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Of whom is on the ballot. take a listen. >> you havent been reached out to by democrats. >> no, i never been reached tout by democrats. >> the democrats won the area but there was a signature shift to the right. do you think thats the beginning of a larger right shift? >> its a onoff. it wasnt that the republicans turned out more voters who in just demoralized. democrats stayed home plus covid did not make it any easier. >> through the trump campaign specifically, they were setting the talking p...

The biden a ministrations is no american troops are going to fight in ukraine. ukraine is not a member of nato its not part of the treaty tha says an attack on one is an attack on albright nato says its trying to avoid a larger war. >> we are increasing our presence in the eastern part, but what we do his defensive is measured and we dont see confrontation we want to preven the conflict. >> there have been protest to this war across europe and around the world. the russian human rights organizat...

Vladimir putin and all of that going into summits. talk about the challenge facing the biden administration trying to take on putin, prevent a war in europe, at the same time you have to be worried about the political fallout. already marco rubio and republicans saying if putin invades, its going to be joe bidens fault and hes coming back politically with the way the afghanistan withdrawal played out. >> yeah, look, theres a lot of challenges that this presents to this white house. i think their...

In frees defensive. i think its honest. i think the fundamental touch though that president biden promised the american people, in contrast his predecessor, is that he would always level with them. good news and bad. and i think this confrontation with russia is an example of that. there is good news to talk about because we have repaired our relationships with our allies. because we brought the world together. we were able to do something that has never been done before which is to impose sanct...

Days than not, sam stein. thanks for being here today. lets start with -- you listened to my interview with white house press secretary jen psaki. what was your sense as to the points she was trying to emphasize here, as the white house projects forward, tries to get momentum coming out of the state of the union? we know the president is about to hit the road to wisconsin. >> yeah. i thought she and biden himself really sort of underscored a tale of two speeches here, right? the first half being...

Defensive. you know, this is only for retaliatory stuff that has nothing do no offensive position. now poland wants to give ukrainian twenty eight of those mig twenty nine fighter jets. if the u.s. were to sell poland f-16 in return, the u.s. says no. the pentagon press secretary john kirby said this watch. were not going to stand in the way of another sovereign nation if they want to provide aircraft to the ukrainian air force. thats certainly their decision and we respect that this issue of wh...

Pentagon, where the defense department spokesman is set to take the podium in the next 30 minutes. this will be his first briefing after the u.s. refused an offer from poland, who had offered to give some of their fighter jets to the u.s. to then supply to ukraine. in fact, the pentagon, the white house and the state department have all been put on the defensive this afternoon about the move to deny ukraine these critical weapons. on capitol hill, a massive aid package to ukraine on track to pas...

To be clear, i am 350 miles from kyiv. the fact that air raid sirens are going off here is something that has people worried. there have been no attacks in the area. the other thing thats happened in the last hour, it has snowed. while that may seem trivial, its not. you have thousands of people sleeping outside along the border of poland. they have very little with them. so as this humanitarian crisis grows worse, the snow, the wet, the cold is going to become a possible disaster. to the talks....

Conducting further and further war crimes, knowing that we wont stand up to him. well, a bit of statecraft here from the british government. ben wallace, the defence secretary, has said britain is exploring the possibility of sending high—velocity starstreak manned portable anti—air missiles. he says, "we believe this system will remain within the "definition of defensive weapons but will allow the "ukrainian force to better defend their skies." so there you are, getting a bit of nuance. exa...

On cal perry live in ukraine. keir simmons is in moscow, russia. nbc news corners scombrosh josh letterman is in brussels. cam, lets start with you on this latest assault on kiev and also the report we are getting in there are russian saboteurs disguising themselves as ukrainian police? >> reporter: yeah. this situation really deteriorating here, i am 350 miles from the capital of kiev. we are starting to see activity here. in the last sort of 30 minutes, we heard from the mayor of lviv that was...