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Kidnapped by the taliban and spent months trying to save the family of the man who saved his life. joining me now, david rhode, executive editor or news at "the new yorker" magazine. david, i welcome you back to the broadcast. you have always done tremendous reporting. this one is personal and i want to remind our viewers that you were kidnapped with an afghan journalist and a driver. but i'm going to tell people that you and i talked very quickly during the commercial break. you do have some good news about this family. give me a little bit leading up to the good news you have to share. >> th...

Possibility. >> yeah. yeah, i absolutely agree. i thought it was more interesting that the president actually responded on the record about what he would consider. i was incredibly surprised to hear the president respond on the record. blinken didn't respond on the record with andrea mitchell when asked that question a couple of different ways. david, i want to bring you into the conversation. also what we've heard about this wednesday meeting is areas that the united states and russia can work together. we've heard it from blinken and from the president when asked questions. tell me what the ...

He did say, as was mentioned earlier, that he believed biden was a killer, that's tough talking domestic politics but he's not -- i'm sorry, when asked he said -- about why putin acts this way, president biden said because he's vladimir putin and there was a measure of acceptance or respect of putin there. so i agree. putin does not want an out of control taliban regime that close to the south of russia. >> knocking on his back door essentially. let's also be clear here, he also went on to say, listen, i don't want to say anything bad now two days ahead of when i'm actually meeting with russia...

>> mike memoli, anne gearan, i appreciate you guys rolling with me on this live, breaking news. it has been a crazy couple of days as you know. i want to bring in katty kay and david rhode, both msnbc contributors. welcome, guys. we were just talking about the president's arrival in brussels and the days ahead when it comes to the nato summit. all leading up to this meeting, katty kay, on wednesday with vladimir putin. the secretary of state in a sitdown interview with andrea mitchell, gave a bit of a preview as to what he feels we can expect from the president moving forward. the first thing ...

Americans these are constant events. so this is an opportunity for biden to deliver a reduction in these attacks and that could help him economically at home. there's a possibility of coordination in syria. that was raised in one of the earlier interviews in terms of humanitarian supplies there. biden recognizes that russia is in control but the country remains a miss and might need assistance there. and i think the u.s. departure from afghanistan is a major issue. i've covered afghanistan for many years, i have many afghan fears in kabul now. fears are incredibly high of a collapse of the gov...