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Premeeting, no problem getting through those doors, was it? anyway, hello, everyone. well, i just finished the last meeting of this weeks long trip, the u.s. russian summit. i know there is a lot of hype around this meeting but its pretty straightforward to me, the meeting. one, there is no substitute as those of you who have covered me for a while know for face-to-face dialogue between leaders. none. president putin and i had a share unique responsibility to minister the relationships between t...

G7 in nato and he represented the democracies and the people in that room today become but this is going to be a tricky news conference because the entire world is watching very closely. >> andrea, i get it. we both were sitting here listening to garry kasparov. he was quite skeptical that this summit should have happened. what do you say to that? >> i take to a different position, i think if you go back to the timing when the biden administration offered the summit, you remember russian troops ...

There? anyway, hello, everyone. well, im just finishing the last meeting of this weeks long trip. the us russian summit. i know there are a lot of hype around this meeting, but its pretty straightforward to me, the meeting. one, theres no substitute, as many of you know, forface—to—face dialogue between leaders. president putin and i had a shared responsibility to manage the relationship between two powerful and proud countries. a relationship that has to be stable and predictable, and it sh...

Has continued. but i do think they are basically looking in the summit and the russia relationship more generally, theyre looking to try to prevent russia from disrupting what they want to accomplish on china and covid and climate and everything else that they want to do. to do that you have to put guard rails on the relationship. thats what this summit was about. it was about having the leader-to-leader ties. it was talking about restoring the diplomatic presence. and i dont think we canunder e...

Well, ive just finished the last meeting of this weeks long trip. the u.s./russian summit. and i there was a lot of hype around this meeting. but its pretty straightforward to me, the meeting. one, theres no substitute, as those of you who have covered me for a while know for face-to-face dialogue between meetings, none. and president putin and i had a shared and unique responsibility to manage the relationship between two powerful and proud countries. a relationship that has to be stable and pr...

Brief one side and then the other side and move on to the next thing. its not a nothing, but its not a solution to any of the problems. and i think that theyll both restore ambassadors was the lowest of the low-hanging fruit that they got out of the summit. doing that is also not nothing. the embassies have been hollowed out and returning the ambassadors to getting the embassies back on track post-covid will help the relationship in ways that arent immediately available. but it will be interesti...

Lets hug and love each other. but its clearly not in anybodys interest, your country or mine, for us to be in a situation where were in a new cold war. i truly believe he thinks that, he understands that but that doesnt mean hes ready to, quote, lay down his arms and say come on. he still is, i believe, concerned about being, quote, in circle. he still is concerned that we, in fact, are looking to take you down, he still has those concerns. but i dont think theyre the driving force of the kind o...

Can really do here. and i think the challenge they have with this whole summit is the pageantry of a u.s./russia summit is so big, and coming off this trip, it obviously attracted so much attention, and vladimir putin has been such a force in democracy and democracy globally that there will always be a huge intense spotlight. in some ways biden was trying to diminish that spotlight by saying, this is just a business meeting. lets see what can happen. which i think that was the most he could acco...

But biden was nostalgic, i guess hes been dreaming of the presidency back in the cold war, looking at nixon, carter and reagan. now he got this moment. thats it. the good news, the only good news about the meeting, the summit, it was shorter than expected. there was not much damage done, but putin got the job done. thats why he was beaming when he left, went into the press conference, even when he entered the building before the talks, taking off the attention that he is dreaming of getting duri...

0 so president biden has shown his willingness to engage putin where he can. and i think if we dont see any reciprocity, if putin doesnt want for play then this mix that president biden has offered is going to have to skew much more heavily towards the confrontation side so he gets the last word. >> stick with us, andrea, as we await president biden, hes set to begin his press conference in a few minutes. were at the top of the hour. weve been discussing what will president putin said in his pre...