But we begin.

With the signs of progress and the fallout from President Biden's High-stake Summit with Chinese President, Xi. The first face-to-face sit-down between the two leaders and more than a year, President Biden emerging from the meeting, describing it as one of the most productive discussions they've had, but then just moments later, this happened.

After today, did you still refer to President Xi as a dictator?

This.

Is a term that.

You used.

Earlier this year.

Well, look, he is.

I mean, he's a.

Dictator in the sense.

That he is a guy that runs a country that.

Is a foreign country based on the former governor told me different than ours.

And that's the reaction from Secretary of State, Antony Blinkin, appearing to wits a little bit there after you heard President Biden call she a dictator in response to a shouted question. Abc News, Chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce, is traveling with the President and joins us from San Francisco. Mary, I want to start out. What were the deliverables? What came out of this meeting? And has there been any fallout from President Biden's comments reaffirming that she is a dictator?

Elizabeth, certainly not something that China was hoping to hear, that's for sure. They have been pushing back pretty strongly against that comment, calling it extremely wrong and irresponsible. Though it is something that the President has said before, and as you heard him there, he was pretty matter-of-fact about this. Yes, he is a dictator. He is the leader of a communist country. But the White House, while it may not be ending they were hoping to yesterday's historic day, this historic meeting between President Biden and President Trump. They don't think it's going to derail any of the progress made or undermine any of the strides they were able to achieve here. It is also worth noting that the Chinese in responding to this have said some people are always trying to drive a wedge between the US and China. They seem to be taking more issue with the question rather than the answer. They were, though, able to make what the President has called important progress. Two main issues stick out here, Elizabeth. The first being fentanyl, promising to take steps to try and curb the flow of fentanyl into the US to try and tamp down and clamp down on the production of the compounds that actually go into making fentanyl, which are produced in China.

I think this is one of those deliverables from a summit that really resonates with a lot of people here in the US. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their lives because of this deadly drug. It goes to show that these summits aren't just about lofty diplomatic goals. The other big thing, which is what the White House was really hoping to walk away from this summit, is a promise to reopen military-to-military communication. Those ties were severed last year after then-house speaker, Nancy Pelosi, visited Taiwan, something that deeply frustrated and irritated the Chinese. Now they are promising to speak again, and that is a very big deal. The goal here, of course, is that it will prevent any misunderstandings, any miscommunication from escalating into a future conflict. The President saying he looks forward to now simply being able to pick up the phone and talk to President Trump going forward and for their administrations to be able to have that open line of communication as well, Elizabeth.

Big areas of agreement there, Marion, and I'm curious, has there been any follow-up in the past day between the US and China and how they will actually follow through after this high stakes meeting is over now on those agreements?

Well, the fact that they are now going to be able to pick up the phone is certainly a very big step. And look, President Biden and President Biden, they have had a decades-long relationship, something President Biden mentioned yesterday several times. Though yesterday was the first time that they had talked, not just sat down, but talked in over a year. It comes, of course, as we know that the U. S. China relationship has been growing increasingly tense. And the President is trying to hammer home this message that they can be competitors, but that competition doesn't always have to lead into conflict. So the President is hoping, President Biden is hoping that at least sitting down, talking face-to-face, leader-to-leader yesterday, that that level of diplomacy is now opening up the door for them to continue that conversation. And as President she said, argued yesterday, there is room in the world for both of these superpowers.

And, Mary, with all of this going on, as we are seeing the President face a lot of questions from the crisis in the Middle East last night, how is he balancing these competing a huge foreign policy goals as he's continuing these meetings over there in San Francisco?

Yeah, obviously a lot on President Biden's plate right now. It was interesting at the press conference last night, he fielded, I think, an equal amount of questions on the meeting with President Trump, as he did about what is unfolding in the Middle East and in Gaza. I think what's interesting is how this actually came up in the President's meeting with President Trump. We know that he urged President Trump to use his influence over Iran to make it clear that Tehran and Tehran's proxies should not try to take advantage of this crisis, should not try to widen this war, and should stop attacking U. S. Forces in the region. Now, we pressed the White House about this this morning, and they didn't want to go into details about how that conversation went. The bottom line here is it's unclear what exactly was conveyed when it comes to she's role in this unfolding crisis and whether the Chinese received the message, Elizabeth.

Mary Bruce, traveling with the President. Mary, thanks so much. Now let's bring the big story to our panel. Joining us today, ABC news contributor and SiriusXM radio host, Mike Muezz, ABC news contributor and former Republican, Virginia Congresswoman, Barbara Comstock, Democratic strategist and President of Next Gen America Christina Sinsin Ramirez, and ABC news legal and defense analyst and former deputy assistant secretary for Defense for the Middle East, Mike Mulroy. Christina, I'm going to start with you picking up on some of the political implications of what Mary was just talking about there. Did President Biden undermine some of his successes that he's seeing with the agreements with President Trump and on this foreign policy stage when he makes offhanded comments like that, calling President Trump a dictator?

Well, we don't really fully know whether it was offhand intended or what it was, but what is good is that China set out of the meeting that they didn't want a wedge to be driven between United States. There were really, really important things that came out of this meeting. Not just the fentanyl being able to really close down that supply chain. When we had 73,000 people die in the United States last year from fentanyl overdoses. But also a effort to and promise to pursue efforts to triple renewable energy capacity globally by 2030 to tackle climate change. So we need what came out of this meeting to continue to move forward. And I think there are signs that that is going to happen because it is not just about a comment. It's about these really critical issues that matter to Americans, the Chinese, and globally. And I.

Do want to get to some of those issues, but, Barbara, I just want to go to you. Isn't there some truth to what President Biden said when it comes to the regime that China and President Trump oversees?

Exactly. I thought it was great that he said it, and he said it before. Unlike Donald Trump, who says he's a strong man and he admires that. And China itself proved that President Biden was right when they censored that comment and didn't allow it to be in the press. So I think you have to come at China from a position of strength. So it's good that he said that, while also working with them. Right now the US economy is growing faster than China's. And you have many of our companies doing less business in China. Many of our allies are doing less business in China. Many companies are bringing business back here because of the concern post-COVID. It's a different world post-COVID. So I think we should be approaching China, making sure we have good relationships, but also with an understanding that we don't have to necessarily trust them. And we also understand that this is a dictator we're dealing with, and we can't always take their word at face value.

Trust but verify, as President Biden said. Nick, I want to go to you. How significant are some of these agreements that Mary was touching on, this reestablishment of military to military communications between the US and China? What does that actually mean in practice?

Elizabeth, that is actually much more important than it might sound. Two militaries that are operating in the same space, whether it's air or maritime, right around the Chinese area, can really have problems, especially with the provocative actions that Chinese have been taking for many years now. If they don't have the ability to talk, some of those actions could be taken the wrong way and potentially lead to an escalation that neither country wants. So this is very important. It was the one thing I think they really wanted out of this summit, and it looks like they got it. We have to see that going ahead, but they agreed to it, and I think that's very important.

One of the other things, Mike, Muezz, that Mary mentioned was this agreement over trying to curb the production, the use of fentanyl. How do you think that plays politically, Mike?

I think politically it plays really well. We really have to look at in terms of what President G said, was that they will look at regulating the components or the manufacturing of the chemical companies that make actual fentanyl, which is actually really great first step in the supply chain. And then the second step that we saw President Chi in conversation with the President of Mexico in conversation about how those two countries can work together to curb the access of fentanyl into Mexico and working with it into the amount that gets to the drug cartels that comes up to United States. And so then to have President Biden double down on that aspect of it and really hold them to their word, as you said, trust but verify that dynamic when it comes to that, I think that's a really important political dynamic statement. And President Biden was really bold and strong when it came to that.

Much more to discuss. Thanks so much to Mike, Barbara, Christina, and Mic.

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