administration needed to restore the american citizens faith in democracy. democracy could still work. he took the oath of office two weeks after the insurrection at the u.s. capitol that was an attempt to interrupt one of our most sacred traditions of our democracy, the nation frustrated by the response to the pandemic rising, authoritarians across the globe, and president biden said -- wanted to frame his term in office as a rebuttal to that, to say democracy could still work. we are not the america of donald trump. we are bigger and better than this. a lot of this when he would talk about this, it was aimed largely at china. russia was sort of a footnote to this. now, of course, russia takes center stage. i think aides have told me they will be drawing that contrast again. he will make that argument and use in forceful terms that democracies can work, democracies need to stand together, he will point how europe and nato are so tightly