CHANCELLOR SCHOLZ: So, it's very good to have you here. (Inaudible) we can really do important things (inaudible) special time.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, there's a lot to do. And I want to compliment you on stepping up as you did when you became chancellor and moving in the way that you — had a great impact on the rest of Europe to move, particularly as it related to Ukraine.
And you're — you're one of our fastest and closest allies in the world, and we got to make sure we have this — us all staying together. You know we're going to continue working on the economic challenges we face, but I think we can get through all this —
CHANCELLOR SCHOLZ: Yeah.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: — and come out stronger.
CHANCELLOR SCHOLZ: And the good message is that we all made it to stay united, which obviously Putin never expected.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: And that was in no small part because of you — no small part because of you. Seriously. Because there was a lot of discussion of whether or not, in the transition — how it was going to work. But you've done an incredible job. I want to thank you for it. Thank you, thank you.
We have to stay together —
CHANCELLOR SCHOLZ: Yeah.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: — because Putin has been counting on, from the beginning, that somehow NATO would — and the G7 would splinter. And — but we haven't, and we're not going to.
So, we can't let this aggression take the form it has and get away with it.
So, thank you.
CHANCELLOR SCHOLZ: Thank you.
10:49 A.M. CEST
