Today. Also hearing from both leaders in separate press conferences, which is unusual. In about one hour. President joe biden will become the fifth u. S. President to sit down with russian president vladimir putin. The meeting in geneva this morning will be the highest level face to face talks between the two nations in three years. Along with joe, willie and me, we have washington anchor for the bbc, katty kay. Pulitzer prize winning columnist and nsnbc political analyst eugene washington and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius. And we re all here. Loving it. This is fantastic. It s really, really good to have everybody in person and be able to connect. Here is how this morning is expected to play out. A lot is going to happen. The meeting will take place in a lake side mansion in geneva s largest park. President putin is expected to arrive first at 7:00 a. M. Eastern time. We ll see if that happens. Followed by president biden shortly thereafter. After being gree
meeting with russian president vladimir putin in a decade, with two leaders meeting. talking about cyber attacks, ukraine and americans being held inside russia. no concrete solutions announced, but the two sides agreed to begin talks on the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures. now after the summit concluded, putin held a news conference in which he said the talks were very constructive. translator: i believe there has been no hostility. on the contrary, our meeting took place in a constructive spirit. indeed, we have assessment on a number of issues, but both sides expressed the intention to understand each other and to seek common ground. talks were quite constructive. for his part president biden shared the same sentiment during his news conference, but he did get a little testy, as he was leaving when a reporter asked him if he was confident that putin would change his behavior. when did i say i was confident? i said what i said was le
World, this is early start, i m laura jarrett. It s friday and i m christine romans. It s june 4th. 5:00 a. M. Exactly in new york. A republican leaders have been totally up front about their objective, stop the biden agenda. But the most critical swing vote in biden s own party is not ready to abandon bipartisanship yet. With pressure building for democrats to move ahead without republicans, west virginia senator joe manchin speaks to cnn, he s dismissing calls for a special onetime exception from the senate filibuster rules that effectively require 60 votes to pass anything including an overhaul on voting rights. Several key policy issues are in bim low in the 50/50 senate that includes the center middle east of president biden s agenda. A gigantic infrastructure package. Now, the white house and republicans are fiercely negotiating but they remain far apart so everything hinges on manchin. Democrats can t rush it with him, this he can t do it without him. Cnn s manu raju spoke with
The leadership of the republican party is fractured. I think it is a shock and surprise that what has happened in terms of the consequence of president trump s phony populism has happened. And it is disappointing that so many of my republican colleagues in the senate, who i know know better have been reluctant to take on, for example, an investigation because they re worried about being primaried. On the world stage, biden blames phony populism for undercutting an insurrection investigation, and called out irrational resistance on the right like this. Have you heard the latest from senator ron johnson? rioters on january 6th weren t rioting. They were staying within the roped lines and were in a jovial mood. So no one breached the capitol? the trump appointed fbi director did not call it an act of terror? trumpers and putin, another topic at nato, seem to back each other. Listen to putin. They came to the congress with political demands. Isn t that persecution political opinions? first
The last they know you re thinking is other people and that s where her head and heart takes her. That s why she is a legend. Coop, thank you for letting people know. Very important. Welcome to prime time. President biden trumped the last guy on the world stage today at the nato summit. Listen to this. The leadership of the republican party is fractured. I think it is a shock and surprise that what has happened in terms of the consequence of president trump s phony populism has happened. And it is disappointing that so many of my republican colleagues in the senate, who i know know better have been reluctant to take on, for example, an investigation because they re worried about being primaried. On the world stage, biden blames phony populism for undercutting an insurrection investigation, and called out irrational resistance on the right like this. Have you heard the latest from senator ron johnson? rioters on january 6th weren t rioting. They were staying within the roped lines and w