0 good evening, everyone. we re waiting for president biden. he is expected to answer questions on a host of topics. we will bring it to you live as soon as it begins. the news conference comes after a day filled with meeting with nato leaders, with the president working to repair relationships with key nato allies that became frayed during the trump administration. we re going to have a lot more on all of this. also as well a wide-ranging interview with my colleague keir simmons with russian president vladimir putin. the top doj national security official is resigning. it comes as it deals with the fallout of a subpoena over phone records of members of congress and reporters during the trump administration. all of this as attorney general merrick garland says the department will overhaul the rules and procedures for obtaining such records. but we are going to begin first with that news conference that is expected to get underway. we cross over now to brussels where nbc news corr