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It's Wednesday, June 16th.

Today, what Biden's summit with Putin can tell us about the future

of U.S.-Russia relations, and why renters are going on strike.

Hello, everyone.

Well, I've just finished the last meeting of this week's long trip

the U.S.-Russian summit.

On Wednesday, President Biden and President Putin met for the first time since Biden entered the White House to discuss a range of issues.

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Including Russia's behavior towards countries that feel very much abused and manipulated and disrespected by the country.

And areas related to human rights and election interference and cyber attacks.

I know there were a lot of hype around this meeting, but it's pretty straightforward to me, the media.

One, there's no substitute as those of you who have covered me for a while know for face-to-face dialogue between leaders.

None. And President Putin and I had a shared unique responsibility to manage the relationship between two powerful and proud countries.

The two also discussed what Russia would eventually need to do to reach the level of global respect and prominence that Putin has longed for for years,

despite behaving in ways that the United States and other global leaders believe keeps it from being viewed as a pair of democracies where people are respected and international law is followed.

Can you give us some context quickly of what President Biden was hoping to accomplish going into these discussions with President Putin?

Well, when Biden ran for president, he made it known that it was a big problem that the global reputation of the United States had declined under Donald Trump.

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