U.S. & Russia reveal new details for Biden-Putin summit; Officials: Biden preparing intensely for Putin talks, consulted with Russian experts; AG Garland outlines new strategy to combat domestic terrorism; COVID death toll tops 600,000 in the U.S.;

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

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Sources: Biden intensely preparing for Putin summit; WH: Biden held meeting with Russia experts to prepare for Putin summit; Biden tells allies: America is back; Biden-Putin meeting likely to last 4-5 hours; No meals planned; Biden and Putin agree: relations at a “low point”; Kremlin: unsure if Biden, Putin will meet without aides; WH officials: Biden to bring up nuclear stability, arms control agreements, ransomware and human rights at Putin meeting; Biden calls Putin a “worthy adversary” before summit; Biden on Putin meeting: I’ll make it clear “what the red lines are”; Emails show how Trump & his allies pressured DOJ to challenge election results; AG Garland: insurrection was an “assault on the mainstay of our democratic system”; Trump allies tried to pressure then-acting Atty General to challenge 2020 election, emails show; Study: new evidence COVID was circulating in U.S. in Dec 2019; New York, California, drop nearly all COVID restrictions today; Experts warn about new variant, urges people to get vaccinated; CDC elevates Delta variant to “variant of concern”; Videos show Ocean City, MD police kicking, tasing teens after stopping them to enforce a boardwalk vaping ban; Ocean City mayor says police investigating teen arrests; Face mask dispute leaves store employee dead, 2 hurt; Afghan translators waiting for U.S. visas allegedly being hunted down, killed by Taliban; 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	We'll buy it as open or be, so I heard you were hoping for the other guy.
0:07.6	The lead starts right now.
0:10.2	Face to face, President Biden and Putin meet in less than 15 hours, relearning new details
0:16.0	about what will happen inside the room.
0:20.0	And then pressure campaign.
0:21.5	The newly revealed emails showing how Trump and his allies hounded the Justice Department
0:26.2	to investigate outlandish allegations of voter fraud.
0:31.2	Plus a grim new milestone in the COVID pandemic as the CDC raises the threat level of a vicious
0:36.6	new variant.
0:43.1	Welcome to the lead.
0:44.1	I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper, and we begin today with our world lead.
0:47.7	And the new details revealed about what to expect during President Biden's highly anticipated
0:52.9	historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
0:56.0	Tomorrow the two leaders will meet face to face at a time when U.S.-Russia relations
1:00.2	are out there lowest points since the Cold War.
1:03.1	It's still unclear whether Biden and Putin will meet without no takers, but officials
1:06.8	say they do expect the summit to last about four or five hours.
1:11.5	Biden has been preparing intensely for the talks, according to officials, also holding
1:15.6	lengthy sessions with his team, consulting with G7 and NATO allies for their input.
1:20.6	And last month, we're told the Biden assembled a group of Russia experts, including former
1:24.6	Trump officials, to brief him.
1:26.8	Now, with CNN's film Maddie Lee reports, officials are revealing what exactly the two
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