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Involvement in cyberattacks, he -- how is that giving you confidence? >> i was about to use the phrase pragmatic diplomacy, and then we got a somewhat -- i think the president got his back up there a little bit, kasie, about the implication that somehow he was expressing confidence that couldn't change his behavior. and then pretty dismissive of the follow-up question as if you don't understand how diplomacy works. and i think -- i feel like that was him saying -- and there's perhaps going to be some -- we had some folks in our ear who said he really has to push back on the what-aboutisms and ...

0 so president biden has shown his willingness to engage putin where he can. and i think if we don't see any reciprocity, if putin doesn't want for play then this mix that president biden has offered is going to have to skew much more heavily towards the confrontation side so he gets the last word. >> stick with us, andrea, as we await president biden, he's set to begin his press conference in a few minutes. we're at the top of the hour. we've been discussing what will president putin said in his press conference. he spent a lot of time doing what about-isms, denying, deflecting any criticism ...

Gaza. >> a notable balance there. thank you so much, hadas. "early start" continues right now. all right. good morning, everyone, this is "early start," i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. almost 30 minutes past the hour here in new york. new this morning the eu slapping sanctions on belarus after the state-sponsored hijacking of a flight from athens to the lithuanian capitol and the arrest of a belarusian opposition journalist. passengers speaking for the first time about what they saw. >> translator: i even asked the flight crew, this is the first time they've seen something ...

Question of whether or not he should continue to be the judge in this case? >> i think he gave the defense an argument. i'm not sure they're going to take him up on it, but he gave them an argument that he shouldn't be the sentencing judge. now, that's a risky strategy. they would have to ask that he be recused. if he said no, and they couldn't change it, they're really stuck, aren't they? i think what's going to happen going forward is the prosecutors will put together a more fulsome, more compelling case for general flynn's cooperation, i'm guessing. they'll file that at some point so the ju...

Will hang around us like an albatross. that was one of the leading factors why they changed a policy that they said they couldn't change to begin with. look ahead and you will see this same fumbling going forward, i think. >> as we try to figure out how and where all of this plays out, of course we just played sound again of kirjsten nielsen. of course the president created this new problem. jeffrey, is it going to be up to either congress or the courts to actually fix it? >> if it's going to be fixed. there is no guarantee that this issue is going to be fixed with these 2,300 kids will be rel...