author of the brand-new book the fight of his life, inside joe biden s white house. what a timely book to have right now, chris. a lot of people are looking at this and wondering about what they re calling an unforced error in some respects. but you ve got the press secretary, karine jean-pierre, saying there is confidence from the biden administration, in fact, i want to play for you a little of what she had to say and get your reaction. i can tell you, this that the president and his team rightfully took action when they learned that the documents existed. they reached out to the archives. they reached out to the department of justice. his mood has been very clearly. i saw on this, morning he s been very focused. i was with, him i traveled with him this weekend. he wants to make sure that he s continuing, and we are continuing to deliver for the american people. well, she talks about his mood and his attitude about the manner. in your time with the president, how do you think he
criner, i think they figured out, we finally have the ticket to release our guy. while, do you think this signals, you know, i was asking cream jean-pierre where for this signals any sort of, i don t want to say warming relations, but is this a future avenue for negotiations down the line? lamb not sure that it sounded like it was, how do you make it, what do you make of the fact that negotiation even happened at this moment when u.s. russia relations are the worst they ve been since the cold war? so tragically, i think we have gotten pretty good at stovepipe in different issues. right? because we have to. if you linked everything, you would have never get anything done. so there is a good sign in that respect. we re getting this deal done. maybe we can stovepiped arms control negotiations, because i think we need to do that as well. but it doesn t mean that it is gonna lead to better negotiations over ukraine, or any other issues for that matter. i see little linkage between this
wrongfully detained u.s. citizens that have been released under this administration. today we are able to do that with britney griner. one more, does the president have any plans to greet brittani as the white house. what is the ticker tape parade gonna look like? so, don t have anything to preview, as you know. the president biden the president also the vice president and secretary blinken had an opportunity to speak directly to brittani as she was flying back home. he said welcome, welcome home. welcome home to brittany. and so they also said she was in good spirits. don t have anything yet to share on that. but obviously we are thrilled that she is back and we are going to continue to fight for every american that is wrongfully detained. 294 days, it is great that she is finally coming home. white house press secretary cream jean-pierre, thank you as always for joining us. thanks, alex. now, let s turn to michael mcfaul. former u.s. ambassador to