Biden on historic Putin summit: “I did what I came to do”

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🗓️ 17 June 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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President Joe Biden said he raised human rights and cyberattacks during a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Both Biden and Putin said the talks were generally positive but walked away with no major breakthroughs. “I did what I came to do,” Biden said. Fiona Hill is the former senior director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council and was at the infamous meeting between former President Trump and Putin in Helsinki in 2018. She joins AC360 to discuss how Biden’s summit with Putin was compared to Trump’s three years ago. Plus, 21 House Republicans voted no on a bill to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the officers who defended the Capitol on January 6. One of those Congressmen who voted against the legislation was Rep. Paul Gosar, who also referred to the shooting of Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt as an execution. Jennifer Gosar is Rep. Gosar’s sister and along with her other siblings, has campaigned against her brother. They recently put out an attack ad calling out their brother’s lies about the insurrection. She tells Anderson Cooper it doesn’t surprise her that her brother actively trying to erase what happened on January 6. Airdate: June 16, 2021 Guests: Fiona Hill Jennifer Gosar To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening, President Biden is airborne heading back from his summit with Vladimir Putin.
0:05.0	He departed Geneva with a distinction of not publicly siding with the Russian dictator
0:08.7	against his own diplomats and intelligence community and allies, as his predecessor did.
0:13.4	Apart from that, this was simply a normal meeting between a superpower and a far less influential,
0:18.1	but still quite difficult adversary.
0:20.2	President Biden's meetings with Putin ran shorter than expected.
0:23.2	President said afterwards, I did what I came to do.
0:27.4	The bottom line is, I told President Putin that we need to have some basic rules of the
0:31.5	road that we can all abide by.
0:34.4	I also said there are areas where there's a mutual interest for us to cooperate.
0:39.2	For our people, Russian and American people, but also for the benefit of the world and
0:44.4	the security of the world.
0:45.9	Well, to that end, the President says he warned against for the Russian cyber attacks
0:49.8	on the U.S.
0:51.1	He also promised devastating consequences if the dissident Alexei Navalny were to die in
0:55.4	prison and he brought up the cases of two Americans detained in Russia.
0:59.1	However, he also sought to tamp down the impression that either side is seeking to rerun the
1:03.2	Cold War.
1:04.2	I don't think he's looking for a Cold War with the United States.
1:10.6	I don't think it's about a, as I said to him, I said, your generation of mine were about
1:14.9	10 years apart.
1:16.2	This is not a kumbaya moment, as he used to say back in the 60s in the United States.
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