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S domestic agenda. do you see a path forward on passing extension of the child tax credit in the senate? >> i think there has to be a path forward because its simply unconscionable that we, in january, led to 3 million children fall back into poverty that we had just taken out of. i am very frustrated with my colleagues who say that we cant do this because of some false idea of fiscal responsibility. actually, a new study from columbia has shown that, while expanding the child tax credit to a un...

Other authoritarians. next month cpac is holding its next conference in hungary. the speaker prime minister viktor orban, a putin ally who called zelenskyy a, quote, enemy. republicans like matt gaetz and madison cawthorn piped up to call ukraine corrupt and incredibly evil. some say you can trace the gops putin problem back to donald trump, especially in 2018 when he met with the russian president in helsinki and held a joint press conference. in an opinion piece for nbc news, the former gop co...

Infections started to go down. we still have so much to get to in our inaugural show. when we come back, evidence of republican sympathy for vladimir putin piling up this week. were going to break down the origins of the gops putin problem. ill ask russian expert evelyn farkas about the impact of these comments. thats coming up next. before we go to break, dara brown has other top stories you may have missed from yesterday. >> hey there, katie. were learning more about what investigators fou...

In january, led to 3 million children fall back into poverty that we had just taken out of. i am very frustrated with my colleagues who say that we cant do this because of some false idea of fiscal responsibility. actually, a new study from columbia has shown that, while expanding the child tax credit to a universal level would cost about 97 billion dollars, we actually get a return of over 980 billion dollars. so if you ask any investor if they would make an investment within 1000 percent retur...

Authoritarians and dictators. maybe third will be more of that then there has been. maybe the putin problem will split them a bit, it will make it harder for them to simply go along with. trump may be -- pro trump and pro putin party. >> i, guess the cost of admission ranges from two to 3000 to 250, 000, but no one says that this is going to the harry disagreements, because trump is not announced as a federal candidates will use a lot of latitude in spending money. having said that, maybe hes ra...

Party, and i think i can win by being a part of his party. and well see how many of them are right. this is an interesting moment now, lindsey graham, who in my view is disgraceful, who acts as though -- we worked closely with mccain, more closely as senator but we went on trips together and, its almost as if the ghost of john mccain came to him for what hes supposed to stand for in politics. and graham remembered, im supposed to be on the side of freedom and democracy against authoritarians and...

Four 20 on average we were well above three dollars before that ever happened because bidens policies yet you talk about four dollars on average. you see the signs behind you. but you know, in california there are there are gas stations that are six eighty seven bucks. there are some that are seven fifty and it could go much higher. and i found it unusual today when the president was asked about this . he said its not a biden problem. its a putin problem. and you would think no responsibility, n...

Limit supply, which drives up prices. that didnt start when the russians invaded ukraine, that has been since the start of covid. this is a putin problem, that has made it ark cute and made oil access a bigger question. the lack of u.s. production of oil, lack of access to canadian crude, that is due in large part to this administration policies. >> todd: u.s. airlines are cutting back on flights, what is your warning as the summer travel season quickly approach? >> i will say this, we will have...

Getting attention, for months putin has been rattleing and for months gas prices have been going up, up 75 cents since he began the military build-up, this is putin price hike in action and potus will use every tool at his disposal to shield americans from pain at the pump. the white house blaming the price hike on sabre rattleing and says biden will do everything to decrease prices. what is your reaction to that? >> it is too late to say this is a putin problem. energy prices have been coming u...

>> and, tara, the other irony here in the hypocrisy of the ukrainians the internally. they act pretty tough when they want to call out authoritarianism overseas and about defending democracy and freedom. but they are not doing it here at home. theyre not standing up to defend american democracy from the threat within their own party and their own leader. >> oh, absolutely. i wrote about that in my recent nbc think piece as well. republicans cant have it both ways. they cant sit here and cheerlea...