David Gregory: Putin Finds Ways to Negotiate with the American President Where He Can As Long As It Keeps Giving Him Room

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GREGORY: “Right. And again, what does a Biden presidency actually look like in terms of the commitment of the United States overseas? You know, what’s the United States posture against China over trade, for example, as well as regional concerns that are security concerns versus how the Europeans play it? So I think we’re in a much different place. We’ve come through a period, under President Bush, of projection of American power in the rest of the world, a sort of unwinding of that by Biden (sic), then a complete unwinding by Trump, and now Biden who represents a real return to an older way of doing business in Europe. I don’t know that it’s clear exactly what that means in terms of American engagement against Russia, against China. And I think there’s a lot of our traditional allies who are waiting to see. And Putin in particular is going to wait to see and is going to try to take Biden’s measure. But again, I thought it was interesting, if there’s a talk of prisoner exchanges, you know, Putin is also shrewd enough to know where to cooperate as he did after 9/11, as he did in trying to temper Iran’s nuclear program. He finds ways to communicate and to negotiate with the American president where he can as long as it keeps giving him room.”