is during your three and a half hour virtual summit in november with the chinese president you didn t press for transparency. and also come if that has anything to do with your son s involvement with the chinese statement on entities? president biden: the answer is that i did raise the question of transparency. i spent a lot of time with him. and the fact is, they are just not being transparent. reporter: transparency on the coronavirus origins? president biden: yes. reporter: you did? is there any reason why your press staff was unaware of that? what did you say to the chinese president? president biden: they were not with me the entire time. look, i made it clear that i thought china had an obligation to be more forthcoming on exactly what the source of the virus was and where it came from. yes. reporter: mr. president, i would like to ask you about
and secondly, are you entertaining the fault of a summit with vladimir putin as a way to perhaps try to put this whole thing to bed and address their concerns and negotiate a way out of this? president biden: the last question, yes. we talk about whether or not three meetings we talked about and we talked about we would go from there if there was a reason two to go to a summit. we talked about the summit as before, ukraine. in terms of strategic doctrine and with the strategic relationship would be. so i still think that is a possibility, number one. number two, i m very concerned. i m very concerned that this could end up being look, the only one that is worse than intended is the one unintended. and what i am concerned about is this could get out of hand. very easily get out of hand because of what you said, the
covid. he admitted his administration should have done more testing earlier, and quite strikingly, the president said that the upcoming midterm elections might not be legitimate if the election reform bills before the senate are not passed. let s discuss with our panel. john king, let me start with you. this was almost an hour, i guess about an hour, 40 minutes, of taking questions, and almost two full hours if you include his 12 minutes of remarks. i suppose that the plan was to show that he has stamina. i m not sure that his staff is exactly excited about all the news he made. no. there s a lot to clean up. come back to that in a second. especially the russia/ukraine stuff on the global stage. and one of joe biden s trademarks, often his friend, is his stubbornness and his fight to stay at it. so there are questions about his sta stamina, there are questions about will he do a press conference. if he wanted to prove he d stand
the pharmacy? i happen to come from south texas and i saw a lot of people struggling financially. so i wonder what is the message when it is spread to them? president biden: i have tried seven different ways to date to do inflation. but let me answer the first question. i spend a lot of time in south america and latin america when i was vice president. i spent a bulk of my eight years basically in europe and latin america. i am in contact with the leaders of the country in south america. we have been working closely with making sure that we do everything, for example, to deal with helping the country and particularly those in central america to be able to help them with their ability to deal with people don t sit
and even today, you talked about sort of a different posture with republicans. i wonder if you still think it is possible to do both of those things? president biden: we have to move we have to. as long as i hold public office, i will attempt to do both things. reporter: more follow-up come around this time last year when you were campaigning in georgia, one of the things that you told is the powers literally in your hands. if voters give democrats the house and the senate and the presidency, that all these big things can get accomplished. and you know, we have seen stalemate, things stymied. why should folks believe you this time around? president biden: and you think of any president has done as much in one year? name one. reporter: i m asking you. president biden: i m serious. you talk about i don t think there has been much on any incoming president s plate that has been a bigger menu than the plate i have. i m not complaining.