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The tea leaves in afghanistan. you remember when joe proclaimed we had allcl the leverage over the taliban and hed never abandoned any. americans. by the way,ndon its been one hundred and sixty four days americans held hostaged in behind enemy lines. one hundred and sixty four in joe bidens world of sunshine. cotton candy, lollipop o rainbos ,chocolate ice cream. theres nothing to worry about. not afghanistan, not a 40 year high of inflation, no supply chain crisis, no workeror shortage, no bord...

The washington chief and washington correspondent for pbs news hour. hes also an msnbc political contributor. hes brown, a communist and editor for msnbc daily. and the ceo of the new georgia project. great to have all three of you with us, hes, ill begin with you. how do you see this week playing out for democrats? is there any hope, political hope for chuck schumer to pull this off? >> i mean, it was just one of the two. it wasnt just rome asked jim or kyrsten sinema. theres more leverage that...

Than armies marching across battlefields, too. remember, russia is a nuclear power. ukraine had nuclear weapons, too, and gave them all up when the soviet union collapsed in 1991. part of the security arrangement to ensure russia of greater security and to reign in the spread and proliferation of nuclear weapons in the wake of 1991. kazakhstan and ukraine ended their existence as nuclear powers within the arrangement of the old soviet union. a lot has changed. this is a terrifying moment, and th...

Itns says asians are being discriminated against by harvard because h the president has said that he is going to pick someone based on her race as well. its a little ironic. yeah, i dont i dont think the first asian conservative nominee to the court would count as a first. that would bee out the window. that wouldnt matter. robert, on this idea of the so-called moderateil democrats and how theyll votel on this, how do you see that playing out? is it just going to be lock step for biden or would ...

These are actions by western regimes that try to gain leverage through the suffering of ordinary people. the iranians are quite willing to go back to the nuclear deal, but the other side has to come back with iran as well. iran wont appease the europeans. right, but this is where it gets complicated, because youve been very candid with me about what iran is up to right now and the degree to which you are seeking leverage. and the fact is that between 2018 and now, you have acquired a whole host ...

To bring manchin and perhaps sinema along. i believe -- you know -- he was mistaken in that assessment. i believe it was a mistake in the assessment in passing the build back better act, and we could pass that before the end of the year, i think we need to play hardball and go grass tax. i believe early in the presidency we did have four years to make this presidency, we have had and have to. and i think he should have gone stronger earlier, but he still has an opportunity to still go strong now...

Provocative. the thing ukrainians most need and want our stinger missiles and antiship missiles and they werent getting them and what is showing up now i think is too little, too late. >> shannon: so to the idea of a -- the messaging what is -- a risk that washingtons risk messaging which includes putting 8500 troops on alert for possible deployment, could provoke the kremlin further or at least be use to justify a more aggressive posture. on tuesday, the kremlin spokesman said moscow was watchi...

General hodges. in fact, general, is this sort of, in an odd way, an aggressive exit ramp? were ramping up, were sending putin a message, nope, this isnt working the way you thought it was going to work. and youre really going to hate this now. and thisis suddenly leverage, new leverage we had that perhaps we didnt before. is that too -- are we overthinking this? am sigh overthinking this, general? >> well, youre about two laps ahead of me, chuck. i mean, thats -- but thats not an unreasonable c...

Probably necessary and its also true, even if they avoided the disaster to place the russians and the chinese will be saying the fact we withdrew from afghanistan at all is a sign of weakness. so we have to be careful about how we analyze the afghan factor in the current crisis. >> thats an interesting point. look, youve been very clear on how you feel about how this administration, the biden administration handled the north stream 2 pipeline. you called it a disaster, their handling of it. its ...

Away. >> is the biden administration simply miscalculating that it has the leverage here? >> yes. the germans have refused to say so. >> right. >> the defense minister said last week theres no connection between russia going into ukraine and nord stream 2. when blinken was in washington a week or so ago, they said if the russians go into ukraine they may not be able to use nord stream 2. it signals weakness. the administration should make it very clear right now to germany and to russia that if ...