It seems increasingly likely Biden will sit down with Putin sometime after the G-7 summit, being held in the UK in June. It will be the Biden's first overseas trip since taking office
"We have seen this movie before and know how the dialogue between President Biden and President Putin will go,” @SenatorRisch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told @axios
.@SenatorRisch said Biden shouldn’t trust any commitments Putin makes and emphasized the president must implement sanctions before the summit aimed at blocking the Nord Stream 2 gas pipe
.@HawleyMO told @axios Biden should push European allies to do more to ensure their own security, especially in relation to Russia, while in London & Brussels
“We can't simultaneously resist Russian aggression and resist Chinese aggression. We just can't do both,” Hawley said
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NEW: Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice told members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee they're are concerned with Biden's plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with Rice suggesting the U.S. may need to go back axios.com/hillary-clinto…
“We had Secretaries Clinton and Condi Rice Zoom today with the committee," one committee member told @axios on Wed.
“A little disagreement on Afghanistan, but they both agreed we're going to need to sustain a counterterrorism mission somehow outside of that country”
“Condi Rice is like, 'You know, we’re probably gonna have to go back,'" amid a potential surge in terrorism, the member said
Scoop: @marcorubio urged Joe Biden on Tuesday night to immediately call on Congress to pass $2,000 stimulus checks as a sign of congressional unity, according to a letter obtained by @axios
"It would send a powerful message to the American people if, on the first day of your presidency, you called on the House and Senate to send you legislation to increase the direct economic impact payments to Americans struggling ... from $600 to $2,000," Rubio wrote
Scoop: On Tuesday, Reps. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) got in a heated back and forth on a text chain with all freshmen GOP members, according to sources who've read the text messages axios.com/captiol-riots-…
The conversation started when Greene — a fierce defender of President Trump and former QAnon backer — sent an article to the chain claiming the president’s approval numbers had increased in December
Mace, who came out early against Republicans who planned to reject the election results, fired back: “I’m disgusted by what you and other Q-conspiracy theorists did last week in the chamber after all of the violence.”
Exclusive: Pro-Trump super PAC America First Action has been tracking favorable/unfavorable ratings in FL, GA, MI, NC, OH & PA for Biden, Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg & Bloomberg—under the theory that if Trump wins each of these 6 states he wins re-election axios.com/pro-trump-pac-…
The spending isn't expected to begin until it's clear who the Democratic nominee will be, whether that's after next week's Super Tuesday or in July
The super PAC has pulled together about 500 pages of research on four of the five candidates, with about 300 pages on Buttigieg
I reviewed overall and state-by-state data the group provided on each of the candidates
Biden still enjoyed the most favorable numbers of those Democrats in each of the six states, but slid underwater between Aug 2019 & Jan 2020, from 46%-48%- favorable/unfavorable to 44%-50%