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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 than-mile-per-hour, 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...

Organizations. look at radio free europe. beyond the what aboutism that i think we have talked about a lot was this was very much a conference for his domestic audience. the way he chooses to portray america to his domestic russian audience is as a violent country in decline with secret cia prisons and guantanamo bay, and the capitol state riots, which interesting he was comparing the rioters to novoalexei navalny, as to say we have our unauthorized opposition and navalny never had a violent

Law. we dont want to happen on our territory. people came to the u.s. congress with political demands. the 400 people, over 400 people had criminal charges placed on them. they face prison sentences of up to 20, maybe even 25 years. they are being called domestic terrorists. its unclear on what grounds. some people died, and one of the people died they were simply shot on the spot by the police, although they were not threatening the police with any weapons. >> all right. lets discuss with democ...

Make what the president says when he comes off the bat interesting, and if he feels or his team feels they need to counter what putin said. i think everybody expect at this point the what aboutism and the tangents on him trying to equate u.s. domestic policies with the policies of russia or other countries, and im not totally sure the u.s. officials feel like that needs to be addressed u out of hand, but the way vladimir putin framed the negotiations and the progress however incremental certainl...

0 come into this? putin is a bad actor and everybody knows this. the president has been clear, he does not expect breakthroughs but what wants a professional relationship where adults can talk about important things. whether its on cyber or political rights or on ukraine, and perhaps he will be more muted at the press conference, and president biden has to make his case here of why he believes even though you dont expect any change in putins behavior that it was important to sit down eyeball to ...

Americans and i remember it well because i was on that list. when the press came into the room, ali, he said, oh, we agreed to visa-free travel between the united states and russia. and then, he sat back and he waited to see how vice president biden reacted. and then, third, he needs to be ready for exactly what you were just talking about. this false symmetry. this what aboutism. putin loves to play that game and he is good at it. the vice -- president biden now needs to be ready to rebut it. d...

When the united states criticizes russia about navalny they point to black lives matter. its always about deflection and what aboutism. you ask russia about its domestic policy and it says what about the situation in the united states. who are you to point fingers of blame. president bidens main message on this is trying to unify the democratic world. unify americas allies to confront china and to a lesser degree to confront russia and russia is going to point to january 6th to many things that ...

Doing what he does often. we can call it what-aboutism. i asked him about the plane being forced down, the airliner, he talks about, what about the time back in 2013 when the leader of bolivias plane was forced to land in europe because people thought that snowden might be on board? take a listen. >> did you have prior knowledge that a commercial airliner would be forced to land in belarus and that a journalist would be arrested? >> translator: no. i did not know about this. i didnt know about a...

Leave prison alive, even though you pressed him repeatedly. you pressed him on russias oppressive crackdown on dissent and unrest. clearly from your conversation, putin is not lacking in opinions on some high profile u.s. protests. >> reporter: yeah, thats right. putin consistently does when you challenge him on russian policy is try and talk about america. we call it what aboutism. what putin does is say what about this, what about that? i waspressing him on the allegations of cyberattacks agai...