For political reasons. as for who is killing whom and throwing whom in jail. people came to the u.s. congress, a political demands, 400 people, over 400 people had criminal charges placed on them. they face prison sentences. apples and oranges according to biden. i think that s ridiculous comparison. apparently the two got along well enough. the tone of the entire meeting, i guess it was a total of four hours, was good, positive. and putin complimed biden as a statesman. he is very constructive. is he very balanced just the way i expected. he is very experienced. you can tell that at first glance. but tensions will remain. this is not a kum ba yah moment as they used to say back in the 60 s in the united states like let s love and hug each other. biden s big diplomatic challenge getting china to cooperate with the world health organization. you have talked many times
Catholics say biden s abortion views should not prohibit him from receiving communion. they need to do a better job on educating the faithful on the church s teaching. bret? bret: lauren, thank you. 9 new york bar association says andrew cuomo s directive nursing homes amid covid-19 patients increase the death toll among residents. that s according to a report obtained by the new york post. it also criticized cuomo for not reversing the mandates sooner saying it remained in effect weeks longer than necessary. spokesperson for the state s health department calls the report an example of some politicians pushing their own political agendas. u.s. track star shelby high houn is vowing to appeal a four year suspension she received after testing positive for a banned substance. she says it was in a tainted burrito. houlahan s ban could keep her out of the tokyo olympics next month and the 2024 games in
bret: can biden convince the left of his party to sign on, ben? ben: there are so many repeats here, shades of the obamacare discussion that happened in 2009. when president obama was desperate for a while there to get just one republican vote or one nondemocratic vote to support his plan in order to have that the bipartisan. meanwhile the progressive flank of the party at the time was pushing them to use their far more significant legislative advantage to really press forward with the policies that they wanted to achieve. i think in this instance, you know, president biden similarly had wanted to have a veneer of bipartisan to this plan will look into the details of what this proposal looks like but i still feel like the progressive flank is a lot more powerful now than it was back in 2009 in directing the future of the party, that s going to be a really tough in the for the
Respect. this is not in any way a situation that i think redounds to the american benefits. and if the outcome of it is that we have a stern talking to about the potential death of alexi navalny. we have some warnings that are given to the media and the like from joe biden, and we have them oeaing and you aing over gift of american aviator we are not emerging having achieved anything in the american interest. bret: juan, they had the duelingpreferences, president pn going longer than president biden. they were not together in answering questions. the build up to this was big. foreign policy experts were waiting for this. you know, get around the tv. get a bowl of cheese-its and watch this thing. what happened? did it deliver? well, i think from the biden administration perspective, bret, it did deliver because all they wanted to do was hammer in
I think that was probably the number one was in biden s words at the press conference he said he let putin know that the u.s. has tremendous cyber capability if that s the game he wants to play. and i think, again, it s the cybersecurity. it s human rights, no revoking [inaudible] on russian oligarchs and then finally i think you have to think about the global stability. you know, stay out of our business. bret: right, trey, what about giving a list of entities, facilities that are off limits to cyberattacks? i mean are there others that are okay to attack? yeah. apparently that would include our 2016 election. you remember, bret, our country has been torn apart for five years because of an allegation that a republican candidate colluded with putin. we don t have to wonder whether putin colluded with putin. you have the guy in front of you who tried to sow the seeds of