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defending mr. biden's controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. >> the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn't do it, if we don't do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we're doing this, when we're doing it. my conversation this morning with nato's secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden's leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. >> sweden will become a member of the alliance. that'...

bring you the major breaking political news we just learned. a few moments ago, former president bike prince dropping out of the presidential race. want to go straight to nbc's dave patterson in las vegas with us, as long as former congressman, msnbc analyst david jolly as well. when i spoke last hour when this news was just breaking. i tasked you were speaking with some folks on the ground as well to get their reaction, get their temperature on this shocking news from the former vice president of the united states no longer running for president. what are you hearing? >> first of al...

Payment -- expedited payment in particular for the exports of their energy, so we will wait to see if that decision is to come. neil: do we know on that, i guess the germans were the big holdout, right? they didn't want to do that because they, obviously, have much more financial ties to russia, the oil and commerce, than the other countries. but that they would go along with that? >> reporter: well, that's the big question still. it does appear that germany is still the holdout. there was italy and hungary, people were pointing to those countries as well, but italy's prime minister spoke with...

More than two this will not pass on the senate side. and this is a very partisan piece of legislation. so what they're looking at in terms of negotiating, they've got holdouts here and need to work on this. first senators ron johnson and steve daines. they are nos at this time. they want to see more things for small businesses and not as much for big corporations. bottom line here, they want to help certain companies file through individual income tax code as pass-throughs. what is this now? the current senate bill, passers are allowed to deduct 17.4% of incomes. they expect that that number w...