state or government representatives are expected to attend in person today. president biden just one of a handful of leaders set to speak today. moments ago the president of brazil fin,ed his comments. biden is up next. some will be live. some have prepared prerecorded remarks for the general assembly. moments ago, bolsonaro, who declared last week he would not get vaccinated, went on to speak. let's stop now here. here comes president biden to begin his comments. let's listen in live. >> mr. president, mr. secretary-general, my fellow delegates, to all those that dedicate themselves to this noble mission of this institution, it's my honor to speak to you for the first time as president of the united states. we meet this year in a moment of intermingled with great pain and extraordinary possibility. we've lost so much to this devastating pandemic that continues to claim lives around the world and impact so much on our existence. we're mourning more than 4.5 million people, people of every nation, from every background. each death is an individual heartbreak. but our shared grief is a poignant reminder that our collective future will hinge on our ability to recognize our common humanity and to act together. ladies and gentlemen, this is the clear and urgent choice that we face here at the dawning of wa must be a decisive decade for our world, a decade that will quite literally determine our futures. as a global community, we're challenged by urgent and looming crises wherein lie enormous opportunities if, if we can summon the will and resolve to seize these opportunities. will we work together to save lives, defeat covid-19 everywhere, and take the necessary stem to prepare ourselves for the next pandemic, because there will be another one? or will we fail to harness the tools at our disposal as more virulent and dangerous variants take hold? will we meet the threat of challenging climate, the challenging climate we're all feeling, already ravaging every part of our world with extreme weather? or will we suffer the merciless march of ever worsening droughts and floods, more intense fires and hurricanes, longer heat waves, and rising seas? will we affirm and uphold the human dignity and human rights under which nations and common cause more than seven decades ago formed this institution? will we apply the strength and core tenets of the international system, including the u.n. charter and the universal deck declaration of human rights as we search for new technologies and deter new threats? or will we allow those universal principles to be trampled and twisted in the pursuit of naked political power? in my view, how we answer these questions in this moment, whether we choose to fight for our shared future or not, will reverberate for generations yet to come. simply put, we stand in my view at an inflekction point in history, and i'm here today to share with you how the united states intends to work with partners and allies to answer these questions and the commitment of my new administration help lead the world toward a more peaceful, prosperous future for all people. instead of continuing to fight the wars of the past, we are fixing our eyes on devote ting resource that hold the keys to our collective future. ending the pandemic, managing the shifts in global power dynamics, shaping the rules of the world on trade, cyber, and emerging technologies, and facing the threat of terrorism as it stands today. we've end 20 years of conflict in afghanistan, and as we close this period of relentless war, we're opening a new era of diplomacy, of using the power of our development to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world, of renewing and defending democracy, proving that no matter how challenging or how complex the problem we're going to face, government by and for the people is still the best way to deliver for all of our people. as the united states turns our focus to the priorities and the regions of the world like the indo-pacific that are most consequential today and tomorrow, we'll do so with our allies and partners through cooperation and multilateral institutions like the united nations to amplify our collective strength and speed, our progress for dealing with these global challenges. it is a fundamental truth of the 21st century that within each of our countries and as a global community that our own success is bound up in others succeeding as well. to deliver for our own people who must also engage deeply with the rest of the world, to ensure that our own future, we must work together with other partners, our partners toward a shared future. our security, our prosperity, and our very freedoms are interconnected in my view as never before. and so, i believe we must work together as never before. over the last eight months, i've prioritized rebuilding our alliances, revitalizing our partnerships, and recognizing they're essential and central to america's enduring security and prosperity. we have reaffirmed our sacred nato alliance with the article 5 commitment. we're working with our allies toward a new strategic concept that will help our alliance better take on evolving threats of today and tomorrow. we renewed our engagement with the european union, a fundamental partner in tackling a full range of significant issues facing our world today. we elevated the quad partnership among australia, india, japan, and the united states to take on challenges ranging from health security to climate to emerging technologies. we're engaging with institutions from asean to the african union to the organization of american states to focus on people's urgent needs for better health and better economic outcomes. we're back at the table in international forums, especially the united nations, to focus attention and to spur global action on shared challenges. we are reengaged at the world health organization and working in close partnership with covax to deliver life-saving vaccines around the world. we rejoined the paris climate agreement and we're running to retake a seat in the human rights council next year at the u.n. and as the united states seeks to rally the world to action, we will lead not just with the example of our power but, god willing, with the power of our example. make no mistake, the united states will continue to defend ourselves, our allies, and our interest against attack, including terrorist threats as we prepare to use force if necessary but to defend our vital u.s. national interests including against ongoing and imminent threats. but the mission must be clear and achievable, undertaken with informed consent of the american people and, whenever possible, in partnership with our allies. u.s. military power must be our tool of last resort not our first and should not be used as an answer to every problem we see around the world. indeed, today many of our greatest concerns cannot be solved or even addressed through the force of arms. bombs and bullets cannot defend against covid-19 or its future variants. to fight this pandemic, we need a collective act of science and political will. we need to get shots in arms as fast as possible and expand access to oxygen, tests, treatments to save lives around the world. and for the future, we need to create a new mechanism to finance global health security that builds on our existing development assistance and global health -- and a global health council that is armed with the tools we need to monitor and identify emerging pandemics so that we can take immediate action. already the united states has put more than $15 billion toward global covid response. we've shipped more than 160 million doses of covid-19 vaccine to other countries. this includes 130 million doses from our own supply and the first tranches of a half a billion doses of pfizer vaccine we purchased to donate through covax. planes carrying vaccines from the united states have already landed in 100 countries, bringing people all over the world a little dose of hope, as one american nurse said to me, a dose of hope directly to the american people and importantly no strings attached. and tomorrow at the u.s. hosted global covid-19 summit, i'll be announcing additional commitments as we seek to advance the fight against covid-19 and hold ourselves accountable around specific targets on three key challenges -- saving lives now, vaccinating the world, and building back better. this year has also brought widespread death and devastation from the borderless climate crisis. the extreme weather events that we have seen in every part of the world and you all know it and feel it represent what the secretary-general has rightly called code red for humanity. and the scientist and experts are telling us that we're fast approaching a point of no return in a literal sense. to keep within our reach the vital goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius, every nation needs to bring their highest possible ambitions to the table when we meet in glasgow for cop-26. and then we have to keep raising our collective ambition over time. in april, announced the united states' ambitious new goal under the paris agreement to reduce green house gas emissions from the united states by 50% to 52% below 2005 levels and by 2030 as we work toward achieving a clean energy economy with net zero emissions by 2050. and my administration is working closely with our congress to make critical investments in green infrastructure and electric vehicles that will help us lock in progress at home toward our climate goals. and the best part is making these ambitious investments isn't just good climate policy, it's a chance for each of our countries to invest in ourselves and our own future. it's an enormous opportunity to create good-paying jobs for workers in each of our countries and to spur long-term economic growth to improve the quality of life for all of our people. we also have to support the countries and people that will be hit the hardest and that have the fewest resources to help them adapt. in april, announced the united states will double our public international financing to help developing nations tackle the climate crisis. and today i'm proud to announce that we'll work with the congress to double that number again including adaptation efforts. this will make the united states a leader in public climate finance with our added support together with increased private capital from other donors. we'll be able to meet the goal of mobilizing $100 billion to support climate action in developing nations. as we deal with these crises, we're also encountering a new era, an era of new technologies and possibilities that have the potential to release and reshape every aspect of human existence. it's up to all of us to determine whether these technologies are a force tome p -- to empower people or not. as new technologies continue to evolve we'll work together with our democratic partners to ensure that new advances from biotechnology to quantum computing, 5g, artificial intelligence and more are used to lift people up, to solve problems and advance human freedom, not to suppress dissent or target minority communities. and the united states intends to make a profound investment to research and innovation working with countries at all stages of economic development to develop new tools and technologies, to help us tackle the challenges of the second quarter of the 21st century and beyond. we're hardening our critical infrastructure against cyberattacks, disrupting ransomware networks and working to establish clear rules of the road for all nations as it relates to cyberspace. we reserve the right to respond decisively to cyberattacks that threaten our people, our allies, our interests. we will pursue new rules of global trade and economic growth, level the playing field so it's got artificially tipped in any one country at the expense of others, and every nation has the right and opportunity to compete fairly. we will strive to ensure basic labor rights, environmental safe guards, and intellectual property are protected and that the benefits of globalization are shared broadly throughout all our societies. we'll continue to uphold the long-standing rules and norms that have formed the guardrails of international engagement for decades that have been essential to the development of nations around the world. bedrock commitments like freedom of navigation, adherence to international laws and treaties, support for arms control measures to reduce the risk and enhance transparency. our approach is firmly grounded and fully consistent with the united nations' mission and the values we've agreed to when we drafted this charter. these are commitments we all made and that we're all bound to uphold. and as we strive to deal with these urgent challenges, whether they're long-standing or newly emerging, we must also deal with one another. all the major powers of the world have a duty in my view to carefully manage their relationships so they do not tip from responsible competition to conflict. the united states will compete and will compete vigorously and lead with our values and our strength, will stand up for our allies and our friends and oppose attempts by stronger countries that dominate weaker ones, whether to changes to territory by force, economic coercion, tex cal exploitation or disinformation. but we're not seeking, say it again, we are not seeking a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocks. the united states is ready to work with any nation that steps up and pursues peaceful resolution to share challenges, even if we have intense disagreement in other areas, because we'll all suffer the consequences of our failure. we do not come together to address the urgent threats like covid-19 and climate change or enduring threats like nuclear proliferation. the united states remains committed to preventing iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. we're working with the p5+1 to engage iran diplomatically and to seek a return to jcpoa. we're prepared to return to full compliance if iran does the same. similarly, we seek serious and sustained diplomacy to pursue the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. we seek concrete progress for an available plan with tangible commitments that would increase stability on the peninsula and in the region as well as improve the lives of the people in the democratic people's republic of korea. we must all remain vigilant to the threat of terror posed to all our nations, whether emanating from distant regions of the world or in our own backyard. we know the bitter sting of terrorism. it is real. we've almost all experienced it. last month, we lost 13 american heroes and almost 200 innocent afghan civilians in a heinous terrorist attack at the kabul airport. those who commit acts of terrorism against us will continue to find a determined enemy in the united states. the world today is not the world of 2001, though. and the united states is not the same country we were when we were attacked on 9/1120 20 yea ago. today we're better equipped to detect and prevent terrorist th threats and more resilient in our ability to repel them and pond. we know how to build effective partnerships by targeting financing and support systems, countering their propaganda, preventing their travel, as well as disrupting imminent attacks. we'll meet terrorist threats that arise today and in the future with a full range of tools available to us, including working in cooperation with local partners so that we need not be so reliant on large-scale military deployments. one to have most important ways we can effectively enhance security and reduce violence is by seeking to improve the lives of the people all over the world who see that their governments are not serving their needs. corruption fuels inequality, siphons off a nation's resources, spreads across borders and generates human suffering. there's nothing less than a national security threat in the 21st century. around the world, we're increasingly seeing citizens demonstrate their discontent, seeing the wealthy grow richer and richer, taking payoffs and bribes, operating above the law, while the vast majority of the people struggle to find a job or put food on the table or to get their businesses off the ground or simply send their children to school. people have taken to the streets in every region to demand that their governments address people's basic needs. give everyone a fair shot to succeed and protect their god-given rights. and in that chorus of voices across languages and continents, we hear a common cry, a cry for dignity, simple dignity. as leaders, it is our duty to answer that call, not to silence it. the united states is committed to using our resources and international platform to support these voices, listen to them, partner with them, to find ways to respond and advance human dignity around the world. for example, there's an enormous need for infrastructure in developing countries. but infrastructure that is low quality or that feeds corruption or exacerbates environmental degradation may only end up contributing to greater challenges for countries over time. done the right way, however, with transparent, sustainable investment and projects that respond to the country's needs and engage their local workers to maintain high labor and environmental standards, infrastructure can be a strong foundation to allow societies and low and middle-income countries to grow and to prosper. that's the idea behind the build back better world. and together with the private sector and our g-7 partners, we aim to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure investment. we also continue to be the world's largest contributor to humanitarian assistance bringing food, water, shelter, emergency health care and other vital lifesaving things to people in need. when there's a disaster anywhere in the world, the united states shows up. we'll be ready to help. at a time when nearly 1 in 3 people globally do not have access to adequate food, just last year, the united states has committed to rallying our partners to address immediate malnutrition and ensure we can sustainably feed the world for the decades to come. to that end, the united states is making a $10 billion commitment to end hunger and invest in food systems at home and broad. since 2000, the united states government has provided more than $140 billion to advance health, strengthen health system, and we will continue our leadership to drive these vital investments to make people's lives better every single day, just give them a little breathing room. as we strive to make lives better, we must work with renewed purpose to end the conflicts that are driving so much pain and hurt around the world. we must redouble our diplomacy and commit to political negotiations, not violence as a tool of first resort, to manage tensions around the world, to seek a future of greater peace and security for all people of the middle east. a commitment the united states without question, our support for an independent jewish state is unequivocal, but i continue to believe that a two-state solution is the best way to ensure israel's future as a jewish democratic state, living if peace along side of viable, sovereign, and democratic palestinian state. we're a long way from that goal at this moment. we must never allow ourselves to give up the possibility of progress. we cannot give up on solving raging civil conflicts including in ethiopia and yemen or fighting between warring parties driving famine, horrific violence, human rights violation against civilian, including the constant use of rape as a weapon of war. we'll continue to work in the international community to press for peace and bring an end to this suffering. as we pursue diplomacy across the board, the united states will champion the democratic values and go to very heart of who we are as a nation and a people -- freedom, equality, opportunity, and a belief in the universal rights of all people. it's stamped into our dna as a nation and critically it's stamped into the dna of this institution, the united states. we sometimes forget, i quote the opening words of the universal declaration of human rights, quote, the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world. the founding ethos of the united nations, placing the rights of individuals at the center of our system. and that clarity and vision must not be ignored or misinterpreted. the united states will do our part and be more successful and more impactful if all of our nations are working toward the full mission to which we are called. that's why more than 100 nations united around a shared statement, the security council adopted a resolution outlining how we'll support the people of afghanistan moving forward, laying out the expectations to which we'll hold the taliban when it comes to respecting universal human rights. we all must advocate for women -- the rights of women and girls to use their full talents, to contribute economically, politically, and socially, and pursue their dreams free of violence and intimidation, from central america to the middle east to africa to afghanistan, wherever it appears in the world. we also call out and condemn the targeting and oppression racial, ethnic, and religious minorities whether it occurs in northern ethiopia or anywhere in the world. we all must defend the rights of lgbtqi individuals so they can live and love openly without fear, whether it's chechnya or cameroon or anywhere. as we steer our nations towards this inflection point and work to meet today's fast-moving, crosscutt ting challenges, let be clear, i am not agnostic about the future we want for the world. the future will belong to those who embrace human dignity, not trample it. the future will belong to those who unleash the potential of the people, not those who start from it. the future will belong to those who give their people the ability to breathe free, not those who seek to suffocate their people with an iron hand. authoritarianism, the thunde authoritarianism -- the democratic world is everywhere and lives in the anti-corruption activists, human rights defenders, the journalists, the peace protesters. on the front lines of this struggle in belarus, serbia, cuba, venezuela, and everywhere in between and lives in the brave women of sudan who withstood violence and oppression to push a genocidal dictator from power and keep working every day to defend their democratic progress. it lives in the proud moldovans who helped deliver landslide victory for the forces of democracy with a mandate to fight and build a more inclews economy. it lives in the young people of zambia who harnessed the power of voting turning out in record numbers to renounce corruption and chart a new path. while no democracy is perfect, including the united states, we'll continue to struggle to loif up to the highest ideals to heal our divisions, that we face down violence and insurrection. democracy remains the best tool we have to unleash our full human potential. my fellow leaders, this is a moment where we must prove ourselves the equals of those who come before us, who had vision and values and determined faith in our collective future built our united nations, broke the cycle of war and destruction, and laid the foundations for more than seven decades of relative peace and growing global prosperity. now we must again come together to affirm the inherent humanity that unites us is much greater than any outward divisions or disagreements. we must choose to do more than we think we can do alone so that we accomplish what we must together. a ending this pandemic and making sure we're better prepared for the next one. staiching off climatic climate change and increasing our resilience to the impacts we're already seeing. ensuring a future where technologies are a vital tool to solving human challenges and empowering human potential, not a source of greater strife and repression. these are the challenges that we will determine what the world looks like for our children and grandchildren and what they'll inherit. we can only meet them by looking to the future. i stand here today for the first time in 20 years with the united states not at war. i turn the page. all the unmatched energy and commitment, will and resources of our nation are now fully and squarely focus on what's ahead of us, not what's behind. i know this -- as we look ahead, we will lead, we will lead on all the greatest challenges of our time from covid to climate, peace and security, human dignity and human rights, but we will not go it alone. we'll lead together with our allies and partners in cooperation with all those who believe as we do, that this is within our power to meet these challenges, to build a future, to lift all of our people and preserve this planet. but none of this is inevitable. it's a choice. i can tell you where america stands. we will choose to build a better future, we, you and i. we have the will and capacity to make it better. ladies and gentlemen, we cannot afford to waste any more time. let's get to work. let's make our better future now. we can do this. it's within our power and compassion ti. thank you and god bless you all. [ applause ]. >> on behalf of the general assembly -- the president of the united states of america. >> to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world, u.s. president joe biden completed his first address to the general assembly as president, a message of unity there from the president, saying the world can, must work together with alliances, friends, and adversaries to solve problems that cannot be solved by force of arms, he says. he singled out the pandemic, the issue of climate change. he said the next decade will be a decisive one. the next decade he says will determine our future. two notes there. he said the u.s. not looking for a cold war, perhaps with a nod to china. also says the u.s. is willing to return to full compliance with the iran nuclear deal if iran were also to return to full compliance. we might note a sharp contrast in the language. the rhetoric we heard today from this president as compared to his predecessor, perhaps more boilerplate than hyperbole that we've heard in recent years. we're joined now by jeff zeleny, dana bash, and others to run through the most important points of the address. jeff, the key messages here seemed to be, one, alliances are necessary, they work, they're really the only approach that can work with global challenges today, but also noting that -- he said at the end there this is the first time a u.s. president addressing the assembly in some 20 years where the u.s. was not at war. >> perhaps that's the headline that president biden would have wanted to come out of this, jim. this is a historic time here, 20 years on after the longest war. he sought to turn this moment into a pifvot forward approach, to draw a collective strength. but of course it is punctuated by so much more. the fight against covid-19. it's almost as though the longest war in american history is merely an afterthought, which is extraordinary in and of itself given, you know, this huge toll it was taking. i think big picture here, we should pause. yes, there is a skeptical audience. yes, there is scrutiny. but this is a different u.s. leader. the tone here is draw dramatically different from president trump, of course, who came here and effectively put his thumb into the eye of the u.n. president biden did not do that. but he also said, i thought, interestingly, we will not shy away from competition but we will avoid conflict. so sort of imbued in all of this are the issues of our time. he did not mention france specifically. i think one of the biggest take-aways, yes, it's a different moment, but he has to prove it, and his record already is suspect in many of these regards. >> nor some, france certainly making its differences known, but other allies from europe and the uk who say that that not threatening at least other european am lies' view of the u.s. commitment to its alliances. as we're speaking now, the presidential motorcade preparing to leave the u.n. general assembly following the president's remarks there. things move quickly here. dana bash, it was notable i thought that the president mentioned a big piece of the domestic agenda there as well, build back better infrastructure. i want to ask you where his leadership is abroad and at home given the challenges he has faced, differences with allyings over afghanistan, for instance, but also difficulties at home getting his legislative agenda, too, which in the president's own words has global consequences, right? you have to address infrastructure here for american strength abroad. >> exactly right. what the president tried to do is take the message that he has been making since he was inaugurated and even before that to intertwine the notion of infrastructure with climate crisis, with covid-19, that they are all related and explain why they are related. he's been doing that on the domestic front and he wanted to take that to the world stage to encourage allies and, you know, adversaries alike to take to heart the need for infrastructure because of the climate crisis, infrastructure for other reasons primarily what he talked about was giving people jobs at home. and i did think that that was very interesting. and i also think that the fact that he talked about afghanistan after covid-19 and the effort that the u.s. is making not just in america but. more importantly to get the vaccine to the countries that need it most, the fact that he talked about the climate crisis and the amount of money that the u.s. is trying to gather to give from the u.s. but also to try to galvanize the world to get money for countries that are developing to protect from the climate crisis. that is clearly where he wants his legacy to be, to start this conversation in an earnest way and to change the perception of america on the world stage. but the fact is afghanistan is still very much on people's minds and this speech isn't going to change that anytime soon. >> similar to his position on afghanistan at home, sticking to it, right? defending it. confident it seems that the v he made the right decision, and as he noted saying this is the first time the u.s. president has addressed this assembly in two decades without the u.s. at war, referring to afghanistan but also iraq and his plans there going forward. david sanger, notable to hear the president express at least some residual hope of coming to an agreement with iran over its nuclear program. you and i have report this would extensively and those talks have not been going anywhere as iran has continued to build its supplies and enriched uranium. the president saying the u.s. would return to full compliance if iran returns to full compliance. is that a realistic expectation? >> we thought about a month or two ago, jim, that it would be, that the new iranian government would pick up these talks where they left off in june. we may know more by the end of the week. the iranians are showing up here, not their new president but their foreign minister. we may get a sense of whether they're ready to do this or whether they are hoping for a bigger price. i thought, jim, that the most notable thing about the speech was that china was the subtext throughout in his discussion of human rights, of climate, and so forth. but he never actually mentioned china straight on, which is interesting with xi jinping will be speaking later this afternoon. at one moment, he said we are not seeking a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocks. but clearly his fear is that's where we are headed. i mean, he's talked a lot about autocracy versus democracy. he tried to avoid the stark choices today, but that was underlying all of the themes, particularly his human rights discussion. >> no question. frankly, not too far below the surface. he talks about freedom of navigation. that is an issue with china. talking about the rule of law, adherence to treaties, and he talked about the uighurs, mass incarceration there, but dl deliberately not stating xi jinping or others by name. you speak to diplomats. there is less daylight between biden's foreign policy issues than trumps on some issues, for instance, the brewing dispute with france. one of the issues was not letting an ally know what you were about to do, similar to the criticism we heard about the u.s.' swift departure from afghanistan. i wonder from your position there, how does europe hear these comments today and do they believe biden's commitment to alliances? >> you know, i think when we think of europe, we're used to thinking of the united kingdom included with europe. of course geographically it is. but i think what we're beginning to see is a uk separating out from europe, which leads to its own tensions and the united kingdom having what it likes to see as a special relationship with the united states. i thought it was interesting that president biden talked about the fact he had reassured nato allies that he had rebuilt alliances. you know, i think there would be a few in europe at the moment that, you know, president trump very clearly sent seth an agenda of america first, but this is still america first. and the concerns about europe's future, its own defense, its ties to business connections to china, are all now falling out of the frame of business as it was since the second world war during that period. and i think france and its feelings right now, particularly this president, who's very outspoken, who likes to be big on the world stage, he went to beirut, you know, to try to sort of problems, he likes to be seeing doing good around the world, likes to carry that popular message, to be so shun build the united states at the moment, europe takes that on the chin. i think when president biden talks about those alliances, the nato chapter five commitment, it is ringing hollow. there is no way of getting around that. we are in a different place. you know, this separation, xhonl nal ti in some areas, but this separation i think is something we're witnessing and perhaps europe didn't expect it as much under a president biden. >> i was speaking to a european diplomat yesterday who noted in the midst of all this that, yes, every nation operates in its national interest but perhaps the u.s. does so with a little more confidence and agency and we're seeing that play out. we should note, however, kylie atwood at the state department, a very sharp contrast here in that under president trump, there was genuine concern of him pulling out, pulling the u.s. out of the nato alliance, perhaps withdrawing u.s. forces from the korean peninsula, withdrawing in effect from another key alliance here. while there are questions about how far biden will go, that is a major and stark difference between this administration and their predecessor. >> yeah, of course it is. i mean, you heard president biden reiterate time and time again throughout this speech that working alongside allies is the only path forward here. you heard him talk about the fact that this is an inflection point when it comes to universal values are going to be upheld or if they're going to be tranquil, of course an indicator that there that china is trampling some of those universal values even though as we've noted he didn't discuss china specifically. but of course there is some tension in the background here. known this is the environment that he has walked into. and when it comes to the decisions that the biden administration has made over the course of the last six months or so, that has created that tension with allies, president biden made a point either expolitician sitly or sort of between the lines to defend those decisions that his administration have made, right. so talking about afghanistan, he talked about the need to focus on the challenges of the future, not the challenges of the past in terms of withdrawing u.s. troops and ending the war in afghanistan. when it comes to the new u.s./uk/australia effort here, this new partnership that left out some countries, namely france, he talked about the need globally to focus on consequential areas of the future, noting the indo-pacific as one of those, even though he didn't talk about that new partnership, and then lastly, when it comes to covid vaccines. there have been some countries that have been frustrated that the u.s. hasn't shared more, that they are starting with booster shots at home while many don't have vaccines, president biden made the point to remind the world that the united states has shared over 160 million vaccines globally. >> kylie, as you were speaking, we saw president biden's motorcade living the u.n. in new york following his remarks. we should note at the end of the president's remarks, his call for international unity, working together on these global challenges, his comments met with some applause from those world leaders present. thanks to all of you. thanks to all of you watching this hour. still to come this hour, a critical vote coming up in the u.s. house to keep the 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