kaitlan collins is getting more information for us. what else are you learning, kaitlan? >> wolf, as of about five minutes ago, the russians were still inside villa la grange where the meetings took place. things are changing quickly, but that would give indication that both sides are still there. it's not clear where president biden is going to hold -- while president putin gives his press conference because he is expected to go first. when you look at the press conferences, that will give us a good readout of what happened in those meetings, how will the two sides spin their version of what went on. i thif it will also give an indication of where these talks are going to go. the white house said that is why president biden wanted to have this summit, to take putin's temperature, to see where the u.s. relationship is going to go and what it's going to look like under his tenure. if putin comes out and is aggressive and uses his tone that he has just a few days ago in the first u.s. interview that he did, the first one he's done in three years where he denied that russia

let's get to kaitlan collins there in geneva. i understand you have new information about what's happened there in that room already. >> well, brianna, you saw how chaotic it was there as the spray was going on with the reporters and cameras in the room and you could see reporters blocking the camera, people talking to each other. it got incredibly tense between the two different press corpses which are separated on the grounds here. we have the white house press corps, the american press corps and russian press corps which are separated, of course, ahead of the joint -- separate press conferences later on. but it became combative. the full american press corps did not make it into the room for the top spray, which we should note is the only access we believe we're going to get as they are actually meeting inside villa la grange for the next few hours. and several u.s. reporters did not make it into the room. those reporters who were supposed to be in the room and we're told there were combative exchanges with the russian press.

kaitlan, essentially, doesn't want to address that at all. he just says, you know, i want to make the senate work for the people, the way -- way it should. manu certainly gave him multiple chances to take it off the table. he made it a point not to. how do you read that? >> yeah, he didn't. though, of course, on capitol hill several times he said i don't want to get rid of the filibuster. basically, stop asking me that question. but pointing to, several times, saying this 60-vote threshold. is that something that you are never, ever going to support changing? and you are right, he would not commit to that. which i do think is notable. but, of course, his comments, essentially, offering a warning about what happens if they do change it, do stand. and you saw senator sanders there, basically, acknowledging it. but saying that they do feel, and this is the feeling among some several prominent democrats, that voting rights and those voting rights legislation bills that have passed the house but stalled in the senate. they are worth it to get rid

. >>> now kaitlan collins and van jones. kaitlan, senator manchin didn't take abolishing the filibuster off the table. he just says i want to make the senate work for the people the way it should. manu gave him multiple chances to take it off the table. he made a point not to. how do you read that? >> he didn't. though, on capitol hill several times he said i don't want to get rid of the filibuster, basically stop asking me that question. but pointing to several times saying this 60-vote threshold, that's something you're never going to support changing? you're right, he would not commit to that, which i do think is notable. but of course his comments essentially offering a warning about what happens if they do change it do stand. you saw senator sanders there basically acknowledging it but saying that they do feel -- and this is the feeling among several prominent democrats -- that voting rights and those voting rights legislation, they're worth it to get rid of the fixture even if it comes back to haunt them if helps take

kaitlan, we still have. so let's go back to you. the president says that these vaccines come with no strings attached, but what is the diplomatic value, the diplomatic role of this half billion dolla? >> well, i think that a lot of it has to do with questions about what were russia and china doing by giving vaccines, distributing them to these lower income and low income countries, and i think the question was, are they trading them for political favors? and are they trying to use it to their advantage to change their standing on the world stage and i think that's why there was so much criticism at the beginning of what the united states was doing and what the role was going to be there. because president biden made very clear in the early months of his presidency that his focus was on getting americans vaccinated and then he would turn to the rest of the world. it wasn't a simultaneous effort then, and now, of course, as demand in the united states has dropped significantly, it has become more of a discussion. that also pairs with

our own kaitlan collins was asking him some questions. set the scene for us, kaitlan. i want to play what the president said to the air force one press pool, and he made that gesture, to go back and speak and answer reporters' questions. what you asked him, what he said at the time. he suggested when he walked back, he wanted to apologize for being a wise guy. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. that was because of the question/interaction, myself and several reporters were questioning the president about this major summit that happened into with the russian leader. my question was what makes it confident that putin could potential change his behavior in the next three to six months, which was repeatedly a metric he cited in how to measure the success, when it comes to cybersecurity, when it comes to human rightsty end he drew incredibly frustrated, he says he is not confident that putin will change his behavior. you believe he's confident, in that he did hold a summit to talk about these issues, but the white house said they wanted to get a good indicator of where the u.

kaitlan, clarissa, thank you both. >>> all right, later this afternoon. attorney general mark garland will meet with "new york times," “washington post”, to talk about the controversial seizure of data by the trump administration justice department. the web widens. we know that trump's doj secretly obtained records from don mcgahn, in an effort to track down leaks. >> ag garland said the justice department will strengthen existing rules regarding seeking congressional records. democrats now demand that former trump attorneys general william barr and jeff sessions testify under oath. with us to talk about this is our senior legal analyst. he will li hoenig. let's start with the beginning, the predicate. do we know what the predicate was to begin these subpoenas and the gag orders and everything? >> we do not know right now. and there are so many questions here. the first question i would have is what was the basis to start the investigation? as a prosecutor, you have virtually unlimited power to issue subpoenas. however, good, responsible prosecutors won't

what are we going to see on this trip, kaitlan? is a lot of challenges ahead of the president. i think, what we saw from his first remarks when he touched down in the uk, was that he really wants to kind of reassure allies that donald trump is not president, anymore. and they don't have to have this sense of apprehension that they did for the last four years, when it came to summits like the g7, like his visit with nato allies that's coming up in brussels in a few days. and so, he is seeking to reassure this message that he -- basically summed it up earlier when he said america is back. and the united states is going to seek to not only reassure those allies but rebuild those alliances that have been, you know, such a cornerstone of the united states for the last-several decades. while he's here. but it does come with challenges because, i think, what a lot of these european allies learned from donald trump's presidency is how quickly things can change based on an election. and so, he can seek to reassure them. but i think the conc

in the meantime, kaitlan, we heard from the former vice president last night. he was the guy they wanted to hang at the january 6th insurrection, mike pence. he was speaking at a republican dinner in new hampshire. listen to what he said. >> january 6th was a dark day in the history of the united states cap capitol, but thanks to the swift action of the capitol police and federal law enforcement, violence was quelled. the capitol was secured. president trump and i have spoken many times since we left office, and i don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day, but i will always be proud of what we accomplished for the american people over the last four years. [ applause ] >> and i will not allow democrats or their allies in the media to use one tragic day to discredit the aspirations of millions of americans. >> so, kaitlan, i don't think we'll ever see eye to eye, mike pence really trying to have it all ways here. can he? >> yeah. don't you hate when you don't see eye to eye with someone on the constitution and what is possible? and i think that was prob

. >> let's get to kaitlan collins and our chief international correspondent clarissa ward. as we heard in the pleasantries between the prime minister and the president it is mr. biden's first international trip as president, he's had in the past tensions and disagreements, some of them stylistic and policy with the prime minister. what are we looking for today? >> reporter: you saw the prime minister saying there he wasn't going to disagree with president biden when he joked that they had in common, they both married up. or anything else. but we know prooftly behind the scenes that's unlikely. there are a few differences where they have fundamental divides in opinion on certain subjects. what they're trying to do here is restore this relationship, renew the relationship between the uk and the u.s. part of that is the renewal of the atlantic charter. that was what paved the way for the relationship, the special relationship in wake of world war ii and what we've seen last decades ever since then. that's what the white house is emphasizing is a big takeaway from this sitdown.

but as kaitlan indicated, that gulf is huge. and it -- it's an ideological gulf not just one about the numbers. it's one about how infrastructure money should be spent. whether there should be new funding. and whether the economy even needs it. that, i'm not sure, can be overcome, frankly, even with time. but i think the biden administration, still, wants to continue, in good faith, as long as the conversations are able to happen. >> so, there is a debate, within the white house. some want to just, look, let's just go big with the democrats. assuming they can get them. and then, there's -- there are others, who think, no, it would be good for biden to have a bipartisan bill. you have written about this for "politico" playbook. what's his calculation? how does it benefit biden? >> well, trying to get a deal, even if they can't he did -- as a candidate, de promhe did prom that. so they have to make this look like a real negotiation and the only way to make it look like a real negotiation is to have a real negotiation. and there ar

clearly, kaitlan, putin really likes trump a lot.porter: of course he does, because trump was someone who embraced him over his own intelligence agencies in front of the entire world, on camera in front of the press corps in helsinki. donald trump was his dream president because he was someone who did not go to lengths to hold him accountable for actions when it came to political prisoners and election interference. now he is dealing with a very different president. the white house says they don't want to push russia. they want to have a working relationship with russia because they do think it's important. but he is dealing with someone who is very different than the president he has been interacting with for the last four years. >> in helsinki when trump sided with putin and dissed the u.s. intelligence community, one of the most awkward moments. i was covering that. so, so awkward. >>> coming up, former attorney general william barr called out by critics for doing president trump's bidding. we'll take a closer look at his controve

both with us now, kaitlan, first to you, what's the latest on the president's timing here? >> reporter: he sat down with senator capito in the oval office yesterday and we are now told by sources that during that meeting he said he would come down to $1 trillion in new spending, three times as high as that latest republican counteroffer but it is significant, where we initially were with president biden's first proposal to now we are at about $1.4 trillion total with a trillion dollars in new spending. of course the gap is still not what they want to spend on new spending when it comes to infrastructure, but also how they are going to pay for it. before there had been this proposal from president biden that they would lower, or raise, excuse me, the corporate tax rate, that is something that republicans said was essentially a red line for them. they weren't interested in revisiting the 2017 trump tax cuts, the tax cuts that lowered that corporate tax rate but we are told president biden did float the idea of potentially not making any immediate changes to those 2017 tax cut

he was in such good spirits, a mood of confidence, and he really snapped at kaitlan which, of course, but this is always revealing. whenever a president snaps like that or any public figure it's revealing of something so he may be a little sensitive to the fact that, of course, he's not sure what vladimir putin is going to do, and he did say that we'll have to wait to see in the next three months, six months, 12 months but that's always a window into what someone is thinking. yes, he's probably tired after being on the road for more than a week but snapping like that he knew he needed to cover it up and we know covering him for a long time he's done that more than once but the apology is also classic joe biden. he knew he had to apologize. he didn't want this to appear like it was sexist attack or really a disrespectful attack. we're certainly glad he cleared it up and kaitlan was asking a legitimate question. >> the question was totally legitimate. the president did the right thing and apologized for it and said he was sorry. gloria, the white house repeatedly lowered expectations ah

let's get straight to cnn's chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. we know that biden spoke to kapito for just five minutes. what went wrong? >> reporter: well, a lot needed to go right for this talk to have been productive. it's pretty clear where this was headed. they were on the verge of collapse and how hours before president biden is set to leave these talks have actually collapsed, jake, and this comes after a five-minute phone call that happened between the white house, president biden and senator kapito earlier, and now in a statement senator kapito is saying it was president biden's move to end this discussion and these negotiations that had been going on for several weeks between the two sides, and the white house is not disputing that saying that essentially they could not come to an agreement on what the number needed to look like. we had seen republicans slowly inch up. we are seen president biden come down quite far from where his initial infrastructure proposal was, but ultimately they could not find a way to meet in the middle because

. >> joining us live from brussels, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. intense growing list of topics they'll discuss. >> reporter: there a lot of topics to discuss and so far you've seen had the putin in the interview be pretty dismissive of what it is he and president biden are expected to talk about, excuse me, including human rights and of course election interference,s ran someware hackings going on with russia. all of the matters are something that will make this a very intense conversation. we're waiting to see what it's going to look like when they're in the room together. we know victor and alisyn what the format will look like a little bit. the white house has said president biden will have president putin arrive first at the villa you were just showing in geneva. then they are going to be meeting not quite one on one, each going to have another staffer in the room and for president biden, that is going to be secretary of state tony blinken, for president too putin the russian foreign minister. then they will be in a room where there are more o

cnn's kaitlan collins is live for us at the white house. kaitlan, the call with biden and senate shelley moore capito, that call just wrapped up. tell us what we know about it. >> it doesn't seem like it had too promising of an outcome, jake, because we're told by a spokes person for senator kapito that that call only lasted about five minutes so it doesn't appear there were any breakthroughs. we weren't expecting any. senator kapito said she was not expecting them to come to any kind of agreement during the conversation they had today but it also didn't seem like the white house was hoping for much out of that call even and given that they had already delayed it since it was supposed to happen yesterday and president biden has still rejected the latest offer that he got from senator kapito last friday because he didn't feel like it came up enough in new spending. that basically seems like those talks are on the verge of collapse or have collapsed with the short phone call. we're still waiting to get the final white house readout. jake, thi

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let's start with cnn's kaitlan collins. so, kaitlan, how much is this trip about the nitty gritty of foreign policy? and how much is about sending a broader message that the u.s. is under new management? >> i think -- he was speaking in front of those armed forces saying america is back and that is really the message you are going to see the president and top aides really try to hammer home while they are here on his first trip abroad. and saying essentially, look, of course, what happened during the last four years with his predecessor. they are here to essentially say that is not the path we want america to continue on. things are changing. we do want to focus on building alliances. and essentially, framing it as this critical mission. talking about the importance of a democracy, versus an autocracy. but i think, john, where this is going to be a difficult challenge for the president is that a lot of these allies are, still, reeling from the four years that was donald trump. and they are weary of america's standing, reall

moderator: kaitlan collins, cnn. reporter: thanks very much. andy, just one quick question to follow up on what you just said. you said that the doses are supposed to be out -- the 80 million -- by the end of july. i just want to confirm that is supposed to be the end of june, right? and then, my other question -- just to follow up on the j&j doses -- you said it's a small fraction that is set to expire, but the wall street journal says it's millions of doses that are set to expire by the end of the month. so, even if these states and these governors are contacting the fda, what is the federal government's plan to make sure that, you know, not even a single dose goes to waste? admin. slavitt: yeah, so i believe you're right about june, but i may have been confused. so we'll get -- we'll make sure that we're straightening that out. the -- look, it's not realistic to expect that not a single dose will go to waste. i would tell you that a very, very small fraction of the doses that have been sent to states, that are in the hundreds of millions, wi

. >> joining us now with their reporting and their insight cnn's kaitlan collins. julie pace of the associated press, and my guests. so, p.k., can anyone be surprised that mcconnell says, hell no to a voting rights bill? >> yeah. mitch mcconnell has cared about very few policy issues. he is really always about power and politics and holding the majority. one issue that has run through his entire career in the senate has always been elections and election laws, campaign finance issues, and voting rights. and so this is one of those things that he has probably always been a no on when it comes to this bill. and as manchin was trying to move a little bit into the middle, trying to do a little bit of modest reforms to what was considered a liberal bill but mcconnell was never really going to go for it. it set up a situation where on tuesday they'll have this sort of preliminary test vote. it'll almost certainly fail 50/50 if all 100 show up, will get nowhere near the 60 votes needed, then the democrats have to figure out their next play. >> if you are joe manchin, does

. >> fareed, kaitlan said he's trying to prove that america is back, and maybe another way to say that is proving that democracy can still work. >> we have to discredit those who believe that the age of democracy is over. we have to expose as false the narrative that the creeds of dictators can match the speed and scale of the 21st's challenges. >> how challenges is that message, when we see his stalled agenda at home, and it wasn't even six months ago, we saw an insurrection at our capitol. >> i think he has a strong hand right now. we did see an insurrection, but he was elected, he was inaugurated, he is the president. and he brings a powerful one/two punch to the party. he's demonstrated that the united states government is back as a competent, can-do supe superpower. we're leading the world on the vaccination drive, and we're ene entering the post-pandemic world faster than anybody else. and this very important announcement that we think will come of donating 500 million vaccines to the world. so what you're demonstratiing american power and american generosity. the infrastructure

kaitlan, let's start with the president's vaccination goals. he laid out some things that are happening this month and some things he would like to see happen over the next few weeks. >> reporter: that was essentially a rallies cry from president biden. now we're getting to the last 30 days where he has set where he wants to see at least 70% of americans partially vaccinated by that date. that means we're at about 63% almost and 18 million more u.s. adults that need to get their first vaccine shot in order to reach the president's goal. so he is announcing this effort, that they are taking in partnerships with some local pharmacies. some of the nation's largest child care, to help people get vaccinated, and have the time to recover, as well, but i think also what you saw there was president biden calling on private employers to do the same, making space for their employees to be able to take the day to go get the vaccine, because the white house says people feel like they're simply too busy to get the shot. really it was an appeal from presiden

based on biden's meltdown one question by kaitlan collins, that would be a catastrophe judge. >> judgeing part of this, also, you now have joe rogan who is loved, has an incredible podcast, who is calling out cnn brian stelter. you know, criticizing him saying he's basically, you know, not a great guy. not a great journalist. >> yeah, and total props to joe rogan for calling out brian stelter and all the colleagues at cnn. listen, joe rogan is thriving because he is an independent speaker and people are starving for that because they are notog getting it from the propaganda of the media so his audience is just exploding because people want no b.s., no nonsense. they want the truth. they are certainly not getting it from brian stelter and cnn. t and that exchange and biden 'reaction to kaitlan collins shows how thin-skinned and what a short fuse joe biden has because that question came from a reporter at cnn, a boot licking network and biden blew a gasket. that points to a bigger issue judge. for decades, democrats like progressives have been coddled and so protected by the so-called ma

and that exchange and biden 'reaction to kaitlan collins shows how thin-skinned and what a short fuseecause that question came from a reporter at cnn and boot licking network and biden blew a gasket. that points to a bigger issue, judge. for decades, democrats like progressives have been coddled and so protected by the so-called mainstream media that they are not used to getting a tough question. by the way, that question from cnn was thoroughly benign. they are not used to being challenged even in the most benign kind of way because they never have. so when they are confronted with a question like "are you confident that putin is going to change?" he blows up and use it this time and again. he gets questions like "what is your favorite flavor of ice cream?" >> judge pirro: monica, monica when you say it points to a bigger issue, not just the coddling by the mainstream media, but the irritability and, you know the sentences that have no end and go on and on. are these signs of a bigger cognitive issue? >> well, that is something i think that ronny jackson and others have raised that p

kaitlan collins from the white house. manu to you first.he vote for next tuesday. food is the holiday and then the week. democrats don't have much time now. what's going to happen? >> there was no expectation they would get the votes to pass this in the senate. they need 60 votes in order to even bring it to the floor to open debate. they won't get that. in fact they probably will just get the 50 votes. manchin himself has not said if he would vote yes on the first procedural vote. but he is expected to do so assuming they can reach a deal on what joe manchin is talking about. he is proposing a paraed back of the democrats sweeping election overall is. he does not support the plan. but the plan of his would include a number of things making election day a national holiday, voter id requirements to try to get some republican support. that's why he pushes the voter id issue. but democrats work with him on that. and that's still unlikely to win over any republicans who believe simply that as mitch mcconnell says that this is not necessary at t

kaitlan collins, appreciate it. thanks. from cnn contributor and new yorker staff writer, evan osnos, whose profile of senator manchin runs in next week's edition. evan, your profile of manchin has got a lot of interesting details. but you also really get into the leverage he has over this congress. what do you make of the fact that he is, still, not committing to supporting this voting-rights bill? >> well, this is very much true to form. i mean, here we are down to the wire. at the last-possible moment. you know, over the course of the last few weeks, you have seen him, first, come out and say, emphatically, there is no way he can support this bill. because it doesn't have republican support. he then proposed a compromise, which would -- might, in some ways, appeal to some progressives. but mitch mcconnell and republicans came out, immediately, and said, absolutely no way. and here we are down to this last minute. look. he is in an extraordinary position. when we look back over the last few years, there really hasn't been

kaitlan a big, historic moment coming up for the president of the united states. >> reporter: it is, wolf. right now he is putting all the emphasis on allies. in his first stop a short time ago he was framing his mission this week as critical, saying this is all about this battle between democracies and autocracies and vowing to stand up to adversaries like china and russia. of course, wolf, this all comes as he's facing big questions from some of those allies that he is meeting with this week about big new challenges related to the pandemic and what the u.s.'s role will look like when it comes to sharing vaccines. >> the united states is back and democracies of the world -- >> reporter: on his first trip abroad, president biden is hoping to restore america's standing while reassuring allies that his predecessor spent four years torching. >> i'm heading to the g7, then the nato ministerial and then to meet with mr. putin to let him know what i want him to know. >> reporter: it begins with a stop on the cornish coast of england before a trip to windsor castle to meet with the queen. n

. >> with us today to share their reporting and their insights, kaitlan collins our cnn chief white house correspondent. olivier knox, and melanie zanona. joe manchin over the weekend making clear a lot of people in this town have thought what's his play, what's he waiting for, when will he give in appears he won't. you don't write an op-ed saying i believe partisan legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy and for that reason i will vote against the for the people act and i will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster. crystal clear. >> it's a big blow for biden's agent, voting rights and more broadly this is a crusade against the idea of partisanship. that's a warning sign to biden and democratic leaders on capitol hill he's not going to go along on an infrastructure bill that doesn't have republican buy-in. this is obviously starting the fuel some tensions inside the democratic party right now that have been near boiling point but i expect we'll see it boil over even more. >> kaitlan collins, put up the list, voting rights, minimum wage, medicare for

cnn's kaitlan collins reports from the site of the summit in geneva. >> reporter: president biden summing up his first summit with president putin. >> i did what i came here to do. >> reporter: the do you met for three hours in geneva and cited progress on their way out. >> translator: the talks were quite constructive. >> the tone of the entire meetings, i guess it was a total of four hours, was -- was good, positive. >> reporter: but it was clear that divisions on critical issues like cyber attacks and human rights remained. >> the bottom line is i told president pete than we need to have some basic rules of the road we can all abide by. >> reporter: putin summed up the summit first, praising biden while denying any role in recent ransomware attacks and brushing off concerns about jailing his political opponents. >> translator: they have said that most of the cyber attacks in the world are carried out from the cyber realm of the united states. >> reporter: biden said he pressed putin on multiple fronts and would continue to do so. >> i also told him that no president of the united state

white house has also not laid out any specific plans at all about what might come next, as cnn's kaitlan collins reports. >> reporter: the white house bracing for defeat. >> this fight is not over. no matter the outcome today, it is going to continue. >> reporter: president biden's top aides vowing to push ahead as the bill heads for a republican road block. >> it will be a fight of his presidency long past today. >> reporter: last month the president predicted that june would be a month of action on capitol hill and pledged to advocate for the for the people act. >> i'm going to fight like heck with every tool at my disposal for its passage. >> reporter: now as the bill is expected to fail, the white house is framing it as a symbolic victory, not a legislative one. >> and he will continue to use the bully pulpit but also every lever in government to continue to advocate for moving forward. >> reporter: press secretary jen psaki suggesting the loss could spur democrats to rethink the filibuster which requires 60 votes to pass any legislation, even though senator joe manchin has made his

it is a delicate issue given what happened last week. >> all right, kaitlan, thanks so much. discuss with my panel. they still are not saying we will sign the infrastructure bill if it comes alone. they're still refusing to. take a listen to kaitlan collins talking to the white house today. >> senator romney told jake tapper that his rating of the president's statement over the weekend was if the infrastructure bill reaches his desk and it comes alone he will sign it. is that an accurate reading of that statement from the president? >> the president looks forward to and expects to sign each piece of legislation into law. he's going to work his heart out getting both of them across the finish line. >> so the white house is not going to say, yes, he will sign the infrastructure bill if it comes alone to his desk? >> the president expects to sign each piece of legislation into law. >> this is really silly. >> it's a little tedious. it's all about the sausagemaking of this deal. listen, he will sign it when it comes across his desk. if it's first, you know, if the reconciliation

kaitlan collins, grateful for the live reporting.ack into studio with our panel, and kaitlan raises key points, number one, the optics do matter, the optics matter, seeing people getting along, seeing people together, meeting after covid, still, as we deal with covid, it's important, but there are -- the daily express quoting the prime minister, biden is a breath of fresh air, oh, baby, what a love. a little -- sours the start of the g-7 summit. margaret, you write about this today in axios. biden's first foreign trip as u.s. president is a carefully managed mix of multilateralism and message discipline, so far. yes, we all know biden isn't trump but trump enjoyed the disruption. he enjoyed criticizing and mocking some of his other leaders, sometimes to their face. sometimes at his press conferences at these meetings. that is different. the question is to what end. >> biden's already finding and has always known it's harder to put things back together than it is to tear them down or to shake them up. so some of the big differences th

. >> kaitlan collins is "outfront" with the president. there was internal disagreement over whether a meeting with putin should happen. is the white house on the same page now with what's going on? >> reporter: i think it's inevitable. the meeting is going to happen in a few days. the white house says that is despite what we saw happen with that russian court in the last 24 hours when they labeled those two groups linked to the political prisoner alexei navalny as extremist groups. the white house says despite the differences between the united states and russia, that meeting is still going to happen. but erin, they're instead framing it as because of those differences. and i think you can see that they are preparing for this to potentially be an intense meeting with the press secretary was using earlier today to talk about it, seeing it is going to be straightforward and candid. often when you see those words and official readouts of white house conversations with the president and other world leaders, it means it was a blunt and not exa

joining us now with more on both angles, cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house.tlan, what is the white house saying tonight? >> they feel like it was the good outcome. the outcome they wanted and there weren't any surprises they had not seen on the horizon going into president biden's first trip abroad. but they are responding directly to kevin mccarthy and that's coming from jake sullivan, who is president biden's national-security adviser. and he was asked about this allegation from mccarthy that essentially biden gave putin a pass by appearing on a world stage with him. shaking hands with him. having these meetings. and sullivan was saying that the proof that that's not true is in the fact that biden did push putin on things like human rights, alexei navalny, the detaining of americans on false premises. and, of course, on election interference and these ransomware and cyberattacks that we've seen. maybe, they didn't get to a resolution of those. but he is saying at least he did push him on them. and jake sullivan really kind of summed it up by saying he did n

a lot of hurdles to overcome for this to become law. >> and so kaitlan, is biden confident this wills will go through? >> reporter: he said today he didn't want to say he was confident because he doesn't know how democrats are going to vote. but one line he had was really telling. he said yes, the democratic party is divided. but he said they're rational. he thinks at the end of the day they're not going to vote against an infrastructure deal, because there is this in-fighting among them about what the priorities and tactics should be and what this should look like. so he does seem to feel somewhat confident, but he couldn't say it, we should be clear, about what that was going to look like. he made some news in his remarks, as well saying that he would not sign the bipartisan deal that he just negotiated if he did not also get that bigger reconciliation package that the liberal progressives have been pushing for, talking about what they want to see on his desk. so that is significant in and of itself, saying that he also agrees, he wants both of those packages on his desk. that'sing

cnn's kaitlan collins is live for us, at the white house.is concerned we're not going to meet that goal. >> yeah. they have basically admitted that they know they're not going to meet it. though, we should note, it was a self-imposed deadline that biden and his aides came up with. but that is part of the reason, you are seeing him making a personal appeal in a state like north carolina. where vaccinations have really stalled. and it's not just north carolina, unfortunately. my home state of alabama is seeing a similar trend. also, in mississippi, where you are just not seeing people get vaccinated. and so, he is going to north carolina. making this appeal. they do have other stops planned for the president and for his top aides to make a similar kind of appeal, as they are trying to get more and more americans vaccinated because, jake, they have noted it's going to take several-more weeks to actually get to that 70% partially-vaccinated goal of u.s. adults he had initially set for july 4th. which, of course, is quickly approaching. so i thin

so, i think that second package that kaitlan referenced.r package, outside of hard infrastructure, we're going to need to make sure we see a path to get that done. >> many democrats, obviously, have been pressuring president biden to go it alone on infrastructure. i mean, if it does, in fact, end up on biden's desk for his signature. does it prove that bipartisanship is still possible in washington? or should we not get ahead of ourselves? >> well, my constituents back home don't really care, so much, about process. i'm going to be honest with you. if you -- if you are making their lives easier. if you're allowing them to be able to get back to work. they don't really care republicans, and democrats, or just one party voted for it. what the president is proposing, whether it be in the rescue plan earlier in the year or the jobs plan, that's all bipartisan in the sense that democrats and republicans out in america support it. my constituents just want us to get things done. they are not really as focused on this issue of bipartisanship as th

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joining us is manu raju and kaitlan collins, and kaitlan, first to you. how far have they gotten on negotiations? >> they are still pretty far apart. they are still about three times the new spending that the republicans had in their latest counteroffer. the question is whether they are going to come up and how high they would come up, because the white house said if he's willing to go lower than $1 trillion in the new spending. and what could be the sticking point is how to actually pay for this. what we are told by sources is that in this meeting yesterday president biden did float the idea of foregoing the idea of immediately raising the tax rate from 21% to 28% as he initially put forward because that's something the republicans said they are not onboard with, and the idea that president biden brought this up in the meeting yesterday seems to be an acknowledgment is that they realize the republicans are not going to be getting onboard if they move forward with that plan as to pay for this infrastructure plan. and there's a conversation happening, and

kaitlan collins is out front the white house tonight. this is major push back tonight.tors brought to the table today, the second one that biden has had with senators this week. she put forward $50 billion. that would put the new proposal for infrastructure at about $300 billion. maybe just a little bit over that, compare that to the latest at the white house saying they want a trillion dollars in new spending. even though you see multiple changes going back and forth between the white house and republicans, they're not getting that close together when it comes to what they want to spend. that's only one of several disagreements that they have. so president biden is basically scoffing at this latest offer from republicans saying thanks but no thanks. saying that he appreciates the senator's goodwill here according to the read-out we got from jen psaki. he's going to meet and talk to other republicans about ways to move forward. he's going to speak to the senator on monday but does not seem to be a lot of promise of these negotiations going forward. we should note that j

. >> kaitlan, i want to bring you back in here. >> he's bright. he's tough and i found that he is a, as they say, when used to play ball, a worthy adversary. >> a worthy adversary. what do you make of that? >> reporter: i think this is president biden's way of setting himself up for this meeting and how he's going into it. they are days away. he maintained his stance putin is a killer. he turn back to note he was responding to a question in an interview he did with abc news. he says he doesn't think that calculus that he believes putin is killer plays a factor of them going into a meeting. he doesn't feel like the playing field is level. i think these are maneuvers you have seen putin use. he's trying to outsmart them or embarrass them at times in public settings. that's part of the calculus going into the press conference. why they weren't having one, sided something about the free press being able to ask questions. he said it's because he didn't want their meeting and sit down to be judged by their interactions at that press conference. whether

kaitlan collins has details on this crime prevention plan. >> reporter: the recent surge in violent crime in the united states in several major cities is becoming an issue that the white house feels they need to be out in front of. so that is why you saw president biden on wednesday meeting with the attorney general and players of several major cities at the white house having a round table before coming out to address the ways that he believes that they need to address that violence and what to do about it. and he is dealing it through the lens of gun violence saying if he believes that they tighten gun regulations and cracking down on dealers who knowingly are selling guns to people who should not be firing them, that they would go after those dealers to go after their licenses. but he also is allowing states and cities to use some of the covid-19 relief funds from that bill that he signed into law earlier this year to staff up their police departments, to pay overtime, to create these community based initiatives that they think will help stem this violence. but i think the most telling

let's get the latest from cnn's chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins of the kaitlan, how israising the stakes for the upcoming summit when president putin? >> you're adding it to the list of the things that president biden is going to press president putin on. on top of the election interference, political prisoners and all these other things that the white house said we should expect biden to bring up when he does sit down with pete-in for the first time as president two weeks from today they say he's going to bring up the latest hackings because they were saying earlier today they don't believe responsible nations harbor groups that conduct attacks like this one and the white house has said they do believe this latest group, this criminal group, is based in russia and so they say it is going to be something that biden does bring up. jake, we also know that the white house has been in touch with the russian government since this hack on the meat processing plant has taken place. it's not clear what the russian response to the white house has been yes. they haven't really de

kaitlan collins is at the white house. and the president seems to be dla drawing a line, a line that he's held for some time thousand. >> re now. >> reporter: and also president has still not spoken to senator capito. and she said she hasn't heard when the call would happen. and so it demonstrates just how little that they think that they will gain from that call. and jen psaki says that the president still does view the top negotiator as a viable partner in this talk about what this infrastructure proposal could look like, but it also comes as he is preparing to speak to another group of republican senators who have been quietly working a plan b. and they are on the verge of collapse right now. but the question of whether they will get anywhere is running up against deadlines that are happening on capitol hill including next week where you will start senators and house members work on what the bill would look like. and also as some of the progressive members are saying it is time to move on. with bernie sanders saying las

kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in geneva. >> folks, kaitlan opened her report with some of the history in geneva and the summits with that summit in 1985 between mckale gorbachev and president reagan. we got the press pack from that summit between reagan and gorbachev. it begins with a personal letter by ronald reagan to the press that was traveling with him to that summit and begins with the very telling sentence, which i think also applies for today. our trip to geneva is one of the most important of my presidency, he writes. this was brought to us by our senior producer, emily rust. her dad was part of the cnn team covering it back then. my dad was part of the ard german tv covering it back then. so a lot of history for all of us. of course a historic day today. and we're going to cover it from all angled. we have natasha bertrand, who's been covering all angles of what's been going on and especially joe biden's preparation for the summit. very, very important when you're dealing with vladimir putin. talking to natasha now. tell me some of the things that preside

kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in cornwall. >>> with us to talk about this is cateena thompson of the university of ex a ter where she is a senior lecturer in security and strategic >> let's begin by talking about president biden and prime minister boris johnson. what do you make of their political styles? do you see areas where they might be aligned and areas where there are likely to be more of a clash? >> in terms of letteredship styles they are quite different. joe biden is known for reaching across the aisle and wanting consensus, whereas boris johnson, let's not forget that very recently there was the so-called purge, the remainor purge in 2019 where members of the torrey party including churchill's grandson were expelled from the conservative party for voting against a no deal brexit. so he's had a very hard party line in that regard. so, yes, it's interesting to see how those different styles will come into place today, especially very important for the uk in context of global britain to have those closer ties with the u.s., the so-called special relationsh

. >> kaitlan, stick around. i want to bring in chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta and clarissa ward to talk about this. clarissa, after their meeting prime minister boris johnson said the biden administration, quote, a big breath of fresh air, unquote. i was kind of stunned when i heard johnson say that because he really cozied up to trump. so that seemed very, i don't know, chameleonesque. >> reporter: jake, i don't think you would be the first person accusing boris johnson of being a chapel chameleon or a pol al opportunist. he sees there's a new era and would rather be compared to winston churchill than president trump, as president biden called him a physical and emotional clone. boris johnson wants to seize the momentum of this historic era, the u.s. and the uk working together in the post world war, reshaping the world, what it was going to look like. of course, today's different challenges that the two countries are facing. but certainly the prime minister wants to have a big role in that and make sure that the uk is a central part of that. i th

now as cnn's kaitlan collins reports biden talks about declining covid cases and a milestone in vaccinationseporter: president biden trumpeting another covid-19 milestone today. >> thanks to this wartime response we've gotten 300 million shots in the arms of americans in 150 days. >> the president touting the number of shots administered since he took office while at least 350 million shots have been given overall. >> it's an important milestone that just didn't happen on its own or by chance. >> reporter: but while celebratingality chiefment biden is also acknowledging the long road still ahead. >> unfortunately, cases and hospitalizations are not going down in many places in the lower vaccination states. they are actually going up in some places. >> reporter: biden turned his focus to a new milestone today now that he's unlikely to meet this one. >> our goal by july 4th is to have 70% of adult americans with at least one shot. >> reporter: 65% of u.s. adults have had at least one dose, but the pace of vaccinations is slowing and the pool of those willing to get vaccinated is shrinking. >>