, which is frightening until 2020 four when he could be voted out v. it is scary though, sean, because think about the times we see president biden. they are short, they are often scripted. even thoseve press conferences. it s a list of reporters he calls in and a distinct order. he hasn t done an interview since the super bowl because he can t it iser b b frightening to think about what he s like when he s not in those few scripted moments behind the scenes. i will say t this nbc article that you mentioned, sean, it was shocking to me.i i mean, i worked for president trump. i wasumis his press secretary. i didn t have to run around cleaning up things.p thin the presidentgs said because the president was the one in control. he was the commander in chiefe a comm. and in some ways biden has a right to be upset. s tetotally contradicted by his staff or at all times. but on the other hand , john,me as you mentioned, these areig grave foreign policy issues that is making blunders on you of
policy, which is frightening, until 2024, when he can be voted out. it is scary though, sean, because think about the times we see president biden. they are short, they are often scripted, even those press conferences, it s a list of reporters he calls in in a distinct order. he hasn t done an interview since the super bowl, because he can t. it is frightening to think about what he s like when he s not in those few scripted moments behind the scenes. i will say this nbc article that you mentioned, sean, it was shocking to me. i mean, i worked for president trump, i was his press secretary. i didn t have to run around cleaning up things the president said, because the president was the one in control, he was the commander in chief, and in some ways biden has a right to be upset. he s totally contradicted by his staff at all times, but on the other hand, sean, as you mentioned, these are grave foreign policy issues he s making blunders on. another one suggesting regime change in russia,
his state of the union last night. i m sure it wasn t nancy pelosi because she had already ripped up donald trump s speech in half. but it was a fascinating moment to see him basically say everything opposite of what he and the left and his party has been saying. but he understands how out of tune and out of touchy has been with the american people. he had no choice. but he did not is speak it with the kind of conviction you would like to hear from a president who actually believed what he was reading from the teleprompter. governor huckabee, did you get the sense that i did that? in some ways biden was taking credit for a lot of the things that he unilaterally messed up. there s no doubt about that todd. when he talked about even energy, and he was going to, you know, open up oil reserves. what, for all of the oil that he talked about would give us oil for three days. three big wonderful days. if he is really serious, he would do a little more like
electoral college and is stuck at 44. a friend of the beat and strategist says trump has basically hacked the media in ways biden has not, hitting journalists with so many lies and weaponizing a penchant for both sidesism that basically gets him more of the coverage he wants. trump taking advantage of the need to seem objective rather than reporters choosing to really cover him honestly as what he was clearly then and is now, an anti-democracy candidate. you can see the false equivalence in how pundits will say, gosh, if both sides are unhappy, they must be doing something right. the proof that we re doing a good job is that democrats are mad at the media for not helping to sell joe biden and their agenda, not our job, and the fact that they re had at us for not doing that i think is a great endorsement of the job we are doing. being tough on any politician becoming president is fine. claiming that the public reaction validates it doesn t
can really do here. and i think the challenge they have with this whole summit is the pageantry of a u.s./russia summit is so big, and coming off this trip, it obviously attracted so much attention, and vladimir putin has been such a force in democracy and democracy globally that there will always be a huge intense spotlight. in some ways biden was trying to diminish that spotlight by saying, this is just a business meeting. let s see what can happen. which i think that was the most he could accomplish there, but the ball, as is often the case, is vladimir putin s court now, and time and again we ve seen putin wants more attention, putin wants to push back. they ll have to monitor this. i think this is the beginning, not the end, of how they approach russia. let s go to mike memoli who is in geneva and has been with the president this entire trip. mike, the president called