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>> speaking with the alliance, making putin and china that the g-7 is pretty tight and we'll make a move. >> would you be able to work out any kind of understanding with him on the cyberattacks? >> who knows. it's going to be a tough nut to crack. >> molly, we should say there are reports that the biden administration plans to buy 500 million pfizer doses on give to the world. how will they receive president biden as he makes his way there, and given this news about this
Just days a story on the fbi back in 2017 launching a counterintelligence investigation of the president's actions and the other first reported in "the washington post" on the lengths president trump went to, to conceal what he and putin discussed in hamburg, germany, also in 2017. that is the summit where, in the president giving a series of gestures. it's the same summit where the president took the interpreter's notes after meeting with putin.
Times" has been reporting that officials in the administration have had to try to glean information listening to what the russians say was discussed in this meeting. that's a surreal situation that u.s. officials are eavesdropping on russians to hear from the russians what was discussed because they haven't been told. >> the idea that the president was thinking, oh, i'm such a great negotiator with all due respect to my friend, i mean, this is a president who loves an audience whenever he does anything. if you really thought he was a good negotiator, i think he would have had a witness there a...
I'm not going to let him up. >> the trump administration certainly did not agree sending treasury secretary mnuchin up to the hill to lobby against the measure. a story on the fbi back in 2017 launching a counterintelligence investigation of the president's actions and the other first reported in "the washington post" on the lengths president trump and putin went to in hamburg, germany, also in 2017. that is the summit where, in case you're wondering, we learned after it was over the president told a "new york times" reporter he believed putin when he said russia didn't attack the 2016 elected...