group uses that as an excuse to murder people washington dc hotels he s not worried about escalating anything but when we return about this bizarre situation when the united states is using russia as the negotiating point for the united states with iran over a nuclear deal with another enemy of the united states that seeks to build icbm with a nuclear warhead why in the world from your perspective with united states with the president of the united states be using vladimir putin as our negotiating individual with our enemy in iran also keeps threatening the united states? when we come back i will get the answer when we come back.
negotiating point for the russians with the ukrainians because i expect and suspect there will be plenty more negotiations ahead. ali, let me go to you because as we wait for this update from the pentagon we know that russian troops according to them seem to be moving away from kyiv, that they re drastically reducing some of this military activity near kyiv. yet you know, the sort of grain of salt gut check here is it just might be putin regrouping. nobody knows for sure because nobody knows what s in vladimir putin s head. what is the gut check on the ground? actually-i think john kirby has just walked out. ali, hold that thought. we want to listen for a second to is this pentagon briefing in case we do get an update on this very tonic. let s listen in for a sec. has attempted for going on a month to sell this war there to its domestic audience as a, quote, liberation of the donbas. however, the intensified rhetoric over the last year and in the leadup to russia s invasion demon
european continent. general, that kind of confused me. didn t he offer as sort of like a negotiating point, maybe a concession, olive branch, not forcing the nato issue and maybe embracing the neutrality thing. what did you make of that comment? no, your instincts are correct here. once you put neutrality on the table, that really means you re not going to have military alliances. that s the idea of neutrality itself. you re certainly not going to have them with nato, which has been the very issue right from the outset going all the way back to 2008 when president bush invited the ukrainians and georgians to join nato and the germans and french pushed back on it. so nato is not an issue in terms of helping ukraine being neutral. and i understand what president zelensky is trying to do. i don t see how you can have it
reason they want to expand is because biden s team is just as worried about what iran is doing on the ground in different conflicts as what they re doing in terms of their enrichment. how important is it for them in terms of a negotiating point? i think there s a recognition both because of the realities of what s happening on the ground, because of their ballistic missile program, and it s advancements because of the malign influence that it is a necessity to address and have a broader deal. but i think they also understand the domestic political realities as well, which is to go back into the jcpo while those urgent problems are lingering is a nonstarter. sorry about that. that s a good song. it is actually a comedian putting that out there. that s okay. that s all right. what were you saying? i m sorry. just that both from the geopolitical perspective and national security perspective
multiple issues. but, yeah, it s difficult when you have an issue as serious as this january 6th commission and you re still trying to pass a $2 trillion bill which i know people get frustrated with the timeline. but i would just question people, this is a big bill that has a lot of a lot of small pieces of legislation in there. we need to get it right more than we need to get it done quickly. and i think that s where you see senator manchin and senator sinema it may frustrate people that they re not publicly telling them what their negotiating point is. but they re more interested in making sure this bill, which is going to have a long-lasting effect, is done the right way and not the quick way. monica alba, how does the white house view what s going to be coming next, the idea that we do not have monica alba? ally, are you joining us now? ally, what are you looking for