President Biden goes off script on Vladimir Putin

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🗓️ 28 March 2022

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In the last line of a 27-minute speech to close out his European trip, President Biden ended with an off-the-cuff comment aimed at Vladimir Putin. Those nine words are now threatening to overshadow the unified front the west has presented against Russia. The White House quickly walked back that statement from Warsaw - including Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday. Plus, police departments are underreporting hate crimes to the FBI. And, the fight brewing over congressional redistricting in North Carolina. Guests: Axios' Dave Lawler, Russell Contreras, and Michael Graff. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Julia Redpath, Alexandra Botti, Nuria Marquez Martinez, Sabeena Singhani, Lydia McMullen-Laird, and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Monday, March 28th. I'm Naila Boudou. Here's how we're
0:09.4	making you smarter today. The fight brewing over congressional redistricting in North Carolina. Plus,
0:15.0	police departments are under reporting hate crimes to the FBI. But first, today's one big thing.
0:21.2	President Biden goes off script on Vladimir Putin.
0:29.5	In the last line of a 27-minute speech to close out his European trip,
0:34.0	President Biden ended with an off-the-cuff comment aimed at Vladimir Putin.
0:43.6	Those nine words are now threatening to overshadow the unified front the West has presented
0:48.8	against Russia. The White House quickly walked back that statement from Warsaw, including Secretary
0:54.0	of State Antony Blinken on Sunday. As you've heard us say repeatedly, we do not have a strategy
0:58.9	of regime change in Russia or anywhere else for that matter. Joining us to explain how consequential
1:04.1	President Biden's remarks might be is Axios world editor Dave Lawler. Hey, Dave. Hi, Noah.
1:10.0	During his three-day trip, President Biden had successfully signaled to Putin that the West was
1:15.1	united against him. We talked about this on the podcast on Friday. How much do these impromptu
1:20.6	words undermine the West resolve here? Yeah, we're getting some signals that those words have made
1:26.6	some allies a little bit nervous, including French President Emmanuel Macron, who said there should
1:31.2	be no escalation in rhetoric in addition to in warfare. And so Biden is out on his own, more or
1:40.3	less, in calling for Putin to leave, even if the sanctions and the other steps that been announced
1:46.6	were unified with allies. Why does this matter? I think a lot of people think that Vladimir Putin
1:51.9	shouldn't be in power. Why does it matter if Biden says that now? I guess it depends how Vladimir
1:56.3	Putin takes it. I mean, he certainly does not think that Joe Biden is happy to see him sitting
2:00.8	in the Kremlin. But does this play into his at least rhetoric about the West really having
2:07.6	broader aims, not just wanting to end the war in Ukraine, but to change Russia itself, to really
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