Address, including russias continuing cyberattacks on the u. S. Its detainment of several americans in russia. Its continuing interference in u. S. Elections. So many issues. President biden promising to challenge putin on those issues directly, poppy. Ahead of his trip to geneva, biden was in brussels where he reaffirmed the United States commitment to strong transatlantic ties at the eu u. S. Summit. Our team is following all of these crucial angles and sitdowns. Lets start in brussels. Arlette saenz is there. President biden spent the morning working with eu leaders. Do we know their focus . President biden had this morning really caps off his tour of assuring allies that the United States is back and will continue to support them. This coming, of course, after those four years of President Trump really testing and putting a strain on many of the United States relationships with allies. And in a series of meetings this morning that the president had with eu leaders, the president has really left brussels with two big deliverables. One of those being the formation of a new trade and tech counsel between the United States and europe to really try to counter a rising china. And then also the u. S. Has ended, settled a 17year Trade Dispute over subsidies related to airbus and boeing. President biden President Trump had really upped the ante in that dispute, Slapping Billions of dollars in tariffs in europe, responding in kind. But President Biden, his overarching message over the past week here in europe is that the United States has its a allies back. America is back. We are reasserting the fact that its overwhelming the interest of the United States of america to have a great relationship with nato and with the eu. I have a very different view than my predecessor. So President Biden once again stressing the importance of those transatlantic ties. But looming large over the past week of events has been that upcoming facetoface meeting with russias president Vladimir Putin. At each of the president s stops from the g7 summit to Windsor Castle with the queen and yesterday at nato, the president spoke with allies about that upcoming meeting and what he is hoping to relay to the russian president when it comes to cyberattacks and also treatment of opposition leaders. But now the president is about to head over. He boarded Air Force One a short while ago. About to head over to geneva for the facetoface sitdown with the russian president. Hugely important. Arlette, thank you for that reporting from brussels for us this morning. Jim . Joining me in geneva, Natasha Bertrand and frederik pleitgen. President biden uplike President Trump who would proudly say, no need to prepare for this. Our personal relationship is strong. I can handle it on my own. President biden has been preparing very aggressively for this. Very intensively. Hes been having meetings with his advisers every day. When he doesnt have these meetings with the g7 or eu leaders, hes been spending his mornings with antony blinken, jake sullivan, his National Security adviser, getting ready for this summit. Then another really important aspect of his preparation has been consulting with foreign leaders about what hes going to be saying to putin, what he anticipates is going to be on the agenda. And that is so that the foreign leaders can feel really involved in the process because joe biden has a lot of Foreign Policy experience, right . This is not something hes met Vladimir Putin before. This is not something hes brandnew to, but he and his advisers want to look like the foreign leaders are involved in this. They can emphasize that america is back as a leader and they are incorporating all their allies into this big consequential meeting with Vladimir Putin because, of course, his stakes could not be higher at this point. That, of course, another contrast to President Trump who had this go it alone strategy. Denigrated an Alliance Like nato. President biden said im going to approach this differently. Im going to bring my allies together. That show of force in brussels and at the g7 to indicate that. One of the issues on the table, and interestingly, sounds like they will speak about this, are americans detained in russia. In prison, russia says for crimes, the u. S. Calls these trials absurd. Joke trials in effect. Do we expect progress . I think there could be progress. One of the things you just pointed out is correct. The russians are saying they do believe this is going to be a big topic here. Quite interesting because one of the things that has been talked about in the run up to all of this is a possible exchange for paul weland who, obviously, the u. S. Says is unjustly imprisoned on the and convicted already of espionage. Very long jail sentence. Not doing very well in jail anyway. For victor boot, the merchant of death not expectly a boy scout. Non not exactly a boy scout but even the judge who convicted bout said maybe thats not such a bad idea. However, the russians came out today and they said that talks about Prisoner Exchanges have been going on for a while. The russians did say this is in the form of the Deputy Foreign minister that the issue of paul whelan was specifically excluded from the talks going on for a long time. However, earlier today, the spokesman for Vladimir Putin peskov said no one should speskulate about a possible exchange of victor bout for paul whelan. Thats something for the president s to talk about and then to possibly decide. So it looks like its one of those issues where there could be tangible progress. If the two president s do really talk about it which is seems for the president the russian president s spokesman even to articulate that idea because it puts it out there in a way that i suppose makes it more real. There are lots of differences between the u. S. And russia. But there are issues where theres agreement. In geneva, a deal negotiated in geneva, russia and the u. S. Were in the iran nuclear deal. The Biden Administration attempting to resurrect this. Do they expect to talk about this . Make progress on that and other issues where they agree . It does seem to be one of those areas where theyll talk about that issue. The Iran Nuclear Agreement is one of those issues where both sides have the same interest. The russians want the u. S. Back in that agreement. The u. S. Obviously wants to get back into the agreement. Just a matter of talking that through with the iranians and getting everybody on board. Afghanistan is another one of those issues. Both sides do not, with the u. S. Leaving afghanistan, do not want to see afghanistan descend into lawlessness. And then have some experience there. They certainly do. And they have a lot of experience of what happens in afghanistan when things go wrong. They carry that with them. And then arms control. Arms control is one of those issues where Vladimir Putin has said that he does value the new professionalism that is there in washington with the Biden Administration now where they have managed to extend the new s. T. A. R. T. Treaty. The russians seem to want to build on that as well. Of course, theres a lot of side issues also involved with the russians then also wanting to talk about Missile Defense systems, which they dont like in europe, but there are some issues where i think progress can be made. The cyber issue is really the one to watch, though. Thats where there are considerable differences but both sides want to talk about it. Some history in geneva with arms control coming back. Natasha, i remember covering the trump kim summits. The criticism of many on both sides of the aisle was having a summit without preconditions. Without sort of deliverables agreed to in advance. Here we have President Biden, in somewhat of a similar situation with putin. Nothing agreed to in advance saying this is a chance to deliver a maessage. How is it giving him a platform without any guarantees of something in return . Its a great question. This is causing a lot of anxiety even within bidens own administration. Last week, or the week before last week, the u. S. Sitting u. S. Ambassador to russia gave a briefing to senators warning them that the Biden Administration could be repeating the mistakes of its predecessors by going into a summit with no preconditions, such as waiving sanctions on the nordstream gas pipeline. Some see it as a reward to Vladimir Putin for his bad behavior. The white house is saying repeatedly, we are meeting with Vladimir Putin because of our differences, not in spite of them, or in spite of our differences, not because of them. But the bottom line being, they want to work this out directly with the russian president. They want to establish that line of communication so they can avoid misunderstandings. The goal is not a major breakthrough, but incremental progress. Jen psaki saying this is how diplomacy is supposed to make. Meet with your adversaries as well. Poppy, theres a lot at stake here in geneva. Well see where tends up. So much at stake. Im so glad you are there and were less than 24 hours away from the beginning of that putin biden meeting. A lot to come from it. New emails show former President Trump again trying to use the Justice Department for his own gain. This time in pursuit of the big lie. Well explain. Plus, new president , same tactics. And the Justice Department set to unveil a plan to combat domestic terrorism. This comes after a new fbi warning that qanon backers may carry out more violent acts. 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New emails just released by democrats on the House Oversight committee shine a light on how former President Trump and his allies pressure the justice Dopt Challenge the results of the 2020 election. Lets bring in our colleague whitney wild. This is explosive new reporting when you actually dig into, as you did, these emails showing how many people pressured investigations of the 2020 election. All based on a lie. All based on fraud. Trump allies trying to push thenacting Attorney GeneralJeffrey Rosen to join this legal effort to challenge the results. There are severalweek period between december and early january, just a couple of days before the riot that shows the white house seeming to grow more and more hysterical, trying to pressure The Department of justice to take these Election Fraud claims to the finish line. Take it to the Supreme Court. And ultimately overturn the election. Here just a couple days to highlight that. December 14th was a highly consequential day. It was the same day that the state certified the Electoral College votes. That day, the president , through proxy, sent Election Fraud claims to top doj officials. That was before, poppy, bill barr had even resigned. He resigned in part because he was like, look, im not doing this Election Fraud this Election Fraud circus. I dont believe in that. He quit. It seems like the white house had zeroed in on his number two. Jeffrey rosen. Perhaps they thought hed be more tope the claims and manipulate him into carrying out possibly overturning the election through The Department of justice. So that all happening on december 14th. A couple of weeks later, the white house again pressures doj to file a Supreme Court lawsuit to nullify the 2020 election. So this happens, poppy, through a White House Assistant as well as a private attorney who reaches out to doj and says ive got this draft lawsuit. You could just file this with the Supreme Court and we would be all set. The president asked me to send this to you. So he was trying to use the president s power through this to try to convince the people he was talking to to actually carry out the president s wishes. This happened multiple times, poppy, December 31st the president meets with Jeffrey Rosen and other doj officials. On january 1st, Chief Of Staff mark meadows emails thenacting Attorney GeneralJeffrey Rosen three times to try to convince him to look into these Election Fraud claims. It went on and on and on, poppy. Eventually culminating in the January 3rd Meeting Where ActingAttorney GeneralJeffrey Rosen and another man named Jeffrey Clark go to the white house and they basically have this apprenticestyle meeting where theyre trying to pitch themselves as the acting Attorney General. This man Jeffrey Clark, poppy, goes into the president and basically says i can take the Election Fraud claims to the finish line. Make me acting Attorney General and im going to do this. And then Jeffrey Rosen argues the other side which is doj cant do this Election Fraud they cant get behind these baseless claims. In the end, there was a sigh of relief in The Department of justice because Jeffrey Rosen won. And that, at least for a moment, gave The Department of justice some calm. Again, just three days before the riot. So it really shows how hysterical the white house was getting until the very end. And how close it went to the very end. Whitney, thank you for that important reporting. Lets talk about this and di jo digest it all. Elie honig is here. You also have Jeffrey Rosen as whitney laid out, saying he refused to speak to the president s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, about all of this. I guess twofold question, what should the doj do about this now . And is all of it legal . I suppose, right, to meet the request. What do you think of it . So poppy, its not necessarily a crime but i do want to be clear. This is utter madness. I just looked at these emails. They made me think of the worst, craziest emails that youl