Doocy is from Fox News, of course. Lol.
US President Joe Biden has warned Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin about election meddling in their first call, the White House says.
The conversation on Tuesday afternoon included a discussion about the ongoing opposition protests in Russia and the Start nuclear treaty.
Mr Putin congratulated the new US president on winning the election, according to a Russian statement.
Both parties said they agreed to maintain contact moving forward.
Former US President Donald Trump was accused by critics of not being forceful enough with Mr Putin. US intelligence officials say Moscow has been involved in several US hacks.
Former President Barack Obama – under whom Mr Biden served as vice-president – was also accused by critics of weakness on Russia, and failing to check the Kremlin as it annexed Crimea, invaded eastern Ukraine and muscled in on Syria.
“President Biden made clear that the United States will act firmly in defence of its national interests in response to actions by Russia that harm us or our allies,” a US statement said.
A readout of the call from the White House said that the two presidents also discussed the massive SolarWinds cyber-attack, reports that Russia placed bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan, and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny.
The Kremlin’s readout of the call said Mr Putin, “noted that the normalisation of relations between Russia and the United States would meet the interests of both countries and – taking into account their special responsibility for maintaining security and stability in the world – of the entire international community”.
“On the whole, the conversation between the leaders of Russia and the United States was of a business-like and frank nature,” the Kremlin statement added.
Recall that when Trump took over he was royally pissed at Mike Flynn for not telling him Vlad called on the first day because he was dying to talk to him. Protocol is that the president returns the calls of allies first, but then Trump considered Russia an ally, for good reason.