Ben Rhodes - US Deputy National Security Advisor (2009-2017)

President Biden is in the middle of his first overseas tour, taking in the G7, the EU, Nato and a meeting with Vladimir Putin. America, he says, is back - another way of telling the world the Trump era is well and truly over. But how easy is it proving to be for the Biden administration to set the United States on a new course? Stephen Sackur speaks to Ben Rhodes, a key national security adviser to Barack Obama through his eight years in the White House. Is the US in any position to lead a much-touted global alliance of democracies?