With the meeting with Vladimir Putin. Arlette saenz is joining us. What do we expect . President biden made clear that an overarching message during this trip to europe will be ensuring that the u. S. Is shoring up its relations with allies while also putting adversaries like China And Russia on notice. Youll see that take place with that highstakes meeting one week from today when the president sits down with russian president Vladimir Putin. Just a few hours ago before the president left washington, d. C. , he told reporters what his goals for the trip are. Take a listen. Strengthening the alliance. Making it clear to Putin And China that europe and the united states are tight and the g7 is going to move. Reporter this is a carefully choreographed trip. At the start, the president will be focusing on those alliances. He will be traveling here to the Cornwall Area for the meeting with british prime minister boris johnson, as well as the G7 Summit over the course of the next few days.
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 abou
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 its 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 man
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