This Monday, as President Biden met with King Charles in London, CNN This Morning claimed Biden’s age made him uniquely suited for foreign policy and the President’s distance from dissenting Republicans made him much more comfortable abroad.
lithuania. the president will be traveling there shortly after his meeting with king charles. and i m wondering, astead, if you could just set the table for us. the main, the big issues that president biden will have to tackle with allies at this nato summit. i think that that is really what he s starting here in england. he s meeting with the prime ministers to get everyone on the same page. and what we hear from the white house is that they re going try to shore up the relationship, make sure there s still a willingness to support. you know, there was the investment into the ammunition recently that was controversial. i think the white house the going to try to make sure that them and europe are on the same page. i was in munich at the security conference earlier this year and there was a real sense, a palpable sense that this is an important year to really turn the page on the war in ukraine. if they re at the same poison next year at this point, if they think that the support in
developing world and emerging markets. so they re going to brief charles and president biden on the conclusions of their meeting. so they will have some suggestions for change. so there could be something concrete that comes out of that. you can imagine one of the pioneers in climate change, king charles and the president of the united states, if they supported some changes there, that could be quite significant, actually. we re also going to probably get some images of king charles showing president biden some american artifacts from the royal collection. so they re having quite an afternoon of it here in windsor, and you have that big, red carpet moment as well, where president biden was invited to inspect the guard of honor. so some pomp and pageantry to go with this royal event. you know, astead, we ve been talking earlier how these are two men of a certain age, who have followed certain career trajectories, though very different on many levels. the issue of age is one that hangs
colonel layton, stick around. lots more to discuss. for more now on president biden s trip overseas, let s bring back sally bedell smith, cnn contributor, staff writer for the new yorker, and biden biographer, evan osnos, and national politics reporter for the new york times , astead herndon. so as we speak, king charles and president biden, they are meeting, what are you looking for out of this meeting, sally bedell smith, what do you think is different about this meeting than the late queen s meeting with former u.s. presidents? the queen s last meeting with president biden was 45 minutes of pleasantries. she asked him what he thought of xi and putin, but we don t know what he said and we don t know what she said. in this instance, it is the first time that as a monarch, there has been a specific agenda. prince charles is very