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After something of a show trial with a pre-determined outcome. the basketball star had been detained in russia since february about, a week before russia invaded ukraine when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. now griner's hopes turn to international diplomacy. president biden released a statement today condemning russia's harsh sentence for brittney griner and reiterating his call for her release and that of another detainee paul whelan, the u.s. official tells nbc news that russia has not responded substantively to a quote serious offer that the u.s. made in j...

China policy. substantively, does the trip really change anything? i mean, other than ratcheting up the tension? >> right. i think that's all it really does. believe me, i hope it dies down. she'll have made her point. but if it doesn't, if it contributes to another thing we have to be concerned about, which is one reason vladimir putin probably invaded ukraine, invaded ukraine, was probably because he felt the window of opportunity was closing. that ukraine was getting strong, too integrated into the european union. i think we have to be concerned that what we are telling xi right now the cha...

Is just whether it's the smart thing to do right now. whether we want to put her in a situation, or juggling to superpower confrontations at the same time. i hope the chinese will do a show and be done with. but they may not, anderson. and people seem to forget the chinese army is very, very large. and very sophisticated. and our goal for taiwan's, as someone like myself, who believes in the freedom and democracy of taiwan, and it should be perpetuated. to me, the right way to do that is to keep taiwan out of the news. quietly arm them, turn them turn them into a porcupine that china would say...

Becoming apparent to people around the world, and certainly we heard from our correspondent in kabul a little earlier who said people in afghanistan are just waking up to this. a sense of what the taliban will say, we will get further combination of that in the coming hours i am sure. for more on this we can now go to max abrams, a terrorism expert and professor of political science at northeastern university in boston. great to get you on the programme. i decide to get your thoughts on what we have heard tonight from president biden. i on what we have heard tonight from president biden.- from...

Senate for that reason. it wasn't even changed substantively. it was changed in a very minor way. but this came after the senate had released a reconciliation package that republicans don't like, and there is an issue about an amendment that pat toomey wants, that chuck schumer said he could have at a 60-vote threshold. so they would need 60 to get that amendment in. chuck schumer's going to bring it up again on monday. many in the capitol here see it as retaliation. and it's sad to say that, although people deny it. there are many people in the capitol who see this as retaliation for democrat...