biden approved the strike on the i is isis isis-k planner. coming moments after the u.s. embassy in kabul warned american citizens to leave the airport gate immediately. secretary cohen, thank you, and we are are happy to have you here, as well to talk about this breaking news. this air strike. that s what i want to start with. and what centcom is saying. that it believes that the target is dead, and they don t know if any civilian casualties. what do you make of this response to yesterday s attack? well, i think it s a case of president biden saying, basically, that the long arm of justice is going to reach out and touch you wherever you are. it s not quite justice, frankly. we lost 13 and many wounded. and 170 or more afghans killed, as well. so, taking out one or two people is certainly important but it s certainly not justice, either. i want to say just a word. you had general mark hertling on
and i think what we re seeing now is a reset. and the u.s. wants to go back to more of what you would consider a classic relationship. and by the way what you re hearing there is a steamship, a paddle boat that is pushing off here. an absolutely beautiful evening in geneva. this city has seen quite a few diplomatic summits. maritime patrols and convoys of diplomatic vips and also life is continuing in this city and steamer boats are pushing off. what we re seeing in general is this reset of relations with president biden saying, what happened over the last four years on president trump, those chummy relations, those times where we re just going to take your word for it. those days are over. and it s important, i think, to note that this is really coming at the tail end of this big international trip.
with his kwife carrie. what are they planning to do? these are the first moment here s. of we re seeing president biden meeting with prime minister boris johnson and their wives, walking maskless here at the the opening full day of president b biden s first trip abroad. after the pleasantries were xpafrpg exchanged, they reviewed the atlantic charter. it was signed by fdr and winston churchill. and they re going to be making revisions to that, bringing it into the more modern day threats if you will. and agreements and values. but we ll see that full document a little later after their meeting. but we heard president biden saying, look, this is gorgeous here pt i would like to stay. he noted it was the first time he s been here as president. not the first time he s visited this part of england overall. so we re going to get a better sense of the dynamic.
unprompted in that exchange. i think that s significant. it s something that is going to be the cause for further scrutiny, frankly, moving forward. the president also defined, as you were talking about before the break, talking about leader mcconnell, i talked to him, he said there was nothing wrong with the phone call and also taking aim at biden saying, that he is scamming the u.s. a little bit of a preview of what we can expect to see moving forward. we are less than 90 seconds away from being able to see and hear from the president on the south lawn. i want to quickly bring in somebody who worked in the state department under president george w. bush, ambassador nick burns, former undersecretary of state and former u.s. ambassador to nato. we re probably about a minute away so i will ask you quickly here the president now directly linking this favor that he asked of the ukrainian leader to an investigation of his political rivals. how significant is that to you? i must say, i