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Movements from the other governing party? >> i mean, look, first of all, thank you for having me today. it is a central tenet of the biden presidency, it is part of the reason that he ran. it is part of the reason that he is in the white house in the first place, is that when he and the rest of us looked at trumps presidency, the great irony of the trump presidency was that he claimed, president trump claimed to be a sort of champion, a populous champion of the little guy, and yet at the same ti...

Have a u.s. president say, we will not stand for these kind of human rights abuses in a way that bidens predecessor deliberately did not. >> absolutely. and this is a cornerstone of joe bidens foreign policy approach. is integrating human rights, international human rights issues into his foreign policy agenda at every point. and thats why its been so important for him to call out the russian leader on these human rights abuses, to condemn him, and even sanction the russians for their treatment ...

Meeting. among them, the issue of a global 15% corporate tax rate. no small thing in the world of business. we have natasha bertrand with us as we wait for president biden toe merge. its interesting, we were talking earlier about the u.s. and russian leaders establishing clear red lines on issues like cyber. echos the cold war, does it not, right? this idea that they have to set these red lines in part because theyre concerned about genuine escalation. the danger of escalation. and it peaks to, ...

Said, well, theyre prosecuting their protesters and were prosecuting ours. it is the same. it is obviously not the same, but putin loves to draw these kind of moral equivalencies to show that the united states does not have the moral high ground. >> youre seeing the president there, about to enter whats known as the beast. that is the u.s. presidents heavily, heavily armored limousine. it travels with the president, as does air force one. again, the president joined there, it looks like hes givi...

Civil discussion. and right now, what the president and what the white house really wants, again, is just to create these incremental kind of steps that they can take with the russians to say, theres still kind of a cold, you know, understanding here that were not going to be perfectly aligned to say the least on any issues, but at least we can work together on some issues. critics of this summit say, the u.s. and russias interests are really not aligned at all, and it is too -- the russian pres...

When putin makes these false equivalencies about the u.s., hes got trump making many of the same points to this day. how does russia view the change in leadership? do they view it? biden said on the campaign trail, putin does not want me to be president. >> the kremlin still look back with some affection on the trump administration and still use the same kind of language, that trump continues to use about the relationship and about the problems in america. but to natashas point, even though form...

Acting in a way that we havent seen over the past few years, especially since the arrival of alexei navalny. and i should just note, as we have been talking about him, putin has said that this is a nonstarter, not to be dud during this meeting with president biden. no doubt, president biden will bring him up, but navalnys wife just posted a photo on the eve of this meeting outside of navalnys prison, where she and her daughter just met with him briefly, just another reminder of what democracies ...

White house putting on, on the simple message of, this is not helsinki, right? you will not see an american president stand next to the russian president and take his word, in that case, on russian election interference, over that of his own intelligence agencies, what value do they place on that? >> they want to avoid that at all costs, but the president held a meeting with russian experts earlier this month who advised him against holding this joint press conference. among those in attendance ...

And it was his own doing, in starting to eat and end his hunger strike, is why hes alive right now, not because putin was so afraid of what the worlds reaction would be. >> we should note an importance difference, though. that under president trump, he was reluctant, refused to call out putin like this, for instance, attempting to poison alexei navalny. and often excused russian behavior. saying, were killers, too. biden is not that kind of president. bide in what was the tradition -- there is p...

President biden, you can see the stairs are up. the red carpet literally rolled out for president bidens arrival here. he will be greeted shortly by the swiss president. he will go on to have a bilateral meeting with him today, as well, before, of course, the highly-anticipated face-to-face summit with russias president, vladimir putin, tomorrow. this is a big meeting, a difficult time between these nations. both biden and putin have said that the state of russia/u.s. relations today is the wors...