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And 8 per person, 32 for a family of four. the problem is right now you can't get them. they are saying they're coming. but, we are going from trying to get tests and analyzing the effectiveness of tests to everybody gets a test. bret. >> brit: look, not only you cannot get the test, even if you do get the test, they tell you on one day whether you have it. the next day you might have it. so you do, what, 8 tests 8 days maybe? then what? i mean, are we going to test ourselves every day in perpetuity about this spreading mild, relatively mild variant? that doesn't seem like a reasonable path. >...

Do and they will understand that. >> ashley, let's turn now and talk about the russia situation. how worried is the way house about it? >> if you look at just this first day of security talks, both sides, on the one hand we're a little bit cautiously optimistic. this way house is incredibly chloride. a number of the things that russia is asking for, are simply non starters. the idea that ukraine will never join nato. that's a nonstarter for the united states. the idea that nato would go back to its 1997 boundaries. that's nonstarter for the united states. well they're having these talks, they'...

>> certainly looks like the russians are continuing to pile the pressure on the u.s. and on its nato allies as well. the russian foreign minister, he said that russia wants answers soon in written form from the united states as to russia's security demands that the russians, of course, made in those security talks with the u.s. that happened in geneva last week. now, at the core of what the russians want, there is, of course, the fact that they want written guarantees there will be no further nato expansion. they also said they want some troops withdrawn from eastern european nato countries. p...

Emily horn said this call would cover a range of topics including upcoming engagements with russia and they are looking for russia to show signs of de-escalation before any diplomatic end game which is a point they hammered home and this comes before the u.s. and russia delegations are expected to sit down for security talks on january 10th. >> i want to ask you about another big story. you have an article in the daily beast on the ghislain maxwell verdict. fantastic article. i recommend it to everyone. you begin with this line. when your partner is a monster you can appear harmless by compari...

Aimed at trying to defuse the ukraine crisis. here's the latest from cnn's jeremy diamond. >> reporter: weeks after joe biden and russian president vladamir putin sat down for a videoconference, the two set to speak once again on thursday afternoon, eastern time here in the united states. the two leaders will get on the phone to talk in particular about the tense situation at the russian/ukrainian border. we're told this call came at the russian president's request and it comes less than two weeks before u.s. and russian officials are set to meet for security talks january 10. so the question ...