And what im concerned about is someone who doesnt want to try to relitigate 2016, but wants to make sure our country is protected in 2018 when you dont have someone in the white house whos kind of leading a whole of government approach. It means that our response to these kind of actions by russia and for that matter other nations that may try to copy russias efforts, those National Security efforts are undermined by this kind of aversion in the white house to face the reality. Also tonight, another Washington Post report says that music promoter Rob Goldstone who set up that june 2016 trump tower meeting with the president s eldest son and several different russians offered to broker a meeting between donald trump and Vladimir Putin right after mr. Trump announced he was running for the white house. President trump has been outspoken about his admiration for putin. The russian leader dismissed the
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of our alliance. it s time, to paraphrase president obama, it s time to press the reset button where we can. reporter: this time around a reset will be difficult, but bind said he is hopeful to find some common ground with putin. i shared with our allies what i ll convey to president putin, that i m not looking for conflict with russia, but that we will respond if russia continues its harmful activities. just some context into biden s talk about vladimir putin s soul, biden was responding to comments that george w. bush famously made when meeting with putin in 2001. bush said he looked into putin s eyes and saw his soul, and, wolf, you remember when john
see in the white house s view if he can have a stable dialogue with russia. that s uncertain. on the agenda, cyber attacks, human rights, and so much more. wolf, for president biden, this is something he essentially ran on. this is what he was elected to do, restore the transatlantic alliance and try to confront autocracies like russia. this meeting with biden is the c capstone of his life s work. the question is what will it produce. that s unknown. it will certainly set the relationship he will have for the rest of his term with president putin. he s the fifth american president to meet with vladimir putin. certainly he s coming into this meeting with a different set of expectations, certainly a different moment on the world stage. russia is no longer the superpow their it was, but in the area of cyber, they have shown within the last few weeks how difficult of an issue this is. wolf, this is going to be
colleague john berman said, they re on time. i m wondering, john. it s been some time since we ve seen a meeting between two leaders that is getting as much attention as this one. kylie was saying in the break when trump met with the north korean leader a few years ago, that was something that had a comparable buildup to this. but i think joe biden comes with the wind at his back. he s had a successful meeting with his allies, establishing a tone that this is a multi-lateral alliance, he s standing with the free world. he follows a president who was openly aligned with vladimir putin. putin helped him get elected. trump advanced things, he questioned article 5. so in some ways it s easy for joe biden to come back and say i e doing what normal american presidents do. i m standing up for the united
it does seem at the moment that their concerns must be manifold and magnified by everything they will have heard at this press conference today. anderson. christiane, interesting to hear matthew chan tace talking about the idea of the russians popping champagne on the way back. going back to what dana said about jeff flake s tweet, that never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined an american president saying and doing what he did standing right side by side, his principal adversary who s just been indicted, at least his military intelligence, 12 of them have been indicted and thoroughly detailed indictments returned by 16 american citizens, this is not just some sort of authority who s done this, you know, that s exactly the words that came out of russia the other day on russian state television. a russian said never in my wildest dreams would i imagine the president of the united states doing vladimir putin s work for him as he has done.