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Concerns. >> this year has really given workers so much power and leverage. it is go to be fascinating to watch how it plays out long-term. matt egan, thank you for the great reporting. still to come, speaking for the second time this month, why russian president vladimir putin requested another call with president biden. thats going to happen today. plus, guilty on five of six counts against her. we have new reaction this morning from some of ghislaine maxwells victims. and what does the omic...

>> reporter: he is sensitive to the sanctions if the united states is describing them as destructive as president biden outlined. he said they would devastate the economy. there are levers to be pulled. russia is in the midst or the very, very final stages of putting together a pipeline going to germany, it wants that pipeline finished. that is in the background of these talks. so there is leverage there. a lot of russians keep their money abroad including many reports say vladimir putin himself...

Opposite way. it is near complete and so they have the leverage. >> yeah, and that point came across again loud and clear yesterday. putin was having a video conference call where some of his sort of departmental chiefs and one of them was the head of gazprom, on national television, and the head of gazprom said again as we heard from other russian officials, nord stream two is ready to go. it is full of gas, ready to go. i asked this question at the g-7 summit earlier on in december, do sanctio...

Ready to engage in serious diplomacy and take a diplomatic off ramp. they said anytime he asked for a call, we say yes. anytime we ask for a call, he says yes. thats what leaders have to do. we have to wait and see what comes out of this call and more significantly what happens in the follow on negotiations next week. the russians have amassed around 100,000 troops on the border of ukraine, could go up to 175,000. if there is an invasion, people expect that to be in late january, early february....

Administration could do? >> well, there is not a whole lot of leverage that the president -- any president -- has to begin with. but as weve already seen, president biden has seemingly softened his stance on the oil and gas sector and i think its the optics behind that when the president came into the white house, obviously he was going on the offensive. now, its more the defensive and i think what he is trying to do is maybe loosen some of those requirements that he had put on the oil industry ...

Found out that this sort of threat hanging over ukraine, having the 100,000 troops or so massed near the border, is giving him extraordinary leverage with biden just to get another call, right? this should have been a wendy sherman phone call, someone at the state department, instead he gets biden twice in a matter of weeks. but the second is that the biden administration seems to be taking great care to make sure that both zalensky is in the loop and ukraine is in the loop so this doesnt become...

Project, a work in progress. it was fraught with a plethora of problems. but those problems did still give afghan women a much better life than the one that faces them right now. and i can barely begin to imagine how it is that parents are trying to describe this to their young girls, who dont know what it was like to grow up underneath the itataliban regim. how are they going to explain that mommy cant go out on her own anymore or that their daughters cant go to school, cant have an education, ...

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One of the things we saw during the trump administration they used the leverage of economic sanctions and a carrot and stick approach to get mexico on board. what i worry about the biden administration, you have kamala harris who refuses to visit the border or talk to law enforcement saying she will give hundreds of millions of dollars to study the root causes of immigration. people come here like my family. im a first generation american. people come here because its the greatest country in the...

Chipotle, amazon. >> reporter: thousands of canceled flights. >> american airlines has canceled 250 flights this morning dealing with staffing shortages. >> reporter: it gave the american worker leverage, leading to several high-profile strikes on hollywood settles, kellogg, and john deere, all looking for better pay and benefits. three, historic government aid helped millions struggling in the pandemic. congress passed the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan. >> this historic legislation is abou...