As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast to his predecessor. This all comes ahead of bidens highly anticipated meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin on wednesday in geneva. Lets begin with jeff zeleny live in brussels for us now. The president has already had some tough words just today for russia and china. What did he say . Reporter well, President Biden has been repeating that message everywhere he goes throughout his European Tour here about the rising aggression from russia and the rising threats from china. Hes doing the same thing here at nato headquarters. Hes in meetings right now behind me here at nato headquarters. The meetings are running long, were told, perhaps an hour long or so. That is generally a sign when World Leaders get together, some 30 or so here, they are having a variety of discussions on a variety of things. But russia and china, of course, key among them. The biggest pledge President Biden is trying to convoy is he believes in this transclick alliance. Hes trying to reaffirm americans commitment to the Military Line of course that President Trump when he was in office once threatened to remove the u. S. From nato. But earlier today as President Biden arrived here, he said this there is a growing recognition over the last couple years that we have new challenges, and we have russia that is not acting in a way that is consistent with what we had hoped as well as china. I want to make it clear, nato is critically important for u. S. Interests in and of itself. If there werent one, wed have to invent one. Reporter so President Biden clearly trying to steer the conversation. And for the first time when nato releases a strategic statement really of their meeting and plants, it will mention and plans, it will mention the rising threat and concern of china. That is essential. Everything is leading up to the meeting on wednesday in geneva with Vladimir Putin. I am told that President Biden is really having a conversation with every leader he meets here and, indeed, over the weekend talking about putin. Sort of get something input here. Hes trying to build a consensus as he moves into a geneva on wednesday. Behind the scenes, when hes not meeting with World Leaders, hes preparing for that summit. Kate . Absolutely. Jeff, thanks for the reporting. Appreciate it. For more, joining me is cnn political analyst david sanger. Hes of Course National security correspondent for the New York Times. David, first on the meeting thats going to be happening, we think this hour, President Biden meeting with the turkish president erdogan. When it comes to a meeting with president erdogan, it was put this way actually in the New York Times today, and i thought it was well put. I want to read it, how do you not lose turkey while you try to curb erdogan . How important is the answer to that question right now . Its pretty important because president erdogan is certainly the Problem Child of nato at this point. He has bought Russian Air Defense systems, hasnt fully deployed them yet. And expected the United States would continue to supply him with f35 fighter jets even though the russian air system is made to defeat the f35s. He has repressed descent, hes closed media in turkey. Hes basically in the biden world of democracies versus autocracies, hes hard on the cassi side. Theres no provision in the nato charter for throwing a country out. The u. S. Couldnt afford to if it wanted to because hes providing the air access we will need over afghanistan if things go bad after the u. S. Withdraws. Lets jump ahead to what this is all building toward, right. Bidens meeting with Vladimir Putin. In a new interview with nbc news, putin laughed when he was asked if he was a killer by the correspondent who he was speaking with, keir simmons, and also when asked, though, about the ransomware attacks, the u. S. Intelligence has said originated out of russia, wthat weve seen more and more of. I want to play what putin said. Mr. President , are you waging a cyber war against america . Translator where is the evidence . Where is proof . Its becoming farcical. We know it well. We have been accused of all kinds of things, election interference, cyberattacks, and so on and so forth, and not once, not one time did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. Just founded accusations. David, if this is how putin is responding to biden when theyre face to face, can biden get anywhere in Terms Of Making Quote Unquote Progress with russia . Its going to be hard. If you think about the past 70 years of meetings, first with soviet leaders and then with russian leaders, kate, theyve always been about Nuclear Weapons or had those in the background. The thing about Nuclear Weapons is weve always known where theyre located. We could count them. And you could see when they were launched. The problem with Cyber Weapons is you cant see them being developed, you cant verify whether theyve been dismantled. And its very difficult to prove at least in a public understandable way where they were launched from. Now we dont have any doubt that the svr, the most sophisticated of the russian intelligence agencies, was behind the solar winds with attack which was last discovered last december against american federal agencies, against corporations. The Ransomware Groups are harder to pin down, but we know many of them are based inside russia. But that doesnt mean the russian government was running them, and it makes denials like this all the easier. And so how do you get to an agreement to go limit, say, the targets and so forth if putin wont even admit that theyre harboring the hackers . I mean because as one u. S. Official had put it in terms of how biden is talking about this meeting, ahead of it as hes at the nato summit, the one official described it as what hes looking for is a stable and constructive relationship with russia, but also saying that well respond in the face of russias harmful activities. And im trying to figure out what really is possible here. Whats stable and constructive . Because its not like the u. S. Is never not having to respond to harmful actions by russia these days. Thats right. So stable and constructive is different than were going to reset relations. Were going to have some form of glass notes. Remember that phrase from early in the after the fall of the berlin wall. That were going to develop a friendship. What hes saying is, you know, all we want to develop are some guardrails to keep us from escalating into a worse conflict. So thats part of the problem. But the second problem is that while we have done many things to the russians, mostly financial sanctions after they annexed crimea in response to these cyberattacks, in response to the Manipulation Efforts in the 2016 election, the pace, the sophistication of the attacks has only increased. Whenever you talk about really raising the pain on the russians, which would mostly mean going after their oil and gas revenue, the concern is how do you get off that escalation ladder . What do you do when they come back harder, particularly since we live in the glassiest house, right . We live in an Internet World where its easy to get into a company, a gas pipeline, a beef manufacturer. Someplace that is not particularly hard. 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Attorney general Merrick Garland has just spoken out for the first time after it was revealed the Justice Department under former President Trump secretly seized phone and email records of reporters at major media organizations, massive amounts of data. Garlands statement comes just hours before he is set to meet with the leaders of cnn, the New York Times, and the washington post. It goes much further than that. Cnns paula reid is joining me now with more on this. Paula, tell us what the Attorney General said. Reporter kate, in his statement, the Attorney General says that there are important questions that need to be explored about how the trump Justice Department went about obtaining these records. Now just to underscore how extraordinary it is, its highly unusual to obtain lawmakers records like this outside of an investigation into corruption. In the course of the Justice Department does frequently investigate leaks. The biggest question we have right now is what exactly happened. Why were these records seized . Who oversaw this . Who knew what when . Former attorneys general and the Deputy Attorney general, theyve denied being involved in many of these record requests. Going forward, according to the statement, the Deputy Attorney general, lisa monaco, she is going to be reviewing the Justice Departments procedure for obtaining records from lawmakers like this in the future. Now suggesting that the current procedures, whatever they may be, are inadequate and suggesting perhaps they were not followed in this particular case. Still so many questions. Were also reporting out another secret request for records from thenwhite House Counsel don mcghan. Again, extraordinary to secretly obtain the records of thenPresident Trumps top lawyer. And apple was barred from actually disclosing this until just this last may. To this point in our reporting, its not clear if mcghan was the target of an investigation or if his records were swept up in a larger request related to something different. What were seeing is this pattern of unusual requests in what appear to in some cases be leak investigations. But the Common Thread we see in all three of these instances is that these were people that thenPresident Trump were frustrated with. Democratic lawmakers, white House Counsel who resisted the former president s calls to fire thenspecial counsel. Its also very difficult to believe that when it comes to don mcghan that thenAttorney GeneralJeff Sessions and thenDeputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein wouldnt have known about a request for the white House Counsels records. But in talking with sources, there are some concerns that perhaps his information was swept up. That they didnt actually know who it was, whose information they had, and that wasnt actually disclosed until apple revealed it to their customer. I talked to a lot of former justice officials and said thats scary, thats going to be scary to a lot of americans. The fact that the white House Counsel doesnt have much protection when it comes to his records being swept up. Now of course were also investigating reporting on the requests for records from several journalists including our colleague, Barbara Starr, here at cnn. Later today, several several top officials from various News Organizations will be meeting with the Attorney General to discuss efforts to obtain reporters records. Paula, thank you so much for that. There is a lot to dig through here. Joining me for more on this is cnn legal analyst paul callen. Your reaction to the statement from the Attorney General, Merrick Garland, ahead of this meeting today. Well, you know, this entire situation is quite shocking from a legal standpoint. To think that the counsel to the president of the United States, trumps counsel, could be investigated, subpoenaed by the his own Justice Department is just an indication of how dangerous the situation is. I mean, if hes investigating his own counsel, what about american citizens . What about the congress . What about journalists around the country . This is far more dangerous than even when we saw during the Nixon Administration where he, of course, had his enemies list and was impeached. But he was never really charged with an abuse of the Subpoena Power to this extent. Speaker pelosi has said that it is beyond belief, in her view, that Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions and Attorney General bill barr under trump, of course, did not know about these subpoenas and this effort. Do you agree . Yeah. It is it is quite shocking that that would be the case. But just in terms of the way the American Power system, the American Government is structured, you have to remember that the president is the chief Law Enforcement officer in the country. And the Justice Department works for him. And his discretion is very, very wide. Hes only checked by the courts. But the courts have to know that its going on. And sometimes subpoenas are issued without judges even knowing about it. Because remember, prosecutors have the right to issue subpoenas without judicial consent in many situations. So when you have a president whos abusing his power, the system the way its set up now, its very difficult to control that except through impeachment or not reelecting him. And the secret courts are a category all of their own, as well. I mean, and seemingly every day we are learning of new subpoenas that this is getting broader and wider. And its whats still not clear, and paula was speaking to this, is who really was being targeted. Why they were being targeted. They were being targeted for a subpoena, but are they the target of an investigation . We know in Barbara Starrs circumstances, we know that she was not a target of an investigation. Why isnt the Justice Department explaining why cant the Justice Department explain the circumstances around this more . Certainly the Justice Department could explain it if they want to. Theres nothing prohibiting that. But the Justice Department likes to hold on to its ability to conduct secret investigations. Sometimes youre investigating intelligence matters, sometimes youre investigating mob figures. And for instance, if youre looking at their bank records or other kinds of records, you certainly dont want them to know that youre doing that as youre putting the case together. But of course in the situation that we have here where journalists like Barbara Starr and other people who kind of work for the Public Interest we always hope, unlike mob figures, theyre being treated pretty much the same way. And you know, the cnn example is a great example. Counsel to cnn, david vigilante, was issued a subpoena, and he was gagged, the subpoena said he couldnt even tell Barbara Starr or others at the network that the subpoena had been issued. And this went on for a long period of time. By the way, the penalty for violating that gag order could be years in prison. It could be a felony violation. So this is an area where you can have tremendous abuse of power, and i would hope the Justice Department will be more open about what went on in this case and whether we need more controls in these kinds of investigations. Yeah. What the controls would be, what Policy Change could be happening. It might be necessary in the Justice Department after this comes to light. Thank you very much. Thank you. Ahead, a potential Nuclear Disaster brewing in china. What the u. S. Government is watching now as some warn of an immine imminent radiological threat. 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This out of rockdon, illinois. You can see fire clearly huge presence on the scene as they try to figure out what to do about this fire at this particuChemical Plant. A new day and path forward for israel. This morning israels new government is getting to work after ousting the longest serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. There are real questions about how the new Prime Minister, neftali bennett, is going to move forward with his fragile coalition. Netanyahu for his part this morning is vowing to topple what he is calling a fraudulent government. It should sound familiar. Cnns Oren Liebermann is live in jerusalem with the very latest. Bennett is making clear that he wants to unite the nation. How is he going to do that . Reporter well he has the most Diverse Coalition in the history, kate. Eight parties from the right wing, the left wing, and first arab party to participate in an israeli government. He has to unite this coalition. He has to find Common Ground, for example, for a budget to work on the cost of housing, state and religion. All of these central issues that have been pushed to the side, this is what his coalition is built to deal with. This is how he will try to make a difference in what he calls a politics of unity, of working together in agreement, instead of discord and division. Meanwhile, Benjamin Netanyahu in his last speech as Prime Minister and his first speech as head of the opposition, said he would take down what he called a weak and dangerous government. He has been criticized in the past for sacrificing the u. S. israel relationship, especially the relationship of u. S. And the democrats, for his own political gain. That is criticism hes facing one again after he accused the Biden Administration of going into this nuclear deal with iran again and said he would work to stop it and nobodycle else can it about him. Translator the American Administration asked me ton make public our disagreements on the nuclear deal. With all due respect to our great friend and my personal friend for 40 years, president joe biden, i will not behave that way. Reporter as for how different the relationship already looks between the u. S. And israel, were seeing it just hours after neftali bennetts swearingin. A congratulatory message from President Biden, messages, as well, from the Secretary Of State and defense secretary. Then the first phone call between biden and bennett. That coming a short time after the swearingin. In contrast, it took biden nearly a month to call Benjamin Netanyahu after he was sworn in. So kate, youre already seeing the differences between the u. S. And israel as well as others. Absolutely. Thank you very much. I want to attorney a cnn exclusive report. Cnn is learning that the u. S. Government is assessing a possible leak at a Chinese Nuclear plant. A French Company that partly owns the plant and helps operate it is warning now of an imminent radiological threat. Cnns david culver is joining me now. Hes live in shanghai with these exclusive details. David, tell us more of your reporting. Reporter kate, its a bit frightening when you hear those words imminent radiological threat. Those words come from a waiver of Assistance Application that Cnns Zachary Cohen discovered through sources that came from this French Company that as you point out jointly operates the Chinese Nuclear power plant. Let me show where this is happening. Its in the south of china. Its guangdong province, more than 120 million people. It is a heavily populated and dense area. And what weve learned is that there is an increase in the radiation there. According to the sources talking to cnn, its an increase in fission gas, a natural byproduct that includes zenon come is radiological. The concern is the limits. According to the document, they accuse, the french that is that operate that plant, the chinese of raising the safety limits, and, thereby, causing potential harms. Thats the concern thats playing out right now. We have reached out to the chinese officials, the Foreign Ministry along with authorities in guangdong province. Weve not yet heard back. We should note its a long Holiday Weekend thats coming to an end here. Perhaps in the next 24 hours they will respond to this. The plant has responded, as well as the French Company that helps run it. They consider this to be under control in sorts, as theyre sort of paraphrasing this. They suggest, kate, that this is something that they can maintain, that they will find a resolution to it, and that it is operating within the safety parameters. The big issue is, though, lack of transparency that weve seen with the chinese in past incidents. Were wondering where this will go from here. Its going to be closely monitored not only by us but, of course, u. S. Officials keeping an eye on this. K kate . Transparency a huge issue once again. Thank you so much for that reporting. Coming up for us, new concerns about a Covid Variant surging right now in the united kingdom. Why it is leading officials there to likely delay their Reopening Plans and what this now means for the United States. Uno, dos, tres, cuatro [sfx] typing [music starts] [sfx] happy screaming [music ends] advanced nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer can change everything. But your first treatment could be a chemofree combination of two immunotherapies that works differently. It could mean a chance to live longer. Opdivo plus yervoy is for adults newly diagnosed with nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer that has spread, tests positive for pdl1, and does not have an abnormal egfr or alk gene. Its the only fdaapproved combination of two immunotherapies. Opdivo plus yervoy equals. A chance for more time together. More family time. 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Less than ten deaths in the last 24 hours, less than 8,000 cases. The problem is that at least when it comes to the case count, well, they have about doubled in just the past two weeks. Now the government, as you mentioned, is expected to delay the final phase of reopening by about four weeks. Not everybodys happy about it. You can probably hear the protesters outside the gates here at Downing Street that are making their voice heard about an issue that hasnt even officially been announced by the government just yet. That final phase of reopening would allow Sports Venues to operate at full capacities, theaters to do the same, nightclubs to reopen, and all of the limitations on social gatherings would melt away. Its all because of this Delta Variant. Thats why theyre delaying things. I want to show an animation of just how quickly that variant has spread across the uk. The map, you can see the darker the color, the higher proportion of the Delta Variant. We know that it spreads 64 quicker than the previously dominant strain, the uk or the alpha variant. And its accounting for about 90 of all of the new cases in the uk right now. And whats really concerning is vaccine efficacy. When it comes to people who just have one dose, myself included, the efficacy drops by about 17 when up against the new variant, even for people with two doses. The efficacy still high, about 81 . Thats 7 lower than it would have been against the old strains. And whats especially concerning is that a new study out just today shows that the new variant about doubles the risk of hospitalizations, as well. So this fourweek buffer that this government is bringing gives them a little bit more Breathing Room to get more shots in more arms. A second dose for older people. And at least some protection, one shot, for younger people which i should remind you that people under the age of 25 are still by and large not eligible to get even their first shot yet in this country. Important note. Thank you so much, scott. Appreciate it. Joining me is dr. Chris purple, Public Health physician and fellow at the American College of preventive medicine. Scott laid out, doctor, kind of what is happening in coming in the uk right now because of the Delta Variant. Just from your perspective, help us understand why the Delta Variant is so particularly concerning. Different from other variants i would say that the medical community has identified and flagged before. Yes, kate. There are three things that we want to be able to answer whenever were considering any variant. The first thing is is it more infectious. You hear scott say its more thats missible. Upwards of 60 of more transmissible. The second question we want to answer does it cause more severe disease. We dont have conclusive data on that yet, but if we look at what happened in india, we definitely have cause for concern. And then the third thing you want to be able to answer do our currently available vaccines work . And as scott also described, yes, they work, although it does invade the immunity somewhat. Yeah. And on the point of vaccines, if folks see that the vaccines are slightly less effective against this Covid Variant, someones going wonder should i get a vaccine in the face of this. Does it mean its not protect vaccines arent protecting us at all against this variant . Help us with that. No, it doesnt mean that. Remember, vaccines are most powerful because they prevent moderate and severe disease. Whats severe disease . Hospitalization and even death. So if you have an 80 efficacy or effectiveness rate against this particular Delta Variant, thats better than your natural Immune System could do against it. So if thats the Decision Rubric or the Decision Point that people are considering, youre safer with the vaccine. Maybe even more of a case to get the shot now that we can get this detail coming out. I want to play for you what former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb said about this variant. This is going to take over, and i think the risk is really to the fall that this could spike a new epidemic heading into the fall. In parts of the country where you have less vaccination, particularly in parts of the south where you have some cities where Vaccination Rates are low, theres a risk that you could see outbreaks with this new variant. So what do you think all of this means for the United States then . I agree. So through the summer i think by and large well be safe. When i say well be safe meaning that we wont have a widespread outbreak. Unvaccinated people, though, you dont have a different risk level for most parts, especially if youre living in geographic regions where considerable part of the population isnt vaccinated. Once we go into the fall, the cooler temperatures, and people go back indoors, thats when we need to know that were protected. Thats when those vaccines are going to matter more than ever. Great point. Doctor, thank you so much. Thanks. Coming up for us, President Biden declared today to european allies americas there. Thats how he said it. Essentially, america has your back. Is that enough to reverse four years of Donald Trumps turn your back Foreign Policy . Monitor, check and lock down you money with security from chase. Control feels good. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about well, the names have all changed since you hung around welcome back, america. It sure is good to see you. New projects means new project managers. You need to hire. 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The United States is there. That is President Biden just this morning. A statement that seems intent on trying to reassure allies of the United States commitment to nato. It could also be a statement on bidens intention for his entire overseas trip and his entire presidency more broadly. What imprint will biden leave on the world and what does it mean for the u. S. Foreign policy legacy . Joining me is president ial historian Douglas Brinkley for more on this. Doug, it seems clear biden is trying to send a message as he has said more than once that america is back. What does that mean, though, for these historical alliances, that message . Well, it is the slogan that joe bidens going to be remembered for, and this is a very important trip to reintroduce himself to the world. And you know, so far its been an amazing journey for joe biden. When he landed in the united kingdom, he wassen braced with open arms was embraced with open arms. He spoke to american troops. He had a great session with the queen. Boris johnson and joe biden have seemed to bond somewhat, although it may not go down in history like roosevelt and churchill or reagan and thatcher. It went well considering that Boris Johnson was one of the leading architects of brexit, and that wasnt u. S. Policy. And then at the European Union countries seemed to just want to be with biden every minute, embraced him as one of their own. The nato discussions are going along perfectly. So bidens got a strong trip going on right now. So it does not want to get trip wired by Vladimir Putin. He needs to stay on the offense, stay upbeat, be the person of change in the world and hope. And do a lot of the discussions with putin behind the scenes. He does not want to go home with a blemish on this first Foreign Policy adventure. It is also clear, of course, that biden is trying to make a clean break from the approach in both style and substance from donald trump. Let me play some examples. Mr. President [ inaudible questions ] we do not nato as a protection racket. We believe that nato is vital to our ability to maintain American Security for the next part of the century. Many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back where theyre delinquent. And, of course, no one can forget when donald trump pushed the Prime Minister of montenegros side at the summit. Contrasted with President Biden elbow bumping. At this years summit. Looking at history, when there is a major break with allies does it take just one summit to fix whats been broken . I dont think it takes just one but joe and jill biden are on an offensive journey right now. Theyre reminding People America is back. Nato has been the center piece, the atlantic alliance, all the way from the Truman Administration to biden, the one weird person, president , was donald trump. So there is memory in europe, and theyre hoping that trump was some kind of aberration whos going away. The fear is we see donald trump from maralago making noise, the fact that he may be republican nominee in a few years would make European Countries perhaps a little hesitant to believe fully that america is back to its new multilateral, pronato, proEuropean Union posture. But thus farther just really could not be treating the bidens more warmly and theyre just very glad to have a semblance of what they remembered as the old post world war ii america. You mentioned the putin meeting. His meeting with putin, bidens on wednesday, we know that the meeting and Press Conference that hell be holding solo will be different than that of President Trumps. We also know very clearly that that was a defining moment in trumps presidency, when that went down. Do you think this meeting between biden and putin could be as defining . I do think it could be as defining. The differences why, you know, donald trump kind of slobbered all over putin, treated him as sort of a global folk hero, somebody he wanted to emulate as the strong man. Biden in this case has to go after, why are you arresting journalists to putin . Why are you putting Political Prisoners away . Why are you breaking treaty laws with the arctic . Common ground, looking at u. S. , china, russia, what can russia and the u. S. Do with china . And then the other Common Ground is covid, maybe russia can help the uk, u. S. Effort to disseminate vaccines. There will be some positives coming out of this very frosty relationship. Yeah. Good to see you, doug, thank you very much. Thanks, kate. Coming up, President Biden will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of the nato summit in brussels. Well bring that to you live next. Another day, another chance. It could be the day you break the sales record, or the day theres appointments nonstop. 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Vice president Kamala Harris is on the road again this morning, she just landed in South Carolina to visit a popup vaccination site but the trip comes at an interesting moment for the Vice President. Shes facing criticism still over her most recent trip to Central America and what some have called a fumble to a politically sensitive question. You havent been to the border . And i havent been to europe. I dont understand the point youre making. I said im going to go to the border when are you going to the border, Vice President . The administration has asked im not finished. Ive said im going to the border. Those answers, not what some within the white house say now that they had prepared the vp for. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is here with new reporting about all of that. What are your sources tell i dont go uh, jeremy . Reporter well, listen, kate, several allies and former aides to the Vice President told me and my colleague Jasmine Wright last week they had flashbacks watching that interview between the Vice President and nbc news. They see this as messaging challenges the Vice President has had stemming all the way back to her 2020 president ial campaign. It came after harris participated in a Media Training session in midapril focused on improving her delivery and presentation in interviews and in speeches. So its clear that even though the Vice President s team says they do not see a more systemic problem, they see this as a misstep thats being overblown in their view by the media and my republicans but its clear she and her team see an opportunity to finesse her performance by participating in Media Trainings which shes taken part in since joining the democratic ticket last summer. The Vice President s team, they say she is focused not on the criticism shes facing over that trip and some of her answers there but instead focused on doing the work. Thats where we find the Vice President today as she will be visiting a popup vaccination site, rallying some Community Organizers who are going to go out and share the word about the safety and efficacy of this Coronavirus Vaccine to try and pump up vaccine rates. In this state of South Carolina, which is lagging about ten points behind the National Average in terms of Vaccination Rates. Kate. Jeremy, thank you so much and thank you all so much for joining us at this hour. John king picks up our coverage now. Hello, everybody, welcome to inside politics, im john king in washington, Thanks For Sharing A Busy Day with us, President Biden meeting on the sidelines of the nato summit with turkeys president. The show of unity sets the stage