rhodes, whose book after the fall america and the world we made and adrien, former senior aide for the biden/harris camp. i m going to start with you here, only because it was kind of hard to pick through from the three lady who to go with first, we re able to hear president biden wrap up a couple days of face-to-face time with world leaders. do you think he s walking away from the summit with tangible accomplishments? yeah. i think one of the things he s been trying to do is change the agenda america has in the world and to connect what he s doing in the world to what he s doing at home. if you look at what he s been doing at the g-20 it s focussed in that space. the focus on a global minimum tax and cracking down on people trying to evade taxes this is a piece of what he s trying to do to confront inequality in the united states and his legislative agenda. more importantly in the context of the summits he shows up in
looking home to see how this is going to shake out, and, you know, this is a president who early in his presidency said this is a battle between the utility of democracies in the 21st center and autocracies that we need to prove that democracy works. i think the threat, the theme and what he needs to thread the needle on is unity with european allies and also at home. i think whether democracy works, the divisions at home is undercutting that message right now or at least raising questions. it s important for him to come out of these meetings showing unity, finding cooperation on bigger issues like supply chains as we saw him do earlier, like china, easing trade wars which, again, we saw the announcement on tariffs. absolutely. adrien, i was referencing this with kelly, the president left for rome without the vote, but