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Try to remember a more consequential start to the united nations general assembly. You would probably have to go back to 2001 when the week opened on september 12th. Just a day after 9 11. Today, there are wars in Ukraine And Sudan and gaza. Another one threatened in lebanon and one looming in the south china sea. American troops are once again deployed on the fringes just in case and now the leaders or the major representatives of all of those countries are gathered right here in new york city....

all of these signs, reports and indications that donald trumps team is at least concerned about a possible indictment in the doj classified documents case. that doesnt mean theyve given up. that doesnt mean its inevitable and we are not reporting on a future possibility. we are reporting on a current set of concerns and let me walk you through it. if indicted donald trump will be the first-ever person who served in the white house to be indicted for a federal crime. heres whats brand n...

From "the daily beast", david. >> david, how are you doing today? >> doing okay. >> the red sox last last night, 5 and 5, worst season since 1965. >> there are 152 games left. >> are there? ? yeah. >> 152 games of pain. >> it will be a very long season. >> yeah, being handled by the orioles over the weekend. >> you know, it is so funny. we started 0 and 3 against the orioles. you should have heard everybody talking. it was a this is the end. of course, we are crying when we beat the yankees, scr...

That -- that ukraine should be able to do whatever it wants to do, but that would be provocative. but the eu is -- this is what the battle has been about since the orange revolution, hasnt it, david? they want to move west. they want their economy connected to the west and not russia. how important is this? >> well, as jon meacham would no doubt say, this goes back to catherine the great. >> yes, and the rebellion. >> the rebellion always figures in this. the issue is where does europe start and...

Bombing russia. >> i have signed legislation that will outlaw russia forever. we begin bombing in five minutes. >> all right. joe bidens remarks were far more tame, but likely still put the kremlin on its heels. >> a lot more tame. >> which some argue is a good thing. >> it is a good thing. >> this morning we gauge the impact of bidens proclamations in poland. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, march 28th. a special day for me. it is my dads birthday, really symbolic. we ha...

If they prevail this speech will be considered historic. if they dont and if we dont do enough to help them, the speech will not be remembered. i think thats the key thing. i agree rhetorically it was a great speech, explained the narrative. i completely agree with david. it was the best explanation of what the stakes are that weve heard from the president so far. i also agree with admiral stavridis, not one inch, dont touch nato. that statement also needed to be made. but the other phrase i thi...

Sacred obligation" speech. he talked about our sacred obligation to nato, and it will also be the dont-even-think-about-it speech. kind of the american vernacular, dont even think about it vladimir. i think a strong speech delivered in context in warsaw, a city destroyed in the second world war and rebuilt. we dont want that again. i think it was a strong speech and sent the right messages. >> david, you wrote some beautiful words about this speech afterwards, but the clear lines that it drew. i...

Place. we cannot go back to that. we cannot. >> in 1963 john f. kennedy challenged soviet tyranny in europe by declaring all free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of berlin. in 1987 ronald reagan stood at brandenburg gate and demanded- gorbachev tear down this wall. a generation later the 46th president of the united states delivered his own stinging rebuke of russian barbarism and once again divided the world, as david rothcoff writes, between the forces of democracy and those of autoc...

That there are some sort of frances and germanys that are beginning to hang back a little bit. >> so, joe, i just -- we were watching the speech together, of course, and i wonder if some administrations who are very quick to regroup on that off-the-cuff remark might have wanted to wait a beat and just say it is what the president felt, because i think the walk back is the weakness. it is what the president felt. >> again, i just say for everybody thats been criticizing, first of all -- >> oh, pl...

Will say something harder. well, what are they saying? what are they meaning? you know, weve been out front saying exactly what were for, what were doing, whats going on. im not just saying this. listen, i said it when reagan was president. i like the creative ambiguity. i like a president that goes out and calls the soviet union an evil empire. i know the state department freaked out at the time, the diplomatic corps freaked out at the time. thats fine. creative ambiguity. keep them guessing. d...