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(people chattering)
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(tense music playing)
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(helicopter whirring)
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JAKE TAPPER:
It is a stunning moment, Dana.
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The disgraced 45th
President of the United States
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and First Lady Melania Trump
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walking to Marine One
for their last ride.
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(whirring)
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(music continues)
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ANNOUNCER:
Ladies and gentlemen,
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the President-Elect
of the United States,
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Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.
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and Dr. Jill Biden.
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(cheering and applause)
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(whistling)
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Jen Psaki: There was
huge security issues that day.
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Fears after January 6th
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and a lot of steps
and precautions
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that were being taken.
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We couldn't even get
close enough
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to drive here on our first day.
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So actually,
all of the senior staff
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all met at the zoo
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and we got on buses,
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and we all were watching
the inauguration on our phones.
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Chief Justice Roberts:
Please raise your right hand
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and repeat after me.
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I, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.,
do solemnly swear.
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I, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.,
do solemnly swear.
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Chief Justice Roberts:
That I will
faithfully execute...
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Jake Sullivan:
I was not out on the mall
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watching the speeches,
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but rather sitting
in the situation room
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watching the secure monitors
where we had up on the screen
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the command centers
for DHS and FBI,
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because we were worried
about the potential
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for unrest or violence.
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(siren wailing)
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President Joe Biden:
This is America's Day.
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This is democracy's day,
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a day of history and hope,
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of renewal and resolve.
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Antony Blinken:
Even in that moment
of joy, of renewal,
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people were extremely conscious
of the inheritance we had.
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Thinking about the challenges
we were facing at home,
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I knew that
as Secretary of State,
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I would have to be
in some way explaining that
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around the world.
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President Biden:
We'll press forward
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with speed and urgency,
for we have much to do
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in this winter of peril,
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and significant possibilities.
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Much to repair,
much to restore,
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much to heal, much to build,
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and much to gain.
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Hello, Cathy.
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Catherine Russell: (on screen)
Hello, sir.
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Good evening, everyone.
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On behalf of
the White House Office
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of Presidential Personnel,
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I am delighted to welcome you
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to the swearing in
of the day one appointees
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of the Biden-Harris
administration.
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We are joined by hundreds
of White House staff
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and hundreds more agency
appointees, all of us here...
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Psaki:
There was a nervousness
about COVID,
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even among us, and we were
pretty informed people.
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So many of our meetings
were done over Zoom.
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I'm looking
at all your photographs
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and I'm supposed to be
looking straight ahead,
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but I want to take a look at you
while I'm talking to you.
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Psaki:
You know, this was
not business as usual.
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This was not normal.
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It was an incredibly
challenging week around here.
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Good evening, everyone.
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Thank you for joining us
on this historic day.
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I was doing a briefing
for the first time that day,
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which also was not
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to do a briefing
on that first day
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to send a message to the world
we were going to return
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to respect for
the freedom of press
and that engagement.
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President Biden
also officially appointed
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a COVID-19 Response Coordinator,
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a position and team we had
already previously announced,
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but made it official today
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to create a unified
national response
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to the pandemic.
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Jeff Zients:
On day one,
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the first full day
of the presidency,
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we only had the small core
of a team
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here at the White House.
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Andy Slavitt:
The few of us that
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and I was one of,
like, four people
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on the COVID team
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We couldn't even be,
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We all knew that this was going
to be a race against time.
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Hospitals were full.
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Only two percent of the public
had been vaccinated.
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Zients: In December,
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as we started to make
the transition,
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we kept asking for the plan,
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and there wasn't a plan.
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So the team came together
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and put together a plan.
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On that first day,
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we knew we were meeting
with the President.
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Within a couple of hours,
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the President was announcing
the strategy.
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And we didn't have the ability
to sign on to our computers.
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We had to figure out
where to print.
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And then the hardest thing
was the binding.
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(laughs)
So, we had a loose-leaf folder,
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notebook,
alternative or backup plan,
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and at the last minute,
one member of the team
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figured out
how to get it bound.
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So, just in time, we walked
into a press conference
where the President,
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you know, rolled out the plan.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci:
Mr. President, how are you?
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You're going to be doing
a lot of talking
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for the next while.
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-Nice to see you.
-Nice to see you.
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Good afternoon.
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Today, today, I am unveiling
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the National Strategy
on COVID-19
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and executive actions
to beat this pandemic.
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Our plan starts with mounting
an aggressive,
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safe, and effective
vaccination campaign
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to meet our goal of
administering 100 million shots
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in our first 100 days in office.
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We're on day one.
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David Sanger:
I'm going down
to the White House
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for the first time
since Biden was elected.
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I covered the White House
for years
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under the end
of the Clinton administration
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and then through the first
six years of George W. Bush.
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Then I've been off
for a number of years
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working on big
national security projects.
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-Man: Good morning.
-Sanger: How are you?
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But I'm coming back to
the White House this year
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and doing it mostly to see
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how this team come together
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to try to pull
the United States
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out of the hole
that it finds itself in
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around the world.
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Psaki: Today, uh,
the administration announced
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a historic new donation
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in the global fight
to defeat COVID-19.
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Sanger: This is a period
of such remarkable division
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in the country.
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From the racial reckoning
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that was playing out
in the streets
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in the summer of 2020
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to President Trump's big lie
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that he had been cheated
out of the election
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to the rioting and horror
of January 6.
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It all played into a Russian
and Chinese narrative
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that America was
in terminal decline.
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(newscaster speaking Russian)
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(newscaster speaking Chinese)
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Sanger: For Biden,
the biggest challenge
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is to make clear
that democracy could be
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a winning formula
for everybody.
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And to do that, he brought back
the people he knew best.
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Alright.
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Sanger:
His chief of staff, Ron Klain,
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has been with him
for years and years,
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including as Chief of Staff
when he was vice President.
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Sullivan:
Here or here. Here?
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Sanger:
He ended up picking as his
National Security Adviser
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Jake Sullivan, who at 44
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was one of the youngest people
ever to be in the job,
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but had already been
his National Security Adviser
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as Vice President.
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Blinken:
Where do you guys want me?
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-You're gonna be right here.
-Blinken: Alright.
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Sanger:
His Secretary of State
is Sullivan's predecessor,
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Tony Blinken,
who had served for years
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as the National
Security Adviser to Biden
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while he was in the Senate.
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Blinken was also
the Deputy Secretary of State
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under John Kerry,
Obama's Secretary of State.
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And Biden brought Kerry back
as his climate czar.
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Interviewer: Do you mind
taking off your mask?
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John Kerry:
You know, we've grown
nervous of it today
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because we're hearing
about cases.
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They put Kerry
in the White House
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because putting him
in the State Department
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would have been
a little bit uncomfortable.
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He would have been reporting
to his former deputy.
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Man:
Okay. You guys gonna sit?
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-Man 2: Yep.
-Man 3: Yep.
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Sanger:
For his Secretary of Defense,
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Biden chose Lloyd Austin,
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a retired general
he had known for a decade
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and who had been a friend
of Biden's late son Beau.
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Vice President Kamala Harris:
I, William Burns.
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William Burns:
I, William Burns...
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Sanger: And finally,
as his director of the CIA,
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Biden chose Bill Burns.
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Burns had been ambassador
to Moscow under President Bush,
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and there's no one
in the administration
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who knew Vladimir Putin better.
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Burns:
I spent the first
decade of my career
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as a diplomat
at the end of the Cold War.
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I would never underestimate
in dealing with President Putin
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over the last couple of decades,
his risk appetite.
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(crowd cheering)
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(announcer speaking Russian)
...Vladimir Putin!
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Blinken: President Biden has
a history with President Putin.
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They had met when
President Biden
was Vice President,
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a very memorable meeting
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that I was part of in the dacha
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that, uh, that
President Putin had
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just outside of Moscow.
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Then-Vice President Biden
was in the study with Putin.
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They were very close
to each other.
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And Vice President Biden
looked at him and said,
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"I'm looking in your eyes,
and I can't say
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that I can see your soul."
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And Putin laughed and said,
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"Good, we understand
each other."
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Anne Neuberger: Good afternoon.
It's great to be here
with you today.
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So first, what happened?
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Hackers launched a broad
and indiscriminate effort
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to compromise
the network management software
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used by both government
and the private sector.
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An advanced
persistent threat actor,
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likely of Russian origin,
was responsible.
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Biden has an immediate
problem with Russia,
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one he's going to have
to deal with
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in the next few weeks.
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And it's called SolarWinds.
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The hack of
the federal government
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and more than a hundred
American corporations
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was the deepest,
most sophisticated hack
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of the United States
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that's ever been accomplished.
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Russians managed to slip in
through this software
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that was put out by
this company called SolarWinds.
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Alejandro Mayorkas:
What was remarkable about this
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was its sophistication
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and the residency,
the duration of the residency,
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of that intrusion
in government systems.
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These Russian hackers have been
in these US governments
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since March and remain there.
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This is an ongoing,
widespread espionage operation.
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The alarm, I think,
was quite, um, significant.
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It was an alert
that we're entering
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into a new chapter
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in our relationship
with Russia.
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Neuberger:
What are we going
to do about it?
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Three things.
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First, finding
and expelling the adversary.
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Second, building back better
to modernize federal defenses
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and reduce the risk
of this happening again.
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And finally,
potential response options
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to the perpetrators.
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Sanger:
They're in a tough spot here.
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We know that
in the next few weeks,
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the United States
is going to begin
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a series of sanctions
against Russia.
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But Jake Sullivan,
the National Security Adviser,
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has made clear sanctions alone
are not enough.
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And then the question is,
can they establish
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some kind of deterrent,
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which so far
has failed completely?
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When you think about
the challenge that Biden faces,
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he's in the position of being
in adversarial relationships
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from the start with the two
other major nuclear superpowers
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in the world, Russia and China.
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And the only way he's going
to be able to make that work
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is if he can organize
the allies with him.
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Linda Thomas-Greenfield:
Because of the past four years,
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what I heard from my colleagues
was, "Welcome back."
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Thank God you're back.
We're so happy to see you.
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(indistinct conversation)
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Thomas-Greenfield:
It was a love fest
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my first few weeks
here in New York.
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Samantha Power:
With our fellow democracies
having experienced
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the US retreat for four years,
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there's a sort of
a sense of, "Okay, phew,
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uh, now we can actually build
these alliances again."
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But there's also a sense
that democracies need
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to, to pull together,
that we need all hands on deck.
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Rep. Adam Schiff:
We are really
in a global struggle
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between democracy
and autocracy.
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And in the last decade,
autocracy has been on the rise.
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(shouting)
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Psaki: The way we view it,
and the President views it,
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is that it is an ongoing fight,
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and it will continue to be,
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because there will
always be powers
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pushing for autocracy.
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Ian Bremmer:
The problem is
the United States
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is in a particularly
weak position
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to have that argument.
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I mean, in terms of how you want
a political system to run,
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there are, there are countries
around the world that would say,
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"I might want my country
to run like Germany
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or Japan or Canada."
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There's no one around the world
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that looks at
the United States and says,
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"I wish my political system
would run like that."
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Crowd: (chanting)
USA! USA! USA! USA!
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USA! USA!
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USA! USA!
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USA! USA!
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Well, thank you very much.
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And hello, CPAC, do you
miss me yet? Do you miss me?
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(crowd cheering)
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Ron Klain:
President Trump's
behavior this year
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as an outgoing President
is certainly unprecedented
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and very different
than what the other 44 people
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who held this office had done.
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Michèle Flournoy:
Remember how quiet
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Obama was
when Trump first came in?
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He said, "Look, you know,
he won. This is his time.
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I'm not going to be here
criticizing him at every turn."
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Trump did no such thing.
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Joe Biden has had
the most disastrous first month
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of any President
in modern history.
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-That's true.
-(crowd cheers)
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When you look at the polls
of Republicans,
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you still get
a very substantial number,
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nearly a majority,
who believe Biden is not
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legitimately elected President
of United States.
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I don't know
how you get past that.
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Donald Trump:
This election was rigged.
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And the Supreme Court
and other courts
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didn't want
to do anything about it.
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(cheering and applause)
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Klain:
I will say it's probably
what we expected.
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His behavior as President
was unprecedented,
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and so there was
no reason to think his
post-Presidential behavior
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would be unprecedented,
I suppose.
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Woman: Keep going up.
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-Okay.
-Woman: Okay.
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Psaki:
We made a conscious decision
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when the President
came into office
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that we didn't want
to make his presidency
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a continued campaign
and battle with Donald Trump.
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Alright, guys.
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The lesson we took
from the American people
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was that they wanted to take
the venom out of our politics.
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Okay, what are follow-ups?
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Follow-up on Abbott, and Mexico,
on the other side of the border.
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The migrants
arriving from Texas...
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Psaki:
President Biden wanted me
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to take the temperature down
in the country.
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There's concern
about their treatment.
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I don't think we need to,
like, change our posture
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because it's not everything.
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Psaki:
After years of questioning
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the legitimacy of the press,
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not having
normal briefings, lying,
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I mean, returning
to a version of normal.
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I don't think we have
any update on that,
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although maybe we can check
and see what the status is.
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I think what
people have seen is
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after the four years
that predated President Biden
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is, um, you know, US--
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what US leadership
should look like
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and what it looks like
to stand up for democracy.
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Woman: (on phone)
I'll find an answer for that.
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(seagulls squawking)
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(ship horn blares)
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Newscaster:
Relations between
the United States and China
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will face a new test
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as officials from both sides
meet in Alaska.
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The discussions are expected
to be frosty,
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with Beijing warning
that compromise
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is not on the cards.
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Sullivan:
We went to Anchorage,
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myself and
Secretary of State Blinken,
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to meet with our counterparts
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from the People's
Republic of China
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for a multi-hour session
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to go through
the full range of issues
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in the US-China relationship.
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Bitterly cold,
not exactly a shock.
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It was Alaska
in the late winter.
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Blinken: On behalf of
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National Security Adviser
Sullivan and myself,
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I want to welcome
Director Yang,
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State Councilor Wang,
to Alaska.
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And thank you very much
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for making the journey
to meet with us.
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We wanted to be able
to tell them directly
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our concerns about some
of the actions
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that China has taken recently,
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challenging not just
our interests but our values.
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Our administration is committed
to leading with diplomacy
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to advance the interests
of the United States
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and to strengthen the
rules-based international order.
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The transition identified
a few basic propositions
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about what we expected
from China.
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We believe that
the Chinese government
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had made a decision
that they were going to attempt
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to surpass or displace
the United States
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in terms of being
the world's leading economic
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and military power.
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That this next decade
was a decisive decade,
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and that we were going to have
to deal with a more assertive,
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more aggressive China
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and that we had to tool-up
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and be prepared
for this competition.
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We've said to them,
you want to play,
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you want to be a superpower.
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With being a superpower
comes responsibility.
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Uh, with that, there are
certain rules of the road
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that you have to abide by.
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We'll also discuss
our deep concerns
with actions by China,
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including in Xinjiang,
Hong Kong, Taiwan,
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cyber attacks
on the United States,
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economic coercion
toward our allies.
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We wanted an opportunity
to explain
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how we see the world,
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what America's interests are.
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And I would say that
we actually accomplished
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all of those objectives.
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Now, there were some
of the public fireworks.
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Translator:
This is not supposed
to be the way
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one should welcome his guests.
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We wonder if this is a decision
made by the United States
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to try to gain some advantage
in dealing with China.
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But certainly
this is miscalculated
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and only reflects
the vulnerability and weakness
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inside the United States.
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I see a confidence level
among my Chinese colleagues
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that over the years
I had not seen before.
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They have come in with a,
with a sense of power
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and a sense of strength.
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They came up with this
term "Wolf Warrior"
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to describe their diplomats.
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When you're talking about
your diplomats as Wolf Warriors,
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that says something.
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And that's what was
on display in Anchorage.
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Translator: We hope
that the United States
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will do better on human rights.
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The challenges facing
the United States
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in human rights are deep seated.
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They did not just emerge
over the past four years,
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such as Black Lives Matter.
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Sullivan:
It was a kind of classic
whataboutism that we saw
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from the Soviet Union
back in the day.
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It didn't work then.
We don't think it's going
to work for the PRC either.
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It was, "You want to talk
to us about human rights.
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We're going to tell you about
human rights" kind of thing.
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So part of my reaction was,
we've seen this movie before.
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Part of my reaction was,
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uh, "Man, they're
really going for it."
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Sanger:
The United States
has never seen
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an adversary like this before.
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Biden knew that for ten years,
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Washington was trying
to make a pivot to Asia,
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but something
always got in the way.
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And he was determined that
he was going to execute on it.
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President Biden:
Good afternoon.
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I'm speaking to you today
from the Roosevelt,
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the Treaty Room
in the White House.
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I'm now the fourth
United States President
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to preside over American
troop presence in Afghanistan.
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Two Republicans. Two Democrats.
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I will not pass
this responsibility
on to a fifth.
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We have to focus
on the challenges
that are in front of us.
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We have to shore up
American competitiveness
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to meet the stiff
competition we're facing
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from an increasingly
assertive China.
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It's time for American troops
to come home.
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Lloyd Austin: You go back
to when we came in ,
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a deal had already been struck
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that our forces
were going to be
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out of Afghanistan by May.
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The Taliban had said,
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"Hey, if you're not
out of the country by the,
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"by, by, by May 1st,
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then we're going
to start attacking you again."
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So this really doesn't give
President Biden
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a long time to work
through this process.
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His choice
is to either increase
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our footprint significantly
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or he can make a choice
to, uh, decide to leave.
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It's time to end
the forever war.
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Thank you all for listening.
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May God protect our troops.
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May God bless all those families
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who lost someone
in this endeavor.
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Sanger:
If you listen to the speech,
it sounded pretty simple.
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We were just going to pick those
forces up and bring them home.
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Very popular among Americans,
Democrats and Republicans alike.
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But what was important
about that announcement
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is what's missing.
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There's no plan
for bringing out the people
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who had helped
the American troops,
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had helped journalists,
had helped contractors,
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and who will be targets
of the Taliban.
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Newscaster: The pace
of the vaccine rollout
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slowly picking up.
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The federal government
sending out
504
00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:06,421
an additional
one million doses this week
505
00:25:06,504 --> 00:25:10,175
to 6,500 select pharmacies
across the US.
506
00:25:13,053 --> 00:25:15,972
Slavitt: The main event
was vaccinate more people
more quickly,
507
00:25:16,056 --> 00:25:18,099
period, no matter what.
508
00:25:18,183 --> 00:25:21,978
We felt that we were racing
against an enemy.
509
00:25:22,062 --> 00:25:25,315
Zients: We quickly deployed
the Defense Production Act,
510
00:25:25,398 --> 00:25:27,609
worked with the
vaccine manufacturers,
511
00:25:27,692 --> 00:25:29,778
helped them get
additional equipment,
512
00:25:29,861 --> 00:25:32,614
raw material.
513
00:25:32,697 --> 00:25:35,325
So we were able to lock in
in the first few weeks
of the presidency
514
00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:38,536
enough supply
for all Americans by July.
515
00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:41,164
And then we were able
to accelerate that.
516
00:25:41,248 --> 00:25:42,415
And actually by April 19th,
517
00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:44,417
all Americans
were eligible for the vaccine.
518
00:25:44,501 --> 00:25:47,045
In my first full day in office,
519
00:25:47,128 --> 00:25:49,589
I outlined for you
a comprehensive strategy
520
00:25:49,673 --> 00:25:52,133
to beat this pandemic.
521
00:25:52,217 --> 00:25:55,303
We've spent every day since
attempting to carry it out.
522
00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:57,514
But that wasn't
the only problem.
Not just supply.
523
00:25:57,597 --> 00:25:59,307
There weren't
enough vaccinators.
524
00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:02,435
President Biden:
We're mobilizing
thousands of vaccinators
525
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:04,521
to put the vaccine
in one's arm.
526
00:26:04,604 --> 00:26:07,274
There weren't enough places
for people to get vaccinated.
527
00:26:07,357 --> 00:26:09,276
President Biden:
Calling active duty military,
528
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,195
retired doctors and nurses,
administrators.
529
00:26:12,279 --> 00:26:15,490
Slavitt: We stood up these
big federal FEMA sites.
530
00:26:15,573 --> 00:26:17,784
We created a Web text line
for people
531
00:26:17,867 --> 00:26:19,577
to be able to find a place
to get vaccinated.
532
00:26:19,661 --> 00:26:22,580
Newscaster:
Things are slowly changing.
533
00:26:22,664 --> 00:26:24,457
Newscaster 2:
32.8 million Americans
534
00:26:24,541 --> 00:26:26,001
have received
at least one dose.
535
00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:28,128
That's about 10 percent
of the population now.
536
00:26:28,211 --> 00:26:30,338
Newscaster 3:
Nearly 90 million Americans
537
00:26:30,422 --> 00:26:34,092
have received at least
one dose of the vaccine.
538
00:26:34,175 --> 00:26:36,136
Zients:
The President had set
a goal for us
539
00:26:36,219 --> 00:26:39,055
of 100 million shots
in 100 days.
540
00:26:39,139 --> 00:26:44,060
We did 100 million shots
in 58 days.
541
00:26:44,144 --> 00:26:47,272
Power:
President Biden's ability to
get the country vaccinated
542
00:26:47,355 --> 00:26:50,900
and back to work,
that's democracy delivering.
543
00:26:50,984 --> 00:26:55,030
And that is the debate
that we have struggled
544
00:26:55,113 --> 00:26:57,824
to have in recent years,
545
00:26:57,907 --> 00:27:01,119
because we weren't able to do
546
00:27:01,202 --> 00:27:04,122
in the last four or five years
those, those big things.
547
00:27:04,205 --> 00:27:07,459
If we do this together,
by July the 4th,
548
00:27:07,542 --> 00:27:11,463
there's a good chance you,
your families, and friends
549
00:27:11,546 --> 00:27:13,590
will be able to get together
in your backyard
550
00:27:13,673 --> 00:27:15,467
or in your neighborhood
and have a cookout
551
00:27:15,550 --> 00:27:18,345
and a barbecue
and celebrate Independence Day.
552
00:27:26,728 --> 00:27:30,482
♪ ♪
553
00:27:53,838 --> 00:27:55,423
When we came in, of course,
554
00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:57,592
the most dominant thing
has been COVID,
555
00:27:57,675 --> 00:27:59,427
and that certainly
changed the way
556
00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:01,596
that, uh, that we were
doing business.
557
00:28:01,679 --> 00:28:03,348
Well, good morning.
558
00:28:03,431 --> 00:28:06,267
Well, good afternoon.
Good evening.
559
00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:09,020
Let me start by thanking China
and Foreign Minister Wong
560
00:28:09,104 --> 00:28:11,022
for initiating
this critical discussion.
561
00:28:11,106 --> 00:28:15,610
COVID has been
an enormous crimp on diplomacy.
562
00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:18,405
Hey, folks.
563
00:28:18,488 --> 00:28:20,448
Diplomacy is always better
564
00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:23,159
person-to-person,
country-to-country like that.
565
00:28:23,243 --> 00:28:26,371
Thank you very much,
President Fernandez,
566
00:28:26,454 --> 00:28:28,331
for your leadership
567
00:28:28,415 --> 00:28:32,794
and thank you for convening
this timely conversation.
568
00:28:32,877 --> 00:28:35,422
Thankfully, we got to the place
where we could start to,
569
00:28:35,505 --> 00:28:37,841
to get out there,
actually see people.
570
00:28:37,924 --> 00:28:38,883
Good morning.
571
00:28:38,967 --> 00:28:40,844
Good morning.
Great, great to see you.
572
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:43,346
We've had the opportunity
to see each other
573
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:45,557
and work together
in Brussels at NATO,
574
00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:48,643
but it was mask-to-mask and now
it's finally face-to-face.
575
00:28:48,726 --> 00:28:51,229
So that's really,
really good news. So a lot...
576
00:28:51,312 --> 00:28:54,357
When you think about any
of the challenges that we face,
577
00:28:56,025 --> 00:28:58,736
whether it's COVID,
whether it's climate change...
578
00:28:58,820 --> 00:29:01,030
Lots to talk about. I'm just
grateful for the opportunity
579
00:29:01,114 --> 00:29:04,033
to be able to spend
some time today.
580
00:29:04,117 --> 00:29:08,288
...not a single one of them
can be effectively addressed
581
00:29:08,371 --> 00:29:10,540
by any one country acting alone.
582
00:29:10,623 --> 00:29:11,958
Even the United States.
583
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:24,012
With Russia,
the way President Biden
sees it is this,
584
00:29:24,095 --> 00:29:26,389
it makes the most sense for us
585
00:29:26,473 --> 00:29:28,141
to see if we can have
586
00:29:28,224 --> 00:29:30,852
a stable,
predictable relationship.
587
00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:32,812
Please, have a seat.
588
00:29:32,896 --> 00:29:34,731
On the other hand,
we've also been equally clear
589
00:29:34,814 --> 00:29:38,610
that if the Russian government
chooses to act aggressively
590
00:29:38,693 --> 00:29:40,820
or recklessly
challenging our interests,
591
00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:42,155
challenging our values,
592
00:29:42,238 --> 00:29:44,991
threatening friends or partners,
we'll respond.
593
00:29:47,076 --> 00:29:50,163
(camera shutter clicking)
594
00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:56,044
Sullivan: In late March,
heading into April,
595
00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:59,047
we began to see indications
596
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:02,759
of a massive
Russian military buildup
597
00:30:02,842 --> 00:30:04,385
around Ukraine.
598
00:30:06,721 --> 00:30:08,681
The President received
multiple briefings
599
00:30:08,765 --> 00:30:11,893
from his intelligence community,
his military experts.
600
00:30:13,937 --> 00:30:16,940
Austin: Our concern
is that nations respect
601
00:30:17,023 --> 00:30:20,527
some measure of a rules-based
international order
602
00:30:20,610 --> 00:30:23,905
where countries
don't arbitrarily attack
603
00:30:23,988 --> 00:30:26,533
other countries
and change the borders.
604
00:30:28,618 --> 00:30:30,912
I mean, we've heard
Putin say before
605
00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:34,916
he thought the fact that
the Soviet empire broke apart
606
00:30:34,999 --> 00:30:36,084
was one of the worst things
607
00:30:36,167 --> 00:30:38,878
that he had ever witnessed
in his lifetime.
608
00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:41,965
So does he have a desire
to, to reconstitute something
609
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:43,258
that looks like that?
610
00:30:43,341 --> 00:30:45,260
I mean, that could be the case.
611
00:30:45,343 --> 00:30:48,096
(Sergei Lavrov speaking Russian)
612
00:31:11,953 --> 00:31:16,833
(reporters clamoring)
613
00:31:16,916 --> 00:31:19,419
Blinken: We made clear
that these actions
are simply unacceptable
614
00:31:19,502 --> 00:31:20,962
and are not going
to go unanswered.
615
00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:23,840
They're not going to be allowed
to happen with impunity.
616
00:31:25,508 --> 00:31:29,012
(reporter speaking)
617
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,142
You saw
the international community
618
00:31:34,225 --> 00:31:37,103
in many countries stand up
and raise concern and alarm
619
00:31:37,186 --> 00:31:39,897
about the buildup
of Russian forces
on Ukraine's border.
620
00:31:41,691 --> 00:31:44,444
And in the weeks after that,
we saw Russia pull back
621
00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:46,946
many of its forces
and much of the equipment.
622
00:31:47,030 --> 00:31:49,782
Not all. It still represents
a real concern.
623
00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:54,996
Victoria Nuland:
I think at that point
the Russians were surprised
624
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:56,414
at how quickly,
625
00:31:56,497 --> 00:31:59,083
now that we were actually
talking to our allies again,
626
00:31:59,167 --> 00:32:03,504
we were able to pull together
a more united response.
627
00:32:05,423 --> 00:32:07,550
But they sometimes
tactically de-escalate.
628
00:32:07,634 --> 00:32:10,011
It doesn't mean that they
strategically de-escalate.
629
00:32:10,094 --> 00:32:11,721
I think it remains to be seen.
630
00:32:17,935 --> 00:32:21,189
♪ ♪
631
00:32:33,993 --> 00:32:35,662
Sanger:
This is the second stop
632
00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:38,998
on a very carefully
choreographed
633
00:32:39,082 --> 00:32:42,210
first foreign trip
for President Biden.
634
00:32:42,293 --> 00:32:47,048
(speaking in native language)
635
00:32:47,131 --> 00:32:49,676
The Group of Seven meeting
that just took place
636
00:32:49,759 --> 00:32:51,803
in Western England
637
00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:56,391
was really about demonstrating
that the alliance is back.
638
00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:02,980
The meeting here in NATO
is to play the anti-Trump.
639
00:33:04,649 --> 00:33:08,236
To say that our obligations
to our NATO allies
640
00:33:08,319 --> 00:33:12,031
to come to their aid,
is what Biden has called
641
00:33:12,115 --> 00:33:14,617
a sacred obligation
of the United States.
642
00:33:20,206 --> 00:33:22,458
The change is obvious.
643
00:33:22,542 --> 00:33:24,919
After four years
of an administration
644
00:33:25,002 --> 00:33:28,005
which had shaped
the foreign policy of the US
645
00:33:28,089 --> 00:33:30,925
in a way which made
the functioning of alliances
646
00:33:31,008 --> 00:33:32,969
quite challenging,
647
00:33:33,052 --> 00:33:36,180
it has created
positive expectations.
648
00:33:38,558 --> 00:33:40,268
Dame Karen Pierce:
I want America to be
649
00:33:40,351 --> 00:33:43,396
the leading nation
in the world.
650
00:33:43,479 --> 00:33:45,231
But the Biden
administration faced
651
00:33:45,314 --> 00:33:48,735
a potentially
very large challenge.
652
00:33:48,818 --> 00:33:51,696
Allies were looking
at them very warily.
653
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:55,575
Sanger: Even among
the European leaders.
654
00:33:55,658 --> 00:33:58,411
you're hearing
this set of doubts
655
00:33:58,494 --> 00:34:01,247
about whether or not Joe Biden,
656
00:34:01,330 --> 00:34:04,250
who they're delighted
to meet here in Europe,
657
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:08,588
is actually the blip,
not the change.
658
00:34:08,671 --> 00:34:12,884
But each of these officials
have their own dynamics
659
00:34:12,967 --> 00:34:14,469
that are keeping them
660
00:34:14,552 --> 00:34:19,390
from fully signing on
to the Biden agenda.
661
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:21,642
They're willing
to stand up to China,
662
00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:24,353
but not so willing
that they're going to cut off
663
00:34:24,437 --> 00:34:27,940
all their trade
in luxury German cars.
664
00:34:28,024 --> 00:34:31,068
Yeah, they're willing to go
stand up to Vladimir Putin,
665
00:34:31,152 --> 00:34:34,530
but not so willing that
they will cut off the pipeline
666
00:34:34,614 --> 00:34:36,532
that's bringing them
natural gas
667
00:34:36,616 --> 00:34:39,702
direct from Russia
and routing around Ukraine.
668
00:34:42,705 --> 00:34:47,585
So everybody's engaging in
their own hedging strategies.
669
00:34:47,668 --> 00:34:49,879
And meanwhile,
President Biden wants
670
00:34:49,962 --> 00:34:52,215
to show up at Putin's doorstep
671
00:34:52,298 --> 00:34:55,676
and basically say,
"You're outnumbered."
672
00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:01,307
Newscaster: Tonight,
President Biden in Geneva,
673
00:35:01,390 --> 00:35:02,683
just hours before that critical
674
00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:04,894
face-to-face meeting
with Vladimir Putin.
675
00:35:04,977 --> 00:35:06,938
A major test
for President Biden
676
00:35:07,021 --> 00:35:08,731
who requested this summit.
677
00:35:10,566 --> 00:35:12,568
Sullivan:
It's important to recognize
678
00:35:12,652 --> 00:35:15,905
how this summit
came into being.
679
00:35:15,988 --> 00:35:18,449
President Biden called
President Putin
680
00:35:18,533 --> 00:35:22,078
and said, "I'm going to impose
a series of sanctions on you
681
00:35:22,161 --> 00:35:23,996
"for what you've done
with SolarWinds
682
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,708
"and what you've done
with election interference.
683
00:35:27,792 --> 00:35:29,544
But I want to sit down
and talk."
684
00:35:34,841 --> 00:35:37,969
Sanger: So they arrive
at this beautiful estate
685
00:35:38,052 --> 00:35:40,221
where the conference
was to be held.
686
00:35:43,766 --> 00:35:47,645
They have this stiff greeting
at the entrance way.
687
00:35:49,021 --> 00:35:53,568
And then there was this scrum
of Russian reporters
688
00:35:53,651 --> 00:35:55,444
pushing American reporters
689
00:35:55,528 --> 00:35:57,196
as they tried
to get into the room.
690
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,657
Reporter:
Everyone, take a step back!
We're not going in!
691
00:35:59,740 --> 00:36:03,244
One of my colleagues telling me
that one of the Russians
692
00:36:03,327 --> 00:36:05,204
put his hand
right up to his throat
693
00:36:05,288 --> 00:36:06,497
to get him up out of the way.
694
00:36:06,581 --> 00:36:09,333
(reporters clamoring)
695
00:36:09,417 --> 00:36:12,378
Sanger:
So, I would say that
the press corps behavior
696
00:36:12,461 --> 00:36:16,173
wasn't all that different
from the national behavior.
697
00:36:19,677 --> 00:36:22,471
Sullivan: It was a calm,
determined atmosphere
698
00:36:22,555 --> 00:36:26,058
on both sides
of the table in Geneva.
699
00:36:26,142 --> 00:36:30,521
There was a sense in the room
of we're going to have harsh,
700
00:36:30,605 --> 00:36:33,482
in some cases,
unrelenting differences
701
00:36:33,566 --> 00:36:35,067
on various issues.
702
00:36:35,151 --> 00:36:37,778
But this is a channel
where we can talk plainly
703
00:36:37,862 --> 00:36:40,489
to one another and come
to some understandings.
704
00:36:41,407 --> 00:36:43,910
I would say that the two men
705
00:36:43,993 --> 00:36:47,830
had a depth of familiarity
with one another.
706
00:36:47,914 --> 00:36:50,917
Kind of understood
where the other was coming from
707
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,085
in terms of their perspective,
708
00:36:53,169 --> 00:36:56,714
even though they disagreed
vigorously on things.
709
00:36:56,797 --> 00:36:58,341
Now, those understandings
could be,
710
00:36:58,424 --> 00:37:00,092
"You're going to do X,
and I'm going to respond,"
711
00:37:00,176 --> 00:37:02,303
or they could be,
"We can work through this."
712
00:37:02,386 --> 00:37:04,472
But that's really
what you felt in the room.
713
00:37:06,724 --> 00:37:08,142
(reporter speaking Russian)
714
00:37:14,982 --> 00:37:17,234
(speaking Russian)
715
00:37:36,253 --> 00:37:38,673
Donald Trump could not get
his head around the idea
716
00:37:38,756 --> 00:37:41,592
that Ukraine was
an independent state.
717
00:37:41,676 --> 00:37:44,011
Biden and all of his team
come in and reaffirm
718
00:37:44,095 --> 00:37:45,763
the traditional threat
719
00:37:45,846 --> 00:37:48,975
of the
US-Ukrainian relationship.
720
00:37:49,058 --> 00:37:53,437
We have visits by the Secretary
of Defense General Austin.
721
00:37:53,521 --> 00:37:55,481
We have more exercises going on
722
00:37:55,564 --> 00:37:58,150
between Ukraine
and NATO forces.
723
00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:03,656
For Putin, this is not
just an affront,
724
00:38:03,739 --> 00:38:04,824
but it's a bit of a shock.
725
00:38:04,907 --> 00:38:06,993
Did you commit in these meetings
726
00:38:07,076 --> 00:38:08,953
to stop threatening Ukraine?
727
00:38:09,036 --> 00:38:10,162
(chuckles)
728
00:38:11,288 --> 00:38:13,499
(Putin speaking Russian)
729
00:38:26,387 --> 00:38:29,306
From the Russians' perspective,
Ukraine may not end up in NATO,
730
00:38:29,390 --> 00:38:31,475
but NATO is ending up
in Ukraine.
731
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:33,394
And that becomes
impermissible for Putin.
732
00:38:33,477 --> 00:38:36,188
I communicated
the United States'
unwavering commitment
733
00:38:36,272 --> 00:38:37,481
to the sovereignty
734
00:38:37,565 --> 00:38:40,901
and territorial integrity
of Ukraine.
735
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:42,987
I did what I came to do,
736
00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:45,781
communicate directly, directly,
737
00:38:45,865 --> 00:38:47,825
that the United States
will respond to actions
738
00:38:47,908 --> 00:38:51,037
that impair our vital interests
or those of our allies.
739
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:52,997
Now, here's
the interesting question:
740
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,166
Did Putin believe him?
741
00:38:55,249 --> 00:38:58,335
Putin might think
that the United States,
742
00:38:58,419 --> 00:38:59,837
at the end of the day,
is going to come
743
00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:02,590
to the conclusion
that it can't risk
744
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:05,718
getting on an escalation ladder
that it can't control.
745
00:39:13,309 --> 00:39:15,436
(military band playing)
746
00:39:20,399 --> 00:39:21,776
Announcer: (on mic)
Ladies and gentlemen,
747
00:39:21,859 --> 00:39:24,904
the President
of the United States.
748
00:39:24,987 --> 00:39:28,282
("Hail to the Chief" playing)
749
00:39:33,996 --> 00:39:36,749
Slavitt:
As we moved to summer,
we had gone
750
00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:39,126
from hundreds of thousands
of cases a day
751
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:40,920
to 10,000 cases a day.
752
00:39:41,003 --> 00:39:43,130
We'd gone from thousands
and thousands of deaths
753
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,800
down to 200 deaths a day.
754
00:39:45,883 --> 00:39:49,804
We were doing four million
vaccinations in a day.
755
00:39:49,887 --> 00:39:52,264
Variants were emerging
in other countries,
756
00:39:52,348 --> 00:39:53,974
but there seemed to be
a reasonable case
757
00:39:54,058 --> 00:39:55,393
that we would have
a limited amount
758
00:39:55,476 --> 00:39:57,311
of case growth come back,
759
00:39:57,394 --> 00:40:00,940
and it would be
isolated and targeted
in regions of the country.
760
00:40:01,023 --> 00:40:04,777
Just think back to where
this nation was a year ago.
761
00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:08,739
Think back to where
you were a year ago
762
00:40:08,823 --> 00:40:11,784
and think about
how far we've come.
763
00:40:11,867 --> 00:40:13,994
Psaki:
We'd seen cases go down.
764
00:40:14,078 --> 00:40:18,666
We had vaccines available
for everybody in the country.
765
00:40:18,749 --> 00:40:21,502
We had a lot of resources,
um, to fight the pandemic.
766
00:40:21,585 --> 00:40:25,005
Today, all across this nation,
767
00:40:25,089 --> 00:40:27,007
we can say with confidence,
768
00:40:27,091 --> 00:40:30,344
America is coming back together.
769
00:40:30,427 --> 00:40:32,680
(crowd cheers)
770
00:40:32,763 --> 00:40:35,057
But we didn't have
a sense clearly
771
00:40:35,141 --> 00:40:38,060
of, uh, the impact
of new variants.
772
00:40:38,144 --> 00:40:40,563
(somber music playing)
773
00:40:40,646 --> 00:40:42,314
Newscaster:
Residents and officials here
774
00:40:42,398 --> 00:40:44,191
are confused about an outbreak
775
00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:47,069
that is stemming from large
July 4th celebrations
776
00:40:47,153 --> 00:40:49,446
that happened here
just a couple weeks ago.
777
00:40:49,530 --> 00:40:51,991
Newscaster 2:
Out on the Cape,
an uptick in COVID cases
778
00:40:52,074 --> 00:40:54,285
serving as a reminder
that while the vaccines
779
00:40:54,368 --> 00:40:55,494
are highly effective,
780
00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:58,414
they're still not
100 percent protective.
781
00:41:02,418 --> 00:41:04,795
It became clear that we
were going to be dealing
782
00:41:04,879 --> 00:41:08,716
with much higher case counts
than we thought.
783
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:11,510
Newscaster: The Delta variant
is now taking hold in the US
784
00:41:11,594 --> 00:41:16,473
Ten percent of new cases now
and doubling every two weeks.
785
00:41:16,557 --> 00:41:18,684
(reporter speaking)
786
00:41:31,113 --> 00:41:33,782
It took this sort of
very clean story
787
00:41:33,866 --> 00:41:36,660
of vaccinated and unvaccinated,
788
00:41:36,744 --> 00:41:40,956
um, and it said, you know what,
it's vaccinated, yes,
789
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,124
but with an asterisk.
790
00:41:42,208 --> 00:41:44,001
There was a wall
we were hitting
791
00:41:44,084 --> 00:41:46,754
of people willing
to get vaccinated,
792
00:41:46,837 --> 00:41:48,756
and that's when we started
to get concerned.
793
00:41:48,839 --> 00:41:50,966
Newscaster:
Some states are pushing back,
794
00:41:51,050 --> 00:41:53,928
blocking health officials
from promoting the vaccine.
795
00:41:54,011 --> 00:41:55,721
COVID had been
a politically divisive issue
796
00:41:55,804 --> 00:41:58,182
around the issue of masks
before we got here.
797
00:41:58,265 --> 00:42:00,768
But I believed that
when you had a vaccine
798
00:42:00,851 --> 00:42:04,104
that President Trump had boasted
that he had developed,
799
00:42:04,188 --> 00:42:07,733
that the FDA
under his leadership
800
00:42:07,816 --> 00:42:09,485
had approved the vaccine,
801
00:42:09,568 --> 00:42:13,572
the idea that his supporters
would refuse to take a vaccine
802
00:42:13,656 --> 00:42:15,908
that was developed
on his watch,
803
00:42:15,991 --> 00:42:18,077
that was approved on his watch,
804
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,162
was something
that I did not expect
805
00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:22,289
in the numbers
that we have seen.
806
00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:31,966
President Biden:
Good afternoon.
807
00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:36,136
Earlier today, I was briefed
by our senior military
808
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:37,429
and national security leaders
809
00:42:37,513 --> 00:42:40,182
on the status
of the drawdown of US forces
810
00:42:40,266 --> 00:42:43,102
and Allied forces
in Afghanistan.
811
00:42:43,185 --> 00:42:45,062
When I announced
our drawdown in April,
812
00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:48,315
I said we would be out
by September,
813
00:42:48,399 --> 00:42:50,150
and we're on track
to meet that target.
814
00:42:50,234 --> 00:42:52,945
(clears throat) Excuse me.
Our military mission...
815
00:42:53,028 --> 00:42:55,447
Blinken: The assessment
across the government
816
00:42:55,531 --> 00:42:58,492
was that even
in worst-case scenarios,
817
00:42:58,576 --> 00:43:02,621
as our forces withdrew
from Afghanistan,
818
00:43:02,705 --> 00:43:07,251
that the Afghanistan government,
the Afghanistan security forces,
819
00:43:07,334 --> 00:43:09,795
would hold well into
the following year.
820
00:43:09,878 --> 00:43:11,505
Reporter:
Is the Taliban takeover
821
00:43:11,588 --> 00:43:13,465
of Afghanistan now inevitable?
822
00:43:13,549 --> 00:43:14,633
No.
823
00:43:14,717 --> 00:43:16,427
I believed strongly that
we were going to have
824
00:43:16,510 --> 00:43:18,554
a robust embassy,
825
00:43:18,637 --> 00:43:22,391
an embassy presence
in, in Kabul,
826
00:43:22,474 --> 00:43:24,768
certainly through the year,
well into the next year.
827
00:43:24,852 --> 00:43:26,395
There's going to be
no circumstance for you
828
00:43:26,478 --> 00:43:30,482
to see people being lifted off
the roof of a embassy
829
00:43:30,566 --> 00:43:33,861
in the, of the United States,
from Afghanistan.
830
00:43:33,944 --> 00:43:36,322
Everything that we planned
and did
831
00:43:36,405 --> 00:43:38,782
was based on that assumption.
832
00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:41,327
Newscaster:
To Afghanistan,
the Taliban seizing control
833
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:43,203
of more and more territory.
834
00:43:43,287 --> 00:43:46,707
Newscaster 2: Taliban militants
blast their way into Kunduz.
835
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:49,168
Newscaster 3: The Taliban
has captured the capital
836
00:43:49,251 --> 00:43:50,336
of Baghlan province.
837
00:43:50,419 --> 00:43:52,338
Newscaster 3:
It's the eighth province now
838
00:43:52,421 --> 00:43:55,049
to fall in
a short number of days.
839
00:43:57,134 --> 00:43:59,511
Sullivan:
On Wednesday, August 11th,
840
00:43:59,595 --> 00:44:02,556
the President convened us
in The Situation Room
841
00:44:02,639 --> 00:44:04,099
for an update.
842
00:44:04,183 --> 00:44:06,185
Some of the outlying
provincial capitals
843
00:44:06,268 --> 00:44:07,811
had begun to fall,
844
00:44:07,895 --> 00:44:09,730
and he was
increasingly concerned
845
00:44:09,813 --> 00:44:11,940
about what might happen
in Kabul.
846
00:44:13,609 --> 00:44:17,196
The President posed
a series of direct questions
847
00:44:17,279 --> 00:44:19,156
to his national security team
848
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,575
about whether
we had to activate
849
00:44:21,658 --> 00:44:23,869
the contingency planning
that we had put in place
850
00:44:23,952 --> 00:44:25,663
over the course
of several months.
851
00:44:26,914 --> 00:44:28,582
The Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs
852
00:44:28,665 --> 00:44:31,210
and the Secretary of Defense
recommended to him
853
00:44:31,293 --> 00:44:33,253
that we put the forces
854
00:44:33,337 --> 00:44:36,131
that we had already
set in place,
855
00:44:36,215 --> 00:44:37,299
that we put them
on what's called
856
00:44:37,383 --> 00:44:39,134
a "prepare to deploy" order.
857
00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:46,934
Afghanistan was the first
big international issue
858
00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:50,521
that dominated the airwaves
and was on everybody's minds.
859
00:44:50,604 --> 00:44:52,398
Okay. A lot going on today.
860
00:44:52,481 --> 00:44:55,317
We are closely watching
the deteriorating
security conditions
861
00:44:55,401 --> 00:44:56,693
in parts of the country, uh,
862
00:44:56,777 --> 00:44:59,405
but no particular outcome,
in our view, is inevitable.
863
00:44:59,488 --> 00:45:00,906
-Reporter 1: Jen.
-Reporter 2: Jen.
864
00:45:00,989 --> 00:45:02,157
Psaki:
We were playing catch-up
865
00:45:02,241 --> 00:45:04,535
from the moment
the President took office.
866
00:45:04,618 --> 00:45:07,246
Sullivan:
Middle of the night
on Wednesday night,
867
00:45:07,329 --> 00:45:09,665
or in the early hours
of Thursday morning,
868
00:45:09,748 --> 00:45:12,751
I was woken up by a phone call
from Chairman Milley,
869
00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:14,962
the Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs.
870
00:45:15,045 --> 00:45:18,799
He informed me that the Taliban
had taken a city called Ghazni,
871
00:45:18,882 --> 00:45:22,344
which is on
the highway approach to Kabul.
872
00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:24,012
And he said,
"It's now my judgment
873
00:45:24,096 --> 00:45:28,267
"that it's gone past
'prepare to deploy.'
We need to deploy.
874
00:45:28,350 --> 00:45:30,269
And that would be
my recommendation
to the President."
875
00:45:30,352 --> 00:45:32,855
To the other breaking news,
President Biden announcing
876
00:45:32,938 --> 00:45:35,691
he is sending additional troops
into Afghanistan
877
00:45:35,774 --> 00:45:38,235
to help evacuate
US embassy personnel
878
00:45:38,318 --> 00:45:39,862
and Afghan visa applicants.
879
00:45:39,945 --> 00:45:42,448
Newscaster:
Biden defending the drawdown
in a statement writing,
880
00:45:42,531 --> 00:45:44,450
"One more year
or five more years
881
00:45:44,533 --> 00:45:45,909
"of US military presence
882
00:45:45,993 --> 00:45:47,286
"would not have made
a difference
883
00:45:47,369 --> 00:45:49,371
"if the Afghan military cannot
884
00:45:49,455 --> 00:45:51,290
or will not hold
its own country."
885
00:45:51,373 --> 00:45:52,583
You keep changing the subject
886
00:45:52,666 --> 00:45:54,001
to whether or not
we should be there forever.
887
00:45:54,084 --> 00:45:55,169
And I'm not talking about that.
888
00:45:55,252 --> 00:45:56,670
I'm talking about whether or not
889
00:45:56,753 --> 00:45:59,214
this exit was done properly.
890
00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:00,966
Taking out
all the service members,
891
00:46:01,049 --> 00:46:02,634
and then you have
to send people back in.
892
00:46:02,718 --> 00:46:03,844
That's the definition of,
893
00:46:03,927 --> 00:46:05,929
oh, we shouldn't have taken
those troops out
894
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:08,390
because now we have to send
twice as many back in.
895
00:46:08,474 --> 00:46:11,226
The thing that we were up
against in that time period
896
00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:14,521
was a very basic tension.
897
00:46:14,605 --> 00:46:18,233
And it was a tension
between moving fast
898
00:46:18,317 --> 00:46:20,194
to fly people out
899
00:46:20,277 --> 00:46:24,573
before instability
had really set in,
900
00:46:24,656 --> 00:46:26,909
thus potentially triggering
that instability,
901
00:46:26,992 --> 00:46:28,744
triggering panic,
902
00:46:28,827 --> 00:46:31,663
um, or standing by
the government
903
00:46:31,747 --> 00:46:33,707
who was asking us
not to do that.
904
00:46:36,126 --> 00:46:38,045
Blinken: We were
in intense conversations
905
00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:40,756
with the Afghan government
throughout this period
906
00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:44,092
of August and, and into
the middle of the month
907
00:46:44,176 --> 00:46:48,263
to help organize
a peaceful transfer of power.
908
00:46:48,347 --> 00:46:51,642
And President Ghani said to me
on the phone that Saturday,
909
00:46:51,725 --> 00:46:55,395
"If the Taliban doesn't agree
and engage in good faith,
910
00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:58,190
then I will stay
and fight to the death."
911
00:46:58,273 --> 00:47:00,359
That was Saturday.
912
00:47:00,442 --> 00:47:03,195
He fled the country
the next day on Sunday.
913
00:47:03,278 --> 00:47:06,281
-Sanger: No notice?
-No notice.
914
00:47:06,365 --> 00:47:07,950
Newscaster:
We begin with Afghanistan
915
00:47:08,033 --> 00:47:10,077
and the dramatic fall
of the capital.
916
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:12,996
Helicopters and black smoke,
visible American diplomats,
917
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:16,291
including the ambassador,
evacuated to the airport.
918
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:19,920
At least 500 staff
leaving the country so far.
919
00:47:20,003 --> 00:47:22,381
The embassy shuttered.
The flag coming down.
920
00:47:22,464 --> 00:47:25,509
My God. Not only were people
pulled out of the embassy,
921
00:47:25,592 --> 00:47:27,886
we were pulling people
off of the tarmac.
922
00:47:32,599 --> 00:47:34,101
Newscaster:
Chaos at the airport
923
00:47:34,184 --> 00:47:37,396
as thousands of Afghans
desperate to get out.
924
00:47:37,479 --> 00:47:40,566
Newscaster 2:
Afghan civilians desperately
fleeing the airport.
925
00:47:40,649 --> 00:47:43,068
Packed commercial flights
fully booked.
926
00:47:43,151 --> 00:47:46,572
Many who work for the US forces
searching for visas to get out.
927
00:47:46,655 --> 00:47:50,492
One former translator pleading
for Americans to help.
928
00:47:55,831 --> 00:47:57,708
Newscaster 3:
Tonight, the worst predictions
929
00:47:57,791 --> 00:48:00,419
for Afghanistan's future
coming true.
930
00:48:00,502 --> 00:48:03,213
This country now
under Taliban rule.
931
00:48:03,297 --> 00:48:04,798
(people clamoring)
932
00:48:04,881 --> 00:48:05,966
It's an embarrassment.
933
00:48:06,049 --> 00:48:09,136
It's a stain
on our national reputation.
934
00:48:09,219 --> 00:48:11,638
Imagine if there were hundreds
or even thousands
935
00:48:11,722 --> 00:48:13,640
of effective American hostages
936
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:15,142
that are trapped in Afghanistan
937
00:48:15,225 --> 00:48:17,477
because of Joe Biden's chaotic,
938
00:48:17,561 --> 00:48:21,273
disorganized, ill-planned
evacuation from that country.
939
00:48:21,356 --> 00:48:23,150
President Biden:
Let me lay out
the current mission
940
00:48:23,233 --> 00:48:24,484
in Afghanistan.
941
00:48:26,111 --> 00:48:29,448
I was asked to authorize,
and I did, 6,000 US troops
942
00:48:29,531 --> 00:48:31,450
to deploy to Afghanistan
943
00:48:31,533 --> 00:48:34,369
for the purpose of assisting
in the departure of US
944
00:48:34,453 --> 00:48:37,164
and Allied civilian personnel
from Afghanistan.
945
00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:39,750
(airplane whooshing)
946
00:48:39,833 --> 00:48:44,296
Operation Allies Refugee
has already moved 2,000 Afghans
947
00:48:44,379 --> 00:48:47,132
who are eligible
for special immigration visas
948
00:48:47,215 --> 00:48:49,843
and their families
to the United States.
949
00:48:49,926 --> 00:48:51,219
In the coming days,
950
00:48:51,303 --> 00:48:53,805
the US military
will provide assistance
951
00:48:53,889 --> 00:48:56,642
to move more
SIV eligible Afghans
952
00:48:56,725 --> 00:49:00,103
and their families
out of Afghanistan.
953
00:49:00,187 --> 00:49:02,105
-(people clamoring)
-(gunfire)
954
00:49:03,398 --> 00:49:07,152
Klain: We were executing
this incredibly complex,
955
00:49:07,235 --> 00:49:08,445
incredibly difficult,
956
00:49:08,528 --> 00:49:11,239
historic evacuation
957
00:49:11,323 --> 00:49:12,866
of civilians from Afghanistan.
958
00:49:12,949 --> 00:49:13,992
Man:
He's a friend.
959
00:49:14,076 --> 00:49:15,661
Klain:
It had gone beyond,
960
00:49:15,744 --> 00:49:16,787
I think, anyone's expectations
961
00:49:16,870 --> 00:49:18,955
in terms of the size and scope.
962
00:49:19,581 --> 00:49:22,751
US. US.
963
00:49:22,834 --> 00:49:24,294
Klain: The thing
we thought about every day
964
00:49:24,378 --> 00:49:27,881
was would Americans
wind up giving their lives
965
00:49:27,964 --> 00:49:30,550
in the service of that mission?
966
00:49:30,634 --> 00:49:33,053
We knew it was a risk.
The President knew it was
a risk every single day.
967
00:49:33,136 --> 00:49:35,722
We knew there were terrorists
in Kabul.
968
00:49:35,806 --> 00:49:38,392
We knew there were terrorists
trying to kill Americans.
969
00:49:40,477 --> 00:49:42,854
Burns:
To try and ensure
that the Taliban
970
00:49:42,938 --> 00:49:44,356
weren't going to in any way
971
00:49:44,439 --> 00:49:47,401
obstruct the evacuation
that was underway,
972
00:49:47,484 --> 00:49:49,319
the President asked me
to go to Kabul
973
00:49:49,403 --> 00:49:50,612
to meet with Mullah Baradar
974
00:49:50,696 --> 00:49:54,366
and some of the other
Taliban leadership.
975
00:49:54,449 --> 00:49:57,369
We met at the old
civilian terminal
976
00:49:57,452 --> 00:49:59,871
at Kabul International Airport.
977
00:49:59,955 --> 00:50:02,874
The setting was quite tense
around the room
978
00:50:02,958 --> 00:50:06,086
in which we were meeting
over a couple of hours.
979
00:50:06,169 --> 00:50:09,756
You know, we had both of our
security detachments outside
980
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:12,634
kind of eyeing
each other very warily.
981
00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:18,181
Mullah Baradar reaffirmed that
the Taliban were not going
982
00:50:18,265 --> 00:50:20,767
to obstruct
the evacuation effort.
983
00:50:20,851 --> 00:50:22,269
Certainly shared the concern
984
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:24,479
about ISIS threats
in that period.
985
00:50:24,563 --> 00:50:27,065
They were seeing much
the same threat stream
986
00:50:27,149 --> 00:50:28,024
that we were seeing.
987
00:50:28,108 --> 00:50:31,278
We had incredible intelligence
988
00:50:31,361 --> 00:50:35,490
about attacks by ISIS-K
that were in the offing.
989
00:50:35,574 --> 00:50:37,826
Of course, we didn't have
the specificity,
990
00:50:37,909 --> 00:50:41,455
but honestly, this was like
a, a slow-motion nightmare.
991
00:50:41,538 --> 00:50:43,999
You know it's happening, but
you can't do anything about it.
992
00:50:51,381 --> 00:50:54,509
Burns:
A couple of days after,
I was in The Situation Room
993
00:50:54,593 --> 00:50:56,762
with the other principals
getting ready
994
00:50:56,845 --> 00:50:58,638
for a National
Security Council meeting
995
00:50:58,722 --> 00:51:00,015
with the President.
996
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:08,982
General McKenzie,
the commander of CENTCOM,
997
00:51:09,065 --> 00:51:12,277
was on the video screen
from his headquarters
998
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,280
and mentioned just before
the meeting began
999
00:51:15,363 --> 00:51:18,408
that he had just gotten handed
a report about an attack
1000
00:51:18,492 --> 00:51:21,369
at Abbey Gate
at Kabul International Airport.
1001
00:51:21,453 --> 00:51:25,499
(people clamoring)
1002
00:51:29,252 --> 00:51:32,339
President came into the room
shortly thereafter,
1003
00:51:32,422 --> 00:51:35,509
and at that point,
General McKenzie informed him.
1004
00:51:35,592 --> 00:51:38,261
You know, we didn't have, uh,
1005
00:51:39,304 --> 00:51:41,473
all the facts all at once.
1006
00:51:41,556 --> 00:51:44,142
They kept coming in,
and we heard...
1007
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,646
the casualty count
1008
00:51:47,729 --> 00:51:49,773
go up through the course
of the meeting.
1009
00:51:49,856 --> 00:51:51,650
Newscaster: We have just
learned from the Pentagon.
1010
00:51:51,733 --> 00:51:52,818
This is their statement.
1011
00:51:52,901 --> 00:51:54,361
"We can confirm that a number
1012
00:51:54,444 --> 00:51:56,571
"of US service members
were killed
1013
00:51:56,655 --> 00:51:57,823
"at the Kabul Airport.
1014
00:51:57,906 --> 00:51:59,991
"A number
of Afghans fell victim
1015
00:52:00,075 --> 00:52:01,701
to this heinous attack."
1016
00:52:03,245 --> 00:52:06,581
It causes you to stop
and reflect for a minute
1017
00:52:06,665 --> 00:52:10,168
and, and think about,
you know, what you just heard.
1018
00:52:10,252 --> 00:52:12,337
I felt it intensely because
1019
00:52:12,420 --> 00:52:14,756
the men and women
of my department
1020
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:17,008
had been at those
very same gates
1021
00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:19,636
for almost two weeks,
1022
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,972
helping to pull people
to safety.
1023
00:52:25,642 --> 00:52:29,062
Burns: I remember
the President just paused for,
1024
00:52:29,145 --> 00:52:30,647
you know,
at least 30 seconds or so
1025
00:52:30,730 --> 00:52:33,859
and put his head down
because he was absorbing,
1026
00:52:33,942 --> 00:52:35,527
you know, the, um,
1027
00:52:35,610 --> 00:52:37,445
you know, the sadness
of the moment
1028
00:52:37,529 --> 00:52:39,948
and the, and the sense
of loss as well.
1029
00:52:44,911 --> 00:52:46,496
Newscaster:
This is not surprising
1030
00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:48,540
to this White House
and to the Biden administration
1031
00:52:48,623 --> 00:52:50,959
because they've been
warning publicly for days
1032
00:52:51,042 --> 00:52:52,127
that it could happen.
1033
00:52:52,210 --> 00:52:54,087
But regardless,
a nightmare scenario.
1034
00:52:54,170 --> 00:52:55,672
Something they've been
very sensitive
1035
00:52:55,755 --> 00:52:57,173
to the possibility of.
1036
00:52:57,257 --> 00:52:58,592
And it has now happened.
1037
00:53:02,012 --> 00:53:04,264
Unquestionably, that day
was the hardest day
1038
00:53:04,347 --> 00:53:06,391
of the first year,
no question about it.
1039
00:53:06,474 --> 00:53:08,685
And, uh, you know...
1040
00:53:10,437 --> 00:53:12,772
he is the President
of the United States.
1041
00:53:12,856 --> 00:53:15,692
He is the Commander-in-Chief.
1042
00:53:15,775 --> 00:53:20,071
He is also a father and someone
who sent one of his sons
1043
00:53:20,155 --> 00:53:21,865
to go serve in the Middle East.
1044
00:53:29,873 --> 00:53:31,416
President Biden:
I believe...
1045
00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:34,628
this is the right decision,
1046
00:53:34,711 --> 00:53:36,713
a wise decision
1047
00:53:36,796 --> 00:53:39,799
and the best decision
for America.
1048
00:53:39,883 --> 00:53:43,094
We're engaged in a serious
competition with China.
1049
00:53:44,346 --> 00:53:46,306
We're dealing
with the challenges
1050
00:53:46,389 --> 00:53:49,017
on multiple fronts with Russia.
1051
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:51,353
The world is changing.
1052
00:53:54,064 --> 00:53:55,941
Bremmer:
I've known Biden's cabinet,
1053
00:53:56,024 --> 00:53:57,776
most of them for many years.
1054
00:53:57,859 --> 00:54:00,111
These are not stupid people.
They're experienced people.
1055
00:54:00,195 --> 00:54:03,907
They're smart people.
And they got this really wrong.
1056
00:54:03,990 --> 00:54:06,952
Suddenly, they're seen
to be incompetent.
1057
00:54:11,873 --> 00:54:14,626
Sanger:
Had Biden, after he made
the decision in April
1058
00:54:14,709 --> 00:54:16,169
to pull out of Afghanistan,
1059
00:54:16,252 --> 00:54:19,172
immediately begun
speeding up the withdrawal
1060
00:54:19,255 --> 00:54:22,384
of the Afghans
who had helped Americans,
1061
00:54:22,467 --> 00:54:25,971
then I think August could have
played out very differently.
1062
00:54:29,265 --> 00:54:31,643
Instead, by the end
of the summer,
1063
00:54:31,726 --> 00:54:34,813
there was a sense that things
were really falling apart.
1064
00:54:36,815 --> 00:54:38,316
Delta was raging.
1065
00:54:39,693 --> 00:54:42,153
Newscaster:
In April, almost
70 percent of voters
1066
00:54:42,237 --> 00:54:45,281
said they approved of
the President's performance
on COVID.
1067
00:54:45,365 --> 00:54:48,034
That number has fallen
to 53 percent.
1068
00:54:48,118 --> 00:54:50,829
The disapproval
has risen to 44 percent.
1069
00:54:50,912 --> 00:54:52,872
A dramatic change.
1070
00:54:52,956 --> 00:54:54,624
Newscaster 2:
The number of
new COVID cases
1071
00:54:54,708 --> 00:54:57,752
is higher now than
during last summer's peak.
1072
00:54:57,836 --> 00:55:00,839
Weekly hospital admissions
are up more than 40 percent.
1073
00:55:06,469 --> 00:55:07,679
Slavitt:
We had an opportunity,
1074
00:55:07,762 --> 00:55:09,931
and I really do think
it was an opportunity,
1075
00:55:10,015 --> 00:55:12,684
to show that we, too, could
sacrifice for one another.
1076
00:55:12,767 --> 00:55:15,979
And I think the question
that I most underestimated was,
1077
00:55:16,062 --> 00:55:18,106
would we be willing to say
that none of us
1078
00:55:18,189 --> 00:55:19,607
are more important
than all of us?
1079
00:55:19,691 --> 00:55:21,651
Or would we fall
into the pattern
1080
00:55:21,735 --> 00:55:23,153
that most people
would have thought
1081
00:55:23,236 --> 00:55:24,237
we would have fallen into,
1082
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:25,655
which is to say
1083
00:55:25,739 --> 00:55:29,409
that, no, we each individually
are more important.
1084
00:55:29,492 --> 00:55:32,912
And I think it's
one of the reasons
we've suffered so greatly.
1085
00:55:32,996 --> 00:55:36,207
Newscaster:
700,000 Americans now have
lost their lives to COVID.
1086
00:55:36,291 --> 00:55:38,043
Newscaster 2:
One person
is dying in America
1087
00:55:38,126 --> 00:55:39,294
every 43 seconds.
1088
00:55:39,377 --> 00:55:40,795
Newscaster 3:
One in 500 Americans
1089
00:55:40,879 --> 00:55:42,714
are dead now.
1090
00:55:45,508 --> 00:55:48,595
Bremmer:
Biden's first year
could be defined more
1091
00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:52,265
by COVID than anything else.
1092
00:55:52,348 --> 00:55:55,268
Remember, Biden is the guy
that said by 4th of July,
1093
00:55:55,351 --> 00:55:57,604
if you just stick with me
and wear the masks,
1094
00:55:57,687 --> 00:56:00,231
we're going to, we won't have
to do that anymore.
1095
00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:02,233
And that's just not the case.
1096
00:56:24,881 --> 00:56:28,134
♪ ♪
1097
00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:32,639
Newscaster: World leaders
gathering in Scotland
1098
00:56:32,722 --> 00:56:34,682
this morning
following G20 sit-downs
1099
00:56:34,766 --> 00:56:36,184
in Italy over the weekend.
1100
00:56:36,267 --> 00:56:39,938
The summit is being billed
as the world's last best chance
1101
00:56:40,021 --> 00:56:41,856
to curb the climate crisis.
1102
00:56:41,940 --> 00:56:43,775
Newscaster 2:
More than 100 heads of state
1103
00:56:43,858 --> 00:56:45,777
have been arriving
in Glasgow this morning.
1104
00:56:45,860 --> 00:56:47,153
But in addition
to world leaders,
1105
00:56:47,237 --> 00:56:48,738
dozens of corporate CEOs,
1106
00:56:48,822 --> 00:56:50,907
fund managers,
and venture capital firms
1107
00:56:50,990 --> 00:56:53,785
will be here
over the two weeks.
1108
00:56:53,868 --> 00:56:56,788
Noticeably absent will be
China's President Xi
1109
00:56:56,871 --> 00:56:58,832
and Russia's President Putin.
1110
00:57:02,877 --> 00:57:05,421
Kerry:
There's a lot at stake here.
1111
00:57:05,505 --> 00:57:09,759
In 2018,
the IPCC scientists told us
1112
00:57:09,843 --> 00:57:12,303
that we really have 12 years
1113
00:57:12,387 --> 00:57:14,681
within which we must make
and implement
1114
00:57:14,764 --> 00:57:18,518
the key decisions to avoid
the worst consequences
1115
00:57:18,601 --> 00:57:20,103
of the climate crisis.
1116
00:57:20,186 --> 00:57:22,272
And, unfortunately,
we lost three years
1117
00:57:22,355 --> 00:57:23,481
during the Trump administration
1118
00:57:23,565 --> 00:57:26,317
where we pulled out
of the Paris Agreement.
1119
00:57:27,777 --> 00:57:32,574
I do believe that this is
our last, best chance
1120
00:57:32,657 --> 00:57:35,410
not to solve it all
in one blow here,
1121
00:57:35,493 --> 00:57:36,995
but to get on the track
1122
00:57:37,078 --> 00:57:40,498
where we keep 1.5 degrees alive
1123
00:57:40,582 --> 00:57:42,917
as the limit of the raising
of temperature
1124
00:57:43,001 --> 00:57:44,210
on the planet.
1125
00:57:45,712 --> 00:57:46,921
Man: Hello, Senator.
1126
00:57:47,005 --> 00:57:48,506
Good to see
you've made it out, sir.
1127
00:57:48,590 --> 00:57:49,591
Kerry:
How are you doing?
1128
00:57:49,674 --> 00:57:51,384
Do you think
we'll be successful?
1129
00:57:51,467 --> 00:57:53,261
I do indeed. Yes, I do.
1130
00:57:53,344 --> 00:57:55,305
Keep your fingers
crossed then, eh?
1131
00:57:55,388 --> 00:57:58,266
Yes, sir. Thank you.
1132
00:57:58,349 --> 00:58:00,894
Sanger: By and large,
the Biden administration
1133
00:58:00,977 --> 00:58:05,023
has been highly disciplined,
highly coordinated.
1134
00:58:05,106 --> 00:58:07,233
Kerry:
I love it, I love the accent.
1135
00:58:07,317 --> 00:58:10,486
-Man: I loved that. I love that.
-"Keep your fingers crossed."
1136
00:58:10,570 --> 00:58:12,030
(laughter)
1137
00:58:12,113 --> 00:58:15,742
Sanger: But John Kerry is
a former Secretary of State,
1138
00:58:15,825 --> 00:58:18,995
a former presidential
nominee himself.
1139
00:58:19,078 --> 00:58:24,292
This is the last big job
of his career.
1140
00:58:24,375 --> 00:58:26,794
And he felt like he could say
what he wanted to go say.
1141
00:58:26,878 --> 00:58:28,254
And so on China,
1142
00:58:28,338 --> 00:58:31,591
they were not at times
on the same page.
1143
00:58:31,674 --> 00:58:33,426
I think it's been a big mistake,
1144
00:58:33,509 --> 00:58:35,845
quite frankly, for China,
1145
00:58:35,929 --> 00:58:37,972
with respect to China
not showing up.
1146
00:58:38,056 --> 00:58:40,767
The rest of the world are going
to look to China and say,
1147
00:58:40,850 --> 00:58:44,020
"What value added
are they providing?"
1148
00:58:47,941 --> 00:58:50,401
Justin Worland:
It came as a surprise
that Biden offered
1149
00:58:50,485 --> 00:58:52,695
really strong criticism to Xi
1150
00:58:52,779 --> 00:58:55,406
for not coming himself
to Glasgow
1151
00:58:55,490 --> 00:58:58,910
because the Kerry strategy
on China
1152
00:58:58,993 --> 00:59:01,913
was largely to work
behind closed doors,
1153
00:59:01,996 --> 00:59:04,415
avoid sort of
any open conflicts.
1154
00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:09,128
I have to imagine
it was strategic.
1155
00:59:09,212 --> 00:59:11,965
What we know now is that
they were brokering
1156
00:59:12,048 --> 00:59:15,802
this sort of last-minute
US-China pacts
1157
00:59:15,885 --> 00:59:18,096
the last days of Glasgow.
1158
00:59:18,179 --> 00:59:20,682
And so one has to assume
1159
00:59:20,765 --> 00:59:23,768
there was some pause,
1160
00:59:23,851 --> 00:59:26,145
rift, something
in the discussions
1161
00:59:26,229 --> 00:59:27,730
that would have led
1162
00:59:27,814 --> 00:59:30,733
this administration
to think this will help.
1163
00:59:30,817 --> 00:59:32,277
Newscaster:
The US and China have struck
1164
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,153
a deal on climate change.
1165
00:59:34,237 --> 00:59:37,532
The announcement came during
the COP26 summit in Glasgow.
1166
00:59:37,615 --> 00:59:40,201
The United States and China have
1167
00:59:40,285 --> 00:59:42,453
no shortage of differences,
1168
00:59:42,537 --> 00:59:43,788
but on climate--
1169
00:59:44,747 --> 00:59:47,542
and climate cooperation is
1170
00:59:47,625 --> 00:59:50,837
the only way to get
this job done.
1171
00:59:54,132 --> 00:59:57,260
This US-China announcement
is both huge
1172
00:59:57,343 --> 00:59:58,803
and kind of small.
1173
00:59:58,886 --> 01:00:00,388
You know, it's small
in the sense
1174
01:00:00,471 --> 01:00:04,267
that none of this stuff
is truly groundbreaking.
1175
01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:08,354
But I think in that moment,
1176
01:00:09,605 --> 01:00:12,233
just the two of them
coming out publicly
1177
01:00:12,317 --> 01:00:15,361
and saying, we're going to work
together, we're committed,
1178
01:00:15,445 --> 01:00:16,612
it was a big deal.
1179
01:00:32,670 --> 01:00:34,797
Fiona Hill: The Biden
administration came in
1180
01:00:34,881 --> 01:00:36,716
as the Trump administration
went out,
1181
01:00:36,799 --> 01:00:38,885
with a clear focus on China.
1182
01:00:38,968 --> 01:00:42,347
China is definitely
in that old Cold War terms
1183
01:00:42,430 --> 01:00:43,556
of a system challenge,
1184
01:00:43,639 --> 01:00:47,060
saying that its system
is better than ours.
1185
01:00:47,143 --> 01:00:51,105
But Russia's saying, "Hey,
it's not just about China.
1186
01:00:51,189 --> 01:00:53,775
"We're here and we matter,
1187
01:00:53,858 --> 01:00:55,943
and you'd better
pay attention to us."
1188
01:00:57,987 --> 01:01:01,199
(camera shutter clicking)
1189
01:01:01,282 --> 01:01:04,369
Sullivan: In the fall,
we began to pick up
1190
01:01:04,452 --> 01:01:05,870
a variety of indications
1191
01:01:05,953 --> 01:01:09,624
that the Russians
were conducting a significant--
1192
01:01:09,707 --> 01:01:12,460
significant would be
an understatement--
1193
01:01:12,543 --> 01:01:17,340
massive military buildup
around Ukraine.
1194
01:01:17,423 --> 01:01:21,219
They have so much
forward firepower
1195
01:01:21,302 --> 01:01:22,762
that they are assembling.
1196
01:01:22,845 --> 01:01:26,682
Um, it's on a level
that is not comparable
1197
01:01:26,766 --> 01:01:28,142
to what they did in April.
1198
01:01:30,019 --> 01:01:33,398
Sullivan:
The President decided
that we would begin
1199
01:01:33,481 --> 01:01:35,024
down a dual track
1200
01:01:35,108 --> 01:01:38,277
of deterrence on the one hand
and diplomacy on the other.
1201
01:01:39,278 --> 01:01:40,905
So we asked Bill Burns
1202
01:01:40,988 --> 01:01:44,325
to go to Moscow quietly.
1203
01:01:45,993 --> 01:01:48,246
Burns:
The President asked me
to go to Moscow
1204
01:01:48,329 --> 01:01:50,289
to convey to President Putin
1205
01:01:50,373 --> 01:01:52,917
and some of his most
senior advisers
1206
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:57,004
our serious concern
about what we were seeing.
1207
01:01:57,088 --> 01:01:59,298
This was in the midst
of the fourth big wave
1208
01:01:59,382 --> 01:02:01,217
of the COVID
pandemic in Russia.
1209
01:02:01,300 --> 01:02:03,636
So Moscow was locked down.
1210
01:02:03,719 --> 01:02:05,638
President Putin
was in isolation
1211
01:02:05,721 --> 01:02:07,223
in Sochi at that point.
1212
01:02:09,183 --> 01:02:12,103
I found President Putin
to be quite measured
1213
01:02:12,186 --> 01:02:13,521
but unapologetic
1214
01:02:13,604 --> 01:02:17,400
about Russian concerns
about Ukraine.
1215
01:02:17,483 --> 01:02:20,778
I think over time
his confidence has grown.
1216
01:02:20,862 --> 01:02:24,365
In some ways, his appetite
for risk has grown.
1217
01:02:24,449 --> 01:02:26,617
I think his sense
of personal legacy
1218
01:02:26,701 --> 01:02:28,744
has probably deepened over time.
1219
01:02:29,954 --> 01:02:32,582
I conveyed
on the President's behalf
1220
01:02:32,665 --> 01:02:35,042
a message
of serious consequences
1221
01:02:35,126 --> 01:02:37,962
that would flow
from a Russian decision
1222
01:02:38,045 --> 01:02:42,091
to renew military aggression
against Ukraine.
1223
01:02:42,175 --> 01:02:47,013
We wanted to communicate that
if Putin moved on Ukraine,
1224
01:02:47,096 --> 01:02:49,015
there would be
severe consequences
1225
01:02:49,098 --> 01:02:51,267
from the United States
and our allies.
1226
01:02:51,350 --> 01:02:54,937
If Putin wanted to go down
the diplomatic road,
1227
01:02:55,021 --> 01:02:57,690
the United States was prepared
to travel that road with him.
1228
01:03:01,986 --> 01:03:04,697
Newscaster:
President Biden holding
a high-stakes virtual meeting
1229
01:03:04,780 --> 01:03:07,283
with Russian President
Vladimir Putin right now.
1230
01:03:07,366 --> 01:03:09,702
The two leaders speaking
via videoconference today
1231
01:03:09,785 --> 01:03:11,996
as a potential
geopolitical crisis
1232
01:03:12,079 --> 01:03:13,873
is currently unfolding.
1233
01:03:13,956 --> 01:03:15,666
President Biden: Hello.
1234
01:03:15,750 --> 01:03:18,127
-(translator speaking Russian)
-(President Biden chuckles)
1235
01:03:18,211 --> 01:03:19,670
Good to see you again.
1236
01:03:19,754 --> 01:03:23,466
I, unfortunately, we didn't get
to see one another at the G20.
1237
01:03:23,549 --> 01:03:26,385
I hope next time we meet,
we do it in person.
1238
01:03:26,469 --> 01:03:27,762
(translator speaking Russian)
1239
01:03:27,845 --> 01:03:29,722
Blinken: The buildup
that Russia was engaged in
1240
01:03:29,805 --> 01:03:31,140
was continuing.
1241
01:03:32,808 --> 01:03:35,853
(camera shutter clicking)
1242
01:03:35,937 --> 01:03:41,692
We had to have, and we did have,
deep, deep concern.
1243
01:03:41,776 --> 01:03:44,695
Like all the conversations
between President Biden
and President Putin,
1244
01:03:44,779 --> 01:03:46,864
there have now been several
in person in Geneva,
1245
01:03:46,948 --> 01:03:49,242
by video conference
on the phone,
1246
01:03:49,325 --> 01:03:52,537
they're very direct,
they're not polemical.
1247
01:03:52,620 --> 01:03:54,997
There's not a lot
of wasted time.
1248
01:03:55,081 --> 01:03:58,668
And President Biden made
very clear to President Putin
1249
01:03:58,751 --> 01:04:00,753
that if Russia
committed renewed acts
1250
01:04:00,836 --> 01:04:02,547
of aggression against Ukraine,
1251
01:04:02,630 --> 01:04:04,632
there would be
significant costs.
1252
01:04:07,176 --> 01:04:08,928
Sanger:
Biden is confronting
the question
1253
01:04:09,011 --> 01:04:12,723
of how does the United States
support Ukraine
1254
01:04:12,807 --> 01:04:14,267
without getting its troops
1255
01:04:14,350 --> 01:04:17,395
directly into an old-time
border conflict
1256
01:04:17,478 --> 01:04:20,815
in defense of a country
that isn't even a NATO ally?
1257
01:04:20,898 --> 01:04:24,527
And when Biden had
his teleconference with Putin,
1258
01:04:24,610 --> 01:04:26,696
the two men knew one thing:
1259
01:04:26,779 --> 01:04:28,322
Whatever Putin did next,
1260
01:04:28,406 --> 01:04:30,283
whether he rolled
his troops or not,
1261
01:04:30,366 --> 01:04:33,160
the US was not going
to put its own military
1262
01:04:33,244 --> 01:04:35,955
into harm's way
to defend Ukraine.
1263
01:04:36,038 --> 01:04:38,165
(reporter speaking)
1264
01:04:41,877 --> 01:04:43,337
They never were on the table.
1265
01:04:43,421 --> 01:04:45,798
And are you ready to send
American troops into war
1266
01:04:45,881 --> 01:04:48,342
and go into Ukraine to fight
Russians on the battlefield?
1267
01:04:48,426 --> 01:04:51,095
Look, here's the deal.
1268
01:04:51,178 --> 01:04:54,974
I've made it absolutely clear
to President Putin,
1269
01:04:55,057 --> 01:04:56,642
it's the last thing I'll say,
1270
01:04:57,602 --> 01:05:00,354
that if he moves on Ukraine,
1271
01:05:01,564 --> 01:05:03,441
the economic consequences
for his economy
1272
01:05:03,524 --> 01:05:04,984
are going to be devastating.
1273
01:05:05,651 --> 01:05:06,736
Devastating.
1274
01:05:08,195 --> 01:05:10,364
Blinken:
We have proceeded
very deliberately
1275
01:05:10,448 --> 01:05:13,284
but also,
in some cases, quietly.
1276
01:05:13,367 --> 01:05:14,660
For example, in December,
1277
01:05:14,744 --> 01:05:17,204
the President approved
$200 million
1278
01:05:17,288 --> 01:05:20,082
for additional defense
equipment to Ukraine.
1279
01:05:21,500 --> 01:05:22,793
We didn't advertise it
at the time.
1280
01:05:22,877 --> 01:05:24,754
We just went forward
with doing it
1281
01:05:24,837 --> 01:05:27,840
because one of the plays
in the Russian playbook
1282
01:05:27,923 --> 01:05:30,801
is to create, invent,
1283
01:05:30,885 --> 01:05:33,137
point to some
kind of provocation,
1284
01:05:33,220 --> 01:05:35,264
and to use that
as justification
1285
01:05:35,348 --> 01:05:37,808
for something
they'd been planning all along.
1286
01:05:37,892 --> 01:05:39,518
And we did not want
to play into that,
1287
01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:41,896
at least not in any overt way.
1288
01:05:44,398 --> 01:05:47,276
Sanger:
The question haunting
the White House
1289
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,945
is whether this is enough.
1290
01:05:50,029 --> 01:05:52,156
Because if Ukraine falls,
1291
01:05:52,239 --> 01:05:54,533
Russia will, for the first time
1292
01:05:54,617 --> 01:05:57,828
since the collapse
of the Soviet Union,
1293
01:05:57,912 --> 01:06:01,999
be redrawing the map of Europe.
1294
01:06:02,083 --> 01:06:05,753
And more importantly,
it will be showing
1295
01:06:05,836 --> 01:06:09,382
that it believes
it can push back on a world
1296
01:06:09,465 --> 01:06:13,177
that was dominated
by the United States
1297
01:06:13,260 --> 01:06:15,638
from the Soviet
collapse forward.
1298
01:06:28,943 --> 01:06:30,528
Newscaster:
On this January 6th,
1299
01:06:30,611 --> 01:06:33,280
solemn ceremonies
at the US Capitol
1300
01:06:33,364 --> 01:06:35,908
replaced the violent scenes
of rioters
1301
01:06:35,991 --> 01:06:38,452
ransacking the building
one year ago.
1302
01:06:38,536 --> 01:06:39,662
Newscaster 2:
There is still
1303
01:06:39,745 --> 01:06:41,872
a political divide
that's very apparent
1304
01:06:41,956 --> 01:06:44,083
and even with today's
ceremonies as well.
1305
01:06:53,718 --> 01:06:58,180
Rep. Schiff:
Among my many reactions
on January 6th
1306
01:06:58,264 --> 01:07:00,850
was just mortification
1307
01:07:00,933 --> 01:07:03,018
at how we appear
to the rest of the world.
1308
01:07:03,853 --> 01:07:05,896
This day is a reminder
1309
01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:07,898
that Trumpism
is very much with us
1310
01:07:07,982 --> 01:07:10,860
and that our democracy remains
very much at risk.
1311
01:07:12,862 --> 01:07:15,531
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Let us acknowledge today
1312
01:07:15,614 --> 01:07:17,867
our fallen heroes of that day.
1313
01:07:17,950 --> 01:07:20,119
I ask all members to rise
1314
01:07:20,202 --> 01:07:23,038
for a moment of silence
in their memory.
1315
01:07:27,334 --> 01:07:30,045
Rep. Jim Jordan:
What else are Democrats
going to talk about?
1316
01:07:30,129 --> 01:07:32,631
They gonna talk about
30-year-high inflation.
1317
01:07:32,715 --> 01:07:34,133
They gonna talk
about the fact crime is up
1318
01:07:34,216 --> 01:07:35,593
in every major urban area.
1319
01:07:35,676 --> 01:07:37,553
They gonna talk
about 1.7 million
1320
01:07:37,636 --> 01:07:39,263
illegal immigrants coming
into this country.
1321
01:07:39,346 --> 01:07:41,807
They gonna talk
about the attacks
on the First Amendment.
1322
01:07:41,891 --> 01:07:44,310
Um, what are they going
to talk about?
1323
01:07:44,393 --> 01:07:46,812
Oh, so, January 6th.
1324
01:07:46,896 --> 01:07:48,898
Sen. Chris Coons:
That today there are
members of Congress
1325
01:07:48,981 --> 01:07:51,609
trying to act like
that wasn't a big deal,
1326
01:07:51,692 --> 01:07:53,319
we should just move on,
1327
01:07:53,402 --> 01:07:57,072
I find hard
to be reconciled with.
1328
01:07:57,156 --> 01:07:59,450
Man: (on phone)
And there's not much
more we can say,
1329
01:07:59,533 --> 01:08:01,035
but we'll keep background names
1330
01:08:01,118 --> 01:08:02,536
off the record,
any reporters...
1331
01:08:02,620 --> 01:08:04,455
We started discussing
in the fall
1332
01:08:04,538 --> 01:08:06,081
what that day would look like
1333
01:08:06,165 --> 01:08:08,751
and what that should mean
for the President
1334
01:08:08,834 --> 01:08:10,961
and what he should have
to say on that day.
1335
01:08:11,045 --> 01:08:13,631
We all agreed that it was
an important moment for him
1336
01:08:13,714 --> 01:08:18,969
to be more direct
about what that day meant,
1337
01:08:19,053 --> 01:08:20,846
what former
President Trump's role
1338
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:22,515
in that day meant for history,
1339
01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:25,684
and why we need to prevent it
from ever happening again.
1340
01:08:25,768 --> 01:08:28,604
Alright, guys, um,
we will catch up with you soon.
1341
01:08:28,687 --> 01:08:30,981
Thank you, thank you,
thank you for all your stuff.
1342
01:08:31,065 --> 01:08:32,900
Uh, big day.
1343
01:08:32,983 --> 01:08:34,944
President Biden:
We saw with our own eyes
1344
01:08:36,237 --> 01:08:38,405
rioters menace these halls.
1345
01:08:39,573 --> 01:08:41,659
What did we not see?
1346
01:08:41,742 --> 01:08:44,286
We didn't see a former President
1347
01:08:44,370 --> 01:08:47,581
who had just rallied
the mob to attack.
1348
01:08:47,665 --> 01:08:49,708
Sitting in
the private dining room
1349
01:08:49,792 --> 01:08:52,670
off the Oval Office
in the White House,
1350
01:08:52,753 --> 01:08:54,797
watching it all on television
1351
01:08:55,756 --> 01:08:59,093
and doing nothing for hours.
1352
01:08:59,176 --> 01:09:02,680
It didn't mean that it was
the start of every day
1353
01:09:02,763 --> 01:09:04,014
President Biden
was going to go out
1354
01:09:04,098 --> 01:09:05,724
and talk about Donald Trump.
1355
01:09:05,808 --> 01:09:09,895
But that day felt like
it uniquely required
1356
01:09:09,979 --> 01:09:12,648
President Biden to go out
and really be direct
1357
01:09:12,731 --> 01:09:15,860
and call out the former
President for his role.
1358
01:09:15,943 --> 01:09:17,987
President Biden:
Those who stormed this Capitol
1359
01:09:18,070 --> 01:09:20,865
and those who called
on them to do so
1360
01:09:20,948 --> 01:09:24,368
held a dagger
at the throat of America.
1361
01:09:24,451 --> 01:09:26,036
Make no mistake about it.
1362
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:29,164
We're living at
an inflection point in history.
1363
01:09:29,248 --> 01:09:31,041
We're engaged
anew in a struggle
1364
01:09:31,125 --> 01:09:34,587
between democracy
and autocracy,
1365
01:09:34,670 --> 01:09:37,923
from China, to Russia,
and beyond.
1366
01:09:38,007 --> 01:09:40,801
They're betting that
democracy's days are numbered.
1367
01:09:46,515 --> 01:09:49,602
♪ ♪
1368
01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:56,233
Blinken:
Good afternoon, everyone.
1369
01:09:56,317 --> 01:09:58,027
Very good to see folks here.
1370
01:09:58,110 --> 01:09:59,236
And to those
I haven't had a chance
1371
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:02,239
to say this to, Happy New Year.
1372
01:10:02,323 --> 01:10:06,160
Um, this morning, NATO's
North Atlantic Council
1373
01:10:06,243 --> 01:10:09,079
met to discuss
our coordinated response
1374
01:10:09,163 --> 01:10:11,916
to Russia's military buildup
along the Ukraine border
1375
01:10:11,999 --> 01:10:13,542
and its increasingly
sharp threats
1376
01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:15,044
and inflammatory rhetoric.
1377
01:10:16,003 --> 01:10:17,963
No one should be surprised
1378
01:10:18,047 --> 01:10:21,842
if Russia instigates
a provocation or incident,
1379
01:10:21,926 --> 01:10:24,345
then tries to use it to justify
military intervention,
1380
01:10:24,428 --> 01:10:27,306
hoping that by the time
the world realizes the ruse,
1381
01:10:27,389 --> 01:10:28,974
it'll be too late.
1382
01:10:31,727 --> 01:10:33,812
We were working overtime
to organize
1383
01:10:33,896 --> 01:10:36,065
allies and partners
throughout Europe.
1384
01:10:36,148 --> 01:10:38,275
They also wanted to make sure
that we were proceeding
1385
01:10:38,359 --> 01:10:40,444
in a deliberate way
and not being perceived
1386
01:10:40,527 --> 01:10:43,697
as fueling a fire in any way.
1387
01:10:43,781 --> 01:10:46,909
Sanger:
Vladimir Putin didn't
pick Ukraine for nothing.
1388
01:10:46,992 --> 01:10:49,578
He knew that it wasn't
a member of NATO.
1389
01:10:49,662 --> 01:10:51,497
And I think
deep down he thought
1390
01:10:51,580 --> 01:10:53,499
the NATO alliance
would be splintered
1391
01:10:53,582 --> 01:10:54,792
on the question of
1392
01:10:54,875 --> 01:10:57,336
whether or not
to gather together
1393
01:10:57,419 --> 01:10:58,671
to push him back.
1394
01:10:59,755 --> 01:11:03,050
When he went into Crimea
in 2014,
1395
01:11:03,133 --> 01:11:06,178
it took about a year
for the allies to get together
1396
01:11:06,261 --> 01:11:07,513
and decide on some sanctions.
1397
01:11:07,596 --> 01:11:10,516
And by that time, the sanctions
were so weakened
1398
01:11:10,599 --> 01:11:12,351
they had basically no effect.
1399
01:11:12,434 --> 01:11:16,438
Eight years later,
Putin was still in Crimea.
1400
01:11:16,522 --> 01:11:18,649
Biden wasn't going to make
that mistake again.
1401
01:11:18,732 --> 01:11:21,318
Blinken sure as hell
wasn't going to make
that mistake again
1402
01:11:21,402 --> 01:11:24,405
because he remembered it
vividly from the time
1403
01:11:24,488 --> 01:11:27,992
that he was
in the Obama administration.
1404
01:11:28,075 --> 01:11:31,453
So when they first saw
this massing of troops,
1405
01:11:31,537 --> 01:11:35,082
they made
a very important decision,
1406
01:11:35,165 --> 01:11:38,210
which was to declassify
their intelligence
1407
01:11:38,293 --> 01:11:41,880
as quickly as they could
and publish it.
1408
01:11:41,964 --> 01:11:43,424
We have information
that indicates Russia
1409
01:11:43,507 --> 01:11:45,634
has already pre-positioned
a group of operatives
1410
01:11:45,718 --> 01:11:48,804
to conduct a false flag
operation in Eastern Ukraine.
1411
01:11:48,887 --> 01:11:51,056
Sanger:
Sometimes they went out
and announced it.
1412
01:11:51,140 --> 01:11:52,641
Sometimes they leaked it to us.
1413
01:11:52,725 --> 01:11:54,601
Newscaster:
The US National
Security Adviser says
1414
01:11:54,685 --> 01:11:56,228
more details will be revealed
1415
01:11:56,311 --> 01:11:58,230
within the next 24 hours.
1416
01:11:58,313 --> 01:12:00,858
In a few cases,
they called a few of us in
1417
01:12:00,941 --> 01:12:02,985
and did show some sources
and methods
1418
01:12:03,068 --> 01:12:05,571
just so that we understood
they weren't making it up.
1419
01:12:08,782 --> 01:12:10,743
They knew it would take a while
1420
01:12:10,826 --> 01:12:14,163
to convince the Europeans
that this was no bluff.
1421
01:12:16,790 --> 01:12:19,376
Blinken:
By mid to late January,
1422
01:12:19,460 --> 01:12:21,837
not only was Russia
still building up forces
1423
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:23,464
to the east and the south,
1424
01:12:23,547 --> 01:12:26,258
but it was engaged
in a buildup to the north,
1425
01:12:26,341 --> 01:12:29,720
particularly sending
30,000 forces to Belarus
1426
01:12:29,803 --> 01:12:33,015
under the guise of exercises
that gave it the option
1427
01:12:33,098 --> 01:12:36,351
to really hit Ukraine
virtually from all sides.
1428
01:12:37,436 --> 01:12:39,104
It was becoming so clear,
1429
01:12:39,188 --> 01:12:41,231
including to allies
and partners,
1430
01:12:41,315 --> 01:12:43,859
that this was happening.
1431
01:12:43,942 --> 01:12:46,945
Psaki: Our view is this is an
extremely dangerous situation.
1432
01:12:47,029 --> 01:12:49,239
We're now at a stage
where Russia could at any point
1433
01:12:49,323 --> 01:12:51,617
launch an attack in Ukraine.
1434
01:12:51,700 --> 01:12:54,369
Blinken: We said that
one of the purposes
of our foreign policy
1435
01:12:54,453 --> 01:12:56,413
was to defend this
rules-based order,
1436
01:12:56,497 --> 01:12:59,291
because it comes
with certain principles,
1437
01:12:59,375 --> 01:13:01,043
certain norms,
certain expectations
1438
01:13:01,126 --> 01:13:03,462
that grew out of
two World Wars.
1439
01:13:07,216 --> 01:13:10,135
(speaking French)
1440
01:13:10,219 --> 01:13:12,179
If you let an aggression
against those rules
1441
01:13:12,262 --> 01:13:15,099
go forward with impunity,
then you open a Pandora's box.
1442
01:13:15,182 --> 01:13:17,309
And you're going to see
potentially conflict
1443
01:13:17,393 --> 01:13:18,644
and war everywhere.
1444
01:13:18,727 --> 01:13:21,105
And that's one way or another
going to draw us in.
1445
01:13:21,188 --> 01:13:23,065
You've seen
country after country
1446
01:13:23,148 --> 01:13:25,150
coming together, standing up.
1447
01:13:25,234 --> 01:13:26,902
I think it has been
a reassertion
1448
01:13:26,985 --> 01:13:28,529
of American engagement,
1449
01:13:28,612 --> 01:13:29,863
American leadership...
1450
01:13:32,241 --> 01:13:34,034
and a recommitment
by many countries
1451
01:13:34,118 --> 01:13:35,786
to defend this
rules-based order.
1452
01:13:45,838 --> 01:13:46,964
(reporters clamoring)
1453
01:13:47,047 --> 01:13:50,092
(camera shutters clicking)
1454
01:13:51,426 --> 01:13:55,139
The discussion today
with Mr. Lavrov
1455
01:13:55,222 --> 01:13:57,057
was frank and substantive.
1456
01:13:57,141 --> 01:13:58,517
We've made it clear
to the Russians
1457
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:00,269
that not only would there be
1458
01:14:00,352 --> 01:14:02,729
severe economic
and financial consequences,
1459
01:14:02,813 --> 01:14:05,190
but they would also see
more support
1460
01:14:05,274 --> 01:14:07,818
to build up NATO's
defensive capacities.
1461
01:14:10,904 --> 01:14:12,781
John Kirby:
As we've continued to see
1462
01:14:12,865 --> 01:14:15,159
the accumulation of combat power
1463
01:14:15,242 --> 01:14:17,244
and as we have now seen
1464
01:14:17,327 --> 01:14:18,954
that, so far anyway,
1465
01:14:19,037 --> 01:14:21,790
Mr. Putin has not elected
to de-escalate,
1466
01:14:21,874 --> 01:14:25,043
all that combined has
led us to want to contribute
1467
01:14:25,127 --> 01:14:27,629
more capabilities
to the Ukrainian armed forces
1468
01:14:27,713 --> 01:14:31,675
and be ready to contribute more
capabilities to our NATO allies.
1469
01:14:33,802 --> 01:14:37,514
Austin:
Who knows what's going on
in Putin's mind.
1470
01:14:37,598 --> 01:14:40,058
Whether or not he believes
that the international community
1471
01:14:40,142 --> 01:14:42,227
will carry through is one issue,
1472
01:14:42,311 --> 01:14:46,231
uh, but what I believe is that
our President is very serious.
1473
01:14:46,315 --> 01:14:50,652
I believe that other leaders
in the region are very serious.
1474
01:14:50,736 --> 01:14:53,030
I believe that the world
will take this
1475
01:14:53,113 --> 01:14:57,659
as a, as a very,
very serious issue
1476
01:14:57,743 --> 01:15:00,412
if he invades Ukraine.
1477
01:15:01,997 --> 01:15:05,626
We just hope that he makes
the right decisions.
1478
01:15:05,709 --> 01:15:07,794
And, uh,
and I'll leave it at that.
1479
01:15:21,183 --> 01:15:23,977
Sanger:
As Putin was
building up his forces,
1480
01:15:24,061 --> 01:15:29,149
he went off to the opening
of the Beijing Olympics.
1481
01:15:29,233 --> 01:15:32,402
The very fact that he was
going there was remarkable
1482
01:15:32,486 --> 01:15:36,031
because he'd been
in complete isolation.
1483
01:15:36,114 --> 01:15:37,407
When Bill Burns went over,
1484
01:15:37,491 --> 01:15:40,744
he made Burns go over
to a Russian government office
1485
01:15:40,827 --> 01:15:42,496
and call Putin on the phone.
1486
01:15:45,916 --> 01:15:50,045
But he was willing
to go see Xi Jinping
1487
01:15:50,128 --> 01:15:52,798
and the day that they met,
1488
01:15:52,881 --> 01:15:55,008
the two countries turned out
1489
01:15:55,092 --> 01:15:58,470
this extraordinarily
long document
1490
01:15:58,554 --> 01:16:01,723
describing their
common interests,
1491
01:16:01,807 --> 01:16:05,811
their dedication to working
together in the future,
1492
01:16:05,894 --> 01:16:08,814
their joint pushback
on an America
1493
01:16:08,897 --> 01:16:10,399
that sets the rules,
1494
01:16:10,482 --> 01:16:14,152
on a West
that expands its influence.
1495
01:16:16,697 --> 01:16:18,699
A lot of people speculated
1496
01:16:18,782 --> 01:16:22,452
that Putin would not
begin the invasion
1497
01:16:22,536 --> 01:16:23,996
while the Olympics were on
1498
01:16:24,079 --> 01:16:26,290
because he wouldn't want
to anger the Chinese
1499
01:16:26,373 --> 01:16:30,210
by interrupting their big event.
1500
01:16:35,007 --> 01:16:36,591
And he held true to that.
1501
01:16:36,675 --> 01:16:39,136
(fireworks exploding)
1502
01:16:40,595 --> 01:16:41,555
(explosion booms)
1503
01:16:41,638 --> 01:16:42,681
Man: Oh!
1504
01:16:44,850 --> 01:16:46,518
Newscaster:
It was unprovoked,
1505
01:16:46,601 --> 01:16:48,812
but Russian President
Vladimir Putin
1506
01:16:48,895 --> 01:16:50,397
unleashed on Ukraine.
1507
01:16:52,232 --> 01:16:54,359
Newscaster 2:
We have heard air raid sirens,
1508
01:16:54,443 --> 01:16:56,320
loud sirens here in Lviv.
1509
01:16:56,403 --> 01:16:58,780
This is in the west
of the country.
1510
01:17:02,743 --> 01:17:05,996
Psaki: Wednesday night was
a really pivotal night for us
1511
01:17:06,079 --> 01:17:09,333
as we were looking at what
was happening on the ground,
1512
01:17:09,416 --> 01:17:12,127
and we were talking
a lot internally about
1513
01:17:12,210 --> 01:17:14,087
when would we call it
an invasion?
1514
01:17:14,171 --> 01:17:16,423
When was it the right time
to send the President out?
1515
01:17:16,506 --> 01:17:19,551
When was it the right time
to do a written statement?
1516
01:17:19,634 --> 01:17:22,095
The President spoke
with President Zelenskyy,
1517
01:17:22,179 --> 01:17:25,891
who basically asked him
to condemn what was happening
1518
01:17:25,974 --> 01:17:27,476
and to keep rallying the world.
1519
01:17:27,559 --> 01:17:29,227
I mean, those were
his primary asks,
1520
01:17:29,311 --> 01:17:31,229
and that's exactly what
he went out
1521
01:17:31,313 --> 01:17:32,856
the next day and did.
1522
01:17:35,192 --> 01:17:38,904
(camera shutters clicking)
1523
01:17:41,615 --> 01:17:43,116
Sorry to keep you waiting.
1524
01:17:44,785 --> 01:17:45,786
Good afternoon.
1525
01:17:47,287 --> 01:17:49,498
The Russian military
has begun a brutal assault
1526
01:17:49,581 --> 01:17:51,416
on the people of Ukraine.
1527
01:17:51,500 --> 01:17:54,961
Without provocation,
without justification,
1528
01:17:55,045 --> 01:17:56,755
without necessity.
1529
01:17:56,838 --> 01:17:59,966
This is a premeditated attack.
1530
01:18:00,050 --> 01:18:02,427
Vladimir Putin has been
planning this for months,
1531
01:18:02,511 --> 01:18:04,388
as we've been saying all along.
1532
01:18:04,471 --> 01:18:06,098
(explosions booming)
1533
01:18:06,181 --> 01:18:09,434
Sanger:
The Biden administration
learned a lot of lessons
1534
01:18:09,518 --> 01:18:12,938
from the mistakes
they made in Afghanistan.
1535
01:18:13,021 --> 01:18:16,233
By the time that
the Ukraine crisis came along,
1536
01:18:16,316 --> 01:18:18,360
they had a better-oiled machine,
1537
01:18:18,443 --> 01:18:20,404
and they responded
1538
01:18:20,487 --> 01:18:23,615
by getting out ahead of events
instead of being behind them.
1539
01:18:23,698 --> 01:18:25,826
For weeks, for weeks,
1540
01:18:25,909 --> 01:18:28,912
we have been warning
that this would happen,
1541
01:18:28,995 --> 01:18:33,458
and now it's unfolding
largely as we predicted.
1542
01:18:33,542 --> 01:18:36,294
Sanger:
It will be difficult for
any intelligence agency
1543
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:38,797
to predict the outcome
of this war
1544
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:40,382
or how the Russian army
1545
01:18:40,465 --> 01:18:43,969
or the Ukrainians
will ultimately perform.
1546
01:18:44,052 --> 01:18:46,555
But on the timing
of the invasion,
1547
01:18:46,638 --> 01:18:49,057
they got everything right.
1548
01:18:49,141 --> 01:18:51,768
As murky as they were
about how quickly
1549
01:18:51,852 --> 01:18:54,438
the Taliban would
take over Afghanistan,
1550
01:18:55,522 --> 01:18:57,524
they had the Ukraine thing
dead on.
1551
01:18:58,442 --> 01:18:59,818
I want to be clear.
1552
01:18:59,901 --> 01:19:03,071
The United States
is not doing this alone.
1553
01:19:03,155 --> 01:19:05,949
For months, we've been building
a coalition of partners
1554
01:19:06,032 --> 01:19:09,953
representing well more
than half the global economy.
1555
01:19:10,036 --> 01:19:11,705
The German chancellor,
Olaf Scholz, says
1556
01:19:11,788 --> 01:19:12,998
that he is suspending
1557
01:19:13,081 --> 01:19:16,251
the Nord Stream 2
pipeline project with Russia.
1558
01:19:16,334 --> 01:19:18,128
(speaking French)
1559
01:19:20,589 --> 01:19:24,342
The European Union
remain resolutely united
1560
01:19:24,426 --> 01:19:26,011
as it takes the next step
1561
01:19:26,094 --> 01:19:28,722
in close coordination
with its partners.
1562
01:19:30,265 --> 01:19:32,601
Sanger: You know,
for the first half of the year,
1563
01:19:32,684 --> 01:19:37,814
we heard Biden talking about
reestablishing old alliances,
1564
01:19:37,898 --> 01:19:39,483
listening to people,
1565
01:19:39,566 --> 01:19:44,237
building up what Donald Trump
had tried to shatter.
1566
01:19:44,321 --> 01:19:47,115
And, you know, I think
to most of the country,
1567
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:49,659
that sounded like
diplomatic gobbledygook,
1568
01:19:49,743 --> 01:19:52,913
like, yeah, sure, it's nice
to get along with allies.
1569
01:19:52,996 --> 01:19:56,500
But Biden knew something,
which was the moment would come
1570
01:19:56,583 --> 01:19:58,627
when you would need
that alliance.
1571
01:19:59,503 --> 01:20:01,046
It came with Ukraine.
1572
01:20:02,005 --> 01:20:04,758
(explosions booming)
1573
01:20:07,010 --> 01:20:10,096
Thomas-Greenfield:
The United States
and our allies and partners
1574
01:20:10,180 --> 01:20:12,182
will continue to respond
1575
01:20:12,265 --> 01:20:14,893
to Russia's actions with unity,
1576
01:20:14,976 --> 01:20:18,188
with clarity,
and with conviction.
1577
01:20:32,994 --> 01:20:35,205
Woman:
How many White House
staffers does it take...
1578
01:20:35,288 --> 01:20:36,915
To open a package of gum?
1579
01:20:36,998 --> 01:20:39,835
Don't tell Dr. Fauci how many
pieces of gum I've swallowed.
1580
01:20:41,086 --> 01:20:43,421
This last week,
because of the confluence
1581
01:20:43,505 --> 01:20:45,048
of a number of events
1582
01:20:45,131 --> 01:20:46,800
that in many ways
were unrelated...
1583
01:20:46,883 --> 01:20:49,219
-Hi!
-Man: Hi there. How are you?
1584
01:20:49,302 --> 01:20:54,015
Psaki:
...it was a wild, crazy,
exhausting week here.
1585
01:20:54,099 --> 01:20:56,268
(indistinct chatter)
1586
01:20:56,351 --> 01:20:58,228
One of the more
challenging weeks,
1587
01:20:58,311 --> 01:20:59,604
uh, since we started.
1588
01:21:17,330 --> 01:21:18,623
Sergeant at Arms:
Madam Speaker,
1589
01:21:18,707 --> 01:21:20,959
the President
of the United States.
1590
01:21:21,042 --> 01:21:24,421
(cheering and applause)
1591
01:21:49,529 --> 01:21:51,406
President Biden:
Six days ago,
1592
01:21:51,489 --> 01:21:53,450
Russia's Vladimir Putin
sought to shake
1593
01:21:53,533 --> 01:21:56,119
the very foundations
of the free world,
1594
01:21:56,202 --> 01:22:00,832
thinking it could make it bend
to his menacing ways.
1595
01:22:00,915 --> 01:22:03,168
But he badly miscalculated.
1596
01:22:03,251 --> 01:22:04,961
He thought he could roll
into Ukraine,
1597
01:22:05,045 --> 01:22:07,005
and the world would roll over.
1598
01:22:07,088 --> 01:22:09,549
Instead, he met
with a wall of strength
1599
01:22:09,633 --> 01:22:11,968
he never anticipated
or imagined.
1600
01:22:12,052 --> 01:22:14,054
He met the Ukrainian people.
1601
01:22:14,137 --> 01:22:17,766
(cheering and applause)
1602
01:22:20,977 --> 01:22:23,980
He thought he could divide us
in Europe as well.
1603
01:22:24,064 --> 01:22:25,982
But Putin was wrong.
1604
01:22:26,066 --> 01:22:28,276
We are ready.
We are united.
1605
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:31,404
And that's what we did.
We stayed united.
1606
01:22:34,908 --> 01:22:36,660
Hang on. I was
just about to call you.
1607
01:22:36,743 --> 01:22:38,662
I'm just disentangling
my headphones.
1608
01:22:38,745 --> 01:22:39,996
Hang on just a second.
1609
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:41,873
What's the biggest thought
1610
01:22:41,956 --> 01:22:43,667
that we're
taking away from this?
1611
01:22:43,750 --> 01:22:46,795
So when Biden first raised,
1612
01:22:46,878 --> 01:22:48,546
you know,
autocracy and democracy
1613
01:22:48,630 --> 01:22:52,300
at his first press conference
a year, a year ago,
1614
01:22:52,384 --> 01:22:56,888
uh, this wasn't, this wasn't
the battle he had in mind.
1615
01:22:56,971 --> 01:22:58,723
-Yeah.
-Dick Stevenson: Right.
1616
01:22:58,807 --> 01:23:01,518
(keys clacking)
1617
01:23:01,601 --> 01:23:05,188
Sanger:
Ukraine is going to be
a constant diplomatic
1618
01:23:05,271 --> 01:23:06,898
and military effort.
1619
01:23:08,566 --> 01:23:11,653
It will haunt the next three
years of his presidency.
1620
01:23:12,946 --> 01:23:16,366
What do you do
if this ambitious,
1621
01:23:16,449 --> 01:23:20,453
deadly gambit by Putin succeeds
1622
01:23:21,287 --> 01:23:23,873
and no one really knows
1623
01:23:23,957 --> 01:23:26,543
what the world will look like
1624
01:23:26,626 --> 01:23:28,586
5 or 10 or 15 years from now.
1625
01:23:28,670 --> 01:23:30,130
Will this stick?
1626
01:23:31,506 --> 01:23:34,092
President Biden:
Now is the hour.
1627
01:23:34,175 --> 01:23:36,511
Our moment of responsibility,
1628
01:23:36,594 --> 01:23:39,723
our test of resolve
and conscience,
1629
01:23:39,806 --> 01:23:41,349
of history itself.
1630
01:23:43,476 --> 01:23:47,188
We'll meet the test,
protect freedom and liberty,
1631
01:23:47,272 --> 01:23:49,149
and we will save democracy.
1632
01:23:49,232 --> 01:23:52,027
(applause)
1633
01:23:53,194 --> 01:23:54,446
Blinken:
Others are watching.
1634
01:23:54,529 --> 01:23:55,697
Others are listening.
1635
01:23:55,780 --> 01:23:58,116
Others want to see
how we're responding
1636
01:23:58,199 --> 01:23:59,576
to this challenge,
1637
01:23:59,659 --> 01:24:00,660
including China.
1638
01:24:00,744 --> 01:24:02,704
And so
the potential repercussions
1639
01:24:02,787 --> 01:24:06,416
go well beyond Ukraine,
well beyond Europe.
1640
01:24:06,499 --> 01:24:09,002
That's why this is important.
That's why it matters.
1641
01:24:09,836 --> 01:24:13,631
♪ ♪
1642
01:24:28,438 --> 01:24:32,525
(upbeat music playing)
1643
01:24:32,609 --> 01:24:35,695
♪ ♪