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Slack.com slash DHQ. Joe Biden's got this story he likes to tell. Whenever he talks about

Vladimir Putin, Slate Josh Keating has heard this story a couple of times.

It's a very kind of weird story where apparently he met Putin while he was vice president.

Biden told this story to George Stephanopoulos recently.

You said he know he doesn't have a soul. I did say that to him, yes. Josh says, the

thing that's weird about this story, especially the way Biden told it on national television,

is that it's not how we're used to hearing presidents talk about their counterparts

in other countries. I wouldn't be a wise guy. I was alone with him in his office. That's

how it came about. It was when President Bush had said I looked in his eyes and saw a soul.

I said, look through your eyes and I don't think you have a soul. Look back at me and say,

we understand each other. Look, most important thing.

Then Stephanopoulos followed up and asked Biden, does he think Putin is a killer? And Biden,

rather than having an eye, he just said, I do.

Did that surprise you? It is surprising.

Stephanopoulos was definitely setting him up. Normally, a president would have found a way

to kind of answer that without answering it, rather than just saying, yes, I do think

he's a killer.

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