vice president trump to be vice president if i think she is not qualified to be president. i am supporting the biden/harris ticket and i am optimistic joe biden will be reelected as our president this fall periods begun following the advice of my commander in ch chief the chief of staff of the military. president biden was at his best last night. he injected some humor into the conversation. he is staying in this race. he is the best person to take on donald trump. the group from the south pacific, australia, new zealand, japan, australia, i already mentioned australia. john: president biden wrapping up the nato summit in our nation s capital with a gas-filled news conference as his campaign insists he is not dropping out despite all the backlash from within his own party. a source now telling fox news former president obama and his team may be behind the current anti-biden movement. axios is reporting well-connected democrats from the clinton administration are plo
intelligence community. cia, dia, nsaitibir and over 1,000 other affiliated government agencies with even more obscure acronyms. by the time your intelligence bureau get big enough to be a, quote, community, you may have a problem. insofar as most of us ever think about intelligence agents we think of 007, ie, it s supposed to be a very low number, which suggests that this is an elite activity for a small number of persons. when you have, as america does, some 5 million people with a security clearance, that s equivalent to the entire population of immediately to all running around thinking they are james bond. you have a dark, bloated bureaucracy with massive powers to violate the privacy of anyone they want to. they should be using this against foreigners, the massive expansion of 24/7 surveillance state since 9/11 has done nothing for america s position in the world. we know so little about afghan adversaries that we have taken 20 years to lose the goat heads with fertiliz
we will take you back there in a moment. first, president biden s meeting with boris johnson. our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell traveling with the president in the united kingdom. i want to bring in bisa williams. former career diplomat. a senior fellow at the yale jackson institute for global affairs. miss mitchell, set the stage with what s happening on the ground in the uk and how today s meeting is just the first step in president biden s larger goal to strengthen our alliances abroad. reporter: this is, as you point out, the president s efforts to show that democracy beats totalitarianism, the rising right wing protectionist dictators around the world and in europe and russia. russia is the big issue coming up next week in geneva. first, restoring the importance of the special relationship with the uk. it s the first meeting with boris johnson. there was a bit of tension, of course, back during the campaign. there were times when boris johnson was
document outlining the agreements made between the leaders is expected to be released around midday today hour time. china is expected to be the main focus of the communique, however there remains disagreement amongst the leaders about how far it should go in pushing back and on countering china s growing influence and power. the white house is calling biden s proposed plan to counter china, build back better for the world or b3w, which as the new york times notes is a play on china s bli, the belt and road initiative. biden and his fellow leaders enjoyed a beach barbecue which as you can see is lovely, but before that was a day of sessions and meetings, including with french million emmanuel macron. he had a unique relationship with our former president which included a lot of brew ha ha, and endlessly long and awkward handshakes. macron s meeting with biden was a lot more subdued. we have to deal with this pandemic, covid-19, we have to face a lot of challenges, a lot o
ukraine and cyber attacks are two critical issues on the table for the biden/putin summit next week in geneva. our chief white house correspondent katelyn collins is with us. the white house has been working today to defend the summit. reporter: they have. highlighting that president putin is going to be meeting with other leaders first before sitting down with putin. the white house is also working to reassure ukraine today given that he is going to be meeting with russia s leader er before theirs. president joe biden preparing for his first summit with vladimir putin. there s no substitute for face to face meeting. reporter: biden s top aides say it is because of their differences not in spite of them. being able to look putin in the eye and say this is what america stands for, this we believe is an essential aspect of u.s./russia diplomacy. reporter: biden is planning to confront putin on several fronts, including chilling ransomware attacks on critical u.s. infr