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It is not an escalatory move. the escalatory move is putin bombing kyiv and other cities terrorizing civilians. we should try to defend those civilians, this is a step in the right direction. >> former ambassador michael mcfaul thank you for your time. from the war in ukraine to the 2022 midterms a look back at the year in politics with nbc's chuck todd. he is back on u.s. soil. the criminal charges sam bankman-fried now faces, and why the case against him might have gotten easier. have gotten easier. (dog barking) we love our pets. but we don't always love their hair. which is why we made...

This is a madman, a crazy man, which all may be true, by the way, but that does not mean that there is not a rational thought process in his deliberation. as jack said, he has strategic goals here. look, the idea of moves nukes and putting them into belarus, it is an escalatory move but in terms of a practical one, he's moving them a few hundred miles, it adds a few seconds in terms of warring to europe. so in a practical matter it doesn't really have much of a change, it doesn't mean it's not frightening. jack is absolutely right, there's clearly a goal here for putin, he wants to decapitate ...

>> why is she there? why did you send the vice president of the united states to poland without an announcement, without something that she is going to say that we're going to do without any action? we don't need f.o. photo op.s. >> bret: this is the midst of mig 29 whether poland definitely wanted to u.s. says not. why not send vice president harris with a deliverable. >> the deliverable because the u.s. has been split about what the deliverable should be. some people think we should allow poland to give the u.s. its mig 29s, fighter jets that presumably fighter pilots know how to fly and the...

A few times before, kira, and i don't have to tell you. but just to explain to our viewers the position from these countries, that providing fighter jets would be an escalatory move, in the sense that russia could perceive this as a direct confrontation between nato allies and russia, and then potentially use much more deadly weapons on ukraine. it -- that -- you don't buy that, though? you don't think that that's a risk? >> i don't think that putin is not ready to proceed with all the risks that he is threatening. look. he does not hope, after every single western -- um -- response to his act...