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>> i said before i didnt think it was biologically plausible that covid-19 went from a bat to some unknown animal, into man, and now has become one of the most infectious viruses to man immediately. thats not consistent with how other coronavirus have come into the human species. it does suggest that there is an alternative hypothesis, that it went from a bat in the various got into a laboratory where in the laboratory it was taught, educated and evolved so that it became a virus that could effi...

And so, there were no threats, just simple assertions made, and no "well, if you do that, then well do this" with anything i said. just letting him know where i stood, what i thought we could accomplish together and if there were violations of american sovereignty, what we would do. lyse doucet is with me. the big question has been what approach will joe biden take in dealing with vladimir putin? just asjoe biden was trying to exit the stage, reporters were still asking him if he was tough enoug...

Also, did -- president putin said there were no threats or scare tactics, do you agree that there were no threats or scare tactics and also did you touch on afghanistan and the safe withdrawal of troops? >> yes, yes and yes. let me go back to the first part. the reason it didnt go longer is because when the last time the two heads of state spent two hours and direct conversation across the table going into excruciating detail? you may know of a time but i dont, i can think of one. so we didnt ne...

Treatment and came back to russia and had acted illegally. he said that every country would act in the same way and said that russia itself had been the victim of cyberattacks from the us and denied any involvement in the ransomware attacks that were levelled at him by joe biden. there were also some courteous statesman—like words towards the us president. he said joe biden was a very constructive, experienced partner. he said they spoke the same language and he described the talks as fruitful...

Abuses, so how does that become a productive meeting? if you dont understand that, its -- [ inaudible question ] >> quickly, lets go. all right. so there you have it, a bit more than half an hour, the up of the united states answering reporters question making the case it was very, very important to establish this direct dialogue with the russian leader president putin. he said theres no substitute for face-to-face dialogue. its a unique responsibility. he said there were no threats, no ultima...

>> there were no threats? >> no, no, there were no threats. as a matter of fact, i heard he quoted my mom and quoted other people today. it was very -- as we say, it will shock you coming from me, what colloquial, and we talked about basic and fundamental things. you know how i am, i explain thing based on personal basis. what happens if? so there were simple assertions and no well, if you do that, well do that in what i said. we just let him know where i stood. what i thought we could accomplis...

Of fact, i heard he quoted my mom, and this may shock you, and we talked about basic, basic fundamental things. you know how i am, i explain things based on a personal basis. what happens if, for example. there are no for instance simple assertions made and no, well if you do this, just letting him know where i stood. what i thought we could accomplish together and what in fact if there were violations of american sovereignty, what we could do. he asked us about it in the sand. he said that he h...

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Are able to maintain some peace and security and he felt like i said that has a lot to do with you. he indicated he was prepared to "help" on afghanistan and we can quote help on iran and we told him what we wanted to do do relative to some economic and physical security to the people of syria and libya so we had those discussions. >> think so much mr. president. he said you didnt issue any threats. when the ultimatums made when it comes to ransomware and how will you measure its effects especia...

Will be working hard to bring those hostages home. >> john: and we know the great work that you did bringing hostages back from north korea. the helicopter went by because one of the motorcades was traveling below our hotel. in fact its president biden apparently. theres a shot of air force one as hes headed out to the geneva airport to head back to the united states. ambassador, let me ask you about this because this to me was sort of the big take away in the, as you described it, talks about t...