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Bleak picture about how americans feel about the current state of the country. what it means for the president and his party coming up. and the u.s. urges americans to consider leaving ukraine now. and as the pentagon weighs sending military assets to the region in fears a russian invasion could be imminent. and we're keeping our eyes on wall street right now where the dow has plummeted more than a thousand points today since wall street is on track for its worth month since 2020 when the pandemic began. welcome to "meet the press daily." i'm garrett haake in for chuck todd. the sheer volume...

Him exactly what he wants? you're teasing a possible solution here. where would you take it? >> the president at his press conference alluded to the possibility and secretary blinken made similar comments. is such a conversation productive and are the russians in a serious diplomatic conversation ors is many of us suspect, they are deliberately setting up a process that's going to fail and they'll use that as their justification for military action. the administration i think is caught in this awkward dilemma, which is you want to expend all your energies as skillfully as possible without look...

Them. the problem with this whole construct is the united states is operating basically on the back foot. it's putin's initiatives that we're responding to. we'll see if the threat of military presence in the reej oonl changes that dynamic. i'm not so sure. >> i'm glad you brought up that it's putin's initiatives driving this crisis. i've heard some voices from the right and fellow democrats say the u.s. needs to take more initiative here to take action to put putin on his back foot as this crisis develops. >> let's not forget there was a u.s. president not too long ago, who saw it his job to ...

Strategic johnson, putin is creating the circumstances he claims he's most worried about. if he were clearly interested in a normal, stable relationship with the west, he wouldn't be moving his troops in a way that western countries find so threat renning. >> how much is moving the troops sending a message to ukraine or poland, latvia, you know, we got our nato allies' backs and ukraine is a different kettle of fish. >> the president said that in his address directly and drew a distinction. clearly the united states wants to be as supportive of ukraine, provide military equipment and back up t...

Our alliances are pairment and -- paramount and we need to show resolve. it's also clear regarding ukraine russia has most of the high cards and the united states has to be careful not to do things that hasten conflict or make it more likely. that means do things to reinforce the countries in the neighborhood and pursue of diplomatic avenue. the diplomatic avenue calling out for possible u.s. and european role is something involving putin himself. putin is the decider, as everyone says, but no one is really talking to putin. >> you just leave me the follow up there. how do you engage with puti...