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President of the united states on the phone. president putin made it clear he wants to deal with primarily the united states as opposed to dealing with the rest of nato. on the u.s. side, this is a good thing. as i said, this keeps the conversation going. this shows that there may be what the biden administration has called a diplomatic off-ramp. this invasion is not a forgone conclusion. and by all accounts, the u.s. does believe that president putin has not yet made up his mind about whether t...

Not worried about it. but sinema is up for re-election sooner than that and so we need to find ways, the old-school ways of politics, the stick part of it, to get them back fwh line because obviously the party unity singing from the sim hymnal, that is not working hear. >> i got to say though, tara, im not sure politics works that way, anymore. i think we have just so changed dramatically that even, you know, the threat of not having your party behind you for a re-election, i dont know if that i...

>> what do you think she was talking about there? was she talking about china? >> i believe so. thats the way i would take it. its important to have all of our options on the table, and we operate under the principle of dying here in this country. the diplomacy of military economics, we have a diplomacy of information electronics. as ambassador hailey brainstorms, we certainly have leverage in that particular region and how we choose to use it. i think its important to send a strong message that...

Violations? >> no. i would call this the carrot where we can expand ag trade, they need food so you know thats the incentive part. i think the stick part is not normalizing diplomatic relations until they make changes. >> but thats pretty much already happened, it seem as though opening of the relation is is a fait accompli. >> on the part of the administration. the embargo cannot be lifted other than by congress. >> lets talk a little bit loretta lynch, yet to get a vote on the hill stalled sin...

National us stick part of the -- national us stick part of the population and thumb their nose to the united states. going forward they delayed the trial until april which gives more time for a diplomatic maneuvering and for cooler heads to prevail. these people are accused of breaking and nothing they did was illegal. if and when this does go to trial, the united states has one final very large bargaining chip and that is more than a billion dollars of foreign aide given reach year. >> thanks. ...