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Integrity, the absence of russian troops and ideally some idea of justice, restoration and retribution from russia, prosecution of war crimes and that sort of thing. a victory for putin is whatever allows him to maintain his power within russia. he has tremendous leverage with which to do that, he controlled state television, which is the only television available to most russians, he controls all of the parties that are competitive in the vertical system, parties that are competitive in the ver...

Family to get volodymyr zelenskyy out. he is facing health problems while is he in prison there. it does seem like a one more step domino to be exchanged see how it plays out going forward. it is the kind of thing that speaks to what happens when we see so many of americas adversaries feel like they are not going to be significant consequences for pushing americans around and engaging in the kind of behavior that they frankly havent engaged in. >> marie, spokesperson your thoughts? >> these are ...

Senator sterling, uses his leverage in a 50/50 senate to make a power play that outrages the senate majority leader. >> just tell us what you want. >> okay. what i want, is a seat on appropriations now in a seat on finance now. not the next opening on finance, right now. >> we dont have an opening on finance now. >> you could make one. if you were to give up your seat on the finance committee. >> well, thats ridiculous. i could not do that. the majority leader always has a seat on the finance co...

Is to grab americans use them as leverage in this case, reporter make spurious allegations against them and detain them, you know, potentially for long periods of time, but we are in very dangerous territory with him. this is all about leverage . and so now we have a human life. in the balance. do you agree with that characterization hostage taking kidnapping? yes absolutely. i dont think theres any question that russia is using this for leverage. look, russia, russia has become increasingly agg...

Some of their hosts. being on the witness stand a trial that really the fact that some of those hosts are listed on the witness list tells me the other side dominion is trying to posture and gain leverage. to force fox news into a settlement, eric knowing that they have the upper hand and renato, weve also heard from a former fox news producer. her name is abby grossberg. she filed a lawsuit against fox news. shes accused its lawyers of pressuring her into giving misleading testimony in this dom...

Effect of russia. i think we should. this is very typical russian behavior and that is to grab americans use them as leverage in this case, reporter make spurious allegations against them and detain them, you know, potentially for long periods of time. in this case, you know, i think we can see it in concert with their nuclear announcements. the abrogation of the treaty. obligations as a way of just ramping up pressure on the west, signaling that moscow is going to use whatever tools it has incl...

There doesnt seem to be any progress in negotiations that republicans rather than looking at the underlying fragility and financial markets right now and saying, hmm. maybe now is not the good time, the best time to be threatening this this, you know, historic default seemed to be saying, maybe nows a great time because we have more leverage. this is a very bad strategy. i think they should raise the debt limit immediately without preconditions deal with the budget stuff. as part of the budget p...

These states do to innocent individuals simply by virtue of our citizenship. as steve correctly pointed out, we are we , you know me in the past, even right now. are being held because were americans and we are deemed as valuable leverage potential negotiations, and its also designed to astound, uh, be honest question about whether its safe for journalists to go to russia is a really good and important one. no, its not, and they are sending a clear message that they dont want us there. yeah and ...

Continues to engage in prisoner swaps, russia will be emboldened to detain americans. as leverage . so look detaining americans as as my colleague said. my embassy , colleagues said is a tactic russia has used for a long time. it is nothing new when you think about paul whelan. you think about trevor read. they were taken prior to the prior administration under the prior administration, and so, as you all know, were still working very hard to bring paul home. that is something that we are commit...

Charged with espionage by the kremlin. u.s. officials say russia has a practice of arresting americans on false espionage charges as leverage in negotiations to free russians being held in the u.s. its worth noting that last week the u.s. charged a russian currently jailed in brazil who posed as a brazilian graduate student to spy in washington. lester? >> andrea mitchell, thank you. in nashville, police 911 tapes released today show the chaos and terror inside that christian school as this we...