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every occasion. his press conference wasn t so bad, white house press secretary of propaganda jen psaki had to circle back and was forced to issue not one but two lengthy statements clarifying biden s remarks. he really meant to say this, including the president s inept comments surrounding ukraine that shocked the world. and between the lying, the rage, and the bizarre whispering and bouts of confusion, joe biden all but gave the green light foe ukraine, so long as it was a minor incursion. the russians are testing us. joe biden failed that test. people are concerned, rightly so. they watched those remarks, i think, with or were.. one ukrainian official who i have been in close contact with while this marathon press conference is underway said that he was, i am quoting here, shocked that president biden would give a green light to vladimir putin in this way. what he was alluding to is that it gives putin, and this is another quote, gives the green light to put ....
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening a snapshot of a restless nation and a president appearing to struggle to satisfy on several key fronts from the economy to covid to his ability to unite the country to some of the takeaways from a brand-new nbc news national poll on the one-year anniversary of president joe biden s inauguration the president ending his first year in office with a 43% approval rating. the only new president with a worst first year number, biden predecessor donald trump. but tonight, the white house is consumed with repairing immediate damage from remarks the president made at yesterday s marathon news conference about a possible minor russian incursion into ukraine. in a moment i ask white house chief of staff ron klain about it but first, here s peter alexander. reporter: one year after taking office, according to our new nbc news poll, america s report card for president biden is grim his overall approval rating just 43%. mo ....
territorial integrity. today s meeting also comes a day after president biden clarified his comments about a minor incursion, insisting that any russian troop movement inside ukraine would be considered an invasion. i ve been absolutely clear with president putin, he has no misunderstanding. if any any assembled russian units move across the ukrainian border that is an invasion and it will be met with severe and coordinated economic response. let there be no doubt at all that if putin makes this choice russia will pay a heavy price. let s go right to richard engel in ukraine. good to see you. what more can you tell us about what went on during this meeting between secretary blinken and the russian foreign minister and is there any early reaction there in ukraine? reporter: well, this negotiation suddenly became much more complicated for the u.s. side. sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister is a skilled diplomate, he s been doing this for many years, he is ....
but the clock is ticking, so we gotta hurry. there s new rotisserie-style chicken, new peppercorn ranch, new hickory-smoked bacon, new. (whistle blowing) did you just spike the footlong? sorry, i didn t want the delay of game. save big. order through the app. hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. happy friday. the sprawling investigation into the capitol insurrection now has in its possession hundreds of records, the twice impeached expresident tried really really hard to hide from them. he took that case of course all the way to the united states supreme court. these are documents that promise to reveal the inner workings of the trump administration in the run-up to the insurrection. we are now getting our first glimpse at some of those records thanks to some extraordinary reporting from our friend bets ewoodruff swan at politico. she obtained an executive order that was never issued but would amount to a dangerous power graph. it directs the defense diplomat to ....
country s covid exhaustion. many democrats worry the biden white house is not up to the midterm year political challenge. they say the trumps have inflated his assets to $100 million. now he wants his children to explain the fuzzy math under oath. there are difficult days ahead. russia just sent troops to its borders. the worry is an invasion is next. to we begin this hour with president biden. the president is holding a rare news conference in just a few hours. he will begin his take on his first year s performance and the most pressing challenges as we turn the page now to year two, and then the questions. his leadership will be a focus of many. whether the issue is another covid winter, the stalled agenda or the ukraine. dan balz at the washington post and kaitlan collins, cnn. he walks into a room and assesses, how does he grade his first year, kaitlan? his aides have talked about this privately. i think he comes kind of with a sense of humility recognizin ....