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Our position of trusted leadership. >> now, our thanks to geoff for t that and we'll have much more. we should note jeff was supposed to be live from england, but he had to take a later flight because of an army of sacicadas hit a plan. this is the same bugs that attacked the man you're seeing on the screen, manu raju on capitol hill. joining us to share his expertise on this subject, manu raju. manu, you woke up to the news that the white house press plane

Grounded because of cicadas. i wonder what your reaction is. how surprised are you given what you've lived through? >> reporter: in fact, i'm not surprised. first thing i thought was, if it's going to happen to me, it's going to happen to you. and it clearly did with the press plane because those beasts are everywhere in washington, d.c. outside my house i'm stepping on dead cicadas everywhere. you can hear them. >> you can hear them. >> over the weekend they were flying at my head. it happened once and it certainly can happen again. >> are you surprised that the proper precautions were not ta...

Out saying we are not looking for any of those deliverables. the cicadas have been taking over the east coast and that has been a big story, but it caused plenty of problems over the past 24 hours. the press plane that was grounded by these bugs has landed now in england. it is carrying the host of this show andrea mitchell. she is traveling with the president. what has the reaction been with all of those stranded on the plane together. >> the white house is not immune to cicada. president biden had one swarming him as he tried to board air force one. this was a very large group of white house...

Control. so this is a host of domestic issues that will be in the backdrop of the president's first foreign trip. of course, biden was well-known in international circles for so many years as a senator and then vice president, but during this triple be at the forefront as a leader of the united states. >> foreign policy certainly his bailiwick, something he has worked with for years, he is there in a different role this time. you used the word choreography. you are already there in position but there are reporters who are going ahead of the president to be there ready to report on this trip an...

Critical of, as i said, north korea, in fact calling north koreans great people. he refused on the press plane or on air force one talking to the press to respond to the criticism from h.w. bush in a new book calling him a blow hard. he said we're going to let that go. in fact, he let a response from the white house press staff speak for it. but obviously there are challenges. he comes here, even though he denies in, in a weakened position that 37% record low approval rating that you mentioned. he's embroiled, of course, in the russia controversy and the two indictments and one guilty plea in ...