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between the u.s. and russia and how soon paul whelan and brittney griner could be home as we go one-on-one with national security spokesperson john kirby. i'm hallie jackson in washington on this thursday afternoon. carol lee over at the white house, jake ward posted up for us in san francisco, our business reporter. carol, let me start with you. this is time number two we're hearing from the president today on the economic news of the day. >> reporter: that's right, hallie. what you're seeing is not just the president but across the administration, a number of officials are out talk...

Communication open. so, no, leading up to the phone call did we find the rhetoric coming out of the chinese side helpful? no, and we said that. today was a good, constructive, candid conversation that lasted a while, and it covered an awful lot of ground in that conversation. this is one of the most consequential bilateral relationships in the world. the president believes strongly that being able to have open lines of communication even -- perhaps even especially on issues where there's tension in the relationship will do a lot to help keep those tensions at a moderate and reasonable level. >...

Security spokesperson hat, do you believe that a visit by the house speaker to taiwan would constitute a national security threat to the united states? >> i want to remind that there's been no decision by the speaker and no announcement of travel. i'm not going to get ahead of her or her staff. what we're doing is what we do every time she thinks about traveling overseas, provide her context, facts, information, geopolitical things she needs to think about and make sure that, if and when she travels, we can make sure we're meeting her security needs. those needs are going to change depending o...