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Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
until those bills got passed. reporter: the texas bill would mandate new i.d. requirements for voting by mail and ban drive through voting sites and 24-hour voting. 16 other states have enacted similar legislation. houston representative garnet coleman, is also skipping town in protest. we do drive by for alcohol, so you can t do drive curbside voting? i mean, you know, where are our priorities? reporter: over the weekend in austin, hundreds gave public testimony in marathon all-night marathon hearings with critics calling the g.o.p. back bills an attack on minority voting rights. but, republican state senator brian hughes, who wrote the senate bill called it common sense reform. after this bill texas will have even more. more hours and more days across the state for in-person early voting. reporter: republican governor greg abbott calls this partisan politics and says by democrats leaving they have prevented important legislation from getting passed in the state. but people
open open and easy access to the ballot box. so when you saw chris hollands decide, hey, we re going to do drive-thru voting. well, it s really no different than curbside voting and we have had curbside voting for quite some time, now. and so, this idea that we are going to take this away, especially once we saw the statistics and we saw that the majority of people that used that that drive-thru voting were minorities. we heard testimony from first responders on saturday saying, hey. you know, we were working 24-hour shifts fighting this pandemic. doing everything that we could but we still wanted to vote. and it was so beneficial that we, either, had the ability to do drive-through voting or we had the ability to to actually vote 24 hours a day, instead of it just being kind of this small window. you know, texas is the biggest state or second-biggest state. either way, we re too big, right? and so, when you look at a place like east texas, where i used to reside, i was actually
that bill. this is a bill, like bills in many red states around the country, trying to restrict early voting, curbside voting, place curbs on the efforts made during the pandemic to make voting easier. democrats have a response to that. one is the we the people act with various ways of having federal safeguards on voting as well as the john lewis voting rights act to restore some of the protections that lapsed as a result of a supreme court decision a few years ago from the old voting rights act. it s a very difficult assignment for harris. not a problem in the house, but, of course, a problem with the senate where you only have 50 democratic votes and you have a republican filibuster. harris is trying to rally the troops today. john harwood at the white