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forward posture laid out, joe. and what that means is, flooding nato forces, forward to those borders, to provide the alliance options. and, frankly, to send a signal to vladimir putin that we will defend every inch of this alliance. in order to do that, the president and his team, jake sullivan et al. are laying the groundwork for all of this and also, joe, why you hear the president pointing out vladimir putin, war criminal. mentioning specifically chemical weapons. putin needs to understand that it s not impossible he could end up like milosevic, and the more we send that signal as an alliance, sending it together, the more it will resonate. having said all that, unfortunately, i agree with you. we have underestimated the audacity of vladimir putin, and i think chemical weapons and
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agreed to. so i don t believe that we will weaken beyond the framework that the president laid out, plus, of course, prescription drug price, which was already agreed to. but there s just one or two things and we ll see how that goes. i m confident that the senators will do a great job of delivering 51 votes and keeping their side of the bargain as we have done over here. you said a number of times that you have been the relentless optimist. we described you as the official optimist of the rachel maddow show. i hear it in your voice, confidence. but you also said, you know, knowing it s going to work out in the end doesn t mean it s not going to be rocky or a difficult process. i know that s still ahead. can i ask you for an assessment about what the impact of this process has been on you and other progressives, on the progressive caucus, on the way