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June 15, 2021
>>translator: with joe biden you feel that he will lead in the transatlantic alliance. >>laura: of course they are happy and the press was gushing. >> in one way he was just they are saying i want to be a part of the g-7 and that communities. >> and in some ways the united states with the more traditional american presidents. >> traditional maybe a little boring. [laughter] >>laura: of course thats the way the world prefersrs it they prefer biden because with him they have outside leverage and t...
June 15, 2021
Bring some leverage on putin to stop the thing he can do the best, which is to be disruptive, let alone what hes doing regionally, but to be disruptive with cyberattacks. so i think biden is addressing that to try to say to the world community that hes on the stage with, look, not even my republican colleagues believe in all of this, but theres so much fear. so lets try to move in a concerted direction again. thats going to take some time. >> like you said, trump is gone but for how long? putin ...
June 15, 2021
She knew that would be bad optics for her. had a meeting probably with the president and can you put me in charge of something else? we dont want to say im not in charge. steve: give me a fund fun job. ainsley: fun job look like a hero when i go in. brian: weeks to. did a zoom call with mexico. cant control the guatemalan president or the mexican president. ainsley: if she had just gone to the border that first week, this would never be a story. brian: do you know they are getting johnson & john...
June 15, 2021
You get people riled up enough in these phases and you can use it as political leverage over time. its good content for places like fox news, and they know that. thats the thing, people -- one of the stories we did about this group in maine, this guy was really kind of desperate to get on tucker carlsons show to get a little payback in this -- against -- in his fight against the school board and the superintendent. they realized they could use that as a weapon to win these local school boards wh...
June 15, 2021
Private school tuition for at least one of his grandchildren. why should trump care about that? if mr. weisselberg was getting the gifts and not paying his taxes, what does that have to do with donald trump? >> it will add additional leverage to, hopefully, develop weisselberg as a cooperating against trump. when i read this reporting, the other thing it indicates to me is that allen weisselberg is resisting becoming a cooperating witness because he was already in the prosecutorial fold, everyth...
June 14, 2021
Place the last few years. its good to have face-to-face conversations and iron out confusion or ambiguity. im sure biden will push him on cyber attacks, navalny. they may be able to find some common ground. we need to catch up. >> yeah. the bar is so low with anything involving trump. this week, a russian court banned groups affiliated with alexei navalny. that kind of thing doesnt happen really without the putin administrations blessing. does the united states have any leverage, tommy, when it ...
June 14, 2021
Finer on this show earlier this week. and i asked him that question. how can you tell russia to get democratic when were backing people like saudi arabia and egypt? he said, well, no, behind the scenes we tell them as well to be democratic. you worked in government. you and i both know that the american government does not give a consistent message on democracy. it depends on whether youre a friend or foe. >> i think thats right. we need to be more consistent, push imperfect partners like the eg...
June 14, 2021
To put leverage on the chinese and india, and also to get developed countries to pay for these transitions. but again the biggest thing we need to do is push the u.s. congress to pass an infrastructure bill that will help make investments into renewable energies. unless we get our own house in order we lose a lot of leverage to push others. >> get your own house in order. well said. lets briefly talk israel, tommy. earlier today a new israeli government survived a vote of confidence by one vote....
June 14, 2021
Partners like the egyptians and president asissi. to push our allies to do more. >> yes. >> one place is on climate change, with leaders united to getting to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, but the g7 countries only count for 20, 25% of emissions. he needs to push them to do more, especially when it comes to transition away from coal and use that progress to put lerchl on the chinese and get developed countries to pay for these transitions but again the biggest thing we need to do is push the...
June 14, 2021
Europe saying were back. were back for climate. were back for open society. were open for the relationship that weve had in nato in terms of security, security, security, which is so important. and i can tell you in my meetings with all these people, most of it pre-covid, but much of it by zoom since then, that they are so happy that america is back and look forward to this visit by the president. in terms of his meeting with putin, i think that he should meet with him. they should have a line o...