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Party. allergic reaction to such investigations. their witness here with me. -- msnbc political analyst is here with me. less, molly jong-fast a contributing leiter writer at the atlantic. she's also a host of the podcast, a new abnormal. thank you both for joining me. molly, are democrats, congressional democrats in particular, cut out from this particular moment that we are in? >> i would like them to be. i think there's an opportunity here. i mean, they've got it together. they've got, you know, they've got the information, right? we know a lot of stuff. we know there is gonna be, you know,...

He spoke of russia's international isolation. he's an ex—military man, and perhaps hejust found it hard to ignore the reality of what's going on in the battlefield. and the presenter wasn't really sure how to deal with this outburst of candour. and then he went back again just the other day, didn't he? he seemed to have changed his tune by that stage. indeed. what he then said was that, really, the war was going russia's way, and that any suggestion of ukrainian counteroffensive were just rumours. this suggested to me that he was, in effect, given a talking—to. one of the things that, of c...

Issues like baby formula that they're not, in sync with what they would like congress to be doing right now ? well, t i think that the man on the street, folks you aret. talking to, they get it. i mean, think about your typical family out there. we got a forty one year high inflation rate. everything costs more for the for the moms and dads and families. it costs more gas, cost m more clothes, cost more . and we know that if you gott a newborn congress, you've got a newbornn. butt what's congress do? i mean that they're sending 40 billion dollars over to ukraine. it's a horrible situation. wha...

>> reporter: i think they are adjusting their military strategy. that happens in conflicts. there's a famous saying, just trying to remember, it goes something along the lines of all plans disappear at the moment of contact. i will say something else though, nicolle. i think that we will want to watch closely how it plays out because it turns out that while, for example, back in 2014, the russian campaign in crimea looked like a success, on closer observation as they moved large numbers of military, they actually found that they had real problems with commander control. there's nbc reporting t...

And inflation seems to color all the other indicators. do you need -- does this sound plain spoken must have for the president to, one, look like he's on the thing that people are most angsty about and two, get credit for the good he has done? >> well, you know, he has to speak to, again, the anxiety and fears of folks, and a lot of that is around cost. and i think he's going to speak in plain english, as my grandfather used to tell me, jaime, i don't want to hear all that highfaluting talk. speak plain to me. i think that's what joe biden's going to do tonight. right now, when he lays out how...