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Way if they continue breaking international norms. after that solar winds microsoft hack a few months ago, there were some sanctions that were put in place. and that is joe biden s style. it is more sanctions after the fact as opposed to warning if you do something i am going to do this beforehand. steve: sure, peter, you know, in speaking about the press coverage, the world press coverage, there has been complaints from mainstream media about access to the president during this particular overseas trip, hasn t there? peter: yes. at the g-7 the media center was pretty far away from where the world leaders were. and then when we got to nato headquarters, the small travels press pool that was assigned to cover the president that day in brussels waited for almost two hours outside of a room where the president was meeting with the turkish president and they were not getting any updates. they didn t know what was going on in there until they looked on
Various news outlet talking about, you know, the differences between trump and putin and biden and putin. what we are learning is, the mainstream media is trump bad, biden good. oh, yeah, the difference in the coverage two u.s. summits between trump and putin, steve, as different as the two countries themselves when you compare it to the coverage of biden and putin. and it s basically it s blatant bias in broad daylight. this isn t surprising in the least. of course, given what we saw going up until election day contrasting coverage of biden and trump. the countless number of stories aimed at trump. the fact checks of it being impossible that a vaccine would be impossible before 2020. or the wuhan lab leak conspiracy that wasn t. russian bounty on u.s. troops that trump allowed to happen. or the contents of hunter s laptop being the product of russian disinformation. a lot of this goes back to russia. when we should be keeping our
Todd: coverage all morning long on fox & friends and coverage on the rest of the channels. fascinating day there in geneva. we don t know what we are ultimately going to get. we will talk about it a lot more going forward. wild day coming up. jillian: coverage continues right now. steve: good morning, everybody on this wednesday, june 16th, 2021, it is 6:00 here in new york city. it is 12:00 noon, high noon in geneva switzerland. looking life right there in essentially downtown central portions of geneva where russian president vladimir putin is expected to arrive this hour ahead of his summit later today with president biden. that s right, the two are going to meet face-to-face next hour. right, john roberts knows all that he joins us live from