What's At Stake As President Biden Enters Negotiations With Vladimir Putin
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🗓️ 15 June 2021
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly is covering the summit in Geneva, where she spoke to former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul about what the U.S. could expect to gain from negotiations.
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| 0:00.0 | Remember the last US Russia summit? |
| 0:03.0 | We can't. We'll have to work like that. |
| 0:06.0 | Helsinki, 2018, then President Trump shocked the world when he sided with President Vladimir Putin |
| 0:13.0 | over his own intelligence agencies on the issue of election interference. |
| 0:17.0 | People came to me, Dan Coats came to me, and some others they said they think it's Russia. |
| 0:22.0 | I have President Putin. He just said it's not Russia. |
| 0:27.0 | I will say this. I don't see any reason why it would be. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, on Wednesday, it is President Biden's turn. |
| 0:34.0 | Sit down, face to face with Putin here in Geneva. |
| 0:37.0 | He's ruthless, aggressive, full of dirty tricks, and so the secret of dating with Putin is not to rise to his bait. |
| 0:45.0 | That's Fiona Hill. That is the former top Russia expert on the National Security Council. |
| 0:49.0 | She was advising President Trump at the Helsinki summit, a summit for which Trump declined to do much prep |
| 0:56.0 | and a summit that went off script fast. |
| 0:59.0 | President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. |
| 1:04.0 | Hill was in the room. She remembers being so stunned by the former president's words. |
| 1:09.0 | She considered faking a medical emergency to stop the joint press conference in its tracks. |
| 1:15.0 | It was so mortifying. Listening to it, I just thought, how could I make it in? |
| 1:20.0 | This time, in Geneva, there will be no joint press conference. |
| 1:23.0 | The two presidents will interact largely away from cameras and hold so low press conferences after. |
| 1:29.0 | Fiona Hill is out of government, but she told me she advised the Biden team ahead of this summit, too, |
| 1:35.0 | a summit that comes amid tensions between the two countries over a spate of cyber attacks that US intelligence says are emanating from within Russia. |
| 1:44.0 | Putin's imprisonment of his political opponent, Alexei Navalny, and the election interference we just mentioned. |
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