landed. it is the face-to-face with joe biden is not going to be that very obviously. but just kind of to your point, i really wonder what it is going to be. well, look, first of all, politically, i think the biden team certainly understands that they will be compared with the last meeting with trump helsinki summit. you know, i was there. it was a breath taking moment when the united states president took the side of russia s leader rather than his own intelligence agency. in that sense, biden is likely to be compared favorably and both democrats and republicans certainly prefer his public get tough approach to putin to trump s seeming, you know, de difference to putin. again, the question is how far is the u.s. willing to go? i think that biden has not wanted to elevate russia into the top issue he and his advisors continue to believe that on foreign policy, it s got to be china, china, china. that would be the focus of many of the conversations with european allies and nato
partners in the first part of biden s trip. and so i think this awkward situation is can we manage russia? can we put it back into some kind of a box where putt in isn invading neighboring countries and generate wreckage to the world order. that is the calculation behind the summit. it remains to be seen whether that is the outcome. and putin, of course, is savvy to this. his understanding to a certain extent what the conversation around this meeting with biden is. he s a disruptor too. and we ll try to find ways to disrupt. good to see you, susan. thank you very much. thank you. nc president obama is joining anderson cooper for a rare one-on-one interview. please be sure to watch anderson s special. barack obama on father hood, legacy and leadership. still ahead, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to fight against his ouster and sounding a lot like
major way to foreign policy as jeremy diamond is talking about. tony blinken, he s basically issued a new warning is how it feel for putin and russia on the recent cyber attacks originating out of russia. i want to play for you what he said with michaeke allen of axi one reason the president is meeting with president putin is not in spite of these aggressions, these attacks, it s because of them. to tell him directly and clearly what he can expect from the united states if aggressive reckless actions toward us continue. strong language. how real is this warning? what do you hear there? look, the truth is it is awkward timing really. not an obvious moment for a summit between the two in the sense that there s not a clear cut positive agenda that we can expect to come out of it. it s not going to have the usual
summit deliverables of a new agreement on this or that or the other. quite the opposite. great point. our team is showing the toughness in the whole reason for the conversation. i do think that it s been a divisive decision in a way for biden to meet so early with putin especially that putin has ratcheted up, you know, not only words but rhetoric and is matched by a new wave of cyber attacks in the u.s. it s really as difficult a moment in u.s.-russian relations as i can recall. that s a really interesting way of putting it. and just as a reminder, i know you remember this moment. we talked about it many times. i want to play what happened the last time a president met with putin when president trump met with putin and was asked about another attack coming from russia on the 2016 i election. president putin said it s not russia. i will will say this. i don t see any reason why it would be. no, despite all the walk backs, we know where this
strongly believe today s hearing is just another victory notch in putin s belt and another milestone in our enemies campaign to tear our country apart. let s bring in sahil kapur, zerlina maxwell and john podhoretz. okay. sahil, what is today s spectacle? what have we witnessed? it is the perfect rorschach test of this entire russia investigation. if you came in thinking peter strzok was the villain and was up to no good, there s plenty of material there that you can use to validate your view. if you have a different view, if you heard the questions about him on the other side, which is that the fact that the fbi disclosed and discussed this investigation into hillary clinton in ways that demonstrably hurt her while concealing the investigation into donald trump and his campaign and potential investigation i m sorry, potential collusion, coordination with russia in ways that would have hurt him if that