Joe Biden wooed many on his tour of Europe. It'll take much more to fix the damage wrought by Trump
CNN
Joe Biden's first overseas trip as US President -- a whistle-stop diplomatic tour of Europe -- achieved its primary goal of signaling to America's closest friends that it was ready once more to lead the Western alliance.
Yet, while European leaders were delighted to see a US President extolling the values of multilateralism and Western stability, it's going to take a lot more than a week-long visit to fully repair the damage done by four years of erratic hostility under Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump. Indeed, for the bulk of Trump's time in the White House, European officials conceded the election of an anti-European in the US was a wake-up call for them after decades of assuming that America would always have their best interests at heart.Over and over at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democratic senators confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about controversial comments they said he had made in the past. And over and over, President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of health and human services either denied having said those things or said he wasn’t sure he had said them.
Investigators are intensifying their search into what caused the collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army Black Hawk helicopter, with recovery crews still working to pull wreckage from the Potomac River and initial concerns already raised about the path of at least one of the aircraft.