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0 come into this? putin is a bad actor and everybody knows this. the president has been clear, he does not expect breakthroughs but what wants a professional relationship where adults can talk about important things. whether it's on cyber or political rights or on ukraine, and perhaps he will be more muted at the press conference, and president biden has to make his case here of why he believes even though you don't expect any change in putin's behavior that it was important to sit down eyeball to eyeball. and putin is saying talking about pragmatism, and professionalism and experience, it sho...

Americans and i remember it well because i was on that list. when the press came into the room, ali, he said, oh, we agreed to visa-free travel between the united states and russia. and then, he sat back and he waited to see how vice president biden reacted. and then, third, he needs to be ready for exactly what you were just talking about. this false symmetry. this what aboutism. putin loves to play that game and he is good at it. the vice -- president biden now needs to be ready to rebut it. don't get pulled into, oh, that sounds like a good idea or maybe we should consider those ideas. he n...

When the united states criticizes russia about navalny they point to black lives matter. it's always about deflection and what aboutism. you ask russia about it's domestic policy and it says what about the situation in the united states. who are you to point fingers of blame. president biden's main message on this is trying to unify the democratic world. unify america's allies to confront china and to a lesser degree to confront russia and russia is going to point to january 6th to many things that happened under the trump administration to say the united states foundation to claim that it is ...

Doing what he does often. we can call it what-aboutism. i asked him about the plane being forced down, the airliner, he talks about, what about the time back in 2013 when the leader of bolivia's plane was forced to land in europe because people thought that snowden might be on board? take a listen. >> did you have prior knowledge that a commercial airliner would be forced to land in belarus and that a journalist would be arrested? >> translator: no. i did not know about this. i didn't know about any airliner. i didn't know about the individuals who were detained there subsequently. i found out...

Leave prison alive, even though you pressed him repeatedly. you pressed him on russia's oppressive crackdown on dissent and unrest. clearly from your conversation, putin is not lacking in opinions on some high profile u.s. protests. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. putin consistently does when you challenge him on russian policy is try and talk about america. we call it what aboutism. what putin does is say what about this, what about that? i waspressing him on the allegations of cyberattacks against the u.s. he moved it on to the black lives matter movement. take a listen. what do you think o...