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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...

Prigozhin almost, quote, nullified putin. secretary of state antony blinken says we can't underestimate the significance of what has happened this past weekend. >> it's too soon to tell exactly where this is going to go. and i suspect that this is a moving picture and we haven't seen the last act yet. but we can say this, first of all, what we've seen is extraordinary and i think you see cracks emergency that weren't there before. >> alex marquardt is back with us. we're hearing words like nullified, humiliated, these are words that vladimir putin does not like. what are some of the diplomatic...

By reviving decades old oliver stone conspiracy theories about the kennedy assassination. michael mcfaul joins me now. as a veteran putin watcher your take away to his answers to megyn kelly in this extraordinary interview. >> for years, i witnessed president putin talk about these kinds of conspiracy theories, this is extraordinary power that he assigns to the cia, the dark power. i'm glad that the american viewers got to see it. he accused the cia of killing president kennedy. and he basically accused the cia of hacking into the dnc and disrupting our elections. extraordinary. but consistent...

Latest action to ignore personal calls from president obama to send edward snowden home to stand trial rather than giving him asylum is seen as a slap in the face. nbc's david gregory is moderator of "meet the press" and a veteran putin watcher. you've seen many summits with past presidents and putin and this is -- to call it a big ego is even an understatement to what putin thinks about himself. just look at the way he recreates. >> right. the projection of his self-image, of him as a leader. it all goes to ego, it all goes -- >> we're cracking up because of the pictures. >> there is a lot of...