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First off, your reaction to these shocking claims that ukrainians might be being forcibly relocated to russia. >> well, mehdi, first, it's good to be with you. it's all part of mr. putin's propaganda. he's trying to show that ukrainians want to come to russia when they're really trying to seek refuge from russia. i think it just feeds into his misinformation. it's outrageous. we know that the ukrainians, all they want is the russians to leave their country and they certainly don't want to go to russia. >> and, senator, there's a lot of talk, especially from your republican colleagues in the se...

Before. both sides have to remember that. this isn't something that can't be walked away and de-escalated. it was just months ago, recently, that putin had troops and withdrew them. 'midst all of the same handling and concern that they could invade, this could happen. it doesn't necessarily mean that invasion or violence is inevitable. >> and both sides said on staff level that the discussions would continue in the weeks ahead. and certainly, the russian side has pushed another face-to-face in-person summit that has happened between biden and putin before too long. nbc's matt bradley, thank yo...

On qatar. i have two questions. the first was, the president seems to be taking credit for the actions so i'm wondering if the white house actively encouraged this and did the president or anybody in the administration take to the saudis before it happened, about what was going to happen? >> this each is not new. there's been tension among qatar's neighbors qatar's neighbor for quite some time. the united states continues to be in close communication to resolve the issues and restore cooperation which is so important to regional security there. i think his message is being heeded by other coun...

In, so even though the missile demonstration, if you will, was a failure, the fact that they kind of de-escalated, i think, is a major signal. look, at the end of the day, alex, it's really important the u.s. backs down from this concept of parroting regime change or a unified peninsula. these are thingshat tend to ratchet up the sort ofhetoric in north korea, so i thi that's really an important step there. >> so you're giving china a lot of the credit there. do you think any credit goes to the trump administration for what they did in syria, what they did in afghanistan, dropping the mother o...

Lessons learned. here's what i would take away at this stage. clearly the timing. how much time did he have access to people and targets within the terminal. second, clues leaving the airport or in baggage claim that might have been looked at by people of authority that could have been de-escalated? and third do a review of the response. who was communicating with whom? did they get people out quick enough? communicating to the public about what to do? you've had people on over the last couple of hours left in bathrooms, didn't know what to do. these are horrible cases but only silver lining i...