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Overflights near ukrainian territory. pointing to the possibility that russia could launch an invasion very soon and don't know precisely when. >> ambassador, on friday you wrote this. if putin does agree to negotiate then biden and the team should not just offer defensively minimal concessions to freeze the crisis. in concert biden should seize the offensive and counter with a grand bargain to enhance security. it could refresh the helsinki accords signed in the cold war that stabilize the continent. where are you on the optimism scale that's still a possibility?

Would have that opportunity to create something new. we need to create something new and not go back to 1995 or 1985, because those may have been good times for some but they weren't good times for many. i mean, eddie, matt obviously makes clear what the mission should be. where are you sort of on the optimism scale that that's the direction we are heading? >> never an optimist, nicolle. this is not voltaire's cande, but i'm hopeful. if hope is invented every day, that means we are beating back despair every day. i have faith in us. i have faith in you, i have faith in matt, i have faith in th...

Good thing for anyone who values compromise in the service of getting things done for america. where are you on the optimism scale that what you argue will come to pass? >> i have to be optimistic because the other side of it is just damned ugly. it is antithetical to what you and i, you know, grew up inside a republican party believing and certainly belief for our country. the fact that you have mcconnell and others going after stacey abrams tells you how vapidly silly their arguments are. stacey abrams could have easily said, oh hell no, we're not doing this compromise. this doesn't go along...

They have proved that they have got the supreme court. we've got to be able to take the legislature and we've got to have the executive branch accelerate the pace in which they're going to fight this because we are going to see hundreds of thousands of people undermined from voting this year if we don't aggressively take this now. this is no longer theory. >> donna, what would you like to see and hear from this white house, and where are you sort of on the optimism scale that enough can be done to eradicate the damage from these laws? >> well, i mean, if i had hair, it would be on fire because...

talking about cuts and specifically what's handed to em because of the debt ceiling deal reached earlier this week. initially they know they have to cut 350 million which more or less they are okay with and won't necessarily sacrifice our national security, but where the big question mark comes is if that committee can not decide on how they will make those additional cuts to equal around or about $1.2 trillion, they will have to cut hundreds of billions, 500 billion, 600 billion, 700 billion just to defense, and to quote, i want to get this precise for you, the defense secretary sai...