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US President Joe Biden says that both Hamas militants attacking Israel and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in his invasion of Urkaine are seeking to "annihilate" neighboring democracies. "Hamas and Putin represent different threats, but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy," Biden says in a rare televised address from the Oval Office. SOUNDBITE
"I know him well and I know the danger he presents to our democracy, and we’ve been down this road before," US President Joe Biden says of former President Donald Trump, whom he could face next year in a rematch of the 2020 US presidential election. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden urges leaders of the Americas to prove the dividends of democracy as he opens a summit bringing most of the hemisphere's leaders to Los Angeles. "When democracy is under assault around the world, let us unite again and renew our conviction that democracy is not only the defining feature of American histories but the essential ingredient to the Americas' future," Biden says. SOUNDBITE
Images of US First Lady Jill Biden arriving at the presidential palace in Quito to meet with Ecuador's first lady, María de Lourdes Alcivar. Ecuador is the first stop on Biden's six-day Latin America tour with other scheduled stops in Panama and Costa Rica. IMAGES
US senators dealt a death blow Wednesday to President Joe Biden's push to defend voting rights against what Democrats frame as an all-out assault by conservative states targeting racial minorities. Facing a Republican blockade, the ruling Democrats were unable to push through two major bills already passed by the House of Representatives, or trigger the "nuclear option" of doing away with the 60-vote threshold required to advance legislation in the 100-member chamber. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).