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The next year. president biden has been telling them america is back, all setting the stage for what will likely be a number of questions ahead of that summit with vladimir putin on wednesday, eamon. andrea, if there was a meeting that a lot of people were watching before the meeting with vladimir putin, it is the one with president erdogan which just concluded before this news conference was to take place. you recently traveled to turkey, and you can understand why turkey is such a delicate balance for this administration. all of the topics we ve been discussing whether it be russia, syria, authoritarian leadership, they intersect with this president in turkey. what did both expect to get from this meeting? ....
Independent country, deserves to be able to defend itself, and when it comes to russia and ukraine that america stands up together with all its allies to make clear that those decisions cannot and will not be contested. i want to cross over to our white house correspondent mike memoli is in brussels. do you ever any hint as to the holdup or any news operations in there. the secretary of state is in that room in nato headquarters waiting for that news conference to get underway. reporter: yeah, secretary tony blinken, someone who has been alongside biden the last two years is one of his advisors. the fact he s now in the room waiting along with the rest of us is significant. ....
Judiciaries. all of those are on the agenda. that s how the alliance can still produce for the challenges of our time and deliver for our needs and the needs of our people. this is going to be looked at 25 years from now as whether or not we stepped up to the challenge. because there is a lot of autocr autocracies that are counting on them to move more accurately than other democracies can. we re going to hopefully prove them wrong. now i ll take some questions. celia vega of abc. reporter: thank you so much, sir. good evening. with things that came up about eruption today, i want to ask you two questions on that front. ....
Not before, about what the discussion will entail. nancy corder, cbs. reporter: thank you, mr. president. i also have two questions about vladimir putin. the first is, have any of the world leaders you met with this week expressed concern that by meeting with president putin this early in your presidency, it will look like you re rewarding him? what s the second question. reporter: the second question is what it will mean for the u.s.-russia relationship if alexei navalny were to die or be killed in prison. every world leader here as a member of nato that spoke today, and most of them mentioned it, thanked me for meeting with putin now. every single one. ....
Mike, it s 90 minutes past when this press conference was supposed to get underway. do we have any sense of why the delay is happening, and more importantly, what can we expect out of this news conference? reporter: well, eamon, i can t help but think as we ve been covering this trip, the first foreign trip the president has taken since assuming office. this is the first time he s really had an opportunity to meet one on one, face to face with a smaller group in cornwall, the g7, now a larger group, 30 heads of government from nato countries plus other related officials in the eu summit tomorrow. while we re trying to explain what has indeed been a very long delay, one of the surest explanations is the president is taking every opportunity he can to have some meetings on the sidelines. looking back at what has already been a fairly full day for this ....