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Only reason is, just to provide the safety and hardening the facility, i believe is the fema term, that weve been working on, and thats strictly just out of that potential. >> i know you are attending service being held at a nearby methodist church tonight. im wondering what you want your other members of the congregation to know? and what message you want to send to the rest of the world who is watching? >> well, im hoping they realize that -- that we are doing a healing service. were beginning...

He said the exact same thing, that is something cedric rich moan, senior advisor to the president also told me hes hoping this is what advocates do. advocates and activists, thats their job to remain more hopeful than the rest of us, i think. >> im trying hard to be skeptical, but not cynical. its not exactly a new years resolution, but im working on, it jonathan, to this point, theres a lot of ways to keep the voting package front and center including elements of it. how does the white house wi...

Joe biden. >> but he has to show me a little more. so i dont really want to commit to that at this point. >> reporter: the president needing to reenergize key supporters in a critical election year. so, chris, what do these voters say they want to see specifically? they do want to see action on voting rights, and its notable that congressman clyburn pointed to exactly what sahil has been reporting on this morning, the fact that he believes there may be some bipartisan support to get the electora...

And to work on some other things that i have cooking with nbc right now, including a new podcast, kind of along the lines of bagman and the spiro agnew story, a totally different topic but when i say along the same lines i mean to say its like a, its got a specific arc, a specific story a reported journalistic tale, not a podcast where i havent done the research and admit i havent done the reading. i am super excited about it, super excited to tell you about it when i have more to tell. just lik...

Issue? >> well, maria, unfortunately it is. and i think were all concerned for president bidens mental health. i think that if you compare todays films from some of the films even a year ago a, youve seen a deterioration in his mental capacity. you know, maybe we need to be proactive and ask once a year, much like we ask our president to get a physical, something from his there that he also takes some type of a mental test. i think that may be something else that well be working on, that rand pa...

Chancellor scholz, you said there was some strategic ambiguity that was needed in terms of sanctions. i just wanted to know whether the sanctions you are envisaging on and you are working on, the eu is working on the u.s. as well are already finished or is there still work ongoing? youre not really saying what the details are. is that just an excuse for germany maybe to not support the swift measures? >> first question first. if germany -- if russia invades, that means tanks or troops crossing t...

Electors, when did you become aware of that plan? >> thats not part of my remit or on radar. my focus was on the green bay sweep plan. >> so as a prosecutor, walk us through your reaction, because when he said sweep, hes referring to the arrangements around getting the cooperations as he put it on january 6, but it is also now known that cooperation might have been increased by the manufacturing of a fake controversy or supposedly dueling electors which seems at least overlapping coincidentally ...

Media outlets. >> brian: yet. >> steve: they paid an internet company to take a look. you know those stories about how it has been revealed that there are servers at the trump tower that are communicating with russia to make it look like donald trump was in bed with putin or something going on. what we know for sure is on friday john durham, who you know, he is not one of these guys who goes in front of the cameras and says okay, this is what im working on. he has -- and thats pretty much the on...

>> i think putin has not made his final decision yet. think were one 100% right. he does use energy as a weapon. we can talk more about that. we ought to have biting sanctions in place now not later. have a bipartisan piece of legislation that we have been working on. i will tell you what is happening now is the administration has meant weak kneed on this for the been dragging their feet they want democrats to water it down. we need pressing a biting sanctions now not after innovation. what puti...

>> i think putin has not made his final decision yet. think were one 100% right. he does use energy as a weapon. we can talk more about that. we ought to have biting sanctions in place now not later. have a bipartisan piece of legislation that we have been working on. i will tell you what is happening now is the administration has meant weak kneed on this for the been dragging their feet they want democrats to water it down. we need pressing a biting sanctions now not after innovation. what puti...