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Also, did -- president putin said there were no threats or scare tactics, do you agree that there were no threats or scare tactics and also did you touch on afghanistan and the safe withdrawal of troops? >> yes, yes and yes. let me go back to the first part. the reason it didn't go longer is because when the last time the two heads of state spent two hours and direct conversation across the table going into excruciating detail? you may know of a time but i don't, i can think of one. so we didn't need, my secretary of state was with me the whole time and our ambassador et cetera brought everybo...

Will be working hard to bring those hostages home. >> john: and we know the great work that you did bringing hostages back from north korea. the helicopter went by because one of the motorcades was traveling below our hotel. in fact it's president biden apparently. there's a shot of air force one as he's headed out to the geneva airport to head back to the united states. ambassador, let me ask you about this because this to me was sort of the big take away in the, as you described it, talks about talks. president biden said he thinks there is a genuine prospect for better relations between the...

But it's clearly not in anybody's interest. it's for us to be in a situation where we are in a new cold war. and he understands that, he's laying down his arms and saying, come on. he still i believe is concerned about being encircled. and they are looking to me taken down et cetera. he still has those concerns but i don't think they are the driving forces the kind of relationship they are looking for in the united states. jennifer jacobs. >> thank you mr. president. is there a particular reason why the summit only lasted about three hours?