ambassador to the united nations. welcome to you. thanks so much for having me. we are inside the two-minute window to the news conference. give us your thoughts as we watch president biden there meeting with his south korean counterpart and where you see this president as he has just announced his re-election campaign. where you see him and where you see us on the world stage in this moment. well, i m glad he s hosting south korea in d.c., but a time our allies don t trust us and time our enemies don t fear us, and you know, south korea is an ally, we need to work with them, work with japan in making sure we are doing more anti-chinese counter measures to make sure we don t allow them to become more dominant. so it s good that he s with them. the problem is what does he do from here. you look at the situation, we have russia invading ukraine, you have iran building a bomb, north korea testing ballistic
start for the rose garden press conference and the white house defense of the lack of press conferences from president biden has been well, he often entertains shouted questions. the reason this event this afternoon is significant is because people are not going to have to shout, somebody from the white house will bring a microphone up to each of the american questioners, and the south korean questioners and should be if they stick to protocol a chance for follow-up questions. so, stay tuned for that later this hour. we know that in the oval office president biden is huddling with his south korean counterpart. talking about challenges in the indo-pacific, a way of saying they are talking about china without actually calling out china. we know they are also discussing threats posed by north korea and u.s. partnerships with south korean companies on things like batteries and solar panels. so, expect to hear a lot about the economic part up top, and
when he first took office and inauguration and compared to the end, eight years does a number on anybody. it ages you. look at a picture of joe biden today from where he was two years ago. and now imagine that same decline accelerated over the next, you know, six years to what he s going to be 86 when he leaves office. kamala harris is the one on the ballot. john: every president bush had plenty of them, how many times did he put food on people. food on the family, or is our children learning. but biden seems to have them of a different sort. yeah, he s just not fully it s clear he s not fully with it, and so you know, the question becomes what we are seeing in in public, which is limited, what s it like in private, what s it like on the phone with a world leader having a conversation and trying to negotiate something, what s it like having a policy briefing, you know.
then the questions can be about anything the reporters want, john. john: anything the reporters want as long as it follows the protocol which is typically as you know, peter, two questions per side, that s usually what the international visitor wants to see, so maybe there will be a chance for follow-up questions but limited as well. we ll soon find out. sandra: let s bring in marc thiessen, former white house speech writer for president bush and fox news contributor. biden holds fewest news conferences since reagan. what s the strategy do you think? to shield him, i mean, it s that simple. he is 68% of the american people in a recent poll say he s too old for the job and they are right. they don t want to confirm it by having the president demonstrate he s too old for the job, they are trying to shield him, it s not a coincidence they only announced it through a video. you can t stumble in a video,
six week mark. some talk about fetal heartbeat, and he talks about the brain waves. federal abortion law, would you support that and what should the time frame be? i ve said from, first of all, i m pro life, my husband was adopted and we had trouble having our children but in the hands of the states is where we need it to be. from a federal level, we ve got to come at it from a level of consensus. john, if you start talking about the number of weeks, all you are doing is dividing people. i ll be prepared to talk about the number of weeks when people start asking biden and kamala if they are ok with abortion at 37 weeks, 38 weeks, 39 weeks. why are we doing that to ourselves? from a federal level you can t ban abortions, it takes a majority of the house 60 republican senators or pro life senators and a president to sign. we have not had 60 since 1910. we have 45 possible pro life