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we are standing outside of the united nations for the 78th meeting, and any minute, joe biden is going to enter the hall behind me and address the world. we are expecting motorcade to pass by us. any minute now, we will see the beginnings of what is looking like the security for that. and the brazilian president is going to be the first president to address the general assembly
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from brazil. for president biden, it is a tall task, to rally the world and sustain support for ukraine in the defense against russia's aggression, and the first time later today that ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is going to walk into this hall. and not just for the international community that is the audience, but the domestic audience as he is in the midst of an election campaign, and the domestic and the international audience is looking for in much the same way, same thing, and they want to see stability. they want to see leadership, and we are now getting a sense of what president biden is going to say to the collective audience. here now is the cnn chief international correspondent, and cnn white house correspondent
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jim sciutto and kayla tausche. >> we have said that international presence is going to be a lot from the speech, and now we are provided excerpts, and he is going to say that russia is growing weary to allow ukraine without consequence, and also, if we abbondon without appeasing aggressor, can the world be pleased without security. and the president is going to plan to answer his own question, and say no. but essentially, he is broadening out the argument that he has long made to the g7 and nato arguing that what happened in ukraine could happen anywhere if russia's aggression is allowed unchecked. >> he is betting that the world is going to grow weary, and the answer is yes, russia betting that, and you are seeing more signs that it is happening not
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only overseas, but here. >> yes, in corners of the republican party, though there is bipartisan support, but the question is if it is going to remain as it has been thus far. and president zelenskyy knows that this time is key, and the support may never be stronger than today and this is a challenge for him going forward. ar for president biden, it is about ukraine, and taiwan and what they see as a global standoff between democratic or largely democratic countries and authoritarians, but also, you will hear the phrase of the international rules-based order, and the fact that the countries follow laws and don't invade other countries and violate the borders because president putin wants or the xi jinping wants to against taiwan, and so the message is if you let that stand, no one is safe, whether you are a democrat or authoritarian, and if you allow, and we, members of the united nat
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nations, allow putin's rule to win, then we suffer. >> it is interesting, kayla, because jim says it is about ukraine and taiwan, and when he speaks of the defense of democracy, he is also talking about the united states, and we are getting a taste of that in this trip to new york. >> democracy is a hall mark of not only president biden's term so far and the 2020 campaign, and we are learning that there are more echos of this in the 2024 campaign going forward. president biden has been meeting with the donors and doing a slew of fund-raisers in new york while he is in town, and last night, he is road testing a new message where he is once again challenging former president donald trump saying that he is remaining a threat to democracy and the direct quote that he said to donors last night is that in 2024 democracy is on ballot once again, and be no question that donald trump and the maga republicans are a threat to democracy and i will defend, protect, and fight for our democracy, and sharpening
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the message against the most likely opponent in the 2024 election, and saying that democracy is once again on the ballot, and essentially the same argument in 2020. >> and that is the president's motorcade there, and judge big the number of motorcycles. >> and he is going to pass by us shortly. and the other thing that is on the ballot again, and what i hear from the european leaders and in asia, is that if trump is going to be elected, it is going to represent a sea change, that america going to dominate in effects not only with this institution but the alliance, and trump might pull the u.s. out of the nato alliance, and there is domestic changes of what the u.s. is seeing as a challenge to really the united states' whole approach to the world. >> and president biden is going to be speaking here, and former president trump does hang as a spector over it in a real way for many of the nations. >> i have spoken to european
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leaders, asian leard and i have spoken recently to senior ofis off officials, and the word i hear is terrified if of a trump presidency, and that not my word, but other senior presidents because of the very change in the u.s. because of the beast going by, the president's 's limousine as he enters for the speech. by the way, it is not an undue expectation given his public expectations. i will end the ukraine war in a day, and that means u.s. support or significant support for ukraine if he is to be elected. there is a fear that he would not just think about pulling out of nato, but pull out of nato, and reduce the number of u.s. soldiers in the korean peninsula and pull many of them out, and that is what the world see is at
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stake in 2024. >> and president trump shares the anecdote of with the european allies of america is back, but for how long. and this is looming in the minds of many of the allies of what a second trump presidency would mean for many of the alliance, and she says that the world, nato, europe, wouldt a least know what was coming second time around, that it would not come as quite a shock as the first time, but germany's chancellor has said that he very much wants president biden to be re-elected for that reason. >> and shortly, president biden is going to be re-elected with the motorcade driveby as we continue this conversation. kayla, that line that you used "but for how long." so how does the white house see this moment that we are about to see from president biden as a
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message of reshaurns to the rest of the world, a message of i am here, and we are here, and we are backing this. >> well, it is honest ly going o depend upon the election. president biden can step on the world stage and deliver the messages and take up the mantle of global leadership and deliver the priorities of the u.s. agenda, but if he is not re-elected by the american electorate, then that doesn't matter any more, and many hoff the electorates are watching closely as the barometer of how the message is landing, and certainly, it is something that the administration knows full well that the president, and the image is boosted by being president, but ultimately, it is domestic issues that drive his favorability. >> does the pendulum swing in term of the u.s. policy back to america first as an approach to the world. >> we just did see john kirby, a
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public face as the chief spokesman for them, and he passed through the turnstiles, and the white house press secretary, and former secretary of state john kerry who is serving as the senior climate envoy there, a muchnd much of t discussion for the next several days is going to be the climate change, and that explains john kerry, and there is the press secretary there. >> we will see that from some of the excerpts, and this administration is going to talk about authoritarian versus democracy and rules-based order, and they will talk about the areasf potential agreement, and necessary agreement, and biden is going to make that argument that you cannot make changes without agreement. and many of the official, and i am sure that kayla will have the same experience that we set the
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red lines here with russia and china, but on the climb change, we have to be at the table with china or there is no hope otherwise. >> and there is an element of good cop/bad cop, and you will see the forceful rhetoric, and behind the scenes, much more channels like climate, and secretary kerry visited with those discussions. >> we are seeing a steady stream of white house aides walking n and everyone is holding a tall coffee, kayla, which is speaking to how busy this week is. you need the caffeine to get through the diplomatic schedule that is on the plate between the fund-raising at night and the speeches during the day and the meetings taking place at regular intervals and not just the president having the meetings, but everyone who is work alongside him as well. after he speak, kayla, what is the president doing today.
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there he is. here we go. president biden with the ambassador to the united nations walking in, kayla. >> mr. president, mr. president, are you going to talk about women's rights in afghanistan. >> we will be waiting, mr. president -- >> that is a fair question, are you going to talk about afghanistan. >> and people are shouting questions if he is going to talk about afghanistan. >> and clearly, he wants the speech that he is about to give to speak for itself. and this is the third time who has vast knowledge of the foreign policy chairing the for
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foreign policy committee. >> yes, this is a area where he feels that he owns the subject matter, and the aides say that he is relatively unassailable, and at the g20, the hope was that he could step into the relative vacuum without china and russia present, and they are hoping for something here at the united nations, but yet, we saw the linda thomas greenfield walking with the president, the ambassador there, and she let him know that there is frustration with the rest of the world with the frustration with ukr ukraine, and you will hear about the global south, and brazil is saying that they can be a leader of the global south, and he has been lobbying president biden for a permanent seat on the u.n. cou council, and is there a bigger
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watched the exchange of personal artifacts are the that war, identification cards and a diary, and deeply moving to see the reaction of the vietnamese and the american soldiers. culmination of 50 years' hard work on both sides to address the painful legacies of war and to choose, to choose to work together towards peace and a better future. nothing about that journey was inevitable. for decades it would have been unthinkable for an american president to be standing in hanoi alongside a vietnamese leader to announce a mutual commitment for powerful leadership that a legacy need not dictate the future. with conservative leadership and careful effort, adversaries can become partners.
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overwhelming challenges can be resolved and deep wounds can heal. so, let us never forget that. when we choose to stand together and recognize the common hopes that bind all of humanity, and we hold our hands in that power to bend that arc of history, my fellow leaders, we gather once more at an inflection point in history with the eyes of the world upon all of you, upon all of us. as president of the united states, i understand the duty that my country has to lead in this critical moment, to work with countries in every region linking them in common cause, to join together with partners who share a common vision with the world, where our children do not go hungry and everyone has access to quality health care, where workers are empowered and our environment is protected,
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where entrepreneurs and innovators everywhere can access opportunity everywhere, where conflicts are resolved peacefully and countries can chart their own course. the united states seeks a more secure, more prosperous more equitable world for all people, because we know that our future is bound to yours. let me repeat that again. we know that our future is bound to yours. and no nation can meet the challenges of today alone. the generations that preceded us organized this body of the united nations and built international financial institutions and multi lateral and regional bodies to help take on the challenges of their time. it isn't always perfect. it was not always perfect, but working together, the world made
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some remarkable and undeniable progress to improve the lives of all people. we avoided the renewal of global conflict while lifting more than 1 billion people, 1 billion people out of extreme poverty. we together expanded access to education for millions of children. we saved tens of millions of lives who would have otherwise been lost to preventable and treatable diseases like measles, malaria and tuberculosis. aids and other diseases have been stopped because of the work of pepfar saving over 25 million lives. it is a profound testament what can be achieved when we act together and take on the tough challenges. it is anne admonition for all o us to accelerate the progress to
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make sure that nobody is left behind, because too many are left behind. the institutions that we built together at the end of the world war ii are an enduring bedrock of our progress. the united states is committed to sustaining them. this year, we are proud to rejoin unesco. we also recognize that to meet the new challenges of our decades' old institution, and approaches, they must be updated to keep peace with the world. we have bring in more leadership and capability that exists everywhere, especially from the regions that have not been fully included, and we have to grapple with the challenges that are more connected and more complex. we have to make sure that we are delivering for people everywhere and not just somewhere, but everywhere. simply put, the 21st century,
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the 21st century results are badly needed and needed to move us along. that starts with the united nations. that starts right here in this room. in my address to the body last year, i announced that the united states will support expanding the security council. increasing number of permanent and nonpermanent members. the united states has undertaken serious consultation with many member states and continuing to do our part to push more reform efforts forward and looking for points of more commonground and making progress in the year ahead. we need to be able to break the gridlock that too often stymies progress and blocks consensus on the council. we need more voices, more perspectives at the table. the united nations must continue to preserve peace, prevent
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conflict and alleviate human suffering. we embrace the nations stepping up to lead in new ways and to seek new breakthroughs on hard issues. for example, on haiti, the caribbean communities facilitating dialogue on the haitian society, and i think that president rudoe of cuban to thank the cuban backed security missions. i call on the council to authorize this mission now, because the people of haiti cannot wait much longer. the united states is working across the board to make global institutions more responsive, more effective and more inclusive. for example, we have taken significant steps to reform and scale-up the world bank, expanding the financing to lower and middle income countries to boost the progress to sustainable developmental goals and better address
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interconnective challenges like climate change and fragility. under the new president of the world bank, changes are already taking root. last month, i asked the united states congress for additional funds to expand the world bank financing by $25 billion. at the g20 we mobilized more funding. collectively, we can deliver a transformational boost to world bank lending. because of the multi lateral ban, are the best tools to modern delivering of the transparent transforming countries, these institutions can be a game-changer. similarly, we proposed making sure that developing countries have a strong voice in representation at the international monetary fund. with regoing to continue the efforts to reform the world
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trade organization and preserve the openness, transparency and the rule of law while at the same time equipping it to better tackle the modern-day imperatives like driving the clean energy transmission, and protecting workers and promoting a inclusive and sustainable growth. in this month, we strengthen the g20 as a vital forum welcoming african union as a permanent member. upgrading and strengthening the institutions, that is only half of the picture. we must also forge new partnerships, confront new c challenges. emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence hold enormous promise and peril. we have to make sure they are used as tools of opportunity, not as weapons of oppression. together with leaders around the world, the united states is working to strengthen the rules
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and policies so ai technologies are safe before they are released to the public. to make sure that we govern this technology, not the other way around, and having it govern us. i am committed to working through this institution and other international bodies and directly with the leaders around the world including our competitors to ensure that we harness the power of ai, artificial intelligence for the good to protect the citizens from the most profound risks. it is going to take all of us. i have been working at this for a while, and many of you have, and it is going to take all of us to get this right. in every region of the world, the united states is mobil idzing alliance, and partnerships and collective action to bring new approaches to the shared challenges. here in western hemisphere, we have 21 nations of the los angeles technology of migration
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and protection, and launching a region-wide approach to a region-wide challenge to better uphold laws and protect, protect the rights of migrants. in the indo-pacific, we have elevated quad partnership with india, japan, australia, to deliver concrete progress to the people of the region on everything from vaccines to maritime security. just yesterday, after two consultations and diplomacy, the united states brought together dozens of nations across four continents to establish a new partnership for atlantic cooperation so that the coastal atlantic countries can better cooperate on science, technology, environmental protection and sustainable economic development. we brought together nearly 100 countries in a global coalition to counter fentanyl and synthetic drugs to reduce the
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human cost of this affliction, and it is real. and as a nature of the terrorist threats evolve and the geography expands to new places, we are working with the partners to bring capabilities to bear to disrupt plotting, and to upgrade networks to protect all of our people. additionally, we convene the summit of democracy to strengthen democratic institutions to root out corruption and political violence. in this moment where we have democratically governments toppled in western and central africa, we are reminded that this work is as urgent and important as ever. we stand with the african union and equias and other forces. we will not run from the
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challenges of democracy and we will have tools around the world. we will show you how democracy can deliver in ways that matter to people's lives. the partnership for global infrastructure and investment addresses the enormous need and investment for low and middle income countries particularly in latin america and southeast asia and through the strategic investments, and we can unlock enormous amounts of private sector financing. the g20 is collectively agreeing to unlock financing by 2027. the united states has authorized $30 billion to date, and we have a race to the top, and creating high standards for the environment and intellectual property while avoiding the trap of unsustainable debt.
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we are focusing on maximizing the collective investment and deliver consequential results across multiple countries and multiple sectors. for example, we will extend across africa from the western port of angola to zambia and boosting food security in africa. similarly, the groundbreaking effort that we announced at the g20 to connect india to europe through the uae and jordan and israel will spur investment across two continents, and this is part of the effort to build a more sustainable and integrated middle east to demonstrate how israel's greater normalization and economic connection with the neighbors is to have a positive and deliver practical impacts as we work tirelessly to support a just and lasting peace between the israelis and palestinians of
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two states for two peoples. now, to be clear, none of these partnerships are about containing a country, but about a positive vision of our shared future. when it comes to china, i want to be clear and consistent. we seek to responsibly manage the competition between our countries, so it does not tip into conflict. i have said that we are for de-risking and not decoupling with china. we will push back on intimidation and the rules of the road of intimidation and overflight to level the economic playing field, and that is going to help safeguard or the prosperity for decades burk we are standing to work together with china on issues where the progress hinges on the common efforts. nowhere is that more critical than accelerating the climate crisis, than the accelerated
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climate crisis. we see it everywhere. record-breaking heat waves in the united states and china, wildfires ravaging north america and southern europe, and a fifth-year of drought in the horn of africa, tragic, tragic flooding in libya. my heart goes out to the people of libya that has killed thousands, thousands of people. together, these snapshots tell an urgent story of what awaits us of the we fail the dependence on fossil fuels and fail the climate. for one day, our administration has treated this crisis as an existential crisis everyday. and so i have signed into law to
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combat the climate crisis to move this world to a clean energy future, and we are working with the congress to quadruple the financing to help the countries to reach their climate goals and to adapt climate impact, and this year the world is on track to meet the climate finance pledge that made under the paris agreement $100 billion the raise collectively. but we need more investment from the public and private sector alike, and especially in the places who have contributed so little in the global initiatives and faced worst effects of the climate change like the pacific islands. the united states is working directly with the united pacific forum to help the nations to adapt and build resilience against climate impact as we work to build innovative partnerships to attack the climate impact from all sides.
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from the first movers coalition which isizing billions from the private sector commitments to creating a market demand for green products in carbon and sectors in concrete, shipping, aviation and trucking. to the agricultural innovation in climate which is bringing farmers into the climate solution, and making our food supply more resilient against climate shocks. and to methane emissions targets to reduce the greenhouse gases in our atmosphere by 30% in this decade. it is all within our capacity. we need to bring the same commitment and urgency and ambition as we work together to meet the development sustainable goals of 2030. these goals were adopted at the united nations in 2015 as a
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roadmap for improving the lives around the world. the hard truth is that for decades of progress, the world has lost ground in the past years in the wake of covid-19, conflicts and other crises. the united states is committed to doing its part to get us back on track. all totaled in the first two years of my administration, the united states has invested more than $100 billion to drive development of progress, to bolstering food security and expanding access to education worldwide and strengthening health care systems and fighting disease. we have helped to mobilize billions more in the private sector investments, but to accelerate our forward progress on the sustainable development goals, we all have to do more. we need to build new partnerships and change the way we tackle this challenge to unlock trillion of additional financing for development,
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drawing on all sources. we need to fill the gaps and address the failures of the existing system exposed by the pandemic. we need to ensure that women and girls will benefit fully from the progress, and we must do more to grapple with the low and middle income debt that harms our progress. when people are in debt, it makes it hard for them to invest in their own futures, and as we work to recover from the global shock, the united states is going to continue to be the largest single community, country donor of humanitarian assistance at this moment of unparalleled need in the world. folks, cooperation, partnership. these are the keys to progress in the challenges that affect us all, and the baseline for responsible global leadership.
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we don't need to agree on everything to keep moving forward on issues like arms control, a cornerstone of international security. after more than 50 years of progress of the nonproliferation treaty, russia is shredding the arms control treaties and announcing withdrawal, and announcing new efforts while the united states is against new weapons and against weapons of mass destruction, and we will continue the lead regardless of what is happening in the world. we have safely destroyed the last chemical munitions of the u.s. stockpile, and fulfilling our commitment to free the world of chemical weapon, and we condemn the dprk's fulfillment of the council's resolutions,
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but committed to the diplomacy of bringing a chemical-free peninsula. we are bringing about the threat to regional and global security, and we agree that iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon. and now, we must drive nuke lee p -- nuclear partnerships that some of the partnerships are sacrosanct, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and these are the core tenets of the u.n. charter, and the pillars of the peaceful rezlasolutions of the united nation, and without which, we cannot continue our goals and this cannot change and it must not change, and yet for the second year in a row, this gathering dedicated to peaceful resolution of conflicts is darkened by the shadow of war.
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an illegal war of conquest brought on without provocation of russia against the neighbor ukraine. like every nation in the world, the united states wants this war to end. no nation wants this war to end more than ukraine. we strongly support ukraine in the efforts to bring about diplomatic resolution that delivers just and lasting ing . russia, and russia alone bears responsibility for this war, and russia alone can bring to end this war, an russia alone stands in the way of the peace, because russia's price for peace is ukraine's capitulation, ukraine's territorial, and ukraine's children. russia believes that the world will grow weary and allow it to brutalize ukraine without consequence. but i ask you this, if we ab
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abandon the effort of the united states to appease an aggressor, can you feel at peace against an aggressor, and if any body is carved up, can you feel secure? i respectfully say that the answer is no. we have to stand up to this aggression today, and would-be aggressors of tomorrow. and this is why the united states and together with our allied partners of tomorrow will stand together with the brave people of ukraine as they defend their sovereignty and integral freedom. [ applause ] it is not only investment in ukraine's future, but the future of every country who seeks to
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govern peacefully, and uphold the rules of any nation no matter how big or small. sovereignty, and territorial integrity, they are the fixed foundation of this noble body. universal human rights is the north star. we do not sacrifice either. 75 years ago the universal declaration of human rights captured a remarkable act of collective hope -- and i say it again collective hope, draft bade committee of different faiths, philosophies and adopted by the entire general assembly, and the rights declained in the declaration are elemental and enduring. while we still struggle to uphold equal and inalienable rights of all, they remain ever steady and ever true. we cannot turn away from the
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abuses whether in darfur or shinjao or other places. we have the ik ma sure that whether it is people with disabilities or other discrimination have their rights stifled. and the lgbtqi plus people are not prosecuted or targeted with violence, because of who they are. these rights are part of the shared humanity. when they are absent anywhere, the loss is felt everywhere. they are essential to the advancement of human progress that brings us together. my fellow leaders, let me close with this, at this inflection point in history, we are going
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to be judged by whether or not we live up to the promises that we made to ourselves, to each other, to the most vulnerable, and to all of those who will inherit the world that we create, because that is what we are doing. will we find within ourselves the courage to do what must be done to preserve the planet, to protect human dignity, to provide opportunity for people everywhere and to defend the tenets of the united states? there can only be one answer to that question. we must and we will. the road ahead is long and difficult, but if we preserve, persevere and prevail, and keep the faith in ourselves and show what is possible, let's do this work together. let's deliver progress for everyone. let's bend the arc of history for the good of the world.
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this is in our power to do it. thank you for listening. you are very kind. [ applause ] >> on behalf of the assembly, i wish to thank the president of the united states for the statement. president biden addressing the general assembly and you have seen the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyy listening, and so poignant, and president biden said that we are at an inflection point in history and what is at stake is sovereignty, and integral rights and what he was talking about ukraine and russia's invasion of ukraine, and he made the case that it cannot be allowed to stand. it is about a 27, 28 minute
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address and he waited until 20 minutes in to bring up russia for the very first time, but once he did, it was clear where the direction of the address was going, and the point that he wanted to make to bolster world support for ukraine's effort to try to sustain the world support for that effort. here outside of the united nations, watching alongside beside me is chief security analyst jim sciutto, and white house correspondent kayla tausche, and what did you hear there, jim? >> that is the key message and the reason that he ended there on the ukraine and the message to the world and you could read it as an appeal for the sake of ukraine, but also a challenge to the members of the body, and perhaps some prodding. he said it is essential to the u.n. charter sovereignty, territorial integrity and human rights which are all three violated by ukraine with an invasion by choice of russia, and he notes for second year in
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a row, they were darkened by the invasion of ukraine by russia, and he said, we will be judged by if we stand up in, and the u.n. was founded by the destruction of world war ii to prevent another devastating war, and here we are 70, 80 years later with the largest war in europe since world war ii, and it is persisting for the second year, and his message is in effects, we cannot as members of this body committed to what we are committed to let it go on, and by the way, if we members of the this body stand up to, this none of us are safe. >> and it is go coming to your doorstep. and he addressing russia, a permanent member of the united nations council, and sensitive matter, and he said, russia, alone, russia alone bears responsibility for this. >> that one of the lines where he laid the invasion squarely at the feet of russia whose foreign minister is expected to be in attendance here at the general
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assembly this week, and all of the draft resolutions of the security council to end the war in ukraine for, you know, various allies around the world to condemn the war in ukraine have failed because of russia's membership on the u.n. security council, and it is an important distinction that the president was making there, too. and the earlier conversation of the shades of politics that are if are not overtly present in the speech today were at least seen as allusions there, and he said history need not dictate the future and then he went on the talk about the u.s. rejoining unesco which is the educational and cultural body which president trump withdrew from in 2020 and president biden rejoined this summer, and he talked about the world bank and the u.s. monetary fund and the g20 and all of the multi lateral organizations if the former president did not threaten to withdraw from, he maligned in
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some way, and president biden is trying to re-establish the u.s. leadership on the world stage and obliquely referencing them, and the fact that he ended on russia and ukraine with 10 minutes of his speech shows that is where he wanted the viewer and the audience to come away with a lasting impression. >> i kept looking at the audience and looking at the face of the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy to gauge any reaction and how did he feel about what president biden was saying, and impossible to read anything from his face, jim, but was there enough for zelenskyy in that? >> well, that line that he had about protecting ukraine was the one applause line, and this body, and it has failed in a number of ways in preventing and stopping this war, but the vast majority of people have voted to condemn the war, and relative unity there in the room against russia's invasion, but it has not managed the essential task of ending that war, and so you
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have watched zelenskyy there who of course applauded in the end, but the private meetings with the u.s. officials are quite pressing, and we need more help, and where are those f-16s and we are doing the best in the counter offensive, and why did you hold us back, and why did you tie our hands on these weapon, and so i am certain in private rooms around heresh he is pushing for more and saying this is a crucial time. >> kayla, not here today, and we have not had a chance to address this yet, there are several world leaders who are not here, the president of the united kingdom is not here, and the president of france is not here, and the prime minister of india is not here, and the two leaders who have not been here vladimir putin and xi jinping is not here. >> well, the president would say that he has robust open communication with u.k. and france and they speak often and
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frequentl ly and to be sure the were just together in g20 and the brics summit. and later in the fall, you have a indo-pacific summit that is going to be taking place in san francisco where they expect biden and the xi to meet on the sidelines in a bilateral format, and then you have to climate-focused forum in dubai for them to be meeting. so when you are talking to the foreign leaders, they are forum shopping. if they can't get to the u.n., they will go somewhere else. >> so by the way, is some of them are directly competitive to this institution, and the u.s. view of the world. brics is expand, because yo have a meting of the minds and
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disparate group, but they have a meting of the minds to stand up to what they perceive ads a overbearing u.s. influence. >> and going back to what russia alone, russia alone can basically forge the way to peace here. that is something that i imagine that volodymyr zelenskyy wanted to hear here, and for anyone who wanted to push him back to the negotiating table, he wanted acknowledgment that this is 100% russia's fault, and they have to back off. >> true, but they are not. there is no expectations and speaking to the officials in europe and here in the u.s., they do not expect russia to back off in this war, a certainly not through the next election and the speech, because putin is hoping that he is going to get a friendlier occupation, which is putin's expectation here, and from the realistic standpoint in both direction, the u.s. officials and western officials do not expect ukraine to gain a clear victory in the coming months and year, and they
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do not expect russia to suddenly find god to say, we will back off here, and they feel they can withstand the military and financial costs here that are devastating humanitarian in the way of the soldiers to stand up a another year for the election to see where it goes. >> and all of president biden's comments have been 100% support for ukraine and pushing the nations to get in there as well. and kayla, sometimes the hardest relationships to manage are with your friends and not the enemies. so how does the white house feel about the consistent pressuring from zelenskyy of more, give us more, and more and more, and they will hear it from the podium when he gives a historic address later today and they will hear it with the one-on-one meeting later today. >> they know it is impossible for zelenskyy to take that approach publicly, but where
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they bristle is where he takes the stance that the u.s. or allies are not doing enough, and looking for the fighter jets and he felt they were dragging their feet. he has tough words. the administration is frustrated that he painted a picture that the west was not doing enough to assist ukraine, but as a leader who has within under siege for nearly 600 days, this is the only public stance that he can take. the question is where is the support? how much support will remain here in the united states? there is some suggestion that when he meets with the bipartisan leaders in congress in the u.s., he is getting some assurances that there is going to be continued bipartisan support for ukraine, but the question is that they have asked for $24 billion by the end of the year, but how much do they get in a couple of weeks' time.
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>> and he has asked not only the leaders of the united states but the democratic nominee for president one year from now, and a couple of months before the election next time around, and it is going to have a much greater domestic implication, but you could see the beginning here, and kayla tausche, and jim sciutto, thank you, both, very much. and in a few hours we will hear from president zelenskyy give his speech to this body. our coverage continues right after this. ase to keep up with their finances. smart bankers. convnvenient tools. boom. one e bank with the power of both. chase. make more of what's yours.s.
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back on the u.s. soil and finally free. the motional homecoming for five americans wrongfully detained for years by iran. the moment they see their families for the first time. former president trump once again skipping republican primary debate and the second time trying to do some counter program, and it did not work the first time but will the new plan work this time? >> moments ago, president biden addressed the united nations general assembly behind me, and a strong message for russia trying to gather support for the efforts to defend ukraine. i'm john

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