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Jeopardy. Israel bombs gaza days after a new government takes shape. What led to this latest flareup of violence. Welcome to the lead. Im pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we begin today with our world lead, and this historic highstakes summit president President Joe Biden and russian president vladimir putin. The summit lasted roughly three hours with both leaders describing it as constructive and positive. They said there were no threats or ultimatums, and putin called biden balanced, professional and experienced. I did what i came to do. The tone of the entire meetings, i guess it was a total of four hours, was what was was good, positive. There wasnt any any strident action taken. Where we disagreed, disagreed, stated where it was and where he disagreed it was stated but it was not done in a hyperbolic atmosphere. Translator the meeting was actually very efficient. It was substantive. It was specific. And it was aimed at achieving results. One of those results, axes from the u. S. And russia will return to their diplomatic posts, but when it came to controversial everyone use like Cyber Security, human rights and ukraine, putin remained defensive. Cnns Kaitlan Collins reports from the site of the summit in geneva. Reporter President Biden summing up his first summit with President Putin. I did what i came here to do. Reporter the do you met for three hours in geneva and cited progress on their way out. Translator the talks were quite constructive. The tone of the entire meetings, i guess it was a total of four hours, was was good, positive. Reporter but it was clear that divisions on Critical Issues like Cyber Attacks and human rights remained. The bottom line is i told president pete than we need to have some basic rules of the road we can all abide by. Reporter putin summed up the summit first, praising biden while denying any role in recent Ransomware Attacks and brushing off concerns about jailing his political opponents. Translator they have said that most of the Cyber Attacks in the world are carried out from the cyber realm of the United States. Reporter biden said he pressed putin on multiple fronts and would continue to do so. I also told him that no president of the United States could keep faith with the American People if they did not speak out to defend our democratic values, to stand up for the universal and fundamental freedoms that all men and women have in our view. Thats just part of the downavrks our country. Reporter biden expressing confidence that putin would not continue to ratchet up tensions with the u. S. The last thing he wants now is a cold war. Reporter the two agreed to send their respective ambassadors back to their countries in an attempt to establish guardrails on Cyber Attacks. I talked about the proposition that certain Critical Infrastructure should be off limits to attack, period. By cyber or any other means. Reporter at times biden rebuked his russian counterpart after he acquitted jailing political opponents to arresting rioters who stormed the capitol. As to who is killing whom or throwing whom in jail, people came to the u. S. Congress with political demands. 400 people. My response is kind of what i communicated, that i think thats a thats a ridiculous comparison. Reporter biden saying they will know in three to six months if there can be a productive dialogue but growing visibly action when asked if it would real to real change from the russian confident leader. Why are you so confident hell change his behavior, mr. President . How confident are you . What do you when did i say i was confident . I said i said what i said was lets get it straight. I said what will change the behavior is that the rest of the world reacts and diminishes standing in the world. I owe my last questioner an apology. I shouldnt have been such a wiseguy with the answer that i gave. Reporter now, pam, back to what was actually discussed Behind Closed Doors at this summit when the came to the Cyber Attacks, President Biden told that is there were no threats made as they were meeting, but he said that the u. S. Is fully capable of responding with its own Cyber Attacks and he believes the russian president knows that. Kaitlan, stay with us. Lets bring in cnn chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward, abby philip. Clarissa, lets start with you. Boyden and putin talked about this meeting positively but biden said hes not confident putin will change his behavior. What was your takeaway . I think none of us should expect President Putin to change his behavior. Hes modeled himself as an adversely to the west and that wont change. The me terrific expectation that we were given by people who watch and follow the creme lip closely ahead of the summit was they were hoping for a relationship that was respectful but hostile. No one is talking about adjusting fundamental behaviors but what they sang from the same hymn sheet is the element of predictability in the relationship with the hopes that a further degradation of relations can be prevented and given some of the areas that they outlined there talking about syria, humanitarian corridor, iran nuclear negotiations, afghanistan, a potential prisoner swap die hog, Cyber Security dialogue, it does appear that possibly, if both sides are committed to it, there could be room for an improvement in the relationship, but i dont think either side is expecting anyone to dramatically change their behavior. This is about averting a further deterioration. And as President Biden said we wont know more until the next six months, right . Ambassador, we dont know what will actually come from this meeting until we see how these working groups meet together and what comes out of that. Biden said that he raised human rights issues, of course, like the Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny and when asked about this putin turned it right back on the u. S. Translator look at the streets of america. Every single day there are shootings and killings. You dont have time to do the math of those shot dead after the murder or the killing of the africanamerican and black lives matter ensued. We sympathize with the americans, but we do not wish that this kind of thing should happen on our territory. President biden called this a ridiculous comparison, but what do you make of this moment . I think President Biden was exactly right, a ridiculous comparison, but what you said earlier is important, pamela, and that there will be a way to measure if theres anything good coming out of this. They were remarkably specific. I think President Putin was specific and i thought President Biden was surprisingly so on listing the number of things that he had raised with the putin, like 16 parts of the from a frost United States that should be off limits. Including energy and water. Energy and water, talking about Election Interference, someone mentioned the humanitarian quarters. They also mentioned ukraine, of some interest to me. Of course. And im very glad to hear them talking about the possibility of the United States playing a bigger role there in ukraine, so i was impressed with at least President Bidens specific list of actions. And are you actually hopeful that anything will come out of it . Hopeful is too strong. I think theres a lot to be skeptical about when youre dealing with the russians. Mmhmm. However, if in six months we see a a group of people sitting down talking about strategic stability. Talking about nuclear weapons, talking about the new technologies that President Biden talked about, and he said they got fairly specific about Rapid Response times. They are talking about very fast weapons, so apparently they got pretty specific. If those translate into some real talks that get to real discussions and negotiations on a new s. T. A. R. T. Treating that they got five years that goes pretty quickly, that would be a good sign. And as you mentioned one of the topics, abby, was Election Interference. President biden said he brought that up and told pete continue it happens again there will be action. The bottom line as we know theres already been action from the u. S. On that front and it hasnt deterred russian behavior. Is that enough . Yeah. I think biden knows that its not enough. Hes pretty pretty transparent that this was a warning that he knows is probably going to fall on deaf ears to some extent, but its one that he felt needed to be said, both as a former contrast with the Prior Administration but also as he said not just in the context of Election Interference but also on human rights as a statement of American Values about what he expects out of russia. I dont think the white house believes that putin is is suddenly going to throw up his hands and say hey, were not going to do this anymore but the idea that an american president would allow it to go forward without challenging it and in the case of former President Trump taking putins version of events, its something that i think the Biden Administration felt that they could not let that stand. Reporter kaitlan, the white house wanted to keep expectations low. Biden repeatedly said his Goal Bass Stability and predictability from russia. Does it appear to you that boyden got that . I do think that they tried to keep the expectations low because they knew going into this they werent going walk out of this with a 180 in putins behavior, but the question is what will happen down the road . Hes not changed his behavior down the road before. We saw this when it comes to the Solar Winds Hack which was responded to with u. S. Sanctions and everything that followed there, and yet we know that that behavior from russia continued. Its not just in addition to the Ransomware Attacks that the white house says it being done by criminal groups based in russia and russia is harboring those, of course, and would want to stop them if they wanted to. Thats the thinking inside the white house, so i think the ultimate question about whether or not they change their behavior really remains to be seen and if they modify in a way because they know its a different president in the white house who does take a different approach than what we saw from the predecessor. Putin was dealing with someone very different the last four years but, still, there were sanctions that happened under that, and. Has said that they will continue to do that, if necessary. The question is if the sanctions actually deter russian aggression and that behavior. One thing that is really notable that came out of this that could have been real bad is the fact that the ambassadors will go back to the post. The respective ambassadors to the u. S. And russia have been back in their home country, pam, for the last several months after tensions got really high between the u. S. And russia in april and they were going to go back, they said, they never did before the summit actually happened and now putin said and the white house confirmed that they will be returning to their countries. Certainly some progress on that front. Clariesia, this Morning Biden made reference to the u. S. And russia as two great powers. This type of language obviously elevates moscow status. Do you think that that was intentional on bidens part to say what petein wanted to hear and set a more positive tone heading into the day . I think i think President Biden made several conciliatory gestures to President Putin ahead of this conference. One of them was referring to him as a worthy adversely. He called him bright, i believe, and so he also said in the Press Conference that he gave after the nato summit in brussels, he talked about the idea, that you know, ukraine was not on track yet to join nato, that that is not something thats going to happen imminently. That would be very important for the russians to have heard, and back in may the Biden Administration actually waved sanctions on this nordstream pipeline, a concern for many people in the u. S. Administration, not seen as just a concession to germany but also as a way of trying to diffuse the situation slightly with the russians and perhaps make it clear that the agenda is not one of hostility, and we heard that again from President Biden today. He said, quote, my agenda is not against russia. Its for america. Its not against russia. Thats a distinction. I dont think he was successful in persuading President Putin that have because if you listen to points Press Conference he said again and again the u. S. Sees russia as an enemy, and the goal is not to strengthen russia but to contain it. This has always been very much the russian mindset, particularly, of course, in the last ten years or so, and i i dont think that thats changed, but i do think that with small gestures and words there was an attempt to pave the way for a more positive conversation from the Biden Administration. Mr. Ambassador, do you agree . I agree, although i would say that several of those steps were not taken. For example, the nordstream waiver, the waiver that allows nordstream apparently to go forward. I dont think that was a concession to the russians. I think that was an attempt to shore up an ally. In my own view it was a mistake. I think they should have continued the sanctions on nordstream, but i can understand them wanting to have a better relationship with the germans and that was the motivation. That said, i dont think there was an intent to be hostile to the russians or to President Putin. I think it was cord fall. It was businesslike, and that was a good thing. Abby, you had mentioned the comparison with the helsinki summit. How much do you think that this summit was about setting a new tone . Yeah. With President Putin and just laying out, because you heard President Biden talk about, you know, telling putin about the more or less and values and founding of this country. How much of this do you think was about setting a new tone . Yeah, i think a lot of it was. The tone was maybe, you know, 30 of the picture here. I think the rest of it really was just trying to hammer out some very discreet details that they wanted to get some kind of, you know, agreement to move forward on so that they could say coming out of this, that this wasnt just about the optics and smoke and mirrors. You got a sense from putin in his Press Conference that he believed that this was more or less all business and for joe biden thats a big deal. As you know, pam, joe biden is a people person. He likes to kind of, you know, do the small talk thing, but this was a pretty businesslike environment. It was efficient. It went fairly quickly for these types of meetings, and its because the United States wanted to have certain things, those 16 targets that they want to take off the table. That was very explicit and deliberate and concrete, something to come out of all of this, not just the idea that if theres a tonal change, that part was pretty obvious, and i think in some cases from the putin side maybe a little bit welcome. He understands biden hand how he operates and biden is a seasoned actor on the world stage. Just the fact that putin brought up bidens mom and biden made reference to that again and biden call it colloquial. All right. Thank you all so much. Well, much more on the summit, including President Bidens warning to future about top Credit Lynn Creditic Alexei Navalny. Thats next. Ee for herself that new Dove Breakage remedy gives damaged hair the strengthth it needs. Even with repeated combing hair treated with dove shows 97 less breakage. Strong hair with new Dove Breakage remedy. One, two one, two, three only pay for what you need with customized Car Insurance from Liberty Mutual shows 97 less breakage. Nothing rhymes with Liberty Mutual. 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He is somebody who has been twice convicted, and he consciously ignored the requirements of the law. Lets go back to cnns Clarissa Ward in geneva. Clarissa, youve been covering the navalny story for months. What did you make of putins answer . I thought it was very interesting. I thought it was the first time that weve ever heard putin try to stay explicitly that navalny deliberately broke the law by coming back to russia, that he somehow had consciously done that. That it was an act of provocation. Lets be clear, navalny understood the risks of going back to russia, ie, i even pushed him on that back in december. He understood he would be arrested but it certainly wasnt his objective or goal, and he was, rightly or wrongly, actually optimistic that perhaps there would be some way to avoid that happening. I think more broadly speaking, if were talking about the tone that we heard from President Putin today with regards to Alexei Navalny, i dont think it will have been much comfort to any of navalnys supporters. Clearly President Putin is sticking to his guns and he went so far as to compare the Opposition Leader to the rioters who staged the insurrection on january 6th in the u. S. Capitol which, of course, is preposterous on many levels and a false equivalent and navalny hasnt engaged in any illegal activity or any obvious illegal activity beyond what russian courts might find so its unclear to me, nor is he engaged in any violent activity. There you heard it from putin with the classic what aboutism essentially telling President Biden to back off on this topic because, as he calls them, the unauthorized opposition in your country are as bad if not worse thanmileperhour, and we dont want to have the same problem as you is what he said. Yeah, thats typical putin to put it right back on the u. S. Boyden was asked about his message to putin on navalny. Lets listen. I made it clear to him that i believe the consequences of that would be devastating for russia. So what do you think . Will that have any impact at all on putin and his handling of navalny . Its really difficult to say. I mean, certainly in general putin doesnt seem to respond well to ultimatums or threats. The u. S. Has said on several occasions now that, you know, it will be a disaster if Alexei Navalny ties while hes in russian custody and he did nearly die at one point when he was on Hunger Strike protesting the fact that he wasnt getting any real medical attention from a number of problems after being poisoned last august. If you look at the broader context of whats happened with navalny over the last years of particularly, of course, since his poisoning, it doesnt really seem that putin is going to change his Attorney Generals and the u. S. Sanctions that were leveled against certain kremlin officials as a result of navalnys poisoning were really seen by the kremlin as being largely symbolic rather than having any real teeth, and so my guess is that the kremlin believes on a fundamental level that even though the United States government and President Biden are always going to talk tough on issues of human rights and the issue of other issues they will concede that theres a line essentially that they are unwilling to cross with regards to what putin would call his domestic political internal affairs. So as you point out, theres not much optimism when it comes to navalny, but what about the families of Americans Trevor Reed and paul wayland . Do you think that they found any comfort in todays meeting . I mean, i can imagine theres at least comfort in knowing that a dialogue may begin, and it sounded optimistic and positive on that side. What actually will happen as a result of this dialogue remains to be seen. Its its got to be understood this whole summit in the context of this is the beginning point. This is the start. This is the easy bit in a strange sense, ham. Now the hard bit begins which is getting those two parties to continue the hard work of continuing this dialogue, of hashing out compromises, of agreeing upon areas of much restraint and thats not easy. For the thing that President Putin is asking for in return of releasing these americans is to release a hardened arms dealer victor butte. Thats also going to be a real tall order for the u. S. To comply with that. Its a positive start. Its good to start the dialogue. Im sure the families find some comfort in that, but theres a lot of work to be done yet. Clarissa ward. Thank you so much. Well, one thing the two leaders focused on, the war going on right now in cyber space, but will the russian threat diminish . Ill talk with two of the worlds top intelligent experts. New dove Men Deodorant is different. 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Cyber attacks and Cyber Security front and center during todays meeting between President Biden and russian President Putin. Biden told his russian counterpart that certain areas of Critical Infrastructure should be off limits. When i talked about the pipeline that cyber hit, that ransomwear hit in the united sates, i looked at him and said how would you feel if ransomware took on the pipelines from your oil fields . He said it would matter. This is not about just our selfinterests. Its about a mutual selfinterest. Here to discuss is former director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former cia chief of russia oper oper oper operations iefer. Do you think that kind of approach will work . I think he thought about it, but im sure for putin that can be backed up with some specific action that could really get his attention so if we actually took an action similar to what occurred to us with the pointline or the meat processing, but i think overall the the summit i had very low expectations about it. It was a success, at least in tone and form if not substance. The substance remains to be seen, you know, whether any of this will actually come to pass, particularly with respect to cyber. How do you see it, john . I dont think theres going to be big changes. I do think putin has had a little bit of a weapon he can use here because on Cyber Attacks he can turn that up and turn that down in a way that the United States cant because he has his intelligence that can do statesponsored attacks and then he has the private groups that he claims he has no control over. They may not be statesponsored but certainly they are stateenabled because they are allowed to go after western targets so he can turn that up and down. If he wants to ratchet that down a little bit he can push back but part of the problem is the russian system is very corrupt and those hackers or the people in those Security Services can make money on the side. They may continue even if President Putin doesnt want them to. Lets talk about that because President Biden outlined 16 specific entities including energy and water, for example, that should be out of bounds for cyber warfare with russia. Is it realistic to believe that the russians after this summit will stop targeting those areas, and if they dont, what will that say about President Biden and having this meeting with putin and what it was all about . Well, maybe the reading Between The Lines is espionage, you know, Passive Collection Is is permissible because we both do that. I think what the president is getting at is actually interfering with disrupting or even destroying a part of our Critical Infrastructure, and thats thats a red line. I think thats the way he presented it. Now, if if the russians cross that red line, the issue is what are we going to do about it, and that all that remains to be seen. Do you think it was strategic then that there wasnt any overt action offer the Colonial Pipeline and the jbs to lay out these 16 areas. There may have been a pause perhaps in in the runup to this meeting. The question for me is what happens now. If we have another such attack along the lines of the pipeline or meat processing, and then, you know, the u. S. Has an issue to deal with. And if that happens, which it sounds like, john, you think it very well could. Well, i dont think those agreements mean much of themselves. Weve had tons of agreements with the russians. They are existing szish agreements with the russians and they just flaunt them. It will be a matter of what kind of pushback there will be, so maybe to try to get some other things pushed back on his domestic issues or something pete will be try to ratchet back things here on the Ransomware Attacks, but he is still going to do things his superpower is disruption, right, so this is one way that he can influence things because i dont think the United States and the west would pay alleges of attention to russia if they werent using these sort of tools of disruption, so this is something that he can ramp up up and ratchet down. I think hell try to ratchet it down in the near term and unless we follow up our words with action i think there will continue to be Cyber Attacks. Its interesting that that came up with the Press Conference with President Biden that putin is known as a disrupter and biden made clear that he would try to convey to putin its in your best interest and in your best interest to stop those kinds of attacks. Do you think that that was effect sniff. Well, that remains to be seep. John is more the expert than i am, but well just have to see. I dont think basically putin is going to change his stripes just because of this meeting. He if he does change behavior or cause a change in behavior, particularly with respect to Cyber Attacks, it will be because he decided that at least for the time being is in russias best interest. James clapper and john sipher, thank you both. Thanks, pam. Thank you. Coming up, as a new Covid Variant rapidly spreads in the u. S. Ill ask a former top biden aide on the pandemic about its impact on all of us. Stay with us. If you have this. Consider adding this. An aarp Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan from unitedhealthcare. Medicare supplement plans help by paying some of what medicare doesnt. And let you see any doctor. Any specialist. Anywhere in the u. S. Who accepts medicare patients. So if you have this. Consider adding this. Call unitedhealthcare today for your free decision guide. 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Weve got the vaccines in one lane and they have been coming along pretty good but the virus is ration, too, and now theres a new horse on the track called delta, and its coming up fast, and our best chance is to really activate this Vaccination System to get us to the point where the virus is going to lose which is what we all want. Former Biden White House senior veras for Covid Response and author of the book preventable andy slavic joins me now. How concerning is this new Delta Variant . Well, if you havent been vaccinated or live in a community where theres a lot of people who havent been vaccinated this is a more virulent strain. This is like covid on steroids. You can be around people for less time and still get exposed so its yet another reason why people should, if they havent been vaccinated, should think about getting vaccinated. If you have been vaccinated you have very little to worry about. But if we dont reach a majority of americans being vaccinated and these mutations continue to spread, what does that mean for People Like Us who are vaccinated . Its not a good thing for this virus to spread whether in the u. S. Or whether overseas, and we do have to vaccinate the globe more quickly. So, you know, the people out there who are thinking do i want to, i do not want to get vaccinated, is it a low priority or high priority, i hope this sends the message if youre living in a country overseas you would have the opportunity to get vaccinated quickly but here the Biden Administration has got to procure the vaccines. Weve put them in locations where people can reach them, and, you know, i would encourage people to talk to your physician and have them review with you all the questions you will have because youll make the decision that it makes a lot of sense to get vaccinated. How likely of a scenario is it for the new variants to spread and america would have to reverse close and have to close the country back up . Whats the likelihood of Something Like that happening . Does that concern you at all . I think what you will see is in communities perhaps in the southeast where vaccination rates are lower, i think youll see outbreaks particularly come fall, and, you know, well see these in Amusement Parks and churches and weddings, places where people are not vaccinated. A lot more responsibility is back on to the public because were moving from covid as an existential threat to covid as what i call a manageable challenges and we have lots of manageable challenges in our lives. Weve got lots of things and that will add to that list but that means you have to manage it. That means if youre getting married in a place where a lot of people are vaccinated, make sure people are vaccinated or have a negative test or wear masks. Right now 44 of americans are fully vaccinated. Are you confident President Biden can reach his july 4th goal of 160 million americans vaccinated . Well, i think were going to be around the fourth of july very close to bidens target of 70 of americans vaccinated. Maybe it will be 68, maybe a little bit more, but at that point were going to keep going. The real danger is that at 68 , 70 will look much higher in some parts of the country and much lower in other parts of the country, and if bereally want to bring this country together and defeat covid weve got to be focusing on those areas of the country with low vaccination levels. Im going to turn to your book preventable, you outline how since the early days of the pandemic you and other Top Health Experts warned the Trump Administration how catastrophic this virus could be. Why do you think lives were lost because the Trump Administration didnt follow those warnings . Well, look, is pandemics are hard, so if if someone makes a real effort and is trying to help and makes a few mistakes i think everybody forgive that but there were a few things that the Trump Administration did that are very hard to get past. One was, as we know, his ability to deny the reality of the virus which he did until such time as the nba went out and the stock market went down was real dangerous so his ability to deny real hurt us. If he had said we have a problem and then he squashed all dissent. Theres a part of the book where alex azar, the head of health and Human Services wanted to say the word on fox friends that the virus wasnt a problem but could deteriorate rapidly and because that have the white house pulled him from the show and banned him from doing media for 45 days so here we are in the middle of a Global Pandemic and our department of health and Human Services isnt allowed to talk to the press or the public, and theres a number of examples like that, and i go through my conversations with Jared Kushner and with debby birx, et cetera, which lets you see whats going on on the inside. The book is preventable. Andy slavitt, thanks so much. Thank you, pam. New developments in a bizarre yet violent confrontation involving bombs and balloons. Thats next. Can you be free of Hair Breakage Worries . We invited mahault to see for herself that new Dove Breakage remedy gives damaged hair the strength it needs. 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