incentives, and the law is quite clear and the president would probably have to go to congress to have these glitches as he put it fixed. there are some residual disagreement os eun crane in the sense that europeans believe that the u.s. is to some extent profiting from the war and they have a piece of misinformation which is amplified by the french president himself, and there are also, quite seriously, for washington, disagreements on what the cost of the transatlantic and chynna should be. these issues are not going to go away because of one fancy dinner. dalibor rohac, thank you for joining us. still ahead on way too early. still ahead, former president barack obama stumping for
well, russia invaded days later. here s what president biden said yesterday during his joint news conference with his french counterpart. the fact of the matter is i have no immediate plans to contact mr. putin. mr. putin let me choose my words very carefully i m prepared to speak with mr. putin if, in fact, there is an interest in him deciding he s looking for a way to end the war. he hasn t done that yet. if that s the case, in consultation with my french and nato friends, i ll be happy to sit down and see what putin wants, what he has in mind. he hasn t done that yet. in the meantime, i think it s absolutely critical we must support ukrainian people. last night at a separate event in washington, the nation s 43rd president george w. bush opened up with some candid thoughts on the war in europe.
ron klain, white house chief of staff. he s very good as business and raising money two things that are very important in a reelection race. there s one catch to this, it s not clear what the job would be. you need a pretty big job for the macker who s still big around town, like the pom, old school in washington. i went in there on a recent friday, and there was terry mcauliffe at a table with 30 people, old school celebrating life as terry mcauliffe does. he was on the list for the state dinner. of course he was. mike, max well frost, soon to be the youngest member of congress is trying to turn out voters in georgia for senator warnock. we played some clips from barack obama earlier. what do we think? is this going to be a successful effort to get younger people to the polls? that s a great point, jonathan. we have some great reporting from alexi mccammond that
bipartisan. you mentioned there s been tension between paris and washington of late, particularly that economic issues, but both leaders yesterday sort of put that aside and stressed the importance of transatlantic unity particularly in a time of war. what is striking to you about what they said, and where thinds stand right now as the west, as the democracies try to rally against russia? well, if you look at the last 70 years, the french american relationship is sacred and warm except for when it s not. and you have these periods of conflict. 1966, charles de gaulle when he was president of france threw out leaders of the western alliance and said to americans get out of paris, and dean rust who was the secretary of state replied to one of his aides, does he want us to take our american soldiers graves out too, those who saved france on d day, and world war ii.
the values that still unite us and the future we re going to forge together, viva lafrance and god bless america. more than 300 guests were at the white house to honor the oldest ally of the united states. they were treated to napa valley wine, award-winning american cheeses and lobsters from maine. this was also the first state dinner since the start of the pandemic. for the first time in months president biden has indicated he would be willing to sit down with russian president vladimir putin to talk but only if certain conditions are met. with russia s war on ukraine riding through month nine, the war has been the know was of president macron s state visit to washington this week. while macron has spoken to putin multiple times since the war has began, biden has not talked to him once. in february of last year, biden said he agreed, quote, in principle to meeting with putin so long as russia did not invade ukraine.