>> whether you served with harry for decades or you were new to america just a few days ago, you wanted harry in your corner. let there be no doubt: harry reid will be considered one of the greatest senate majority leaders in history. >> sargent: tonight, the president is headed back east. joining us from the white house, cbs' christina ruffini. christina, there's news tonight about officials meeting with russia next week and its military buildup near ukraine. >> reporter: that's right. ahead of those talks a senior u.s. official said today although some of the russian demands are nonstarters, like, for example, no new countries be admitted to nato, there are three key places where they think the u.s. and moscow might be able to do some negotiation. the first of those involves offensive missile systems in ukraine. russia has said american or nato placement of those types of systems in that country would be an act of aggression, but the white house said today it has no interest in doing that. the second involves medium-range