Angela but will be consulting with other allies about the issue. Translator as to the export of arms, i have given you my opinion. But you may rest assured that no matter what we decide, the alliance between the United States and europe will continue to stand, will stin to be solid. Just last week merkel and Francois Holland met in russia with Vladimir Putin. With possible emergency summit this wednesday in minsk. Joining me now Chris Jansing, senior white house correspondent. What are the significant takeaways out of the summit with merkel and the president . Reporter certainly the headline, youre talking about ukraine and we knew this would be the focus of the oval office meeting. The president siz a decision has not been made. Every indication from senior white house officials has been that definitely the clock is ticking. Now, you see them trying to walk the fine line, the president not making a decision and Angela Merkel who has been in close contact with Vladimir Putin has said there is progress being made on the Peace Process that has been put forth by both germany and france. We need to wait a little longer. The reality is that theres increasing pressure on this white house to do something more significant, providing lethal arms, that what has happened in the past, the agreement in minsk in september has been repeatedly violated and russia has taken more hundreds more square miles since that time. Weve seen it although the sanctions have had an impact on the russian economy. They havent changed Vladimir Putins calculus. While the clock may be ticking no decision yet. The analysis has been done. But it looks like they want to take a little bit of a time here to see exactly where this process goes. Wednesday will be another critical day. Ronan . Of course, we saw the president striking a very cautious tone here today, is there anything coming up that would change that. Weve seen more and morage tags from the hill to arm these Ukrainian Forces . Reporter i think theres always a question, where is that line going to be drawn. The president is unwilling to say where that might be. We already know that members of the Senate Armed Services committee have put pressure on him and heard the indication from ash carter, his nominee to be defense secretary that he is leaning that way. So i think that theres a very small window where the pressure will be increasing on the president. As you know, ronan this is a president who very much believes in the idea of a coalition. His doctrine is about bringing other countries in and clearly the European Union has stated they are not ready to make a move yet and strongly encouraging the president to wait. Nbcs Chris Jansing from the east room of the white house just as the summit with merkel and president obama winds down. Today the president also addressed in the same conversation why he wont meet with israeli Prime Minister netanyahu when he comes to speak to Congress Next month. We have a practice of not meeting with leaders right before their elections two weeks before their elections. As much as i love angela, if she was two weeks away from an election she probably would not receive an invitation from the white house and i suspect she wouldnt have asked for one. Vice president joe bidens office saying hes not going to attend that speech before congress because hell be out of town. He would normally attend such a speech as president of the senate. If the Prime Minister was invited to capitol hill by john boehner, this has been controversial. Some called on him to postpone the speech and others voiced intention not to attend. Over to the middle east, jordan vowed to continue its relentless air strikes against isis. Jordanian air forces launching more than 50 such strikes since vowing revenge after the reported murder of one of their pilots held by hostage. The fate of Kayla Mueller remains unclear. Theres been no news since friday when isis claims she was killed in a jordanian strike. Richard engel is watching developments from istanbul. What sort of impact have the airstrikes had on isis so far . Reporter they are killing isis leaders according to secretary of state john kerry who spoke on meet the press questioned, since the air campaign began, isis has lost 22 of its territory. However, isis still controls the vast majority of the land that is that it captured since the last seven or eight months in iraq and syria. The air campaign is forced some ice is leaders to change communications tas tactics they are not online as much, using skype, limiting trying to use messengers and having direct personal contact. It is having an impact but so far it has not turned the tide of the conflict and the reason it hasnt done that there are still no real effectives allies on the ground except for Kurdish Forces in northern iraq. In syria theres no Free Syrian Army efforts to get them under way if there are even any efforts are behind schedule. Richard we havent had any conclusive news on that isis claim of Kayla Muellers death since friday when they first made it. Jordan came out and was very skeptical. Whats the latest by jordanians or u. S. To prove or disprove what isis said there . Reporter i dont know what the fbi may be doing or may know i know the Intelligence Community lit up when this first information crossed when isis posted online several photographs of a house that it said was near near raqqa and isis claiming that the woman, Kayla Mueller was inside the house and killed by a coalition airstrike. Isis has not forwarded any other corroborating evidence. They released some of her personal data her home address email, telephone number. So the person who posted that video had access to her personal information but didnt put out a video of a body or anything like that. I think these reports are certainly to be taken with some skepticism. Still a lot of questions there. We know her family has come out and said they are still hopeful. Well keep them in our thoughts. Richard engel, thanks for that reporting. Back home lets talk about the weather. Boston seeing snow for the third monday in a row. The city could get up to 2 feet more. You heard that right. You can add that to feet of snow already on the ground. Look at those pictures. Joining me from the arctic tundra formerly known as boston amanda whats the plan to keep everything running there . Hi ronan, the snow is coming down in really thick flurries and only spoeszed to continue. Were seeing a few people on the streets, a few pedestrians, some are trying to get in a workout and running in the snow but conditions are getting brutal. Its a thick icy snow that stings your face in gusts of wind. This is record breaking snowfall in just the last 30 days. Boston has topped the charts with more than 61 inches of snow in a short amount of time. This is really caused a bunch of headaches for city officials they running out of space where to store all of this snow. They need to melt it quickly before fresh rounds of snow come down. So in total they are busing 400 tons of snow and hour and hoping to keep up. Main while, they are warning that this is also putting a great deal of strain and weight on many houses and rooftops. Weve already heard reports of roofs caving in in the boston area. They are warning people to make sure they are aware of this issue. Another issue bringing up is that boston is home to the oldest Transit System in the entire country. The trolley system is really has aged equipment and dealing with Severe Weather conditions where the ice and snow is clogging up the system and its causing extreme delays and extreme headaches for many of the commuters. So still bracing for this continue through the night and into tomorrow morning. That great city, boston strong but also boston cold right now. Amanda, stay warm. Lets check in down in texas where jury selection is beginning today in the trial of the man accused of killing american sniper chris kyle. They will question 263 people attempting to seat a jury in the shooting range. The movie based on american sniper was released in theaters. The movie a major cultural phenomenon and playing a role in jury selection. Joining me from Stephenville Charles hadlock. How difficult could it be to seat an impartial jury . Reporter the judge believes he can seat a jury. He has denied change of venue motions or delays in the trial despite the fact that a lot more people know about chris kyle now since the movie was released three or four weeks ago. He is from this area chris kyle was from this area. He went to school at Charlton State University and practiced at the shooting range here in the county where he was eventually killed by ralph. The question is was ralph sane at the time and bring up possible ptsd struggles through life in the military. But regardless of that fact, a lot of people have seen the movie but that doesnt preclude anyone from being a juror . Texas. What you have to realize is that the jury and judge are going to be looking at the facts in this case. Thats what the judge wants the jury to understand, put aside the movie and put aside the book and all of the Media Attention and look at the facts that will be presented in the next two weeks in this courthouse and then make a decision on the fate of eddie ray ralph. All of that much easier said than done. A challenging jury to seat there. Charles hadlock, thanks. Reality tv and former olympian bruce jenner speaking out after being involved in a multicar crash on accident orn Pacific Coast highway in malibu, one woman was killed when her lexus was push the into oncoming traffic. He has issued this statement. Its a did he have vas tatding tragedy and i cant pretend to know what this family is going through at this time. Police say members of the paparazzi were following jenner, there have been conflicting reports on that but also saying they were not a factor in the collision. Well keep track of anything more to come out of that. 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Theres a new diplomatic push from merkel to stop the bloodshed there and germany and france leading efforts to get ukraine and russia to the table this wednesday in minsk but republicans in congress leading a call to arm ukraine against those prorussian separatists they are fighting. That puts the two parties directly at odds. The u. S. And germany on this. Merkel is trying to convince the president not to send arms into the fray, ambassador Mike Mc Mcfaul know a professor of Political Science of Stanford University and here with steve clemons, thank you both you. Ambassador, would sending arms to Ukrainian Forces suffer diplomatic efforts . The specter of arms to ukraine has increased the activity for diplomatic solution. I think that is true. I think the fact that merkel is going back to minsk and with putin to meet on wednesday is a good sign. And i think what youre seeing right now in the diplomatic Good Cop Bad Cop game is they are going to say lets get a deal done now because we dont want an escalation particularly with the americans involved. So at least for the next few days thats why i think you see the ambiguity where president obama just said and everybody putting hopes on what might happen on wednesday. A. M. Boss dore, you have dealt with this regime in russia very directly and personally, how damaging do you think it is if there is not cohesion between europe and the United States as the push is made against them . Well without question putins one of his major Foreign Policy objectives is to divide europe from the United States. You see that in the way he talks about the west. More recently, it used to be just the west. Now its the u. S. Hes trying to divide that and more specifically try to nurture relations with certain european countries. That said, i think we should not overestimate the division between the United States and europe right now on the contrary, i see this as part of an integrated strategy to make a peaceful resolution. What comes next if it doesnt work and im skeptical it wont work by the way is another question, but right now i think its premature to overestimate this division between the United States and europe . Steve, tell me about the domestic political stakes here. Who is pressing for lethal arms on the hill now specifically and why . Well, i think a lot of National Security officials sort of a big chunk of the strategic class in washington view it needs to do something to raise cost to putin and are a kind of i wont call them hapless a military having a hard time with what russia injects into the conflict. There are some democrats sympathetic to this. Theres a lot of that. My own concern is that there are others that who say have specific amnesia, the risk of an out of control escalation go and become a Global Economy tigs and thats something we need to consider along with the question of ukraine as well. Steve its a real political mine field exactly what tone the president o adopts on russia. Were not looking for russia to be surrounded and contained and weakened. Our preference is for a strong prosperous vibrant confident russia that can be a partner with us on a whole host of global challenges. Steve how do you think thats going to go over with the more hawkish elements weve been talking about. The hawkish elements wont like it but the president was speaking to the russian people. They were extraordinarily important words. Hes saying in contrast to what Vladimir Putin is telling his people, the United States is not trying to encircle you and make you poor. Your leader is doing things that have led to the crippling of the economy but we want a socially and internationally responsible russia in the world. I think thats the biggest thing, that putin is playing to this notion that the United States is trying to further the humiliation and with things like the European Economic treaty with ukraine is to delve into areas that are Traditional Russian interests and putin is tr