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Did, i was going to respond. i did. i chikd it out. i had access to all the intelligence. he was engaged in those activities. i did respond and made it clear that i would respond again. >> and i want to get to cnn's white house correspondent caitlyn collins live in brussels. what can you tell us about what has been a momentous trip so far for president biden but the big moment everything is looking forward to still to come? >> that's right. you have seen all of these moments where he is interacting with the world leaders. people are contrasting it with his predecessor. and each president biden...

Here to show his closeness to the american president. but, i mean, how does that match up with all of those elbow bumps? >> it doesn't. i think that's the simple answer, right? for the cameras and for these images, they want to project, oh, look, we're being safe, we're distanced, we're laughing and elbow bumping because that's supposedly what they need to do. but as we've mentioned, every single one of them is vaccinated, they are outdoors, there is no reason for that type of theater, and they know it, which is why you see the images with the arm around and they were huddling and back slappin...

Uber successful business crowd. what do you think of that? >> you know, neil, you're right. there's a lot of fish and chips going on in europe and back slapping. the end of the day, we have a love hate relationship with the technology firms. the winners will be the chinese firms. they're going to be laughing to beijing. we're going after our own leader. we love the fact that our 401(k)s go up and municipal tensions go up to help pay for roads and schools. we love the fact that hospitals have more money in their pensions because of these technology firms and brought our costs down. the other ha...

Biden does care about these issues. and please stop messing about with an arrangement which is after all, and arrangement of the protocol of the northern ireland protocol of the agreement which the johnson agreement which thejohnson agreement negotiated agreement which the johnson agreement negotiated because he preferred it to the ones that teresa made negotiated and doesn't really want to implement now. that's out the europeans and americans see it. this is really a warning shot for the biden administration that this is a serious. it can't be brushed aside with backslapping. bier? aside with...

Nato. he has to from moment to moment from exchange to exchange he has to take these new positions and today we'll see him sitting next to chancellor merkel. there's not a lot of love lost between those two. >> among the european leaders he probably has the least chemistry with her. they have certainly had issues in the past. it was fascinating to watch this unfold yesterday, and i've been to the nato meetings the last two years. i've been in the room. macron for a while, for a time there was a bromance, the handshake, the firm handshakes, the back slapping, the body language. that all evapora...