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Confident that they'll get this confirmation? >> reporter: they are feeling confident. part of the calculation that president biden made when he was deciding his nominee was whether or not he felt they could ultimately make it through and get confirmed to the supreme court? we know that president biden, this is something he was preparing for and discussing altar way back to his transition phase. keep in mind that jackson simply needs majority in order to get confirmed. democrats have 50 seats on the senate, plus vice president kamala harris is a tie-breaking vote. that enough right there is en...

Our leaders are dame. >> yesterday, i caught up with secretary mike pompeo as well, who also came under scrutiny when he referred to vladimir putin as savvy, and said he had enormous respect for the russian leader here. yesterday, he was quite clear in his repudiation of the russian dictator as well. of course, these images we are all burying witnessed you are now undeniable. lindsey? >> van, thank you. now joining, me miles taylor, former chief of staff of the department of homeland security during the trump administration, and executive director of the new america movement, also with me msnb...

Affairs committee. congressman, good morning, thank you for being with us. >> hello, lindsay. good to see you. >> so you are a member of the foreign affairs committee, you have been briefed on the situation in ukraine. what do you make so far of what we are seeing in terms of the ukrainian resistance, but also in terms of this newly-breaking news we have, that russia is offering, although keir simmons reported exclusively, that it sounds like a puppet show, to meet in belarus? >> well, first the resistance, lindsey. it has been heroic. it has been inspiring. personally, president silence key a...

>> why do you say? that >> i don't think anything is going to change. i don't think the president, anybody in the governing body, switching out, i would never know unless the news told me. i would have no idea on my date today. >> now, for joey and anyone else wondering out there, there are a number of big races happening here in texas on tuesday. at the top, i have the governor's race, governor greg abbott is running for reelection on the republican side, in a former congressman beto o'rourke is favoring on the democratic side. the most interesting house race happening on the state on tuesday...

Financial network. a lot of people will be hearing more than they ever would about swift. what does this all mean? >>ha well, it means that the major russian banks, lindsay, will officially be unable to conduct international transactions with white senior biden administration official says, if the russian bank wants to make receive a transaction from a bank in, let's say, asia, they will have to use the telephone or the fax machine to do it. with the u.s. and european allies, they are also going after reserves that russia's central bank has built up in recent years, to try to protect russia an...