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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'...

that wraps it up for me. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden boosted by the fed forecasting rate cuts in the year ahead and the chance of curbing inflation without riing rates. vladimir putin closing the year at his marathon press conference, showing no sign of abandoning his invasion of ukraine, counting on international funding for kyiv drying up. >> translator: coming back to the goals, they remain unchanged. today ukraine virtually produces or manufactures nothing. they have been importing things for free -- freeloading. it will come to an end, sooner or l...