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professor michael mcfaul, thank you for being here. let me ask you a similar question. >> sure. >> you know, russia is not the equal of the united states in terms of its economy. you know, our friends on ""morning joe"" put up a short this morning that was pretty definitive. they are a small economy, smaller than the canadian economy. they're really an oil exporter, you know, they're sort of a grander mississippi. they don't have a lot going for them in terms of actual strength. what they do have is a huge nuclear stockpile, bigger than ours, and they sell arms. why is it important to give them the stage next to the united states president at all? >> well, i don't think you need to give them the stage and i thought it was very appropriate that they didn't have a joint press conference today. that was smart. in part, because it gave our american journalists a chance to ask vladimir putin some very tough questions that wouldn't have happened if they were together. but you have to talk to the president of russia, no matter who he is, and

ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, who joins me from geneva. here. i am fascinated by the little details of the ways in which the current team is trying to avoid allowing putin to upstage president biden, including having putin arrive first because he notoriously kept president obama waiting for 40 minutes, and he's always late. how does the stage craft impact the policy outcome? >> well, thanks, joy, for having me, and good work to whoever found that 2006 interview, by the way. that's some great detective work. >> it's will, our producer, whose birth it is today, so happy birthday, will. >> all right. shoutout to will. happy birthday. that's really good work. professor mcfaul gives you an "a" for your footnotes there for history. but joy, you're right. it's important to focus on the details, and there's a couple that just became clear today that i think suggest real achievement for the biden team, for their protocol team. first, as you just mentioned, putin is scripted to arrive first. he'll meet the presidents here of switzerland, and then bi

i feel like nobody is in a better position to talk about that than michael mcfaul.briefing president biden before this summit today. he joins us live now. mr. ambassador, great to see you. thank you for staying up until the middle of the night to be with us tonight. >> glad to be with you as always, rachel. >> what are likely to be the consequences, if any, of today's events for russian opposition figures, for independent media in russia? it feels like the kremlin has felt totally unconstrained in the way it's been going after the opposition and the media lately. how will today affect that? >> you're right. 2021 will go down in russian history as one of the most autocratic years since the collapse of the soviet union. you have to go deep to remember a time that has been so oppressive. i was honestly delighted to hear the president of the united states again talk about democracy and human rights like traditionally we used to. but it was very important, i think, what president biden said today. and he named navalny. he didn't shy away from him. our previous president

in a moment we'll hear from former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul he helped prepare president biden for the summit first, eamon javers is live in geneva eamon? >> reporter: there's a real -- there's another world leader who won't necessarily be in the room tomorrow, but who will likely be a topic of conversation. that's china's xi jinping. the increasingly cozy relationship between russia and china haz raced eye browse earlier this month, xi called putin his best friend, and is the -- the western military alliance for the first time said china's rise presents challenges to the nato members. nato secretary-general jen stolenberg said china has the world's second largest military after the united states, and already has the largee navy. biden tried to rally the g7 countries, to try to rally -- the spending 3r578 that helped send money and resources around the world to impoverished nation, helping china build clout economically and diplomatically around the world. earlier this week, biden said that both of the two countries, china and russia, are at the top of the list of global proble

in a moment we'll hear from former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul live from the summit site. he helped prepare president biden for the summit first, eamon javers is live in geneva eamon? >> reporter: shep, there's a real sense of anticipation here tonight with that showdown there's another world leader who won't necessarily be in the room tomorrow, but who will likely be a topic of conversation. that's china's xi jinping. the increasingly cozy relationship between russia and china has raised eyebrows in washington earlier this month, xi called russia's vladimir putin his best friend and the trying to over come that at the summit. the western military alliance for the first time said china's rise presents challenges to the nato members. nato secretary-general jens stoltenberg said china has the world's second largest military after the united states, and already has the largest navy biden tried to rally the g7 countries earlier this week for focus on an alternative to the western world to china's delta road initiative, that's that spending program that helped send money and re

nbc news white house correspondent monica alba in geneva, keir simmons in russia, michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia and msnbc analyst. he is also in geneva and ben rhodes, former national security adviser. and msnbc contributor. monica, president biden holding this meeting with president putin. what comes next? what are the tangibles about what we can expect things to go from here? >> reporter: there were a couple of indications, ayman, of things we can expect to see in terms of incremental progress, particularly when it comes to malaysias for both counties, with both leaders committing to make them go back to their diplomatic posts, restoring them after, of course, we saw tensions so high that neither were able to be in moscow and washington, d.c., respectively. we know that at least in terms of an actual deliverable or outcome, even though there's no firm timetable. in terms of how the president views anything else from this he said, look, this is really a starting point. in his words, "i did what i came to do," the u.s. president saying he did confront putin on a range

joining us now, ambassador michael mcfaul, former united states ambassador to russia.ght ahead of the summit between presidents biden and putin. ambassador, good to see you again. thank you for being with us. just in the last hour, axios is reporting that president biden assembled a dozen or so experts on russia to brief him ahead of his meeting with president putin on wednesday. according to axios, the president was briefed by two former u.s. ambassadors to russia including yourself. what can you tell us about this meeting and how you advised the president? >> well, first, ali, i really want to congratulate you and your team for mentioning alexei navalny, trevor reed, paul whelan in this story. they sometimes get forgotten here in geneva, and we need to remember them. we need to remember their stories, and i hope that president biden does as well. with respect to that story, i'm obviously not going to comment on private conversations with president biden. but isn't it great that the president is preparing for this meeting? because if you'll remember, the last time put

off our discussion tonight is democrat dick democrat adam shift and joining us from geneva is michael mcfaul he is the former ambassador to russia. ambassador mcfaul you've been giving us a long day here on msnbc and we're going to violate our protocol here with the permission of shift, instead of going to are like the person first, you were involved in the preparations involved in this summit, what is your basic take on what you saw today? >> well i think president biden accomplish what he wanted to do here, he said he was going to talk to president putin frankly about issues that we disagree about but also look for areas of cooperation. i think the predicate to geneva was important, meeting with our democratic allies, that was a buildup. there is nothing more valuable to us and then our allies. we have allies and they don't. they didn't have big outcomes today. they were baby steps towards strategic stability talks. putting our ambassadors back in place is a good thing. that is just fine, lawrence. to have baby steps. i thought the vice president -- president biden, excuse me, the presiden

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ambassador to russia michael mcfaul was in the prep session with president biden and he has also met with putin. i spoke to him earlier about what putin is looking to accomplish here and what president biden should be prepared for. president biden asked for this meeting how does that affect the dynamic of what will happen? >> i think that creates expectations for the summit on the biden side vladimir putin didn't ask for it all he has to do is show up, stand next to the president of the united states, and that's a win for him that shows that the world is reaching out to him. >> my colleague keir simmons did a lengthy interview with president putin. what do you think president biden can learn from that interview? >> two things. one, president putin is not constrained by the truth. and two, whataboutism. comparing things that have nothing to do with each other. president biden needs to be prepared for both of those. >> president biden wants to find common ground on something. does putin need common ground does he need this relationship to get better >> no, he doesn't. that's why he is

michael mcfaul, former us ambassador, has said that the u. s. does not pay opposition leaders in russia, and we know that's totally false. the u. s. 3 usa id and the national endowment for democracy is funding opposition. movements and media arms all around the globe from across russia to russia's periphery in bella, luce, to nicaragua, and venezuela. and they create these maximal listed rejection, is opposition, forces that exist solely to perpetuate regime change. and so when these reporters were badgering putting about nevada, they were unable to accept his response, which was that we don't want to see something like what you saw on january 6 with a movement of insurrection just russia is facing a movement. pushing for machine change. and so the way that the u. s. media understands this, is that the u. s. has no possible role inside russia when we just saw on video, the outgoing director of the national endowment for democracy. carl grossman, someone who has gone in the wash written in the washington post a call for regime change in moscow. b

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. >> what a pleasure it is to have you here, ambassador michael mcfaul. >>> and here in geneva there is street art depicting alexi navalny, a hero of our time. this area will be locked down during the summit. it is unlikely the russian president will ever see that street art in person. a lot more ahead of the critical biden summit in 24 hours. let me bring in casey hunt in washington. a lot of breaking news back home. >> indeed there is. it looks beautiful there in geneva. under pressure, new information documenting how president trump attempted to arm twist the justice department to challenge the results of the election. >>> plus threat assessment on the qanon conspiracy theory and the people who think it is all real. d the people who think it is all real alice loves the scent of gain so much, she wished there was a way to make it last longer. say hello to your fairy godmother alice and long-lasting gain scent beads. part of the irresistible scent collection from gain! if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, little things can become your big moment. that's why there's otezla. otez

ambassador to russia michael mcfaul. but we're going to start with nbc's chief white house correspondent peter alexander. peter is in position in geneva this morning. good morning to you. we already saw that handshake between the two leaders. the meeting is on and the stakes could not be higher. >> reporter: yeah, you're exactly right. good morning to you are from here in genie va. we are now just a short walk away from where that summit is continuing at this hour. these are some pictures, the only ones we will get it appears today from inside the room. you can see the presidents on both sides alongside the russian foreign minister and the secretary of state tony blinken. we are now told by a white house official that earlier this hour that two on two meeting wrapped up after roughly 90 minutes. they have now moved into what is an expanded meeting with additional officials joining them here. everything here was negotiated that vladimir putin would arrive first, then president biden, and a lot of people anticipate that to

the group also included former ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, and arms control expert rose gutmiller that will join me live in a moment. axios reports this. during the briefing the assembled experts broadly agreed on the approach biden should talk, less talk leaving no doubt for putin on where biden stands. and some beg to question, is the putin prep already being put to use. >> he's bright. he's tough. i have found that he's, as they say, when you used to play ball, a worthy adversary. >> joining us is andrea mitchell, who is in geneva, and michael crowley, and a forter nato department general, and then also the author of the book, surviving autocracy. that last bit of sound on biden, he is bright, he's tough, he's a worthy adversary, and when i heard that it struck me as strategic heading into the summit being that he has also called putin a killer. what was your read on those comments? >> absolutely. i agree with you. he's preparing for this, knowing he's going in and telling us at nato and g7 he knows he will be tough, and rose knows everything about arms control and knows more a

group reportedly included to obama ambassadors to russia including our own michael mcfaul. >> isn't it great that the president is preparing for this meeting? because if you remember the last time putin met with a former president, president trump, it was clear to me, i was at that one as well, working for you, are not for the u.s. government, just to be clear, that president trump was not prepared for that meeting. >> axios reporting it this way, quote, the group urged biden not to hold a joint press conference with putin or for him any opportunity to try to upstage the private talks with new public proposals. and that the experts probably agree on the approach a biden shirt adopt, blunt talk leaving no doubt for putin on where biden stands, from hacking to human rights. back in washington, there is more fallout from revelations that trump's justice department secretly seized personal data of reporters and democrats in congress from phone and think companies during an investigation in leaks. tonight house judiciary committee says that they've launched an investigation in this. matter

former russian ambassador michael mcfaul says that at president obama's summit with putin, putin spenthates the united states and how he feels very aggrieved by everything about the united states. so, i don't know if they've built in an hour for him to whine, but we'll see. after the talks, president putin will give a solo press

joining us, congressman adam schiff, and michael mcfaul, the former u.s. ambassador to russia under president obama. ambassador mcfaul, we're going to violate our protocol, and go with you first. you were involved in some of the preparations for this summit. what is your basic take on what you saw today? >> i think president biden accomplished what he wanted to do. he said he was going to come, talk to president putin about issues we disagree about, and also look for areas of cooperation. i thought the predicate to geneva was very important, meeting with democratic allies. that was a buildup. there's nothing more valuable to us than our allies. we have allies, they don't. and they didn't have big outcomes today. there were baby steps toward strategic stability talks. putting ambassadors back in place, those are good things. it's fine to have baby steps. and i thought president biden, the president said it aptly when he said the proof will be in the eating of the pudding. i think that's the headline of this summit. he set out an agenda. now let's see if we

ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, an nbc national affairs international analyst.in and his allies in this part of the world are very much on the offense and the u.s., with our meat supply and our gas supply being taken offline, is on the defense. is that a fair way to look at this relationship? >> yeah, i think that's an excellent way to frame it, which is, he's taking all the initiatives and this domain and other domains too, building up troops on the border of ukraine and other things and we're always responding. it's always a tit-for-tat response. and so far, the biden administration has chosen to respond in what they think is proportionate ways, but it hasn't been a consequential way enough to stop the aggressive behavior from vladimir putin so far. >> so, how do you change that? >> well, i do think it's right to meet with him and give him a stern warning and say very explicitly what you plan to do, if this aggression continues. but then i think you have to have your own offensive strategy and it's got to be multifaceted. it's got to be a policy of containment

michael mcfaul was asked about that this morning, let's take a listen to what he said. >> would you encouragenk we should have the benefit of the doubt of the decisionmaking that took place. whether it has to be under oath or, you know, what context that is. i think we need to know why this decision was made. and i think the ig, that's within the proper purview of the ig. >> okay. so a somewhat tacit endorsement there. but that being said, what do you make of the response, and the republican reaction to these reports overall? do you think the testimony will actually happen, could it happen willingly or only after a subpoena? >> i think it will happen. my guess is they'll probably make some kind of deal similar to what mcgahn did a couple of weeks ago and testify in closed session. but i would like to highlight just one other thing as a return to normalcy, is that there is talk of an ig investigation, inspector general. if this was still donald trump's land, that person would have been fired by now. remember, he went on a tear in firing inspector generals. so it is a good sign that we are gett

you think about what we talked about with our maying team of experts like michael mcfaul, the expectationng to keep talking, which they are. we know those discussions will be led by secretary blinken and lavrov. returning to their posts for the ambassadors, not an earth shattering deal but it had been previewed as an item that could be a confidence builder moving forward in both of these relationships. i was struck by the takeaways of the tone of vladimir putin by joe biden and how -- i don't want to say differential but this was extra teenlic on putin, right? putin knows how to be nasty a lot. he chose not to do that on the world stage with the eyes of everybody watching him about what he would say about this conversation. frankly, president biden reflected some of that back making it very clear, this was not tense. it was not hostile. much was made in the hours earlier because we were look at the timing, 90 minutes, two hours, whatever. president biden's point was it was short because we got a lot of stuff done in not a long period of time. he's in the air. he hasn't landed yet in washi

ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, is actually going to weigh in on the historic talks. that's at 7:00 a.m. right after "today in the bay." >>> developing this morning, israel is launching a new air strike against hamas targets in the gaza strip. so israeli leaders are calling it retaliation for hamas strikes. explosions could be heard in gaza city limits throughout the night and this is the first major flare-up since the nearly two weeks of missile strikes last month that ended with the cease-fire. >>> after two shooting rampages in the bay area in recent years, there's a lot of talk about gun reform, and new this morning, if you're planning on buying a firearm in san jose, be prepared to be recorded while purchasing it. "today in the bay's" sharon katsuda is live at city hall with more on that late night vote. good morning, sharon. >> reporter: good morning, cierra. the measures continue to be controversial, these measures stem from 2019 after the gilroy mass shooting. >> jones? >> aye. >> losar do? >> aye. >> reporter: the measures proposed in 2019 resurfaced after th

joining us now michael mcfaul, former ambassador to russia under president obama and an msnbc internationalve spent so much time with donald trump meeting with foreign leaders including vladimir putin and everything that could and did go wrong, and now we've got this, i don't know this perverse normalcy on the world stage. we've got angela merkel, you know, suggesting the world is back together. we've got emmanuel macron saying the same thing. but niceties aside we're not going to have joe biden pushing world leaders aside and snubbing world leaders and sayingnisty things about them and fighting with canadians which i always say is amazing, but there's actually work to be done. there's work joe biden has to get done including in his meeting with putin. what does that look like to you? >> first of all, thanks for playing this clip. i kind of forgotten just how horrible it was when talking to our allies. president trump offended our allies and befriended vladimir putin, the person in his view were the enemy and yet he tried to be his friend. so it's the exact reverse, and it is a welcome chan

former russian ambassador michael mcfaul says that at president obama's summit with putin, putin spent monologue, talking uninterruptedly about how much he hates the united states and how he feels very aggrieved by everything about the united states. so, i don't know if they've built in an hour for him to whine, but we'll see. after the talks, president putin will give a solo press conference and then president biden will give a solo press conference after him as well. all we can say for sure is they will have a very, very nice backdrop, and it will all get started, again, early tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. eastern time. that is when it all starts. that's going to do it for us tonight. "way too early" with kasie hunt is up next. ♪♪ >>> president biden says he is all set for this morning's highly anticipated meeting with russia's vladimir putin. with both leaders agreeing relations are at a low point. the question is will anything happen today to change that. >>> new york joins california in lifting most covid restrictions as state reaches a 70% vaccination rate among adults. the questio

now michael mcfaul had met alexei navalny precisely once, and while ambassador mcfaul is a very nice makes fast friends he is not that fast. as the ambassador to russia not only that mr. mcfaul continue to meet with russian opposition leaders and independent media, he went out of his way to be seen doing it as a sort of and bowed message about the u.s. government support for democracy, and for free expression and for a free press. in the united states, in russia, all over the world. and russian state media treated that like it was the crime of the century. they would do stake outs and released video montage is of every russian political figure, and independent journalist who ever visited the u.s. embassy. they would put the footage on screen over titles like, obtaining instructions from the u.s. embassy. like they caught these people being spies or traitors. president biden's summit meeting with president putin today was of course behind closed doors but when talking to the press after president biden spoke at length about how much discussions of russian opposition leaders like alexe

ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, who was with biden for his 2011 meeting with vladimir putin. >> david ignatius, i saw an op-ed yesterday in "the wall street journal" that was basically saying that biden was all talk and no action. brought up things like ukraine, georgia, you go down the list. and of course it was all the list of terrible things that vladimir putin has done since 2008. no american president has really had the answer to georgia, what we do with crimea. they threw in south china sea, just sort of little garnishing there. a lot of difficult issues here. not just for this president but for any president. what do you do with a problem like vladimir putin? >> so this has really devilled american presidents. putin is a tough customer to deal with. he doesn't want predictability. he wants volatility. he's a little bit like donald trump in that way. he likes to throw a grenade and see how you react. he's got a chip on his shoulder that now must weigh a couple tons. you can see that. one of the reasons he always slouches he has so much on his shoulder. >> by the way that c

former russian ambassador michael mcfaul says that at president obama's summit with putin, putin spent the whole first hour in a monologue, talking uninterruptedly about how much he hates the united states and how he feels very aggrieved by everything about the united states. so, i don't know if they've built in an hour for him to whine, but we'll see. after the talks, president putin will give a solo press conference and then president biden will give a solo press conference after him as well. all we can say for sure is they will have a very, very nice backdrop, and it will all get started, again, early tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. eastern time. that's going to do it for us tonight. i'll see you again tomorrow night. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> it starts at 7:00 a.m. eastern. that would be 4:00 a.m. pacific, but you're telling me, maybe four hours later, they will speak, which takes us up to 8:00 a.m. pacific, which means i might actually see that part, the part where they speak, because i'm in los angeles. so, i'm going to -- rachel, i'm going to have

. >> former ambassador michael mcfaul, familiar face at this network.tomorrow's big meeting as mcfaul, himself, has met with putin as has biden. as politico reports, biden plans to take a tough line with putin while maybe even eliciting a concession or two from the russian leader. such benefits his team has calculated are well worth the incoming flack from republicans they are getting for agreeing to the meeting in the first place. with us again tonight another good friend decorated combat veteran of vietnam, former battlefield commander in the persian gulf, former cabinet member, former member of the national security council he retired as a four star general in the u.s. army. general, look at it this way. if putin reported to a board of directors, he'd get straight up bonuses every year because think of what their wish list would have been six, seven years ago. get involved in brexit. get involved in an american presidential election if you possibly can. weaken the atlantic alliance that has kept the peace for decades. if you possibly can find an amer

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ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul noted, tweeting this.ely did it before. biden wrote in the "washington post" that he wants a stable and predictable relationship with russia. putin does not. he is deliberately provoking biden with this move. yet biden remains undeterred, his team out today with assurances that their meeting is still full steam ahead and the president has a clear objective when he meets with his russian counterpart. here's white house communications director kate bedding field on "morning joe" earlier today. >> president biden has been doing diplomacy on the world stage for all of his career. he's known president putin for a long time so this is going to be a direct conversation. he's going to raise a lot of the issues where we have real differences and real concerns. of course, that includes human rights. that includes incursion on the ukrainian border. that includes cyberattacks and the responsibility that russia has when malign actors in their country are executing the kinds of attacks that we've seen of late. so these

ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you so much for making some time for us this hour. claire mccaskill is not going anywhere yet. >>> when we come back, a new report reveals another subpoena was issued for another key figure who ended up inadvertently on donald trump's enemies list. it is sparking demands for an investigation and new promises from biden's doj they will do so. plus, texas democrats taking democracy into their own hands. lawmakers there will be descending on washington this week to make their case. the pressure campaign is on. all those stories and more when "deadline white house" continues after a quick break. don't go anywhere. a quick break. don't go anywhere. hearing is important to living life to the fullest. that's why inside every miracle-ear store, you'll find better bedtime stories. you'll find a better life is in store at miracle-ear, when you experience the exclusive miracle-ear advantage. it starts with our free hearing assessment. plus innovative products that fit your needs and budget. with free service and adjustments for life. we're so co