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mind? thats really the subtext of all the conversations about whether the russian president is actually willing to drive humanity to the brink of a nuclear disaster. i bet its keeping president biden up at night. how about you? how are you sleeping since president biden used the word "armageddon"? ill ask how close he thinks we are to the brink and what options are on the table in our exclusive interview. as biden noted n ukraine, putins choices, his options are narrowing. >> translato...

Country. while that might sound farfetched, that is whats worrying senator marco rubio of florida, and rubio probably knows a little bit about this. hes the highest ranking republican on the senate intelligence committee. >> i think the thing i worry most about is a russian attack inside nato territory, for example, aiming at the airport in poland or some other distribution point. there certainly would be an attack on one, and so, therefore, certainly nato will have to respond to it. >> nightmar...

Well as foreign policy experts, have long said that putins chief objective is to reconstitute the soviet union. sound farfetched? last december reuters reported that russian state tv had aired some provocative comments from a documentary "russia: new history." in that documentary, putin lamented the collapse of the soviet union, saying it was a disintegration of the historical russia under the name of soviet union. we turned into a completely different country. and what had been built up over 1,...

Translated into russian, as in russian state television. there it is right there. theyre eating it up like a bowl full of borscht, pointing to what hes been saying for months. apparently same goes for reaction of viewers of trump state tv, and that is fox of course. democratic congressman tom malinowski says his office is now getting calls from folks who say they watch tucker carlson and are upset that were not siding with russia. tucker has even laughed at the idea that the u.s. would defend uk...

Already that eventually reached the state department but it may have been too late. a short time later, what parnas and fruman predicted happened, marie yovanovitch was removed, stunning anticorruption officials in ukraine. now we know from american diplomats parnas and fruman had powerful help. >> i became aware of an effort by rudy giuliani and others including his associates lev parnas and igor fruman to run a campaign to smear marie yovanovitch. >> while rudy giuliani was pushing conspiracy ...

Russian president vladimir putin and was a business associate of former trump campaign chair, paul manafort. joining us now is ambassador michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and an msnbc russian affairs contributor. michael, when i read this story, i wanted to talk to you because i feel like theres few people who would be able to tell me whether or not this is farfetched better than you can. so let me ask you that. >> you wanted to talk to me about sex escorts and training in thaila...

Attack each other. sound farfetched. remember the pact before world war ii in eastern europe when the communist and the nazis divided up poland. strange bedfellows could get together when it is in their interest to do so. >> so bottom line, assad stays in power and maybe the country is carved up a bit. >> i think syria and iraq have both ceased to exist as functioning states and i dont know who is big enough to push assad out of power at this point. >> well he is there and staying there and with...

two. hoping it will be a christmas black morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. this is monday, december 26th. i hope some of you are watching from home. >> did you get back from toronto okay? >> i did. boxing day. >> like the black friday of canada. >> right. good shopping. a lot of news right now. >> right. eight days to go m s ts to go ba caucuses, paul steinhauser is live with us in des moines, iowa this morning. hi, paul. good morning. >> reporter: good mor...

bipartisan support and house republicans rejected earlier this week. that opened up a divide between house hard-liners and the gop establishment. leading republican voices were openly calling on john baner to back down to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the bran. tonight, looking pretty grim. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. and while everyone asks for a full-year extension of these programs, a lot of people wrn willing to p...

between house hard liners and the gop establishment. by yesterday leading republican voices were openly calling on house speaker john boehner to back down, to agree to a two-month extension or risk ruining the brand. tonight looking pretty grim he did. >> doing the right thing for the right reasons is always the right thing to do. while everyone asked for a full year extension of these programs, a lot of people werent willing to put the effort in as the holidays were approaching to get...