president biden has spoken to this relationship as recently as last friday where he spoke to the difficulties unrelated to the u.s. take a listen. i think one of the things that balloon caused was not so much that it got shot down. but i don t think the leadership knew where it was and knew what was in it and knew what was going on. i think it was more embarrassing than it was tension. i m hoping over the next several months i ll be meeting with xi again and talking about legitimate differences that we have, but also those areas we can get along. reporter: now, president biden there saying that he wanted to or hoped to meet with the chinese president in the next several months the last time they met was on the sidelines of a summit last summer. now this trip by secretary of
to face summit last summer. in geneva he got one. president putin wanted talks on nato s footprint in europe. this week, he got them, too. i was going to ask you, on that subject, it appears as if putin demands and biden delivers. given how critical he was of his predecessor cosying up to the kremlin, what is he up to? well, there s a chess game going on and the consequences are catastrophic here. we ve got a mercurial, dictatorial leader in russia who wants to recover greater russia, who is still bruised deeply by the break up of the soviet union and nato s expansion into eastern europe, and he said he wants ukraine, he wants guarantees that ukraine will neverjoin nato. and nato has said that s just not possible and not going to happen. and i thinkjoe biden is trying to find ways to conciliate, to give putin a way out
alphabet and run out of letters for these mutations and we are all going to be vulnerable to something potentially lethal if we don t get this level of vaccination to stop it from spreading and creating some new threat. now, putin demands, biden obeys. that s the impression, at least, that s been left in the year sincejoe biden took office. vladimir putin wanted a face to face summit last summer. in geneva he got one. president putin wanted talks on nato s footprint in europe. this week, he got them, too. i was going to ask you, on that subject, it appears as if putin demands and biden delivers. given how critical he was of his predecessor cosying up to the kremlin, what is he up to? well, there s a chess game going on and the consequences are catastrophic here. we ve got a mercurial, dictatorial leader in russia who wants to recover greater russia, who is still bruised deeply by the break up of the soviet union
and run out of letters for these mutations, we are all going to be vulnerable to something potentially lethal if we don t get this level of vaccination to stop it from spreading and creating some new threat. now, putin demands, biden obeys. that s the impression, at least, that s been left in the year since joe biden took office. vladimir putin wanted a face to face summit last summer. in geneva he got one. president putin wanted talks on nato s footprint in europe. this week, he got them, too. i was going to ask you, jeffrey, on that subject, it appears as if putin demands and biden delivers. given how critical he was of his predecessor cosying up to the kremlin, what is he up to? well, there s a chess game going on and the consequences are catastrophic here. we ve got a mercurial, dictatorial leader in russia who wants to recover greater russia, who is still bruised deeply by the break up
of course, we haven t seen any real progress toward denuclearization since that summit last summer, but pompeo said yesterday that what the administration is looking for is some kind of clear, verifiable step that shows north korea is even willing to denuclearize. but we have heard mixed messages out of this administration with president trump saying that north korea no longer poses a nuclear threat. secretary of state mike pompeo telling jake tapper yesterday that, in fact, north korea does still pose a nuclear threat. and what we just heard from president trump at this meeting of republican governors is the president sounding extremely optimistic about the likelihood that north korea will denuclearize. he said that north korea could set records in terms of the economic recovery that they could experience if they were to denuclearize. so the president really ratcheting up expectations in a way, an attitude that s not really shared across the administration. there are some fears that p