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The russians will not attempt to help the crisis end. its a violation of sovereignty and the president is responding by living up to the dashes commitments related to sovereignty of nations. >> doug: what are the risks of the deal? >> i think there are some risks in terms of russia may be escalating the conflict, but if the united states really does provide antitank munitions to the ukrainians, the lethality of the ukrainian response to any escalation goes up, and the russians have to really cal...

>> yes. putin thinks this he is going to do that. this is president of the united states he doesnt have to buckle to pressure that the news media puts on him. he setting up a rubric to blame us for actions -- >> thank you, michael. nbc news reporting tonight. retired navy admiral turned the job down. he was offered the job but expressed concerns that he would not be able to staff the national security council the way he wanted to. he was unable to overcome financial and family commitments. u...

Come together to try to solve difficult problems. when nikki haley talks about our sovereign choice of declaring jerusalem the capital of israel, shes not wrong. that was the choice by the president in general but the other countries have sovereign rates to state the opposite. one of the things that came out yesterday that people need to remember, these other nations that voted against us, werent just voting against us. they werent simply trying to rebuke donald trump. they were also restating f...

Couldnt handle our commitments for national security to protect us, the american people. for example, military aid and stabilization age in a place like afghanistan or more than a rack lot of sense for us. but given giving it to dozens of nations, does anybody remember, what used to happen when the so-called oil for food program, run by the united nations, with our money, and the corruption and graft and greet at the united nations headquarters? carried out over the middle east at the same time....

Its easy to put those two things together and give the president a little more of what he wants at the border and ensure that these kids get to stay in the country that they grew up in. >> yeah, there are about 700, 800,000. heres the problem. if republicans dont keep the end of the bargain on these important and very sensitive issues, it will be a lot harder down the road to get those kinds of compromises, get things done, right? >> well, its important to say what youre going to do. its the onl...

>> this white house is committed to keeping the government open. it would be a shame if the democrats forced a shutdown of the government in the 11th hour trying to negotiate something i would say that would be irresponsible because we want to make sure that we fund the military and other obligation and commitments. this president is committed and his team is committed and were confident about keeping the government open. the democrats think they can blame the party in power. people saw yesterda...

To the commitment to jeff flake and make sure that those 700,000 or 800,000 d.r.e.a.m.ers will be allowed to have legal status here in the united states? >> wolf, as you -- as some has been reported, general kelly and i have been sitting down with many of the senators working on this on a bipartisan basis to talk about a path forward. we have been entering into those negotiations and are anxious to complete them. >> but it will happen? is that what youre saying? >> wolf, we are doing everything ...

Most surveys that ive seen nationally, suggest that a majority of americans dislike this bill, and they believe that it is designed to benefit the wealthiest. that it will benefit donald trump, president trump, personally. and that it will benefit corporations, but not the middle class, which is what president trump campaigned on. well have to see. well see the actual impacts and then the american people will judge for themselves. >> when the tax reform legislation goes through, what incentive d...

Destruction. >> she really does think this is what she has to do to get through the day. >> we love the idea that she was this single woman. you thought, at work w. a boyfriend who was a pharmacist. she comes home and theres two kids. >> hey, babe. >> and a husband. >> she wants to honor the commitments shes made to the patients. she wants to honor the commitments shes made at a mother, as a wife. >> cant talk. love ya. >> but she stretched herself so thin that now the cracks are starting to sho...

Lot of young people were encouraged to go to my office, senator schumers office and do a sit-in. were their friends. were trying to help them. they should go to the offices of the members who have it made to commitments that we have. so i reject all of that rhetoric that is dishonest, that misleads the american people. and that tries to sow the division and the hatred that we see more and more in our politics in this country. >> congressman, we showed a generic ballot poll from nbc news/"wall st...