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Month, promising the u.s. would hold the kremlin it accountable for the next attack that came from russian soil. now some critics are pushing to make sure its a promise that biden keeps. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with the very latest details on all of this. what are we learning? >> in essence, this latest ransomware attack by a suspected russian cyber gang is holding the u.s. presidency hostage putting the u.s.-russian relationship squarely in its c...

With vladimir putin and gave him a pass. not only a pass but a pat on the back. >> youre absolutely right. i mean, kevin mccarthy was made for a period like this. where there is no truth. facts dont matter. you can just simply say whatever you want. but its hard to find a more-clear example of this than, you know, the mute kevin mccarthy, who while the former president of the united states stood shoulder to shoulder with vladimir putin, praising the kremlin dictator. praising the kremlin murdere...

Was announced, the actions taken by russia have not been the kind of actions that seek to create a warm environment. you had the hijacking of that airliner so belarus operations could be detained. clearly russias fingerprints probably on that. you had more of these cyberattacks emanating from russian soil. you had interviews where hes been dismissive, as you said, on whether alexei navalny will even leave prison alive and certainly not handing out an olive branch on ukraine. so putin is not nece...

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Escalation. you stop at the diversion of the belarus airlines so they could detain an opposition is something that russia was likely involved in. you see these continued cyber and ransomware attacks coming from russian soil. you see the designation of alexei navalny detained and his organization deemed an extremist group. so i think for joe biden, that means hes going to have to head into this summit and the focus of the summit is going to be on areas of disagreement, not areas of agreement. hel...

>> announcer: this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt good evening, everyone just shy of five months in office in which hes faced a host of urgent domestic priorities, from covid to the economy, president joe biden is turning his attention overseas tonight, arriving in london this evening at the start of a jam-packed eight-day mission to reset u.s. relations with europe. but he also looks to project a message of strength and stability to american adversaries near and far, including russia....

The summit. >> welcome back. the white house told reporters yesterday that president biden wont shy away from the issue of russian hacking in his upcoming meeting with president vladimir putin. russian attacks have surged in the past couple months, disturbing parts of the infrastructure. joining me now, democratic congressman adam schiff from california. congressman, let me start with it this way. you know, my staff and i were noting, is vladimir putin basically got a whole bunch of cybercrimina...

Days. if evidence immerged that the civilian regimed and interestingly russia came out and said that the civilian regime did not use chemical weapons. what you asked me, you asked me whats next. what has immerged is now its part of the cold war between russia and the united states. russia is using syria as a very powerful card to basically could wanter balance the western basically criticism of its action not just in syria but worldwide as well. >> thank you for your time and perspective today. ...

Campaign. great to have you on. thank you, sir. >> thank you, thomas. >> a quick final note. for the record im leaving today after the show for an assignment in russia. its a two-front assignment for me. one co-hosting miss universe broadcast with mel b. from moscow a one off opportunity i wanted. two, ill be in the field on russian soil, story tell, learn, educate those who want to watch. meanwhile there are certain critics im compromising being a journalist to host a beauty contest, others thi...

To people. we just live boys with women, women with boys and everything must be fine here. it comes from the history. so we never had any problems. i mean, we dont want to have it in the future. >> that prompted a response from nick simmons who became the first athlete to criticize the policy on prussian soil. he had more to say. "it blows my mind such a young, well-traveled, well-educated woman would be behind the times. she said normal standard people in russia in guess what. a lot of these pe...