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Inflation continues to be a factor, as energy prices throughout europe and as cold weather sets in. so the fight is really as much in the information space and in these two theaters rather than being on the ground in ukraine at this point. >> fascinating stuff. clint watts, thank you so much, well see you coming up on "morning joe." up next, why former vice president mike pence says he wont testify before the january 6th select committee. coming up on "morning joe," president biden will be lef...

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The russians using missile strikes, artillery and different pockets to really break down that infrastructure. i would really like to kind of warn what we might see is an increase in cyber attacks. not just inside ukraine but in the countries around trying to bring energy as the focal point. from russias perspective, the only way they can bring pain on ukraine is through going after an infrastructure, going after the supply lines that come into the country and trying to break the alliance in wint...

Is running for office, or do they think they presented the best case to the american public and feel pretty good about the work they did. >> members feel very good about work they have put out and the work they will produce in this final report. they feel like they have made the case to the american public that trump is dangerously unfit for office and presents a continued threat to democracy. now, whether or not this is something the voters will care about is a question for this coming election...

Just costs more to buy an ad there, and these are states with extremely important and hard-fought and very close statewide political contests. so thats where youre really going to see the most money. again, you had a lot of these primaries where you had very wealthy people, you know, even on the democratic side, you had like alex lazari in wisconsin, for instance. the degree to which wealthy people are deciding, what am i going to do with this fortune i amassed, why not try to buy a seat in cong...

The house going to go. >> the conventional wisdom is the house will flip, the house will have a narrow majority there. and the senate is going to come down to a few races, nevada, georgia, north carolina, so, you know, its really anyones guess at this point. whoever has the majority in the senate come next year is going to be a narrow one. if democrats can pull off the split congress, you know, with them holding the senate, republicans taking the house, i think at this point theyll take that. >>...

The mandate officially expires. and so the committee chair is certainly left open the door to do another hearing. but remember, they set the bar pretty high for holding any kind of last minute hearing. the last time they did that is with the cassidy thing that became a key part that filled in a lot of gaps here. at the same time, most members of congress are going to be away in october because they need to head home and campaign for re-election. >> so, nicholas, give us a brief preview of what w...

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Who is wielding the greatest power? >> two leaders who are very, very good at counting votes. so pelosi and mcconnell are perfect to play off of each other. its not clear when it will go forward, but it seems like the house would not have gone through the process for them to not send it over to the senate, but it is, as much as michael gerhart was right, it would be unprecedented to have a hearing without witnesses, there was no special counsel that conducted the investigation. >> like you saw k...