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The white house -- president biden described the implications and consequences of china provides material support to russia as it conducts brutal attacks against ukrainian cities and civilians. china's readout said the ukraine crisis is not something we want to see. and conflict and confrontation are not in anyone's interest. joining us now, rick staying gull, serving in the obama administration -- npr's former moscow bureau chief. he's currently a fellow at the wilson center. rick, this was the call that a lot was riding on today. the one good sign about it is two hours. these kinds of calls,...

For you. trigger where to all, i'm going to play for you some of the greatest here is here. here is donald trump here on the topic of nato. >> we have nato, and then we have countries with a free ride. nato is obsolete. it's old, that, sloppy. >> we are protecting europe, and we are paying for almost the entire cost of nato. >> we are the piggy bank. it helps them, they are in europe. it helps them a lot more than helps us, we are very far away. >> the abuse that was given to our country through nato, where they wouldn't pay! and we are paying for everybody! >> rick, you worked at the state de...

Weeks because of the rising number of cases of the delta variant of covid. this first emerged in india, we'll have much more on the danger of this -- lead off our coverage today, pulitzer prize-winning washington correspondent for the washington post -- barbara mcquade, veteran federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney for district of michigan, who worked with the doj during the biden transition. she is a professor at -- your ship -- ghost of the podcast sisters in law along with other friends of ours. joe wine-banks, and kimberly atkins. also back with us, rick single. former secretary of stat...

Key. cyber threats. a global corporate tax of 15%. the companies could fend away to avoid them. but the optics and the images of this event are as important as ever. in 2018 there was one photograph of angela merkel looking over at the president, a scowl as she tried to go toe to toe with the president. a very different scene today even as they were gathering here in the first moments. the two men wrapping their arms one another, really an effort by this u.s. president to demonstrate an embrace of america's allies ahead of the crucial summit next week. >> a lot of on that, rick, let me bring y...

President's first test on the world stage. there is boris johnson, this is him just moments ago. >> this is a meeting that genuinely needs to happen. we need to make sure that the lessons from the pandemic -- we need to make sure that we don't repeat some of the errors that we have made in the course of the last 18 months or so. >> and right before that moment was this visual which we have not seen in a couple years. leaders gathering for the family photo. they didn't do the g 7 last year so it's been a couple years since then. peter alexander is traveling overseas with president biden and we'...