and marshal appealed to churchill for shipping to send relief supplies to west bank and churchill, hee indians will have to learn to tighten their belts as the british people have. this too was a monstrous thing to say because the indians in those days were living on far shorter than anybody in britain and to use a phrase tightening belts and people were dying and were able to eat on limited eggs and bacon. this was one of the most deplorable episodes in churchill's career as war leader, but, again, i still believe that his great achievements, far outweigh the negative. but there is a mood in britain certainly among the young, people throwing paint on statutes of churchill demanding the statutes removed from parliament square. well, to me this is grotesque. this is ridiculous. we have to keep a sense of proportion. one of the hardest things with a lot of the movements that are going on at the moment whether about race, gender or political events in the past, very few things in life are blamed on --simple things of good and evil and the nuances get lost in debates when people now argui

churchill was foolish to believe.e becameer very bitter and roosevelt wouldn't support him over the dealings but you are absolutely right that for quite a long time between 1941 and 1944, churchill deluded himself and couldn't have a working relationship. but one of the most fascinating judgments i've ever read in the british national archive churchill was so bitter about the soviet takeover that he told the chiefs of staff on the operation unthinkable for liberating poland with i think 44 divisions and the remains when they brought the british chief of the army but the prime minister asked us to plan for this, so we must and indeed in the national archive with 93 pages of the draft plan for the operation unthinkable to drive the army out of poland and of course when the americans were asked about this they said under no circumstances they never would have supported churchill and going to war with the russians when they had been told but it's an extraordinary story. >> do you think that roosevelt's health in january o

british could have seen and didn't like churchill that just tried to depose churchill and tried to makethe best they could. i think if spain had come in and germany and even delayed his invasion of russia by a few months or a year, i think one can see things looking much more difficult for the western allies. but fortunately it didn't turn out that way. >> that speaks to your recent book, the battle to malta, doesn't it? >> yeah. what i'm trying to do, now that i reached the advanced age of 75. i'm a bit reluctant now to do more huge blockbuster books like vietnam or catastrophe. instead i'm trying to look at specific episodes which one can talk about why those things and i had never written a whole book about royal navy which i think was britain's most effective fighting force of world war ii just as the u.s. navy was americans most effective fighting force and i locked onto operation pedestal and in 1942, close to starvation and the british attempted to run several convoys to the island and failed. the germans and italians had more than 600 aircraft all over mediterranean. they got it

and churchill decided to step back.ut to see this jewel in the crown, a jewel in the mediterranean crown. it would be a disastrous blow and affect the whole empire. so he gave the orders to the wrong navy, this applies gotta be run at any cost. and they kneel that they had any chance of getting this through, they're going to have to have it carried. now britain had four carriers of the war and we only had seven left. the american carriers. it will for those carriers were committed to operation pedestal along with two battleships seven cruisers and 30 destroyers and eight submarines. in the ships were dispatched, the passage of 14 and what followed was three or four day battle. which was one of the bloodiest naval battles of the western war. and sometimes when the fleets go out thereur not sure with the be engaging with but every one of those did so with that fleet. they're going to have to fight the battle of their lives so they did. but the first day, after the mediterranean, nothing much happened. the weather was gorg

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the derby is such a big deal to churchill downs.hey really can't afford to have this tarnished. >> reporter: in a statement tonight, churchill downs cited baffert's prior history of failed drug tests saying, "reckless practices and substance violations that jeopardize the safety of our equine and human athletes, or compromise the integrity of the sport, are not acceptable." this move comes after baffert's horses had five medical violations over the past year alone. >> when they're testing at these levels, it's ridiculous. >> reporter: tonight, baffert is also banned from racing in new york state indefinitely. baffert's attorney confirms the second sample was positive, but he maintains that the amount in the bloodstream is too small to have given the horse an advantage to win. but any amount is banned on race day in kentucky. david begnaud, cbs news, los angeles. >> o'donnell: and there's some breaking news tonight from israel, where prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on the verge of being ousted after 12 years in office. a coaliti

the derby is such a big deal to churchill downs. they really can't afford to have this tarnished. >> reporter: in a statement tonight, churchill downs cited baffert's prior history of failed drug tests saying this move comes after baffert's horses had five medical violations over the past year alone. >> when they're testing at these levels, it's ridiculous. >> reporter: tonight, baffert is also banned from racing in new york state indefinitely. baffert's attorney confirms the second sample was positive, but he maintains will that the amount in the bloodstream is too small to have given the horse an advantage to win. but any amount is baedn daentuy. david begn ans. >>'dllthere'some eaking news tonifr isel, e mini bein netanhu ion the of bei ousted after 12 years in office. a coalition of netanyahu's opponents says it has the votes to form a new government. under the agreement, naftali bennett, a former ally of netanyahu, would become the new prime minister. and we're going to turn now to the reopening of america. as the covid pandemi

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from there he can appeal whatever the decision is. >> reporter: a three-member panel at churchill downs will determine if medina spirit keeps the winning title, but baffert can always appeal that decision kate >> all right, meagan, thank you. >>> and more big news from the world of sports legendary duke university coach mike krzyzewski plans to retire next year he is the winningest coach in division 1 men's basketball history, leading the blue devils to five national titles. >>> now to the crisis at the border. nbc news getting rare access with border patrol agents trying to manage the record migrant surge. the biden administration insists the border is closed, but our team found a very different story julia ainsley reports. >> reporter: it's nighttime in the rio grande valley. these are some of the record number of migrants border patrol agents encounter every day. families brought by smugglers turning themselves in because many told us they believe they'll be allowed to stay. officially, the biden administration says the border is closed because of the pandemic only unaccompanied chil

, and johnson, you know, wrote a book on churchill, as you mentioned. so our history is one of making tension fruitful and productive. that's what i think they need to do for climate, for covid, for the range of topics in front of them. >> and even though they're projecting a very friendly, warm image as they, you know, met for the first time face to face, i wonder what you think might be happening behind the scenes and whether there are any, you know, difficulties or challenges or differences that they will have to work out. behind the scenes. >> i'm sure, i mean, you talked about northern ireland and brexit. there's no shortage of them and again we shouldn't be afraid of them or be surprised if they happen because they're always there, and that's okay. i mean, sometimes we make the mistake, and i'm a big fan of the phrase special relationship, but a lot of people think it's kind of a cliche and they kind of roll their eyes or nod their head. but there's not a lot of thinking going on. we should think about it. we often make the mistake that our countr

to involve itself with or was it a political ploy by churchill to have u.s. powers served british interest? what is your take on this decision? >> that's a very good question. we need to take a step back to july, 1942. i love things were decided then. both been egypt and in terms of angela merkel in planning, because it's july 1942 the british finally say they are not, they don't see sledgehammer, the immediate cross channel attack which is meant to take place in december, 1942. they don't see that as an act of war. it's just not going to work. so, in that sense, gymnast edward becomes tort, it is an act of the united states because it's the only plan left on the table. and to get american troops into the european theater broadly defined, and at that point in july, the british sledgehammer, ivan marshall says, well, if this is going to happen with the brits, we are going to go to the pacific. it's roosevelt who takes the decision, not churchill, the american troops will take part in operation. ultimately, torch is a really important shaping operation for the

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not for her allies for churchill. he can claim to be the far-seeing statement statesman who had shaken up the middle east command and brought victory. form montgomery. he becomes famous and a household name throughout britain almost overnight and it cements his position as a successful general. and for the british army, they learn operational methods and tactics which enable them to prevail against the german army in increasingly tough battles and defenses throughout the rest of the war. and but the campaign of alamine is underpinned by a strategic logic which even by the later stages of the war seem not to make much sense. this is it's an imperial campaign in some respects which harks back to the imperial logic of the past, but it's also a high intensity campaign, which was very much a part of the defeat of the axis. so there was perhaps more about alamine that looks to the past than to the future. it's the last time during the war when broadly defined and independent british army fights and wins and and although bri

this is the cartoon that malden did when churchill died in january 1965 at age 90. i think he was and this kind of exemplifies so much about malden. i i'm not saying that it's a great cartoon or it's the greatest cartoon, but it's malden was great. with grief he was wonderful expressing grief. it was part of his tragic awareness of the world. the world is a tragic fundamentally a tragic place. and what his cartoons are are a response a living response to that tragedy one that inspires you to go on and so, you know times of grief moments of loss. that's when malden really shines, and he was not a big admirer of winston churchill, you know after the war certainly when churchill was booted out of office and he came back in as it, you know conservative force and british politics. it was not admirer of that, but he he greatly admired him as a giant of history and of course as the inspirational leader during world war ii so there's the british lion presumably shutting a tear for the loss of one of its one of his greatest sons winston churchill in 1965. what else what othe

the derby is such a big deal to churchill downs. they really can't afford to have this tarnished. >> baffert, whose horses had five medical violations over the past year alone, has also been banned indefinitely from racing in new york including this weekend's belmont stakes. >>> no deal yet on infrastructure. president biden will talk again tomorrow, though, with gop negotiator, lead negotiator, senator shelley moore capito. they met yesterday for nearly an hour ahead of a deadline monday to show progress. at issue, the price tag and how to fund it. president biden is proposing a $1.7 trillion measure which is almost double the gop counteroffer. ic unspent covid aid, but mr. biden is against that idea. >>> coming up, chilling video as a deputy hides from a teenage girl armed with a gun. >> appears the female has a long gun pointing toward me. i have to hold my cover. stand by. >> how a dramatic standoff ended between authorities and a young florida girl and boy. >>> and later, a warning about cicadas. eating them may be harmful to y

. >>> in the summer of 1941, churchill crossed the atlantic to meet his good friend, franklin delano roosevelt. from these two men who so well understood the force of ideals emerged the atlantic charter. this document blueprinted for all the world the fundamental freedoms to which the great english-speaking nations pledged themselves as their goal in war and peace. >> 80 years after roosevelt and churchill signed the atlantic charter, pride and prime minister boris johnson today will sign a 21st century version of that historic accord. joe? >> yeah, and willie, you know, it's so interesting. over the past four and a half years, past five years, we've been talking about that atlantic charter. we've been talking about nato. we've been talking about how it's been fraying at the edges. and some among us have suggested that perhaps america will never survive. that our relationships will be forever frayed, because of the 45th president of the united states. and who knows, maybe that's true. i suspect it's not. but it is interesting, we get to -- we certainly got to see donald trump's view

in 1944 the column revealed the churchill had ordered a british commander in greece to suppress public protests in athens and not to hesitate to fire openly on the demonstrators. as i tracked this story back it turned out the church jim himself responsibility for the leak. he had dictated the cable so late at night that his exhausted secretary. had typed top secret at the top, but it forgot the type guard. which was the signal that this message should not be shown to the americans. so instead it went out through american channels and american officials were offended by the thought that us lonely's tanks might be used against greek civilians and they leaked the document to the colonist. now pearson broke secrets throughout his career even during wartime. he had to help maneuver a sensors military brass and spies. but when he was accused once of having revealed classified information, he actually sued the deaf. that was a defamation it made him appear on patriotic. at the trial he testified that the word classified had become extraordinarily broad and the government was using it to cover

and you have boris johnson, the biographer of churchill.er or not it is as tight auld like others to believe it is an open question. as we know, joe biden in the campaign in 2020, he did think orest johnson was a pale imition of donald trump -- he did think boris johnson was a pale imitation of donald trump. so far it has been smiles and elbow bumps alonthe way. >> how significant is this new atlantic charter, 80 years on from world war ii? what is in it? >> it is different, of course, to the document signed in 1941. it is looking to new challenges. joe biden said they're looking at a shared purpose when it comes to cybersecurity, a crucially important thing for all the g-7 countries particularly on one eye on the meeting with president putin later than the week. and the pandemic recovery, how much money they put into finding vaccines and supporting testingsolating variants that might pop up wherever they are in the world. and also climate change, one of the biggest challenges they face. they need to nailed -- they need to build back better

. >> takes guts for her to do that churchill downs has suspended hall of fame trainer bob baffert foririt failed the used on the horse may have contained beta methadone the three-member panel at churchill downs will determine whether medina spirit keeps the winning title. >>> we continue to honor lgbtq members. we celebrate honey mahogany. elected to the san francisco democratic party share last month. it makes her the first transgender and black chair of the local party. according to the bay area reporter, the 37-year-old has also become the first trans person in the u.s. to chair a local democratic party mahogany is one of the highest ranking transgender officials in the country. >>> two girls giving new meaning to joyride a 9-year-old and 4-year-old crashed into a semitruck they stole their parents' keys and when officers arrived at the scene they thought an impaired driver was behind the wheel but they were in for amajor surprise when they found the sisters and the 9-year-old actually driving the pair told the police they wanted to enjoy the beach for a few days for these two girl

and i read winston churchill's essay painting as a pastime and i always admired churchill's leadership. i looked at his paintings and i could tell the joy he had that he derived from painting. i said if that guy could paint, i campaigned. i know that sounds alittle cocky . you've got to be a little cocky to run for president. only me out of 320 million of you. i told your mother after she recovered from the shock of me saying i want to be a painter, she had a friend pam help me and off i went. i've been painting for about nineyears now every day . and barbara for the listener who doesn'tknow , barbara she's very sensitive when it comes to art. she's got a good feel so she and i now have something else totalk about witches art . >>i love those conversations and i love your paintings . tell us more about your evolution. i don't know if the audience knows what you've taken online courses to learn art history. talk about your inspiration in terms of artists and the instructors you get to work with. >> one thing i've learned is you can't come a better painter until you study how others have

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still to come: winston churchill and his budgerigars. that the easing of covid—19 restrictions is likely to be pushed back by three weeks. the whole country was due to move to the lowest level zero of its five—tier system from the 28th ofjune. but nicola sturgeon said that this was likely to be be delayed by three weeks so that more people can be vaccinated against the virus. with borisjohnson having delayed the lifting of restrictions in england, she told msps that the scottish government too would adopt a cautious approach. given the current situation and the need to get more people are fully vaccinated before we ease up further, i think it is reasonable to indicate now that it is unlikely that any part of the country will move down a level from the 28th ofjune. instead, it is more likely that we will maintain restrictions for a further three weeks from the 28th ofjune and use that time to vaccinate with both doses as many more people as possible. doing that will give us the best chance later injuly of getting back on track and restori

as for the british, winston churchill, the first board of the admiral, suggested hoover was a spy, and that hoover should be investigated. despite numerous british officials vouching for hoover, churchill refused to grant permission for hoover's ships to traverse the blockade. he was concerned the germans would simply take the food and distributed to their army. which they didn't. frustrated, hoover bypassed churchill, went straight to the prime minister, and after hearing hoover's plan agreed to hoover's request to allow ships to pass through the blockade. hoover was charged with feeding 2.5 million french citizens in northern france in addition to about 10 million belgians. the french citizens were caught behind german lines at the beginning of the war, and this was a different kind of problem from the belgians as the french who are not technically neutral at all. in fact, living in this region, there were only women and children as most of the men had left the region and joined the french military. although it was a sticky wicket and diplomatic, the germans did allow the crv to brin

and he was not a big admirer of winston churchill after the war. he was not an admirer of that, but he greatly admired him as a giant of history and, of course, as the inspirational leader during world war ii. >> so there's the british lion shedding a tear for a loss of one of his greatest sons. what else? what other cartoons by mauldin would you -- if you were trying to get someone to understand the work of this great artist, which ones would you point to? >> just give me the aspirin. let's do this one. this is good. look at that. look at that. yes, i'm a historian. i've never served in the military. i don't come from a military family. i lead a veterans organization. i remember seeing this cartoon and thinking, what the heckis this about? why would i have ever thought about what a soldier has to face when they're under fire in a foxhole and they have to relief themselves. expose themselves to deadly fire or they go in their holes. and that kind of like little glimpse into the everyday indignities and discomforts of life in the military is a revel

this is fdr and winston churchill, 1941, signing the atlantic charter. today, both leaders renewing their commitment to that charter, adding language on the new cyber attacks, on global health challenges amid this pandemic and on climate change. and then that major announcement today. president biden announcing the u.s. will donate 500 million doses of pfizer vaccine to nearly 100 nations in desperate need. saying, quote, in times of trouble, americans reach out to offer help. that's who we are. president biden and first lady dr. jill biden joining prime minister johnson and his wife carrie in the south of england. the first lady making news with one word on the back of her jacket. love. you'll hear what she said when a reporter asked her to explain it. abc's chief white house correspondent cecilia vega leading us off tonight from england. >> reporter: tonight, president biden on the world stage, eager to show america is back. >> are you pleased to be here, mr. president? >> i'm very pleased to be here. >> reporter: his first meeting with the uk's boris

prime minister winston churchill and president franklin roosevelt signed an agreement known as the atlantic statement of first principles, a promise that the united kingdom and the united states would meet the challenges of their age and they would meet it together. today, we build on that commitment. we discharged and discussed a broad range of issues on which the united kingdom and the united states are working in very close cooperation. we affirmed the special relationship, it's not said lightly, the special relationship between our people. the prime minister even once a new and improved phrase to describe that friendship, but today's diplomatic outing gives a firm foundation for an important week. any first meeting between a british prime minister and an american president would fill a page in our history and these two men have talked with conviction about the values that they share, but that's not the same as what their partnership might actually achieve, nor does it mask any areas where they might disagree. and even the warmest of warm ups is just a start. other leaders are touching d

well, churchill went to the meeting on board. the h. m. s. prince of wales. not that one an earlier version. and what do we expect joe biden's message to be to the u. k. prime minister on northern island. northern ireland is a source of tension between the u. s. and the u. k. right now, because of the tensions between the u. k and the e u over northern ireland of the u. s. all concerned that these tensions on no, no other than we didn't know norland could become a problem with regard to the good friday agreement, signed in 1998. it all comes as many things right here in the u. k. right now it comes down to breaks it as part of the brakes. it deal. they did a sort of fudge with regard to new knowledge. so that could be free trade. continuing on the island of ireland that you could have goods from the u. k. part of the island, northern ireland travel freely to the republic of our trains, part of the you in order to get that deal. the protocol says that you have to board a checks for goods leaving england scotland wales to go to another part of the u. k . northe

frustrated, hoover bypassed churchill, went straight to the prime minister and after hearing hoover's plan agreed to hoover's request to allow ships to pass through the blockade. hoover was charged with feeding 2.5 million french citizens in northern france, in addition to 10 million belgians. the french citizens were caught behind german lines at the beginning of the war. this was a different kind of problem from the belgians, the french were not neutral as all. most of the men had left the region and joined the french military. although it was a sticky wickets, the germans did allow the crb to bring food into the region for humanitarian regions. food purchased in the united states crossed the ocean in a fleet of 75 ships that hoover had leased with crb funds. each flew crb flags, and had crb or belgian relief painted on the side of the ships, in order to give a german u boat captain a reason to not fire upon them. hoover provided food which provided the maximum nutrition. bacon, lard dried peas, rice and beans were the most sought after donated food because they wouldn't spoil on th

with some very deliberate suggestions going back to winston churchill, 1941, no accident they are.n is somebody who didn't think brexit was a very good idea. had certainly noticed that he, borisjohnson had been very close to donald trump. and therefore there was a degree of reset that was required. i think the renovation of the atlantic charter with masses of stuff in it is a very ambitious way of trying to reset the balance of relationship. but i'm not surprised that that was the intention. there's plenty of nitty—gritty stuff in the rest of the agenda which is not going to be that straightforward. and can'tjust be ticked off by the two members over the excellent start working draughting this updated charter. for working draughting this updated charter. ., ., , . , charter. for all the difficulties that people — charter. for all the difficulties that people interpreted - charter. for all the difficulties that people interpreted there | charter. for all the difficulties i that people interpreted there are two very different personality. there is an awful lot that connects them. the

charter, renewing a commitment our nations made to each other in 1941 as hitler rose and fdr and churchill wanted to sure up the alliance against him and against authoritarianism. when we learned that they would be signing this new atlantic compact today, we called michael beschloss to get his take on where these two leaders are at right now with the update of that compact, compared with fdr and churchill fighting fascism 30 years ago. mr. beschloss' answer is not at all what i expected and it kind of curled my hair. joining me now is the great michael besh beschloss, thank y much for being with us. >> i didn't mean to curl your hair? >> i did, you freaked me out talking about between the contrasts between fdr and churchill and what happened 80 years ago and what happened today. >> a couple moments in history, our democracy has been almost taken away. that happened in the 1860s. there was a southern insurrection. that happened in 1940 when americans had to decide whether we'd stand up to hitler and mussolini and the japanese to make sure that we and freedom survived. the cold war, especial

johnson and president biden would be signing a charter like the one in 1941 as hitler and winston churchillanted to free up the world against fascism and against totalitarianism. when we learned biden would be signing this new contract today, we got a take on where these two leaders are right now on the update of that contract in terms of hitler and churchill fighting fascism years ago. it is not what i expected and it's curling my hair. michael, thank you for being with us tonight. >> hi, rachel, i didn't mean to curl your hair. >> you did. you freaked me out a little bit talking about both the parallels and the contrast you see between what churchill and hitler did 80 years ago and what happened today. >> well, with history our democracy was almost taken away. that happened in the 1860s. there was a southern insurrection. that happened in 1940 when americans had to decide whether we would stand up to hitler and mussolini to see that they survived. we are in a backward danger that our system may not survive. we have lived, you and i and all of us watching, through four years of donald trum

80 years since the original was signed by president franklin roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill. that was during world war ii. this is video that you're seeing right now on your screen of johnson and biden viewing those documents and the new charter reflects the shifting threats of today. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins joins us now from cornwall, england. let's start with the vaccines. the president says this half a billion doses come with no strings attached? >> reporter: yeah, that's kind of been the white house's line as they've been talking about what their vaccine sharing plan is going to be, because that's obviously a jab at other countries that have tried to trade political favors for sharing vaccines, but this does come amid some questions and even some criticism of what was the actual u.s.'s plan going to be. that is what world leaders wanted to know and the white house knew that they should have expected president biden to get pressed on that by other world leaders as he is on his first trip abroad, and so that's why i think this timing of this ann

compared with fdr and churchill fighting fascism 80 years ago. mr.what i expected, and it curled my hair. joining us now is the great michael, presidential historian. michael, thank you so much for being with us tonight. >> hi, rachel, i did not mean to curl your hair. >> you did. [laughs] you freaking out a little bit talking about the parallels and the contrasts that you see between white fdr and churchill were doing 80 years ago and what happened today! >> well, you know, a couple of moments of history our democracy has almost been taken away. that happened in the 18 sixties, there was a southern insurrection that happened in 1940 when americans had to decide whether we would stand up to hitler and mussolini and the japanese to make sure that we and freedom survived. the cold war, especially in 1960, when john kennedy became president, he said, we are in an hour of maximum danger. our system may not survive it. we have lived, you and i and all of us watching for four years through donald trump, our democracy was almost taken away. but here we are,

of the atlantic charter, signed in 1941 by president roosevelt and british prime minister winston churchill amid the rise of fascism across the world. >> with a revitalized atlantic charter updated to reaffirm that promise while speaking directly to the key challenges of this century. >> reporter: as he and johnson signed an updated version of that declaration, the latest pierce of an overarching effort by biden to present a unified and reinvigorated alliance of western democracies, one that will be challenged in a matter of days as biden sits down with russian president vladimir putin and his wife jill telling reporters he's up for the challenge. >> oh my gosh, he's overprepared. >> reporter: the days ahead, a calibrated effort to lead the post world war ii western alliances to meet the challenges of a new era. >> america will be the arsenal of vaccines in our fight against covid-19, just as america was the arsenal of democracy during world war ii. >> reporter: with a new vaccine effort at the center of that push. biden announcing the purchase of 500 million doses of the pfizer vaccine to

prime minister winston churchill and president franklin d roosevelt signed an agreement known as the it was a statement of first principles, a promise that the united kingdom and the united states would meet the challenges of their age and they would meet it together. today, we build on that commitment. we discharged and discussed a broad range of issues on which the united kingdom and the united states are working in very close cooperation. we affirmed the special relationship, it's not said lightly, the special relationship between our people. the prime minister even once a new and improved phrase to describe that friendship, but today's diplomatic outing gives a firm foundation for an important week. any first meeting between a british prime minister and an american president would fill a page on our history and these two men have talked with conviction about the values that they share but that's not the same as what their partnership might actually achieve, nor does it mask any areas where they might disagree. and even the warmest of warm ups is just a start. other leaders are to

laura: he thought about international is based border quite different from what winston churchill wasout all those years ago. >> let me give you two examples between the two cyberattacks on our economy coming from russian territory by russian organizations, given a pass by the russian government, probably working together, to be honest with you and growing evidence that the coronavirus came out of the lab in china, not nature and is biden asking the europeans to do anything to push back against russian cyberterrorism? is even talking about what we should do terrain shining in? know. this is just all fluff and happy talk. i miss trump. laura: you argue in a new op-ed that early and near-total dismissal of the lab week 3 played a prominent role in trump's defeat in 2020 in the presidential race. explain. >> in february of 2020, 27 american scientists wrote an op-ed saying that anybody who suggests the coronavirus came out of the chinese lab is a right wingnut, later on 5 of the scientists said the same thing. why is that important? if the coronavirus came out of the chinese lab like a l

to defending the enduring thematic -- democratic policies in our countries. 80 years ago, winston churchill and print -- president franklin d roosevelt signed the atlantic charter. it was a statement of first principles. a promise that both countries would meet the challenges of their age and meet it together. today, we build on that commitment. we will update the atlantic charter to address that promise and the key challenges of this century: cybersecurity, emerging technologies, level health, and climate change. we discussed our common goals of driving action to address the climate crisis. the climate summit i hosted was part two drive the momentum at the event held in -- bravely serving. u.k. was with us from the start. and now, we are coordinating our withdrawal together. of course, we talked about how our two nations came together to meet the global fight against covid-19. that has been a major focus on the british leadership. we are trying to boxing the world. i'm making a historic announcement in our fight against covid-19. america knows firsthand the tragedies of this pandemic. we h

and that is in the tradition of churchill andrews world, how they envisioned the post world order when they signed a shot, the 1st in 1941. so it's very much about these relation, these, these relations. however, what goes on really between the leaders, what sort of chemistry? i don't know one kid speculate that might be a little bit nervous because president biden had one had about 2 boys, johnson that he reminds him of, i don't know, trump and a physical and emotional clone even off the on the trump said, maybe just, you know, it's head of tension in the ad that but so both leaders, this g 7 sum it needs to be a success. so one can speculate the will make amends and will be on best behavior. so u. s. u k relations high on the agenda for today. what about buttons priority for the g 7 summit welded priorities for, for president biden, very much to reset the us as it is a global world power. there's going to be met many issues on the agenda, foreign policy issues, russia and china. but the really big key key big ones are also about fighting the corona pandemic, about distribution produc

that are the strong foundation of our partnership. 80 years ago prime minister winston churchill andst principles, promised that the united kingdom and the united states would meet the challenges of their age and they would be together. today we build on that commitment. the revitalised atlantic charter updated to reaffirm that promise while speaking directly to the key challenges of this century. cyber security, emerging technologies, global health and climate change. we discussed our goals of addressing the climate crisis. in the climate in april was helping to drive forward the critical 26 that the uk will host an glascow later this year. we talked about the shared sacrifices of our servicemen bravely serving side by side in afghanistan. for close to 20 years. the uk was with us from the

to paraphrase, winston churchill i did not take the oath. i've just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy. in the days ahead. i will propose removing the roadblocks that have slowed our economy and reduced productivity. steps will be taken aimed at restoring the balance between the various levels of government. progress may be slow. measured in inches and feet not miles but we will progress. it is time to reawaken this industrial giant. to get government back within its means and to lighten our punitive tax burden and these will be our first priorities and on these principles. there will be no compromise. on the eve of our struggle for independence a man who might have been one of the greatest among the founding fathers, dr. joseph warren president of the massachusetts congress said to his fellow americans. our country is in danger. but not to be despaired of on you depend the fortunes of america. you are to decide the important question which upon which rests the happiness and the libert

a strong foundation from our partnership. 80 years ago prime minister winston churchill signed an agreement known as the atlantic charter a statement of first principles are promised that the united kingdom and the united states would meet the challenges of their age and they would meet it together. today our revitalized atlantic charter updated to reaffirm that promise while speaking directly to the key challenges of the century. cybersecurity, emerging technology global health and climate change. we discussed our common goals for driving ambitious global actions to adjust the climate crisis and the climate leaders summit that i hosted in april was helping drive forward the momentum toward the critical -- that the uk will host this year. we talked about the shared sacrifices of our servicemembers bravely serving side-by-side in afghanistan for close to 20 years. uk was with us from the start and are equally committed to rooting out terrorist threats and supporting a withdrawal together. of course talking about how her two nations came together to lead the global fight against covid-19. tha

roosevelt and winston churchill.o that will be important and that will sort of help cover up any differences between them, but there will be tensions undoubtedly over specifically brexit, the northern irish protocols are causing boris johnson difficulty with the european union. he would like to have president biden's support on that, but biden shades his favor towards -- towards the european union and ireland and has said that the good friday agreement of northern ireland is a solid foundation and it is essentially the bedrock of peace in northern ireland and that's something that he doesn't want to see compromised and is concerned that it might be given boris johnson's wrangling with the european union. so tensions in there, but i think the headlines from the event will obviously be very positive ones about strengthening relationship between the two countries. >> and, nic, something which often strengthens relationships, multilateral relationships, is having a common threat and deciding to take action on that to pro