but asjoe biden goes back to america now on air force one, he has said, we will respond if russia doesn t do what we want on cyber, on human rights and the rest of it, but respond how? that s the bit of it that is unclear, and i m sure vladimir putin returning to moscow will be thinking, well, he said these things, but what s he going to do about it? vladimir putin has seen down western leaders before. maybe he will think that joe biden is a different sort of american president, but i think that vladimir putin is going to test it and joe biden will eventually have to decide how he is going to respond. angela stent, is an expert in russia us relations and a former national intelligence officer for russia at the national intelligence council. she says modest develoments at the summit were widely expected.
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and i think he was very keen to underline that in his news conference that i attended a little while ago. but asjoe biden goes back to america now on air force one, he has said, we will respond if russia doesn t do what we want on cyber, on human rights and the rest of it, but respond how? that s the bit of it that is unclear, and i m sure vladimir putin returning to moscow will be thinking, well, he said these things, but what s he going to do about it? vladimir putin has seen down western leaders before. maybe he will think that joe biden is a different sort of american president, but i think that vladimir putin is going to test it and joe biden will eventually have to decide how he is going to respond. i m joined now by professor angela stent, an expert in russia us relations and a former national intelligence officer for russia at the national intelligence council.
tomorrow in switzerland that is not afraid to call him out on cybersecurity, on election meddling, on human rights, on the issues that we believe they disrupt global stability and global order. it will be different from the handshake and the winks that putin got for four years from donald trump. there will be interpreters and aides in these meetings. this won t be just the two of them talking about god only knows what. so, i don t expect, again, that that, in and of itself, is four years of repair, but i do think it will be an important demarcation point and maybe inflection in how putin is received by this government and viewed a little bit differently on the world stage because of it. you know, anne, robert gibbs raises a great point. i mean, a lot of what we ended up being informed by in donald trump s interactions with russians was through the russians. i m thinking of lavrov and
along side us on human rights abuses in china. we were tough there too, chris. i m proud of the work we did there. it was good work. it was serious work. and it made a difference. chris: you also criticized president biden for not pushing hard enough on china to learn the origins of the coronavirus. but i want to again go back to your administration and the record there. president trump and his team including you had almost a year after the covid-19 first came on the scene to really press beijing on what the origins were. when the evidence was much fresher. now there s no question that the president pulled back from the w.h.o., the world health organization, but what did president trump and his administration including the secretary of state do to press china harder to get the evidence on where the covid-19 virus came