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Staking out a tough initial bargaining position. >> matthew, thank you for the reporting on this. we'll watch this very closely as this unfolds over the next few days. matt bodner live in russia. coming up, they're guardians of your state's election laws and many americans didn't even know their names. why secretaries of state are central to the battle to save democracy and the threat upon us this november, spawned by the big lie. - oh, darn! - let me help. lift and push and push! there... it's up there. hey joshie... wrinkles send the wrong message. help prevent them with downy wrinkleguard...

The fact that president putin has not reached his objectives yet, he is putting in more assets. there is a convoy trying to go cap shut the city. if you are about to go first your adversary capital, coming to the negotiation table is futile and in the position of weakness. if you are brushing you have the beat the military power many times that the ukrainian you are many times larger than ukraine and yet you are having trouble in the first few days catching your basic objective and these are close to the russian border. while you are doing something wrong here. so if things go well for the ukr...

Appear to be moving towards bands that they can hold that might form the basis for future cease-fire lines. uh, the kinds of things you saw in the korean war, that you see in the india-pakistan occasional conflict. lines of control between -- between the two sides. so that consolidation of positions is something you often see in advance of peace talks. it's not surprising that even as peace talks are going on, there is more fighting on the ground. each side wants to consolidate its position being the strongest possible bargaining position. putin doesn't want to give this up without something h...

Strong statement explaining why we're doing this to the american people, reassuring our european allies and encouraging russian dissonance because that movement is starting to bubble in russia as well. >> understood. so that's what putin is doing. that's the u.s. side. then on the ukraine side you have zelenskyy holding out this sort of bargaining position. there are many countries that have had various interest in joining the west on the military side, that's nato, on the eu side, the economic pact. here is the idea, i am going to read from zelenskyy opening this door. ukraine would not able ...

Ongoing in the wake of these election results, michael. and i wonder if you think that's going to affect anything, the outcome, the position, bargaining position of joe manchin or kyrsten sinema. >> i think the hand-held by sinema and manchin has been strengthened. and i would be surprised if everyone else held the position they were in preceding the turns of last night. i think folks are getting weak-kneed who were ready to sign onto the $1.75 trillion. don't forget when joe manchin raises concerns about the cost of the bill and how much it will take to pay for it, he is not spitballing. it w...