to a deal. after making those offers in an interview to russian journalists on sunday, though, the russian government banned it from being published. the major question this morning remains how all of this may be impacted by president biden's words delivered saturday at the tail end of a successful international trip in which he said off the cuff that president putin can't remain in power. secretary of state antony blinken tried to clarify those remarks sunday. >> i think the president, the white house made the point last night that, quite simply, president putin cannot be empowered to wage war or engage in aggression against ukraine or anyone else. as you know, and as you heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy of regime change in russia or anywhere else for that matter. >> this morning, a spokesman for the kremlin described president biden's remarks as, quote,