats will have their opportunity to ask questions about it as well. there's no doubt it will be a

big part of what's hanging over this hearing when it takes place here tomorrow. >> so congressman, what are republicans hoping to get out of this testimony? >> well, look, given the current criminal case against donald trump regarding mishandling of classified information, i think you'll see a lot of conjecture from republicans trying to create some type of equity or parity between the two cases, but there is none. at the heart of the report of the special counsel is he was unable to recommend any charges to the department of justice because the facts weren't there. he also wants to engage in conjecture and blame the president's age. you don't get to simply say, i've got a bad subject that couldn't handle the stand so, therefore, i'm not bringing charges. the truth is the special counsel failed to reveal evidence that would justify bringing charges against joe biden. to ryan's point, i think that's where you expect to see democrats lean in because they get to ask questions, too, and they get to push, too. the bottom line of this report

is there was no evidence that justified bringing charges. i think that will be as much of a message as whatever games republicans want to play tomorrow. >> congressman, there's a new abc/ipsos poll that shows 52% of democrats say the president's state of the union outperformed expectations. if this overall boost was indeed with his base, how important or not is that at this early stage of the campaign? >> look, i think it was very important. joe biden had an incredible night, gave a speech about his vision for the country and should have put to bed any lingering questions about age, and that includes in his own party among democrats. will that last from now until november? absolutely not. there will be many intervening events. but for democrats, what he did is he reassured them that he is their guy and he's their guy for a reason. for republicans, he makes it very hard for them to make arguments either on policy or

age. joe biden had an incredible night tuesday night, and he's continued it throughout the rest of the week. >> ryan nobles, former congressman david jolly, thank you both so much. today another scary moment on a boeing jet, this time injuring about 50 people when a flight from sydney to auckland, new zealand, took a sudden nose dooichlt passengers on the boeing 787-9 dreamliner say about two-thirds of the way into the three-hour flight the plane just dropped. it threw several people up against the ceiling of the plane, hard enough they say to break parts of the cabin on impact. others injured themselves hitting the floor. the airline based in cheel lei says it deeply regrets any inconvenience and discomfort the situation may have caused. boeing is working to gather more information ability exact lip what happened. meanwhile, a new report says two pilots fell asleep while flying mid air.

while the pilots snoozed, the plane carrying 153 people veered off course. that's according to indonesian officials. the report says one pilot asked to rest once the plane reached cruising altitude, but then the second in command also accidentally fell asleep. the copilot is a new father to 1-month-old twins and admits he had not been sleeping well before the trip. the plane landed safely. no one was injured. the justice department opened a criminal investigation into the terrifying incident on the alaska airlines flight where the door blew off a boeing 737 max-9. george solis is following this on us. what more are we learning about this investigation? >> this is very procedural at this point. the "wall street journal" bringing this reporting over the weekend saying they're going to be interviewing everybody on board the flight, the passengers, the pilots, the

staff, everybody on board the flight. this is supposed to be reviewing whether or not boeing has committed any wrongdoing. as you may remember in 2018 and 2019, boeing had a number of headlines related to the fatal crashes on board the max 8 jets. there was a settlement reached. it's not clear if this is going to be a whole brand new inquiry into this specific incident. alaska airlines releasing a statement saying this is pretty procedural for them as well. they don't believe they're a target of this investigation. but they're going to be cooperating with the federal authorities. over the weekend we spoke with captain john cobs, an aviation expert, put this into context for us about what this means as this is running in tandem with the faa vaks and the ntsb investigation. take a listen. >> all the investigations are looking at the culture at boeing for these bolts not to have been

installed on the alaska airplane. that raises serious questions about how does a lapse like that occur. you have to look beyond just the event. but as to the culture -- >> as you know, a number of attorneys are representing those passengers on board that flight. so how this all unfolds remains to be seen, chris. >> george solis, thank you for that. more to come on that. coming up, severe rain, snow, brutal winds and tornadoes battering the east coast as climate leaders gather in miami. nbc's al roker is there and will join us next. in our next hour, a potential tiktok ban that is sending some of the app's top creators into a frenzy. how they're now trying to salvage the platform. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. ansing reports" only on msnbc (christina) with verizon business unlimited, i get 5g, truly unlimited data, and unlimited hotspot data.

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also today, nbc's al roker is talking climate with some of the leading voices in the field who are gathered right now at the aspen forum, including the energy secretary later tonight, al, good to see you. give us a preview of that conversation, and walk us through the urgency in this moment in terms of climate extremes. >> when we think about climate, we all know that things are not getting better. for example, february was the ninth month in a row where we have set records globally as far as it happens are concerned. february in the united states was at least, for 70 cities, either the hottest ever or top five warmest february ever. last year $28 billion disasters and for the last five years, each year is a bigger number setting a record. what do we do? how do we deal with this? i'm going to be talking about with secretary of energy

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♪♪ welcome back to our second hour of "chris jansing reports," a lot to get to. biden's big campaign push. the president's plans to visit three states this week. plus, the ad blitz where he's putting his age front and center. haiti in crisis. the late-night marine mission to evacuate embassy staff as violent gangs overrun the country. missed warning signs? dramatic testimony from the school counselor who met we than crumbley's father just hours before the teen killed four of his classmates. and a royal apology. what the princess of wales is saying