with china and what point does the president ask for a call from president xi? i don t have a call to talk about today. let me again, level set here, and i know i m running close on time, sorry, but the president met with president xi at bali at g20, and most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, the president knows that and wanted to move that relationship forward in a better way and secretary blinken was dang near wheels up trying to head to beijing to have those kinds of conversations to get some of these communication vehicles and venues back on track, whether it s climate change or military to military. we were looking forward to doing that, and then the chinese decided to fly a surveillance balloon over the continental united states and would not be appropriate to have that meeting. when are those discussions going to get back on the calendar, i couldn t tell you. as secretary blinken has said, it will happen at the appropriate time. now is not that ti
good decisions. shouldn t have invaded in the first place. the country posed no threat to anybody, let alone russia. clearly he has not made sound decisions nor has his military with respect to their performance on the battlefield. still suffering some of the same problems they were a year ago, logistics, sustainment, integration of joint fires, man power personnel, unit cohesion, i could go on and on. it s borne out by the fact that he continues to change generals the way i change socks. so he s still struggling. guys, we have to end the briefing. i have to go into the oval, but i will see you tomorrow and thank you for the compliment on the smile, appreciate that. i ll be back tomorrow. john: we were expecting karine jean-pierre was going to take some questions but she has to meet with the president, so