NOW LETS SEE IF WE CAN
COOPERATE ON IT MOVING FORWARD.
IF WE CANT, THE UNITED STATES
WILL BE JUST FINE.
>> LETS LISTEN TO RACHEL
SCOTTS QUESTION TO VLADIMIR PUTIN ABOUT HOW HE DEALS WITH
PUTIN ABOUT HOW HE DEALS WITH
HIS OPPONENTS.
>> IF ALL OF YOUR POLITICAL
OPPONENTS ARE DEAD OR IN PRISON,
POISONED, DOESNT THAT SEND A
MESSAGE THAT YOU DONT WANT A
FAIR POLITICAL FIGHT?
>> Translator: AS FOR WHOM IS
KILLING WHOM, PEOPLE CAME TO THE
U.S. CONGRESS WITH POLITICAL
DEMANDS.
400 PEOPLE.
OVER 400 PEOPLE HAD CRIMINAL
CHARGES PLACED ON THEM.
ID LIKE TO STRESS ONCE MORE
THAT WE SYMPATHIZE WITH WHAT
HAPPENED IN THE UNITED STATES,
BUT WE HAVE NO DESIRE TO ALLOW
THE SAME THING TO HAPPEN IN OUR
COUNTRY.
>> CHAIRMAN SCHIFF, WHAT WAS
YOUR REACTION TO THAT MOMENT?
>> ITS THE SAME KIND OF FALSE
EQUIVALENCE THAT YOU HEAR FROM
PUTIN.
HE MAKES THOSE KINDS OF BOGUS A
ANALOGYIES ALL THE TIME,
COMPARING AN OPPOSITION FIGURE
WHICH HIS REGIME POISED AND
TRIED TO KILL, AND AS A RESULT
IS NOW BEING IMPRISONED,
COMPARING THAT PERSON, WHO IS
FIGHTING FOR THE ABILITY OF
RUSSIANS TO ASSEMBLE AND
PETITION THEIR GOVERNMENT, TO
PEOPLE WHO ATTACKED OUR CAPITOL,
KILLED A POLICE OFFICER, AND
THREATENED SO MANY OTHERS.
BUT THATS WHAT WEVE COME TO
EXPECT FROM PUTIN.
THE NICE CHANGE, FRANKLY, IS THE
REACTION OF OUR FORMER PRESIDENT
WOULD HAVE BEEN TO EMBRACE THAT
FALSE EQUIVALENCE, WHICH
PRESIDENT TRUMP REPEATEDLY WOULD
DO WITH PUTIN IN RUSSIA.
BUT WE HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT
PRESIDENT IN JOE BIDEN, WHO I
THINK PUSHED BACK VERY
FORCEFULLY IN THE MEETING WITH
REGARD TO OUR VALUES, HUMAN
RIGHTS, BRINGING UP ALEXEI
NAVALNY, EVEN THOUGH PUTIN WONT
MENTION HIS NAME.
AND ALSO MAKING IT CLEAR THAT
THE LAST FOUR YEARS WERE AN
ABERRATION.
THE UNITED STATES WILL STAND UP
FOR ITS OWN INTERESTS, CONFRONT
RUSSIA OVER THE RANSOMWARE
ATTACKS, OVER ITS BELLIGERENT
CONDUCT IN UKRAINE, AND OVER ITS
INTERFERENCE IN OUR ELECTIONS.
>> AMBASSADOR McFAUL, ARE
RUSSIANS ALLOWED TO SEE THESE
PRESS CONFERENCES UNEDITED?
DID THEY GET TO SEE RACHELS
QUESTION ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN
KILLING HIS ENEMIES?
>> YEAH, I THINK THAT WILL BE
LIVE, OF COURSE.
BECAUSE THATS THE PRESIDENTIAL
POOL, AND THATS LIVE.
BY THE WAY, LAWRENCE, JUST ON
THE PROTOCOL THING, REMEMBER THE
DISASTER OF HELSINKI WAS THE
JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE.
THE BIDEN TEAM RIGHTLY DECIDED
TO DO SEPARATE PRESS
CONFERENCES.
AND AN UNINTENDED POSITIVE
CONSEQUENCE OF THAT, THERE WERE
SOME FANTASTIC QUESTIONS FROM
AMERICAN JOURNALISTS WITH MR.
PUTIN.
IT DOESNT MEAN THAT THE
RUSSIANS WILL HEAR THE ANSWER
THE SAME WAY AS WE DID, BUT IT
WAS IMPORTANT AND IT WAS VERY
USEFUL FOR UNDERSCORING WHAT OUR
DIFFERENCES ARE IN ADDITION TO
THE SMALL STEPS OF AGREEMENT WE
HAD IN GENEVA.
>> LETS LISTEN TO WHAT
PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID ABOUT
ELECTION INTERFERENCE BY
VLADIMIR PUTIN.
>> I MADE IT CLEAR, WE WILL NOT
TOLERATE ATTEMPTS TO VIOLATE OUR
DEMOCRATIC SOVEREIGNTY OR
ELECTIONS.
AND WE WILL RESPOND.
BOTTOM LINE, I TOLD PRESIDENT
PUTIN THAT WE NEED BASIC RULES
OF THE ROAD THAT WE CAN ALL
ABIDE BY.
AND THERE ARE AREAS WITH A
MUTUAL INTEREST TO COOPERATE.
FOR OUR RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN
PEOPLE, BUT ALSO FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE WORLD AND THE SECURITY OF
THE WORLD.
ONE OF THOSE IS STRATEGIC
STABILITY.
>> CHAIRMAN SCHIFF, THAT STRIKES
ME AS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF THE
TWO SIDES OF THE COIN THAT THE
PRESIDENT IS ALWAYS DEALING
WITH.
DELIVERING A STRONG MESSAGE
ABOUT ELECTION INTERFERENCE, BUT
IN THE NEXT SENTENCE, TALKING
ABOUT AREAS WHERE WE CAN
COOPERATE WITH AMERICA.
>> THATS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD
WANT AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO
DO, AND ITS A LANGUAGE THAT
PUTIN CAN UNDERSTAND.
HE WILL NOW EXPECT, WHEN THEY
GOT INVOLVED, IF THEY GET
INVOLVED IN TRYING TO INTERFERE
WITH OUR NEXT ELECTION, THEY
WILL PAY A STIFF PRICE.
AND WILL USE OUR CYBER
CAPABILITIES TO DISRUPT WHAT
THEY TRY TO DO.
AT THE SAME TIME, PRESIDENT
BIDEN AND PUTIN RECOGNIZE, THERE
ARE AREAS OF MUTUAL INTEREST.
AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SO
MANY DIFFERENCES DOESNT MEAN
THAT WE SHOULDNT PURSUE THE
COMMON INTERESTS THAT WE HAVE,
FOR EXAMPLE, IN OUR NUCLEAR ARMS
AND DENUCLEARIZATION.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WOULD
WANT A PRESIDENT TO DO.
AND I THINK HAVING A DIALOGUE IS
POSITIVE.
SETTING OUT WHERE OUR RED LINES
ARE IS POSITIVE.
AND I DIDNT GO INTO THIS