options on the table. this is very, very classically putin. he needs, he likes having not closing any doors and leaving himself plenty of room to maneuver. it doesn t mean he ll annex this region. but it doesn t mean he won t annex this region. only time will tell. and that underscores how difficult this diplomacy has been. i want to read an excerpt from david ignatius in the washington post who talks a little bit about putin s character and says it is not clear whether putin sees himself as a czar or the game keeper when he s photographed hunting tigers or shooting whale was crossbow or going bare-chested when fishing or riding horses, but he s evidently a man with something to prove. confident and insecure at the same time. that was sort of an excuse for to us show you a photo of vladimir putin, there it is. but it does underscore the difference between these two leaders, which is something david also points out in the story. the president is not someone who would ever be shirtle
what do you think happens when the stock market opens tomorrow with this default looming on thursday? you know, i tend to think that the markets will give us until tuesday to work out an agreement, which is, you know, when the u.s. markets will resume after the holiday weekend. absolutely. you re right. so i think, you know, tuesday is the big date. i think at this point, if you look how the markets reacted thursday and friday, which is they reacted positively based on encouraging signs about a deal, i would say the markets embedded in those asusumptions that something would happen this weekend, and if something doesn t happen by tuesday morning, we could see markets down quite a bit. that s only part of the story with the debt ceiling. obviously markets would be disrupted. it would have a very negative effect on the u.s. economy. what hasn t been talked about enough is the fact that we ve probably already done some damage in terms of how the international financial community, th
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the debt ceiling deadline. joining us from the white house is nbc s kristen welker. i understand the president is meeting with his senior staff this morning. any plans for more meetings with republicans? right now, no, alex. i can tell you we don t expect to see or hear from president obama today. that s the signal right now from the white house. doesn t mean he won t meet with lawmakers, but right now no meetings are scheduled. you re absolutely right. he s been huddled here with his top officials. i can tell you, though, that dennis mcdonough, his chief of staff, just left the white house to grab some lunch. i asked him how things were going. he said, great day, but wouldn t say more than that. doesn t give us a lot of indication about where these talks are headed. based on my discussions with aides on the hill, it appears those discussions are stalled right now at least. senator harry reid really digging in his heels over this issue of wanting to increase the sequester spending le
this book. it s called the interloper: lee harvey oswald inside the soviet uni union. thank you for your time. thank you. reports say this memo highlights several cases of what appear to be tests for reaction from airline crews in the frightening event of an in-flight threat. joining me now, retired atf special agent and nbc law enforcement analyst jim cavanaugh. this report so interesting. it says the most recent case happened just last month. a flight from reagan international to orlando. one man bolts from his seat, goes into a bathroom, and while he s inside, three others move around the cabin. they re changing seats. they re creating havoc, opening overhead bins. i should point out that nbc counterterrorism analyst says this doesn t suggest a dry run, that they wouldn t cause such commotion. but couldn t they maybe be pushing the envelope as far as possible to see what they could