Vlad To Meet You, Mr. Biden

What A Day

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🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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President Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin tomorrow in Geneva for the final stop as part of his overseas trip as President. We spoke with Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama administration and a host of "Pod Save the World," to talk about the takeaways from Biden's trip and what to expect for Biden and Putin's meeting. And in headlines: a driver kills a protestor in Minneapolis and injures three others, the Novavax vaccine is over 90 percent effective, and Marjorie Taylor Greene apologizes for Holocaust comparisons. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, June 15th, I'm Achila Hughes.
0:09.0	And I'm getting a rest again. This is what a day where we give you the news in less time
0:12.4	than it takes to read an apology by Chrissy Teigen.
0:14.8	Yeah, and in way less time than it takes to read all of the responses to the apology from
0:19.2	Chrissy Teigen.
0:20.2	Yeah, exactly. We are cutting out all of the noise for you. You know?
0:24.3	Yeah, it's just us doing this.
0:35.3	On today's show, Ben Rhodes tells us what to watch for in President Biden's meeting tomorrow
0:39.2	with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva.
0:41.7	That's right. And that's Biden's final stop as part of his first overseas trip as president.
0:46.3	Before this, he attended a G7 summit, then he had a meeting with NATO allies. And it was
0:50.1	after that NATO conference in Brussels yesterday where he laid out how he is going to walk into
0:54.9	tomorrow's meeting with Putin.
0:56.7	I shared with our allies that I'll convey to President Putin that I'm not looking for
1:03.3	conflict with Russia. But then we will respond if Russia continues its harmful activities.
1:09.3	Yeah. And Russia is one of the top priorities for much of the world. Earlier on, NATO leaders
1:14.2	had reportedly condemned the country for various human rights abuses, election interference,
1:18.4	and more. Yeah. And the other priority is obviously
1:21.7	China. At both the G7 and NATO meetings, world leaders expressed their concerns about China's
1:26.3	growing influence, as well as its history on human rights, transparency, and more. Although
1:31.1	they also called for a quote, constructive dialogue with China whenever possible, including
1:35.4	on climate change.
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