"I Did What I Came To Do": President Biden Meets With Russia's Vladimir Putin

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🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In Geneva, President Biden and Russia President Vladimir Putin met for hours. At separate news conferences Putin described the talks as "constructive" and Biden said he did what he came to do. Both leaders agreed to keep talking.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, and NPR's Moscow correspondent Lucian Kim.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm pure politics listeners. It's way past my bedtime in Anchorage, Alaska, and
0:05.8	it's still completely bright outside. This podcast was recorded at.
0:10.5	It is 240 Eastern on Wednesday, June 16th.
0:14.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but the sun will probably still be shining.
0:19.6	Enjoy the show!
0:20.7	I've never seen that, and it seems like it's cool to have for a couple days, but I'm
0:29.0	like, then knowing if you have to deal with it all summer, I don't know, I should.
0:32.0	I actually saw it in Helsinki, which is good for today. The sun went down really, really
0:39.5	late. It was very disorienting.
0:43.1	We had to bring it all together. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Scott Detera,
0:47.9	I cover the White House.
0:49.0	And I'm Aisha Roscoe, I also cover the White House.
0:51.8	And we are talking the Biden-Putin Summit, which just wrapped as we speak Air Force 1 is
0:56.9	taxing to take off from Geneva. And Aisha, I'm excited about this. We have NPR's Moscow
1:02.4	correspondent Lucian Kim joining us. Hey Lucian, hey, how's it going?
1:06.4	I'm really glad to have you, because I feel like we have talked so much about the American
1:10.8	perspective. It'll be really interesting to hear your view from Moscow on how this has
1:14.8	been portrayed and the mindset, especially of Putin going into this. So thanks for joining
1:21.2	us.
1:22.2	Absolutely, glad to be here.
1:23.9	So as I said, President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met today in Geneva.
1:28.1	They spoke for several hours. And while the two nations' deep differences were not exactly
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