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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Welcome to Actios today. It's Wednesday, June 16th. I'm Nyla Buda. Here's how we're |
| 0:10.0 | making you smarter today. More evidence of COVID's long-term effects. Plus, the new corporate must-have, |
| 0:16.0 | the company retreats. But first, today's one big thing. Behind the scenes of Joe Biden and Vladimir |
| 0:22.7 | Putin's big meeting. Later today, President Biden will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:33.3 | This will be the first meeting between the two since Biden took office. What's it going to be like |
| 0:38.0 | inside that room? Well, we have two people with a lot of experience inside that room. Our |
| 0:42.1 | managing editor of Politics, Margaret Taliv, and our political editor, Glenn Johnson. Good |
| 0:46.7 | morning to you both. Good morning. Good morning, Nala. When I say inside the room, Glenn, |
| 0:51.4 | you've actually been in this situation before. I had the unique circumstance of having |
| 0:57.2 | the opportunity to work for the Secretary of State for four years from 2013 to 2017. So I |
| 1:02.3 | traveled all around the world with John Kerry and among those travels were five trips to Russia |
| 1:08.3 | and on almost all of them we met with President Putin. Margaret, what about you? I've been |
| 1:14.0 | right outside the room waiting to try to get into the room and then have had the once was |
| 1:19.7 | enough in a lifetime experience of a joint news conference with the US President of Vladimir Putin |
| 1:24.8 | after such a summit. And of course, I'm talking about Helsinki summer of 2018 where President Trump |
| 1:31.2 | came out, stood alongside Vladimir Putin and said he had talked to the Russian leader and had no |
| 1:36.6 | reason to believe he'd interfered in US elections. Glenn, let's talk tactics. What do we think will |
| 1:42.2 | be engaged in this conversation? President Putin, former KGB officer, is famous for trying to |
| 1:48.4 | disarm his counterparts by showing up or calling them into the Kremlin very late for a meeting. |
| 1:57.0 | Then when they finally do get in in front of he begins with his airing of grievances where he talks |
| 2:02.8 | about there's not enough respect paid to Russia for its tremendous loss of life in World War Two. |
| 2:09.2 | He'll talk about the war in Afghanistan. And so this thing has the effect of lulling them or |
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