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Crane. actually generate a democratically elected and not corrupt led by oligarchies in any of the region s nation. i pointed out to them when i made that speech that they will go down in history as the founding fathers of ukraine if they do that. they have more to do. that does not justify the fact they have more to do. russia taking aggressive action and we re going to put ukraine in a position to maintain their physical security. thank you very much. sorry you re here so late. thank you very much. you ve been listening to president biden answering questions from reporters after meeting with allies abroad and ....
Generally. you ve had a number of meetings with president biden and president biden soliciting those meetings, making clear to the members of nato with that looming meeting with president putin, he wants to know their issues and take them into meeting. essentially have everybody in nato, which was created in large part to counter the soviet union and has since been used as a buffer, particularly for european countries within the sights of russia, he wants everybody to have a stake in this meeting. if you think back to the g-7, into nato, the uscu president, the president wants to what you can into that meeting in geneva and say, i m not here alone, i m not here in isolation, i m representing a western democratic alliance to some degree. the interesting part about his preparation, one, it s been going on for weeks. two, over the course of his trip, earlier in cornerwall, now in belgium, you ve had pretty ....
Engage at high levels in moscow with their counterparts. i think it s a shame, you know, mentioning ambassadors that we currently don t have any ambassadors to nato countries. we have got to get more ambassadors in the field and president biden has certainly been slow in getting out those names to congress and getting our people in the field. you know, obviously, vladimir putin is famous for his what-aboutism. he just engaged in it again today. he sat down with nbc and he tried to say that alexei navalny, opposition leader who has been on a hunger strike, who s been jailed, poisoned, is the same as the insurrectionists who came to try to overthrow the election, the trump supporters, who were trying to overthrow the election and hang mike pence. and anybody who deals in facts and nuance, it s laughable, with his what-aboutism, but when he does that with president biden, as he wants to do in a meeting, ....
But we couldn t do it without you. thank you, san francisco. gracias, san francisco. -thank you. -[ speaks native language ] let s keep making a differene together. this is cnn breaking news. our brand-new hour. it s good to be with you. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. president biden is at the nato summit in brussels. we do expect him to take questions from the press at any moment. we re told he s been delayed because of several high-level meetings with other leaders. it has been a very busy day. president biden met with his turkish counterpart and also sources tell cnn that the ....
Phil mattingly for us in brussels. thank you. let me add to the list of issues we know president biden will confront vladimir putin about, are the two americans imprisoned in america. one is a u.s. marine, trevor reed, who has been held since 2019. a russian court sentenced him to nine months in prison after an altercation with russian police. reed denies the charges. now we re hearing from trevor reed from his own voice. while sick with covid, the letter reads, in part, i ve got a little pain in my lungs. also i suffer from cough from time to time. i have lost a few kilograms in weight. russian president vladimir putin was asked about reed s imprisonment. here s what he said. your guy, the marine, is just a drunk and a troublemaker. as they say here, he got himself [ bleep ] and started a fight. ....