michael mcfaul says russia could be coming closer to a compromise with ukraine. the idea that the only thing that we can do to end the war in ukraine is to give them a face sitting way out which usually translates to by the way giving him ukrainian tele-tory think this is a whole episode has really undermine the hypothesis. maybe putin will negotiate not when he s winning or not when he s given a gift of territory in ukraine but when he s using, as he just did yesterday. joining me now with the latest nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. what more can you tell us about president zelenskyy s conversation with president biden? well, alicia, these conversations between kyiv and washington are ongoing in regular and they are happening at all levels of government. president biden spoke to president zelenskyy but lloyd austin the u.s. defense secretary spoke to his counterpart ukrainian defense minister today also. and yesterday we saw that general mark really the ch
i do think that. and i think that the republican party, the maga extremists republican party that continues to try to ban abortion is completely out of step with people and the reality is just because you support the right and the freedom to an abortion doesn t mean you have to have one. most people believe the government and supreme court justices and politicians should not be in their bedrooms telling them what to do. that is exactly what this republican party is trying to do. so, they are out of step. also, i will tell you. as more and more people have to travel, i, mean right now, alicia, there are 25 million women of childbearing age in states that have made it more difficult to get an abortion. that means that every republican and every state needs to be thinking about the fact that there are people in their state who are not able to get, abortions they are traveling hundreds of miles, for women, black women, brown
aftermath of the situation. nbc s at the white house, thank you. let s bring in msnbc political contributor eugene daniels. he is a white house reporter for politico and a coauthor of political s playbook. eugene, talk to me about how the white house is handling this situation. the sort of push and kill for them of being careful about just how much it is they are saying publicly. yeah, the same numbers are nothing. like you said, alicia. there is whiplash in the administration around what all these leaders within our government and others trying to figure out what this means for ukraine. so much of how the united states in this administration thinks about russian its relationship with russia is through the eyes of what s going on in ukraine. the amount of resources that we provided. at this, point there seems to be this wide held belief that the insurrection will occupy the attention for a little bit. it s going to be good for ukraine. hopeful that this also shows
restore the protections of roe v. wade. [applause] when they do, presidential biden will sign it. with me now, camilla jayapal all the member of the house judiciary committee and senior of the democratic congress. thank you for being with. us we have been very vocal on the need to make abortion access a constitutional right. how does that happen? alicia, it s good to see you look. i think that the reality is we pass the women s health protection act multiple times in the house when democrats were in power and now we have a discharge petition on the floor of the house again for the women s health protection act and all we need is seven smart and sensible and compassionate politically savvy republicans to join us and we can pass it in the house. in the senate, we need 60 votes. we need to be able to carve out
a century later in 1990, one we saw that it was the war in afghanistan, a lot of scholars, a lot of people who study russia say the soviet union also was one of the casualties of their flawed invasion of nab afghanistan in the 19 80s. it was the drain on the resources that eventually undid the soviet union. so, that s two times in the last century the foreign adventures, foreign wars by russia has essentially led to revolutions or insurrections or coup d états that undid empires. and now, vladimir putin sees that. he knows this. he considers himself or sterilizes of self as a student of russian history. so, he knows we made reference to that 1917 insurrection that ended the czars rule, he knows very well that he is now staring down the barrel of a historical inevitability. this could happen to him. alicia? a critical moment for russia and for the globe, matt bradley,