Past few days here in europe telling people he thinks america is back. As in he think thinks the u. S. Has seen as stronger on the world stage now that he has been elected president and he is putting a premium on alliances like nato. America. Very good for america. Essential for america. Peter: surrounded by nato allies. The president seemed to be in good spirits. It looks like the first day back at school seeing all your old friends again. Most of the time. For example, he didn t have much to say after a private meeting with the turkish president erdogan with whom he has significant policy differences. We couldn t hear you, sir. I didn t say anything. Peter: russian aggression appears to russia s most aggressive challenge. We have russia that is not acting in a way that is consistent with what we had hoped as well as china. Peter: so a lot has changed in a decade. Last time nato put together a strategic plan 2010 when russia was considered a partner and china wasn t even mentioned. Pe
as we come on the air, we re live in brussels. but the focus is on his next stop with 48 hours to go before the president sits down face to face with vladimir putin. before he does we did. keir simmons with a brand new peace. you will only see it on this show. president putin getting testy when being pressed. will you commit to sending no more troops into ukraiian soviet territory? wait until you hear what he had to say about that. we have keir simmons live in moscow with more of his exchew sieve interview. we also have make memoli. keir, good morning to you and boy this was a ride ranging interview, significant on a number of fronts including this issue that you ask i d him about ukraine. yes, we were trying to understand what his strategy is. his strategy is to attack, negotiate, attack, negotiate. arrest americans and then try to negotiate a trade. what it appears to be is talking about troops and then i want to talk about nato. he also talks about history and resent
Before. I have never read about anything like this before happening in american politics, in government. As far as we know, nothing like this has ever happened before. But the new york times says tonight that it has, and the consequences remain to be seen. All right. Let me spell this out. You may have read over the last couple of weeks newly reported revelations about the justice department under donald trump secretly obtaining the communications of a number of reporters, journalists from cnn, from the washington post, from the new york times. Reporters communications seized by the trump justice department secretly. And those communications that the trump justice department went after, they were all from 2017. The trump administration was frantically trying to find out who the sources were for those reporters when they were writing stories about the early days of the trump administration and the 2016 campaign. Now, the reason this has come out now, the reason all of these stories abo
Seen. Let me spell this out. You may have read over the last couple weeks, newly reported revelations about the justice department under donald trump secretly obtaining the communications of a number of reporters, journalists from cnn, from the washington post, from the new york times, reporters communications seized by the trump justice department secretly, and those communications the trump justice department went after, they were all from 2017. The trump administration was frantically trying to find out who is sources where for those reporters, when they were writing stories about the early days of the trump administration and the 2016 campaign. The reason this has come out now, the reason all these stories, first washington post then cnn, that we know the new york times, the reason it s come out has been, i think, in part, because of the change in administration. The reporters who had their communications searched by the justice department which was hunting for their sources, in ma
The way he shall we say, stirred things up, but either way, for the last few years, any time the american president got on a plane to go abroad, we all kind of involuntarily tensed up. Bracing for whatever was going to happen this time. So it may take us a little time to get used to reports like these. Biden causes sighs of relief among world leaders. U. S. Allies enthusiastically welcome biden to a gathering of world leaders. Biden was greeted with delight by leaders at the group of seven gathering. Yes, delight. Why wouldn t they be delighted? even if they don t see eye to eye with joe biden on everything, they re ate least pretty well guaranteed to be spared the small indigniies visited on leaders by the previous president, like the weirdly long violent hand shake that nearly took the arm off the japanese prime minister to whurned to his staff once he was released with a look that was either relief or, get me the heck out of here. Or there was the weird nonhand shake with the german