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So the prad is going to argue that this marks a good compromise and announce an executive action called made in rural america, which is going to be aimed at helping rural businesses increase their exports but again, the big focus today is that farm bill. the question is does it signal more bipartisan legislation and what does it mean for immigration reform. a lot of people say don't get too excited because hopes for immigration reform not too high. >> kristen welker. we'll have that speech for you live here on msnbc as well. back to breaking news, an attempted hijacking on a flight from the uk...

As well. steve, in broad terms here, just a general reaction to the news as we continue to gather more specific information as well. >> as you and i just discussed this is right along the line that many people are attracted magnetically to sochi and those that have grievances or causes they want to pursue are going to be drawn to try to get headlines or to create damage or to god forbid really do something quite dramatic with bombings. i think it's been very alarming when you look at the intelligence assessments and reports about a big concern about toothpaste bombs and the tsa has put out an ...

The opposition has been frag meanted and at war with itself. the geneva process, women and children and old men being bussed out of the center of homs, that is the one and only positive sign that has come out thus far. the syrian government has agreed to come back to the syrian peace talks in a few days. you can look at that as positive. bashar al assad has only gotten stronger and stronger. and i think he's begun to shirk off concerns that the west will come after him again. >> he's not afraid of us? >> no. >> let's switch to sochi really quickly. olympic games and secretary of state john ker...

Deadlines how concerned do we need to be that the entire agreement is going to fall apart? >> i think we need to be concerned about the chemical weapons and we need to be very concerned that russia for whatever reason is not putting diplomatic pressure on syria to abide by this agreement because this also reflects on russia, there are some that have said recently you can't allow the olympics in sochi to become camouflaged by the lack of compliance by the syrian regime on the chemical weapons. it's a very serious issue and if it unravels, it puts the obama administration in a very complicated p...

Michigan state university this afternoon. we also continue to follow breaking news here, that attempted hijacking on a flight from the ukraine to turkey, according to officials, a ukrainian passenger told the flight crew that he had a bomb on board. and then demanded that the flight be diverted to sochi, russia. the pilots flew into turkish air space where they were escorted by fighter planes. it has since landed in istanbul. there is an active hostage negotiation under way right now with the hijacker in turkey. we've got our eyes on this and we'll bring you more details as we get them. ng? ye...