Formidable adversary. President bidens hope is to open the lines of communication with russia. He wants to stop any further deterioration in the relationship which he admits has reached a new low point. Theres a lot on the agenda from nuclear arms and Climate Change to recent Cyber Attacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for americans detained in russia. There will be no, repeat, no typical joint News Conference afterward. Instead each lead letter hold his own press briefing. The white house is determined to avoid the kind of embarrassing spectacle we witnessed back in 2018 in helsinki when then President Trump took the stage with putin and said he believed the russian leader over his own, his own u. S. Intelligence agencies. The long awaited biden putin summit takes place next hour at the historic villa la grange. Our team is here covering every monumental level and the stakes are enormous. Lets begin with natasha. Who will be there . How will it be structured . Yeah, wolf. So the forma
If people are held to what they are said prior to being in this house, if Majority Party gets to decide who sits on what committees, i hope you keep that standard because we have a long list to work within your own. Paul thursdays near partyline vote came a day after House Republicans overwhelmingly chose cheney in her leadership post after she came on fire from some numbers for voting to impeach president trump. Lets bring in our panel. Deputy editorial page editor, dan henninger, Colonists Can Strassel and kyle peterson. Why did liz cheney her leadership post even after members were saying her fate was sealed. The boat wasnt even close in the end. Kim i think its because were hogans came to understand this was a symbolic vote in a way, it would send a terrible message if they were to vote her out because it would suggest they were purging her from the party were disagreeing with donald trump. The reality is, theres a lot more going on here, a lot of frustration among the ranks over t
To you. Meanwhile, the president suggesting he is nowhere ready to concede to president elect joe biden telling foxs Sunday Morning futures he will keep fighting to overturn the Election Results but also expressing some doubt about whether the Supreme Court will take up his challenges. David spunt has more now from the white house. David. Reporter arthel, good afternoon to you. Since election day, President Trump has talked a lot about the Supreme Court, giving hope to some of his Supreme Courters his supporters, also of members of his team. He said it would be a be all, end all, the chance for the Trump Campaign to possibly change something in their favor because it has not been going in their favor from a legal sense. Today he was more pessimistic when speaking with maria about the Supreme Court. In that interview with maria, it lasted well over 40 of minutes, he doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on his claims that the election was fraudulent, though theres no indication that that is
Conscience not her fealty to trump. 60 out of that number. One vote was present. We have manu raju on capitol hill. An historic vote. There was a lot of talk. The feel of it was as you were reporting earlier that cheney might lose. She went behind the scenes for several weeks in the aftermath of the vote to impeach donald trump, talking to members trying to get them on their side explaining her vote. It appears to have paid off. She was listening to the concerns and did not back away from her vote. In fact today she said she does not regret voting to impeach donald trump. She made that clear to her conference but there were an outspoken contingent of members who came after her very aggressively through the course of this more than fourhour closed door meeting. At the end of the day the members decided it is more important to unite at this moment than engage themselves in a divisive leadership fight and the ouster of the highest ranking republican woman in leadership. Now, at the same t
Amazing. That guy is really bringing great work. These are regular American People who are disaffected and frustrated. I remember seeing this with al qaeda. And the taliban. Now, they dont have the same literacy curve that we hear, the exposure, the information and all that, which makes it even worse that people can fall for it, but they can. They can be, like, i support trump, you support trump and these people are trying to get him and heres how. One step and another step. And now the Republican Party is saying to people in their ranks, its okay to listen to these guys. Yeah. Its okay. Yeah. Well, you are what you eat. And its im serious. I cant explain to you i dont even have the words to tell you just how outraged i am and how just infuriating and frustrating the level of hypocrisy is right now. Were not talking about were not talki ing about fire brands. Right . There are fire brands in the Republican Party. There are fire brands in the democratic party. They say things that are p