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If youre tuning in to watch Fareed Zakaria, we will bring that you to as soon as we can. But right now the world is on edge as we await President Biden to speak. He is in hanoi, vietnam. And we have been waiting for some time for him to come out and take questions from reporters in a Press Conference that was originally scheduled for an hour and a half ago. But we are still waiting with baited breath for President Biden to talk about his trip. Let me bring in the panel to discuss some of the things that were expecting to hear from him. Beth sanner, what did you think President Bidens we hear in his Reelection Campaign how he is united the western world to take on the threat of russia. And to an extent, it is accurate to say that nato is more united than ever before. In fak, it has new members. I think putin is probably at least as responsible for that as President Biden. But President Biden does get good marks for his leadership of nato. But it is also true, i think it is fair to say, that china is a much greater threat to the United States and that russia, dont you think . Yeah, i do. And that is why i think that we also have to kind of give credit to the Biden Administration for working on all of the asia policy okay. We continue to have difficulty with the Prime Minister. There you go. Im so sorry. I dont know why. But the partnership especially with the japanese Prime Minister has been phenomenal. And in linking both of these these areas. The Foreign Minister of japan was just in ukraine, a few minutes ago, a couple of days ago. So i think these kind of things, thats alliances and this tripp to vietnam is absolutely essential to dealing with china as representative mccaul said. So, i think you have to give a lot of credit to the Biden Administration. There were no alliances of any consequence during the trump administration. So, i hope that no matter what happened in our election, that we dont squander these alliances. These alliances are crucial to countering china and they need to be nurtured and built. Jeremy diamond, while we await President Biden coming to the podium there to take your questions, there is some criticism here domestically of the fact that this G20 Communeay was weaker when it comes to the condemnation of russias brutal invasion of ukraine. What are Biden Administration officials saying about that, if anything . Reporter well theyre pushing back on it, jake. In particular we heard Jake Sullivan yesterday say that he believed that that joint statement shows that countries are united in opposing any land grabs by means of war. That they believe that this statement made a strong a strong statement as it relates to the idea of territorial integrity and respecting the sovereignty of other nations. But it is true that it did not include the language that you just mentioned that was in the joint leader Statement Last year. And ultimately they believe that countries like india and indonesia, other developing nations, are united in that kind of understanding. But there is no question that the fact that this statement did not directly condemn russia shows the divisions that remain in that group of 20. And that is an undeniable fact. But at the end of the day, this was never going to be a statement that fully went after russia given the fact that russia is very much a member of the g20. China, even though xi jinping didnt show up, chinese delegates were involved in the crafting of this statement and they have refused to condemn russia. So these were complicated politics. White house believes that the statement landed in the right place. But as you mentioned there has been criticism otherwise. I think the question today for this News Conference that were expecting to start any minute now, how does the president address the future of that war. We have not heard him recently weigh in too much on the progress of the ukrainian counteroffensive and there are a range of views on that front including within the u. S. Government about how much progress ukraine is actually making in that effort and one of the key questions to ask the president is certainly how much progress does ukraine need to make in the coming months in order for this International Coalition that the president has been able to maintain at least from a western perspective, how much progress do they have to make in order to maintain that support . The president is also facing this battle with congress over supplemental funding for ukraine. And that is also very much coming to the forefront now. So a lot of dynamics for the president to handle here and well see how many of those different topics hes able to address in the News Conference. David gurgen, earlier, when i asked Antony Blinken about this report in the new biography of elon musk, that musk declined to provide the star link Satellite Service that he provides in ukraine, he declined to provide it in crimea in an effort by the Ukrainian Military to defend itself from the russian navy because musk had been talking to senior russians and was convinced that if he did that, and allowed the ukrainians to launch this counteroffensive, it would lead to an escalation of the war. Blinken would say nothing other than to talk about how vital star link was. And he really wouldnt criticize musk at all, which made me conclude that the u. S. Government is so convinced of the vitality and essentialness of star link that theyre afraid of doing anything to Fooffend En Musk which said quite a bit about the power of this private citizen. It sure does. It was a startling revelation by isaac. I think it does weigh heff ill why i that were moving into a new world in which the tycoons of the Internet World can have could exercise this kind of power. We long have had statutes on the books that say that private citizens cannot essentially negotiate for the United States. That they cant be doing that. So i do think that there is a real question not just what musk has done in the past, but what does this mean about the future and how powerful individuals and in this new world, this a. I. World and Internet World, and social media world, how much that power they really do have at a time when power is seeping away from elected officials and were worried about the rise of authoritarianism in many other countries because of the breakdown of domestic governments and here in the United States now we have to decide, we have the big huge coming up on the Internet Side who are going to be players. And i think everybody has to sort of figure out what are the ground rules for those players. So the meeting the explanation as to why President Biden has been running late is that his meeting with vietnam officials ran late. And he was tending to the important business of diplomacy. But we have been given the twominute warning so in roughly a minute and a half President Biden will appear and take questions and tim naftali, i wonder if you would put this elon musk power in perspective, i know weve had in history, Individual Americans Whether Carnegie or ford or others who have had a great deal of power. But i know of no one whose personal decision and personal diplomacy have had an affect on wars. Im not going to get ask you the question. Ho here is President Biden. It is evening, isnt it . This around the world in five days is interesting, isnt it . Well, you know, there is that one of my Staff Members said remember the famous song, you know, good morning, vietnam, well good evening, vietnam. And good morning back in america. Before i begin, i wan to express my sadness by the loss of life and devastation caused by the earthquake in morocco. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of more oko and my friend king mohamed 6th and Secretary Of State blinken who is here with me today is working with moroccan officials on Long Distance here. Were working to make sure american citizens in morocco are safe and standing to provide any necessary assistance to the moroccan people as well. We made that offer. Now turning to the important visit here in vietnam. As General Secretary and i just shared earlier today, this trip has been a historic moment. Today we could trace 50 year arc of progress in relation between our nations from conflict to normalization. This is a new elevated status that will will be a force for prosperity and security and one of the most consequential regions in the world. Weve elevated directly to the vietnamese highest tier referred to as the comprehensive strategic partnership. We have ties with another partner. Our progress builds on camp david trilateral with japan and south korea and the United States. And the partnership the United States launch with asean last year and the agengagement with e Pacific Island forum. Our strength with the philippines and aukus, our elevated quad with india and australia and the japan and the framework for prosperity, and all of the effort weve advanced from day one of my administration to demonstrate to our indo Pacific Partners and the world the United States is a pacific nation. And were not going anywhere. Now let me also speak to significant business we got done in india during the g20 summit. This is opinion important moment for the United States to demonstrate our Global Leadership and our commitment to solving the challenges that matter most to people around the world. Investing in inclusive growth and sustainable development. Addressing the Climate Crisis. Strengthening Food Security and education, advancing Global Health and health security. We showed up ready to work and we showed the world the United States is a partner with a positive vision for our shared future. As the g20, at the g20, we made progress on issues like Multilateral Bank Development Reform to get to nations that are neither poor nor wealth but couldnt qualify before. Debt release and increased infrastructure needs not only in the global south but oath parts of the world as well. We forged a Ground Breaking new partnership that will connect india to europe with the middle east and israel with Transportation By Rail and by shipment through an Energy Supplies and digital connections that are going to open up untold opportunities for transformative Economic Investment through that on that entire corridor. Weve also discussed russias Bru Brutal And Illegal War in ukraine. And there was sufficient need for just and lasting peace that upholds the principles of the u. N. Charter and respects sovereignty and territorial integrity. And i want to thank Prime Minister modi for hosting the g20. He and i have had substantial discussions about how were going to continue to strengthen the partnership between india and the United States. Building on the Prime Ministers visit to the white house last june. And as i always do, i raised the importance of respecting human rights an the vital role that Civil Society and a free press have in building a strong and prosperous country with mr. Modi and weve gotten a lot of work done sand im looking forward to another good day here in vietnam. And now i will take your questions. They gave me five people here. Nanda of reuters. Thank you for taking my question, mr. President. There you are. I cant see you. Im sorry. Last week china questions the Code Sincerity of the Biden Administration. Im sorry, the what . The sincerity of the Biden Administration. The sincerity. And accused the United States of containing china while pushing for diplomatic talks. How would you respond to that . And do you think president xi is being sincere about getting the relationship back on track as he banned apple in china . Look, first of all, the im sincere about getting the relationship right. And one of the things that is going on now is china is beginning to change some of the rules of the game. In Terms Of Trade and other issues. And so, one of the things that we talked about, for example, is that theyre now talking about making sure that no chinese no one in the Chinese Government could use a western cell phone. Those kinds of things. And so, really what this trip is about, is less about containing china, i dont want to contain china. I just want too make sure we have a relationship with china that is on the up and up, squared away and Everybody Knows what it is all about. And one of the ways you do that is you make sure that we are talking about the same things. And i think that one of the things weve done, ive tried to do, and ive talked with a number of my staff about this for the last i guess six months, is we have an opportunity to strengthen alliances around the world to maintain stability. That is what this trip was all about. Having india cooperate much more than the United States, be closer to the United States, vietnam being closer to the United States, it is not about containing china. It is about having a stable base. A stable base in the indo pacific. And for example, when i was spending a lot of time talking with president xi, he asked why we were doing why i was going to have the quad meeting, australia, india, japan and the United States. And i said to maintain stability. It is not about isolated china. It is about making sure that the Rules Of The Road and everything from air space and space in the ocean is the International Rules of the road are are abided by. And, so, i hope that i think that Prime Minister i mean xi has some difficulties right now. All countries have difficulties. It is an economic difficulties hes working his way through. I want to see china succeed economically. I want to see them succeed by the rules. The next question was to bloomberg. Mr. President , following up on your comments on china and the economy, you called the which i a ticking time bomb. Do you believe the slowdown could derisk stabling the Global Economy or causing china to be more aggressive say the first part of your question again. This fan is going on and it is behind me. No worries. Do you believe the countrys slow down in growth could risk destabling the Global Economy or cause china to be more aggressive defensively and including with taiwan and federally, sir, are you worried about the meeting between President Putin and kim jongun and that could mean russia has more gains on the war in ukraine . Look, i think china has a difficult economic problem right now for a whole range of reasons that relate to the International Growth and lack thereof and the polies that china has followed. So i dont think it is going to cause china to invade taiwan. And it probably doesnt have the same capacity that it had before. But as i said, were not looking to hurt china. Sincerely. Were all better off if china does well. China does well by the International Rules. Grows the economy. But they have had some real difficulties in terms of their economy of late, particularly in the real estate side of their bargain, and i think the actions that theyre going to have to have take are ones that are theyre in the process of deciding right now. And im not going to predict what will come out. But were not looking to decouple from china. What im not going to do is im not going to sell china material that will enhance their capacity to make more nuclear weapons, their engaged in Defense Activities that are contrary to what is viewed as most people think was a positive development in the region. And but were not trying to hurt china. Okay. Bbc, laura . Am i correct . Is that correct. It is, my name is laura from bbc news. Good evening president. How are you . Thank you. These five day trips around world are no problem. I could imagine. And it is evening. I would like to remind you. In the last six months, youve signed pacts and deals with japan, south korea, philippines, australia, and even the pacific highlands. Youre here standing in beijings backyard. Now china said this is part of your cold war mentality. Are they right, sir . Is there a dangerous of a cold war and when will you meet . Well i hope i get to see mr. Xi sooner than later. Ive spent more time than the world leader has sum total offer the last 12 years so i hope i get to see him again soon. No, look, for example, one of the things that we did in india, we provided for a new path that going to save everybody money, increase the third world the global south capacity to grow by sending were going to have a new railroad from india all the way across to the Mediterranean Shipping Lanes and pipelines across the mediterranean through europe up into Great Britain and beyond. That is all about Economic Growth. That has nothing to do with hurting or helping china. It has to do with dealing with everything from Climate Change to making sure that these countries could succeed economically and grow. Look, my thesis has been from the beginning, both domestically and in terms of Foreign Policy, invest in your people. Invest in the people. Give them a chance. Everything is better off when people i know it is going to sound trite, if everybody in the world had a job and that they wanted to go to and could put they squares on the table for their family, the whole world would be better off. Wed be a lot better. That is the notion here behind this. For example, you know, one of the things that were doing in terms of i proposed a long time at the g7 and now it is going to come to fruition in the g20 is making sure that we build a railroad across the african continent. There is no way to crosby rail and there is not even direct highway across. Now lets assume for the sake of decision be talk about food shortages. Assume there was one country in that vast continent that had a a excess of food stuffs and resources, how would they get to where theyre going to go . How are they going to do it . That is why were going to invest billions of dollars in solar facilities in angola, to have the largest the largest solar facility in the world, or one of the largest. That helps angola. But it also helps the whole region. So i think we think too much in terms of cold war terms. It is not about that. It is about generating Economic Growth and stability and in all parts of the world. And that is what were trying to do. Sorry. Okay. Am i pronounced it right . O feelia . Did i pronounce the name correctly . There you are. Yes. Thank you, mr. President. I had a question on the Climate Crisis you just mentioned the g20. Just this week the United States warranted if there is no phasing out of fossil fuels it wont be possible to reach the goals of the paris agreement. There was no agreement at the g20 on fossil fuels. How concerned are you about that lack of consensus . It wasnt so much a agreement that we would try to meet the goals of the g20. The United States is going to meet those goals by the way. Were going to exceed those goals. A lot of other countries are as well. But we want to give those countries that dont have the economic wherewithal and did not cause the problem in the first place. For example, i met with brazil. I started off way back in the 80s with a fairly fine republican senator nake dick lugger. We said here is what were going to do. If you owe us money, were going to forgive your debt if you maintain your forest because those become carbon, they take carbon out of the air. So were talking that we should be going and the countries that clear their land and put cattle on it and farming and did all of the things that that increase development, they are the reasons, the main reason why weve gotten as far down the road to disaster here as we have. And so if we have the economic capacity, we, those nations, should be getting together and providing help for the nations that dont have the wherewithal to do it. The economic and infrastructure wherewithal. And i mentioned in the interest of time, just mentioned angola again. Angola has the capacity to generate megawatts of energy through solar energy. They dont have the economic means to do that. Isnt it the interest of the whole world if theyre in fact able to generate significant capacity to absorb, to prevent carbon from being released in the air . I think that is. So, what were trying to do is help those nations, particularly in the global south where theyre not as wealthy, where there are not as much opportunities to be able to deal with the things that they want to deal with. For example, and ill end with this, there is more carbon absorbed from the atmosphere on a daily basis and i look to my friend john kerry and ive forgotten more people than know. Creck me if im wrong but im quite sure im right, there is more carbon observed from the air into the amazon region, into the ground, into the ground than in the entire United States on the same basis. Now imagine if people go in and do what we did, 150, 250 years ago and cut down the forest and start farming in that area, no longer have that great carbon sync. It would be a gigantic problem. So, we should be going to areas in the congo or other places as the g7 nations then as the wealthy g20 nations, and provide the kind of infrastructure they need to benefit. And in addition to helping the environment overall, and the only existential threat humanity faces even more frightening than a nuclear war, is Global Warming going above 1. 5 degrees in the next 20 10 years. It will be real trouble. There is no way back from that. And so, there is a lot we could do in the meantime. For example, that pipeline, that railroad that were talking about going across from india through the middle east and across the mediterranean into all through europe, that is going to have Hydrogen Pipeline there. This is going to significantly reduce the amount of carbon emitted into the air. But it costs a lot of money to put that down. And the world is going to say it is in our collective interest to do it. So i have not i have not begin up at all on the notion that were going to be able to, you know, how could i say it i think i think we could triple the renewable capacity for as it related to global warning by the year 2030. Countries following the ira playbook, which is the one we passed, the Clean Energy Jobs will create manufacturing jobs. For example, as the consequence of what weve done, we have the most we have the strongest economy in the world today. Right now today the United States of america has the strongest economy in the world. In the world. Now, weve got more to do. But we have a strongest economy in the world. And one of the reasons that were doing it, we changed the mechanism how we deal with this and that is instead of trickle down economy, that is if the wealthy and the corporations do very well, everybody is going to do well. Well the truth of the matter is, ive never bought that theory. But i think that times have changed and a lot of leading economists are beginning to agree with me. This flat straight out economists and that is we should build from the middle out and the bottom up. When that happens, everybody does well. Everybody does well. The wealthy still do very, very well. They have no problem. You could still be a billionaire under that system as well. But youre going to start paying your taxes if i have anything to do with it. That is a different issue. But all kidding aside. So we have i think other thing that is dawning on people, many of you are Foreign Policy experts and have been engaged for a long time. Do you ever think you would by sitting at a g20 conference where everybody was preoccupied with the notion of Global Warming . Not a joke. Did you ever think that . And there is my brother loves having his famous lines from movies that he always quotes. And one of them is there is a movie about john wayne, hes an indian scout and theyre trying to get i think it was apache, one of the great tribes of america back on the reservation and hes standing with the union so hes and theyre on their horses and their saddles and there is three or four indians in head dresses and the Union Soldiers and the soldiers saying that come with me, well take care of you, everything will be good and the indian looks at john wayne and points at him and said hes a Lying Dog Face pony soldier. Well there is a lot of Lying Dog Face pony soldiers out there about Global Warming. But not any more. All of a sudden it is a problem. And there is nothing like seeing the light for and i see i must follow my orders here. Staff, is there anybody that hasnt spoken . I aint calling on you. I said i have five questions. Nato, from boa. Thank you, mr. President. I hope you didnt think that calling only on women would get you softballs tonight. Oh, i know better than that. Okay. Well let me start with president xi. If you sent my a solve ball, i would probably strike out even worse. Let me ask you, youve spent a lot of time talking about the time you spent with president xi and the importance of leader to leader communication yet you two havent spoken in ten months and i wonder are you worried this is destabling the u. S. Chinese relationship and what are you going to do about it . And then if i may on ukraine, sir is upset that the communicate didnt express russia as the aggressor and is this emerging as a wedge issue with the global south and does that change your commitm to ukraine . It is not a wedge issue of the global south but it is with russia and china which has representation. And so, and by the way, i am my team, my staff still meets with president xis people and his cabinet in effect. I met with his number two person here in excuse me, in india today. So it is not like there is a a crisis if i dont personally speak to him. It is better if i did. But i think, look, this is not a criticism, it is an observation. He has his hands full right now. He has overwhelming unemployment with his youth. One of the Major Economic tenants of his plan isnt working at all. Im not happy for that. But it is not working. So hes trying to figure out, i suspect, i dont know, just like i would, trying to figure out what to do about the particular crisis theyre having now. But i dont think it is a crisis relating to conflict between china and the United States. As a matter of fact, i think it is less likely to cause that kind of conflict. I dont anyway, i just think that there are other things on leaders minds and they respond to what is needed at the time. And, look, nobody likes having celebrated International Meetings if you dont know what you want at the meeting. If you dont have a game plan. He may have a game plan. He just hasnt shared it with me. But i tell you what, i dont know about you, but im going to go to bed. [ Inaudible Question ]. Yeah, we talked about it at the conference overall. We talked about stability. We talked about making sure that the third world, the excuse me, the third world, the Southern Hemisphere had access to change, had access and it wasnt confrontational at all. Thank you everyone. This ends the Press Conference. Thank you. I raised it with every person i met with. Thank you. President biden walking off the stage there in hanoi, vietnam. After a Major International swing. He met with the leaders of the g20 nations earlier and there he is after arranging a major diplomatic arrangement with vietnam. Which has been heralded by both democrats and republicans in order to Counter China aggression in the pacific. Welcome to state of the union. A Special Edition that has gone longer than our allocated one hour. Were into the second hour. Because of President Bidens Press Conference. And i am here with the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee michael mccaul, republican of texas. Chairman mccaul, if irs, i want to get your reaction to the fact that the g20 communication is weaker this year than last year when it comes to russias aggression against ukraine. Obviously russia is a member of the g20 and blocked it, last year the diplomatic situation was different so that russia just disagreed with that part of the communication. Ukraine responded today by saying that the g20 has nothing to be proud of because this communication does not condemn what russia is doing in ukraine. What is your response. I agree with ukraine. Last year at the g20, they basically said that, you know, there is a path forward for ukraine to join nato after security agreements, after the war was over. This year theyre saying, there is no russian aggression, a major departure from last year. And a real slap in the face to zelenskyy, as theyre conducting the counteroffensive. So the timing couldnt be worse. The other thing that i took out of that was that were not here to contain china. Let me run that sound. Because i want people to hear it. It caught your ear and caught my ear as well. President biden talking about how he wants china to behave according to the way that other nations behave said this. So, really, what this trip is about, it was less about containing china, i dont want to contain china, i just want to make sure that we have a relationship with china that is on the up and up, squared away, Everybody Knows what it is all about. What was your response to that . I mean, what a frightening Foreign Policy to go to the g20 and xi jinping did not attend and we know the quad is there. Countries that dont like china. Whole point of him going to the region in my view was to get our friends and allies and partners together in the event of ann invasion into taiwan and we could stop that in deterrence in diplomacy that we have yet to put into country that i signed off on. So if you have a lack of Military Deterrence and diplomati diplomatic de terns, what would prevent him from making that bold move to take and invade taiwan, put a block in and cut the sea cable and take over tsmc, that is 90 of the advanced Semiconductor Chip manufacturing for the world. This is a wrong message to send. It was not one of deterrence and once again like with afghanistan, hes projecting Weakness Will will draw aggression. I want to get to afghanistan in a second. But just to keep talking about china for this second, you could one could make the argument, look, President Biden is the first president to ever toss aside this strategic ambiguity and say directly, we will help taiwan militarily if china invades. So that deterrence is already there. And this would be him, im trying to put myself in his head, this would be him saying, come on, china, come back to the world of nations and be hhave le a normal country. Maybe you think theyre so far beyond that that they kocouldn do that. But what about this argument. I think it is a play but i think it is a weak play because chairman xi doesnt understand weakness, he understands power. And when you listen to his addresses to his community party, Reunification Of Taiwan and a broader ambition, in the 100 year marathon, have 100 military economic control over the globe and that is where theyre headed unless we could provide the deterrence. This kind of language, if im chairman xi, this is great. This is like when biden lifted in order stream two on putin and gave him chart blanche to move in and then we see the Russian Federation moving in. I dont think projecting Weakness Works and i language i heard that i thought was very weak. Lets talk about afghanistan. It is been to years since the afghanistan withdrawal, The Fall Of Kabul and the death of the 13 Service Members and 170 afghans at abby gate. You heard from gold star families in recent days on capitol hill. Weve talked to many of them as well. Are you getting the answers you need from this administration about what went wrong in the withdrawal at abby gate, and if youre not, is your committee and are you prepared to issue subpoenas to get them . Well we have. And i threaten to hold Secretary Of State in contempt. But it took that to get a personal phone call to start getting cooperation. There is no reason why this administration should not be giving these gold star families all of the answers, all they want is the truth. They want transparency. And when they dont do that, it makes them wonder why are you hiding things . So i feel like im the advocate on behalf of the gold star families. They should get access to Colonel Whitehead who did not give permission to take out the Suicide Bomber. They deserve to know why an air strike was not given to take out the very individual who was in charge of the Suicide Bombing Operation with isisk. And they need to know why they were released from Bagram Air Base and this will go up the chain of command, both state and d. O. D. And ultimately within the white house. But i would ask that they give these families answers. I mean, in a way, they have more power than i do. It is easy for them to say no to me. It is very hard for them to say no to these families. Just so you know, because weve been covering this a lot. I think the pentagon and im not the pentagon, but think the pentagon would take issue with the idea that that sergeant had the actual Suicide Bomber in his sights, per se, and that information about isisk in that hotel was actionable intelligence in terms of the bombing. I dont know. But im just saying, i asked the same questions and they told me. The snipers on the ground and psych ops confirmed. If that is not correct. Then give us access to 100 . You want transcribed interviews search warrant specific members of the administration. We want to talk to jen psaki, the messages from the white house were so different from what was happening on ground. John kirby made the comment that no weapons were left behind. Which is insane. There are 7 billion of weapons and i could show you the tapes of the weapons and the cache that were left behind. Ned price, the state department, Making Rosie Comments and we need to we sent letters to they have them testify, all giving a rosie picture while at the same time what was happening on ground was very different. I dont know where this is going to end but as a former federal prosecutor, im going to follow the acts. I have Great Respect from General Mckenzie and general milley by the way. I dont know if this went up to their level. But i do know that an air strike was denied that could have taken out the Suicide Bombing Team of isisk. That was led out of bagram, by the way. Speaking of general milley, he is retiring as joint chairman of the joint chiefs at the end of the month. His role might not be filled. Because your fellow republican senator Tommy Tuberville of alabama is holding up more than 300 military promotions, these are not political positions, these are majors and Lieutenant Colonels and admirals and generals because he opposed to a Pentagon Travel Reimbursement Policy having to do with abortion. Expert after expert, and Military Individual after Military Individual said this is hurting readiness. How long is this republican pa party going to let this one member do this to our military. I talked to dakota who got the Medal Of Honor yesterday, this is paralyzing the department of defense. The idea that one man in the senate could hold this up for months. I understand maybe promotions but nominations is paralyzing the department of defense. I think that is a National Security problem. And a National Security issue and i really wish he would reconsider this because were working this issue out in the National Defense authorization. We worked it out on the house side. Were going to conference in the senate. Were going to work out this abortion issue, that has been a tradition within the ndaa. But to hold up the top brass from being promoted and lower brass, i think is paralyzing our department of defense. Chairman michael mccaul, thank you for being with us. Well be right back after this quick break. With 30 grams of protein. Those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks uuuhhhh. Here, ill take that woohoo ensure max protein, 30 grams of protein, 1 gram of sugar. Enter the 10,000 powered by protein max challenge. Every day, more dog people, and more vets are deciding its time for a fresh approach to pet food. 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And what the president tries to say very clearly was that he is not trying to contain china and throughout this News Conference the president really tried to send that message to china. To say that even as hes shoring up and strengthening these partnerships in the region, not only in vietnam but also in india, as it relates to the philippines, japan, south korea, really a whole of region effort by the president , he wanted to make sure im not looking to hurt china, he said, and he even said that he wants china to do well. He believes the world does better when china does well. And it was as if the president who weve seen dispatch his top cabinet officials over the last several months to beijing, to try and normalize relations to reestablish military to Military Communications unsuccessfully so far. It was as if the president was trying to coach xi jinping back into a productive relationship but that has not succeeded in large part because china rejects the world order as it stands and doesnt want to play by the same rules of the game. Nonetheless, the president seems eager to continue to push on to front as he strengthens them relations. The white house was carefully selecting the questions here today and there was a heavy emphasize on Foreign Policy. He got a question on the war in ukraine. He did not actually answer it. And we did not get a chance to ask the president more politically pointed questions related to his reelection. As you know, jake, this is been a significant moment in the president s Reelection Campaign over the last couple of weeks as weve seen his poll numbers, and low approval ratings, about six in ten americans disapproving of his job as president. And the question is does todays performance, does this trip at all help move the needle for the president . We heard him repeatedly talk about all of the travel and showing the vitality, but at the end he said im going to bed. No question, these are exhausting trips but i dont know that thats necessarily the message that the white house wanted to send to close out it trip. Those trips are exhausting. Jeremy diamond, thank you. Beth sanner, watchs the Press Conference and those who he carefully selected to ask questions, the bbc and such, who focused on substantive questions dealing with Foreign Policy and avoiding questions about domestic politics in the United States. What stood out to you . Well, you know, this is a message i think that was really aimed at that regional audience and at the foreign audience. It is a positive message for the global south and for the fencesitting countries and for many of our allies like south korea and japan that dont want us to try to contain china. So that positive message of, you know, he wants klchina to succe, it is not exactly music to the ears of the republicans here in the states. But if youre sitting in that region and most of your trade is with china and china generates over 30 of the global gdp. It is a fact that it is important. But at the same time, i think it is a little unfair of representative mccaul to say that, you know, talking about not wanting to contain china, it isnt a good thing to say. I mean, frankly, the chinese believe and all of the statements coming out, even after the raimondo trip, is about how the United States is containing china. So maybe bidens Thought Process were still having problems with your connection there. Tim naftali, how much does Foreign Policy matter when it comes to the United States elections . I dont think it matters, well since the end of the cold war with the exception of the first few years after 9 11. I dont think it matters that much. What will matter, however, is a sense of stability, price levels in this country, and the world can affect that. So maybe directly Foreign Policy wont appear to shape the voters in georgia and pennsylvania and wisconsin, nevada which will be key states again, but the feeling americans have about whether the world, whether we are moving in the right direction, that in fact could be influenced by international affairs. So that is why i would say that though the president will get dinged for the lack of Strong Language in the g20 statement, despite that fact, i believe that the statement more importantly the discussions around the g20 and what is going on right now in vietnam, are going to lay the basis for a more stable world, a more rules basedworld this which is not music to the ears of xi jinping or putin but could make 2024 a slightly more stable world than 2023. It is a lot better, i would argue, than announcing that were containing china. 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