“He will pay a price. We had a long talk, he and I, when we -- I know him relatively well. And the conversation started off, I said, 'I know you and you know me. If I establish this occurred, then be prepared,” Biden said.

The United States' chief intelligence office on Tuesday released an unclassified report on foreign meddling in the 2020 election that concluded “President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia authorized extensive efforts to interfere in the American presidential election to denigrate the candidacy of Joseph R. Biden Jr., including intelligence operations to influence people close to former President Donald J. Trump”.