Biden sets ambitious agenda on first overseas trip

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda is stalled in Washington, D.C. while he is overseas for his first trip abroad to talk with world leaders. Biden is set to meet with Russia President Vladimir Putin next week and says he won’t hold back and the U.S. will “respond in a robust and meaningful way if the Russian government engages in harmful activities.” David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Obama and has been on similar trips. He tells AC360 the President feels “quite confident” on the global stage and this is “comfortable terrain” for him. Plus, a growing number of Democrats are urging Biden and the Democratic leadership to act without their Republican colleagues to get legislation passed in Congress as bipartisan negotiations around infrastructure and gun reform seem to have crumbled. Democratic Sen. Ed Markey joins AC360 to discuss whether he thinks bipartisanship is a realistic goal to getting Biden’s agenda passed. Airdate: June 9, 2021 Guests: David Axelrod Sen. Ed Markey 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	There's no place like home.
0:03.6	Truly, just ask a president overseas with a domestic agenda as big as the world, but
0:08.1	even tougher than navigate.
0:09.8	John Burman here in for Anderson, and it's not as though the goal's president Biden
0:13.6	has set for his first trip abroad were not ambitious enough either.
0:17.6	Arrhyming tonight in Britain's Cornwall Coast for Friday's G7 summit, he is seeking to repair
0:22.0	relationships that were strained by his predecessor, not to mention recommitting to NATO and coordinating
0:27.5	transatlantic policy on fighting COVID, facing down China, cooling the planet.
0:32.1	Oh, and don't forget confronting Vladimir Putin, who will meet next week and who's at
0:36.7	the center of some ominous news tonight involving dissident Alexei Navalny and his political
0:40.8	movement.
0:41.8	If all that sounds like a lot to you, there's also the small matter as the president sees
0:45.8	it of saving democracy.
0:49.7	I believe we're an inflection point in world history.
0:53.4	The moment where it falls to us to prove that democracy's not just endure, but they
1:00.9	will excel as we rise to seize the enormous opportunities of a new age.
1:08.5	We have to discredit those who believe that the age of democracy is over as some of our
1:14.4	fellow nations believe.
1:17.8	So there's that, and there's everything back home.
1:20.6	It's all legislation on infrastructure, police reform, voting rights, and investigating
1:25.4	the insurrection that's let's not forget was barely five months ago.
1:29.5	So even as he's prepping for the G7, a Russian summit and all the rest, he's left his
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