i need you. i need you to get vaccinated when it s your turn and when you can find an opportunity. and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors gets vaccinated as well. here s the point. if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, there s a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesn t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special, where we mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark or independence from this virus. president biden announcing last night his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days will be met and beaten. when i came into office, you may recall i set a goal that many of you set was kind of way over the top. i said i intended
My guest is Us Democratic party insiderjake sullivan. A key adviser to senior democrats, including Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary Of State as well as on The Campaign Trail Last year. President trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership. But is he not proving more effective in important Foreign Policy issues like the fight against extremists than the previoUs Democratic administration . Jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me. As a key adviser to Hillary Clinton, can you be objective about the Trump Presidency . Probably not entirely objective. I would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. But i think a lot of things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the past six months. Ive tried to take a step back and be as fair minded as possible in assessing what hes done. But the zeitg
My guest is Us Democratic party insiderjake sullivan. A key adviser to senior democrats, including Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary Of State as well as on The Campaign Trail Last year. President trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership. But is he not proving more effective in important Foreign Policy issues like the fight against extremists than the previoUs Democratic administration . Jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me. As a key adviser to Hillary Clinton, can you be objective about the Trump Presidency . Probably not entirely objective. I would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. But i think a lot of things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the past six months. Ive tried to take a step back and be as fair minded as possible in assessing what hes done. But the zeitg
skeptical social conservatives. i ll talk about that and more with this former rival who just dropped out of the race newt gingrich. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. formally this week, satellites would have been dominated by the race for the white house and the increasingly heating battle between the obama and romney campaigns. but president obama rewrote the script, catching the world by surprise with an unexpected trip to afghanistan where he marked the one-year anniversary of the death of the world s most wanted terrorist. one year ago from bases here in afghanistan our troops launched the operation that killed osama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and denied a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. the trip wasn t without controversy, some critics accusing the president of playing politics with the anniversary of bin laden s death, questioning whether ro
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threat that