that delusion is alive tonight. in many of the best and brightest in the american press corps, who seem to believe that the american military knows how to do things that has never successfully done in its history. if you are outraged with what you are seeing in afghanistan tonight, may it not be the end of the war that outrages you but war itself. if you oppose what you are seeing in afghanistan tonight, a post war. war is hell. war is hell in the beginning, war is hell in the middle, and war is hell in the end if you lose. the best and the brightest thought hell was manageable, because our secretary of defense, during the american buildup, with forces in vietnam had run the ford company, the best and the brightest actually believe that he could successfully run and win the vietnam war. the american military has the
shrinking, looks like he is waiting for the family to pick them up at the home, sheltering in place, but this is what happens, when the stakes are this high, you can t let this happen in public. who is controlling the rope? it is not biden. for comparison state, look at trump and putin. look at that. putin in seating no physical ground to him, at all, taking the space, that is a challenge, physically, just optically. laura: i mean, trump looked comfortable. he looked comfortable in a room with other leaders, who, they are strong leaders. angela merkel is not a dumb person. she is a really smart person. macron might not be large in stature, but he is not a dummy, and you have putin who is a killer he is a killer. i mean that in the nicest of ways. the curious thing speaking of killer, there was a moment where putin was tickled, and it is when russian security rushed in and hassled the american
rushed in and hassled the american press corps. biden is genial he taking it in, smiling, no sense of alarm or distress. he always seems to be in the wrong way unaware of what is happening. let s hope it went final from the press conference and he proved it when he began. hello, everyone. i just finished the last meeting of this week s long trip. the us/russian summit. i can t part of the president putin s press conference. we rallied our fellow democracies to make concerted commitments. when i talked about the pipeline, the cyber hit, the rent somewhere hidden the united states, it violated basic norms. we will respond. he knows.
the two different press corpses which are separated on the grounds here. we have the white house press corps, the american press corps and russian press corps which are separated, of course, ahead of the joint separate press conferences later on. but it became combative. the full american press corps did not make it into the room for the top spray, which we should note is the only access we believe we re going to get as they are actually meeting inside villa la grange for the next few hours. and several u.s. reporters did not make it into the room. those reporters who were supposed to be in the room and we re told there were combative exchanges with the russian press. pushing and shoving trying to get into the room. that s why you saw the chaos at the end of the meet with president biden and president putin. u.s. aides trying to get the full u.s. press corps in the room. several of those reporters were left outside. at least one u.s. press reporter did make it into the room. she aske
jockeying for position with the americans in the room. the american audio technician wasn t let into the room until the remarks were underway and at one point security forces were pulling on the shirts of american reporters to clear them out. the swiss security forces tried and failed to restore order and the president made a point to smile and laugh at something off camera didn t have a ton to say. president biden: as i said outside [inaudible] bill: and they have some real serious business on the agenda including russian interference in u.s. elections and those ransomware attacks that were launched against interests in the united states by bad actors in russia. back to you. dana: peter, i wanted to ask you one thing. we got the pool report about that chaos. one of my theories was that the american press corps have been starved for the ability to get access on this trip.