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Certainly since putin has gone there, hes met with xi. hes done his olympic thing. so i dont think that is as much wearing on the mind of putins in terms of a start time as people might think. >> lets wrap up this piece of conversation as we now hit the live tv news limbo of when might president biden walk out. >> i was so gratified to hear matt bogner talk about putin time because we were talking about biden time for a considerable amount of time going back to the campaign. i think one of the r...

Working the story for us. will? >> reporter: these the longest range missile weve seen north korea launch in five years. the hwasong 12 has the capability of traveling up to an a altitude of more than 1,200 miles and while this missile in this test only travel about 500 miles splashing down in the waters between korea and japan this intermediate range missile has the potential to strike u.s. installations in south korea and japan. it was a number of years ago that north korea made a threat to st...

And this is what we have to watch and i guess the response that nato has two this massive build—up that russia has created all along the ukrainian border but also on the nato border in belarus is to enhance its forward presence. this trend started in 2014, lets remember when russia annexed crimea and the separatist uprising in eastern ukraine so nato is planning for eventual possibilities that it had to defend the eastern flank of nato in case there is escalation between ukraine and russia.—...

Again. there are so many different dimensions to this crisis and lets focus on energy first of all. to what degree do you think gas calculations will affect how the west place this?— calculations will affect how the west place this? from the german standpoint. — west place this? from the german standpoint, natural— west place this? from the german standpoint, natural gas _ west place this? from the german standpoint, natural gas in - west place this? from the german standpoint, natural gas...

Someone who could actually win real support, not just a couple of votes from the republicans. so both sides, someone who could be trusted to look at the cases through an unbiased lens. with a 50/50 senate, the only way bidens nominee gets through is if every single one of these senators votes for her confirmation. every senator named above has enormous leverage. they werent elected to represent msnbc, they were elected to represent their constituents. their constituents do not want a hard left j...

Stephanie, what do you think now, in terms of the diplomatic efforts to try and stop an invasion, to stop a war in ukraine, which could be incredibly bloody, have those diplomatic efforts really got a chance? i think they do. look, it looks like putin views the threat of invasion is more| useful than an actual invasion, which would be incredibly- costly on manyl different levels. do you think is bluffing essentially? no one can get inside . putins head, obviously, but it does look like he is bui...

Around the world. theres a little bit of -- i dont want to use this language on air but sort of tough you know what, take us or leave us mindset this time and to me the icing on the cake is to have a uighur carry the torch there at the end. i mean, it really just felt like their way of you know what. >> i know what youre saying. i know what youre saying and i think people watching know what youre saying and theres a lot of truth of that. the tatonic plates are shifting. we noticed that in anchor...

Bill that when signed into law will be historic. dont they need to just get into a room and stop all of this talking with reporters at press conferences and setting false deadlines? >> yeah, i think the progressive setting the deadline is manna from heaven for the republicans as they gear up for the midterms. keep in mind now we have redistricting, we have a midterm election for a sitting president which historically is always bad. theres a lot of dark clouds on the horizon right now nor the dem...

Ukraine even in recent days. >> i dont think well have troops in ukraine. theyll be in our nato allied countries. i think putin has a lot of options here. the weakness projected has given him a lot of optns at the table. theres speculation he could go to the river, where all the russian speaking people are. its just west -- or just east of kyiv. and he wants to divide and weaken nato, and he also wants to control the black sea. if he controls those ports, he controls the backlack sea. he has his...

What will surprise a lot of people, i think, is that you are dealing indirectly with iran dear russia, which has an open door to tehran, and that tells me that president putin has a lot of leverage at the moment. he has leverage on fuel over the europeans, leverage over the united states when it comes to iran, it puts me quite a powerful position, doesnt it? you know, on iran to my naturally see it that way. we have had an ability to work with russians at the rest of the appeal five plus one on ...