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It's signaling domestically. vladimir putin has been signig a law that would restrict extremist organizations from running for elections, specifically the elections that are coming up in the fall. that's why a lot of politicians throughout russia are getting rounded up by the police. navalny is not alone in facing that kind of pressure. it seems as though in russia, there's a new attitude where a lot of people are afraid for putin, within putin's inner circle, many are worried that the upcoming elections, they probably won't sweep him out of power, they could damage his authority and expose so...

Let's break this down with you, ravi. start with russia. what would success look like for a biden/putin summit, given what we see play out? maybe not necessarily a direct message to the americans but something that american lawmakers and politicians are very mindful of, what happens to navalny. they have been calling for support for him and his organization. >> two answers to that question. on the one hand, there's rhetoric. on the other hand, there's progress or tangible achievements from the meeting. i think on the rhetoric front, i think that side is going to be easy. what biden will focus ...

Signaling that's coming out of russia. the u.s. has its own messaging as it meets with its european allies. what we see come out of russia was interesting. you had the russian government sending a message to the u.s. by declaing navalny's network banned from the political process. your thoughts? >> reporter: yeah. it puts them up there with neonazi groups, terrorist groups like isis, banning them, wiping them off the face of russian politics. it's really tempting to lock at some like this and say, this is the russian government, vladimir putin sending a signal to the u.s. ahead of the meeting ...

Relationship. that will set the tone for how the two countries extend their relationship over the next few years. that's the broader rhetoric. we will all be looking out to parse how biden appears to be around putin. more substantially, as was said, i think the navalny issue will be front and center. syria is going to be a major part of the discussions in that we know that the u.s. wants to try and pressure russia to try and ensure that aid gets into syria, which russia has been stopping on several opening points into syria. that's going to be another issue. of course, europe, biden would have...

All of this comes as russia -- a russian court designates a group run by navalny as an extremist network, banning it from future politics, raising the stakes for next week's summit between president biden and vladimir putin. here at home, the fbi director made his first appearance before the house since the january 6th insurrection, facing questions about what the bureau knew before the attack took place. also, defense secretary lloyd austin telling a senate committee that he supports taking sexual assault investigations outside the chain of command. some lawmakers say more needs to be don...