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was vladimir putin -- vice president. it is not a symmetrical meeting, give us a criminology of who is in the room. >> first of all it is a big meeting, putin usually likes very small meetings. the first time president obama met with hem he demanded just a couple. usually military officers are not there. that signals they want to talk about strategy and it is very important in that kind of a discussion. >> who else is in the room that might signal from the russian side they might want to speak about it. >> i didn't see our special advisor for that, brett mcgurk. he might be, it's also important who is not there. general patrochev is not there. he is the equivalent of the head of the national security counsel. he is not part of the delegation, but the foreign policy advisor in the kremlin is there and he is a much more, not friendly, but a former u.s. ambassador, he deals with the americans. i don't want to overread it, but that is very interesting to me that he is there. >> that is what we used to do on the parades, see w

ahead of tomorrow's summit with president vladimir putin of russia. relations between the two countries are at their lowest point in decades — and mr biden has already said he will lay down america's �*red lines�* during the discussions on wednesday. a large group of israeli ultra—nationalist groups have taken part in an annual march marking israel's annexation of eastjerusalem in nineteen—sixty—seven. chanting, whistling and banging drums — the group's on a police—approved route — passing close to — but not through — the damascus gate intojerusalem's old city. here — an independent panel's accused london's metropolitan police force of �*a form of institutional corruption�* for concealing or denying failings over the unsolved murder of a private investigator nearly thirty—five years ago. daniel morgan was killed with an axe in the car park of a london pub. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. joe biden prepared for his geneva summit with vladimir putin by reassuring h

what was putin looking to learn? >> well, you talk about things that vladimir putin gained. we talk about an economic win. we talk about a political win. he also got a strategic win. vladimir putin got something that the american people haven't gotten. he had four hours with joe biden and an ability to conduct really a physical and mental assessment, evaluation and differential diagnosis and why that's important, maria, intelligence professionals when it comes to foreign leaders, whether it's videos or pictures, we look at every tick, tremor, is his handshaking, is that a spot on his neck, did he slur his words because that's important. you want to know the abilities, capabilities or limitations of foreign leaders and in this case, vladimir putin as you said, a perform kgb spy, seasoned intelligence officer, had four hours, directly, with joe biden. joe biden, someone who we all know fell up a flight of stairs for no apparent reason, twice, you know, someone who couldn't remember the name of his own secretary of defense, couldn't remember the name of the pentagon and someone

vladimir putin's forces still in ukraine, vladimir putin is backing the belarusian campaign despite all the pressures that the west is trying to bring to bear on that situation, vladimir putin is ramping up military deployments in the arctic. nothing that nato has done in terms of deterrence have changed vladimir putin's strategy. well, the main purpose of nato is to make sure that no nato ally suffers the same kind of aggressive actions that we have seen against the ukraine and georgia. we have been unable to protect, preserve and protect peace and since 2014, when we saw the legal annexation of crimea. that is the success of nato. we prevent anything similar happening to a nato country as we seen happening to other countries in the neighbourhood of russia. surely that is the minimum threshold of what you at nato hope to achieve over the last seven years? for example, even before you took over as secretary general, nato had committed, long—term, to seeing ukraine become a member of your organisation. over the seven years you have been in charge, nothing has been done to progress ukra

putin had only been president for a year and he asked him point blank, do you think vladimir putin is trustworthy and then-senator biden said no. i seriously doubt that that has changed and again, the white house trying to clarify he was not answering in the affirmative. they were simply acknowledging the reporters in the room. >> i just want to break in for just a second and say there's an extraordinary scene, there is a tank right below us on the street just rolling down the street here in the city as the swiss federation president when the first welcome said, a tank. there's a woman -- military in the tank and they've just been patrolling up and down in the street right below us and we're not -- we're in the opposite side of the lake, of course. it's quite remarkable that this city -- >> the level of security. >> you don't often see -- on the lakeside of geneva which is one of the most refined, sophisticated city anywhere in the world to see something like this, i don't think it's ever been seen before. in any case -- we're trying to get you some stills because our cameras. >> we'r

vladimir putin has done this many times before. we know he's not above using kind of hybrid tactics. he had a dog waiting for angela merkel at one meeting, knowing that she doesn't like dogs. but here we know that in fact biden too is a very experienced statesman, and he's done this before himself. so not quite in this format, but it will be quite a show. >> david, wifee've been talking about the cyber sphere and some of the attacks the u.s. blames on russia as far as the united states is concerned. one of the things that we talk less about is some of the alleged russian cyberattacks, disinformation also against european and european union countries. not only countries quite frankly. you also at this point in time have a big disinformation campaign, the european union alleges, for instance against mrna vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic. how important is that topic for european allies? what do they want the biden administration to do? and do they believe there's anything that can be done? because one of the things that the

the meeting itself is a win for vladimir putin. >> that apparently is vladimir putin's plane landing in geneva. >> he is coming. >> he's early. >> you get it from all sides. this is nothing new for biden and they certainly understand that. but he's being attacked by some trump people for not having the joint press conference, which of course seriously if you work in the trump administration, you need to be quiet about summits with vladimir putin. you have no grounds to stand on. but, there are other people who say he shouldn't have even met with vladimir putin. i personally just don't understand that. except in extreme cases. you meet with adversaries. whether you call them worthy adversaries or enemies. you get a chance to meet with them, you meet with them. richard nixon met with moa. >> that's the point, joe. russia is just too dangerous. and recent years been too volatile, too aggressive not to try to find some way to have stable, predictable relations. that's the phrase that the biden team is using. i think he is giving putin some of the respect that he craves. if that leads to

president says he believes vladimir putin is a killer. vladimir putin was asked what he thinks of the u.s. president. here's what he said. >> if you ask me what type of person i think president biden is, i can say that he is a constructive peon, well-balanced and experienced, a seasoned politician and i expected that. he recalled his family and conversations he had with his mother. these things don't have something to do with our business directly but nevertheless, it shows his qualities and his moral values -- it is all appealing. i believe that we spoke the same language. that does not mean we need to look into the -- that does not mean we need to look into the eyes and see the soul and pledge eternal love. we defend the national interests of our countries. this relationship is always based on pragmatism. >> teri schultz is in geneva, switzerland. good evening to you. these were very positive, almost flattering words for joe biden. joe positive about the russian president. what do we make of this positive spin that both presidents yeste

vladimir putin�*s forces still in ukraine, vladimir putin is backing the belarusian campaign despite all the pressures that the west is trying to bring to bear on that situation, vladimir putin is ramping up military deployments in the arctic. nothing that nato has done in terms of deterrence have changed vladimir putin�*s strategy. well, the main purpose of nato is to make sure that no nato ally suffers the same kind of aggressive actions that we have seen against the ukraine and georgia. we have been unable to protect, preserve and protect peace and since 2014, when we saw the legal annexation of crimea. that is the success of nato. we prevent anything similar happening to a nato country as we seen happening to other countries in the neighbourhood of russia. surely that is the minimum threshold of what you at nato hope to achieve over the last seven years? for example, even before you took over as secretary general, nato had committed, long—term, to seeing ukraine become a member of your organisation. over the seven years you have been in charge, nothing has been done to progre

putin.— of president biden's sparring with vladimir putin. , ,., , ., vladimir putin. they said they would keep talking — vladimir putin. they said they would keep talking about _ vladimir putin. they said they would keep talking about prisoner - keep talking about prisoner exchanges. they've got to americans, former marines who are there on trumped up charges and there are two people in american prisons, to russians, who have committed much more serious crimes. as a former cia operative, how would you feel about a prisoner swap? presumable you have been involved in them before. is a been involved in them before. is a difference been involved in them before. is —. difference between a prisoner swap and a spy swap and i think we're coming up on a rather big one but this had to do with intelligence officers or assets caught on each side. in this case, the russian, summoned by the name of victor boat, is injail, and arms officer. president biden is under pressure from the families. this is something that's going to give him sleepless nights. there are families who wan

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have to work with someone like vladimir putin? >> you know, we're here in geneva where ronald reagan met with mikhail gorbachev. reagan is on my mind because of that. he had a very clear strategy for dealing with the soviets that i think is appropriate today. engage when you can when it's in america's national interests to engage. and on arms control, controlling nuclear weapons in the world, i think that's in america's interest. and at the same time, contain the soviet union or contain today putin's belligerent behavior around the world and don't link those two things. a big mistake the presidents sometimes make is they want to cooperate on arms control so they're quiet about human rights. they're quiet about the list you just mentioned. i think that will be a big mistake for president biden. do both. engage and contain at the same time. but don't check your values at the door when you walk in to sit down with vladimir putin. >> step into the mind of vladimir putin for a moment if you will. we know he is a soviet. that's where he

he's described vladimir putin as an adversary. can they establish a more productive stable relationship with vladimir putin? that's what they're looking to determine. we do know cyber attacks will be a central theme of this conversation. president biden will press the russian president on the attacks on the critical nation's infrastructure back in the u.s. but, wolf, we heard president biden describe vladimir putin as a worthy adversary. when you step back and look at the history of all of this, president biden has spent his life's work in the foreign policy sector. he has met with vladimir putin before as vice president and he's spoken with him twice on the telephone since taking office, once in january, once in april. but this face-to-face meeting t white house believes president biden was behind this. he said he wanted to have a face-to-face conversation to see if he could have a productive relationship with vladimir putin. that is very much an open president. but as the president traveled here to geneva, we asked him at the na

nothing happens in russia without vladimir putin. the fact that kier simmons sat there and said are you a killer and then named all of the people, the opponents he killed, and two days before the summit having the courts there that he controls aggressively declare that navalny, the opposition leader, who was jailed, barely survived an assassination attempt from the kremlin, that his organization is extremist, is not only outlawed but is a terror group basically. completely decimating any ability of this opposition political group that had massive protests months ago. he is vulnerable. you can see his political vulnerability in the way he's lashing out against his opponents. the fact he said he can work with joe biden and that joe biden is not erratic, i forget the exact words, that he's more predictable, and biden saying the other day when he landed here, telling u.s. troops he wants a stable and predictable relationship with vladimir putin. putin has shown no interest in being anything but predictably aggressive. >> jonathan, the bi

not at or with vladimir putin. we do not expect many moments like that for the next four or five hours now that the cameras are out, plan for topics include the nord stream ii pipeline from russia to germany that critics claim helps russia corner the energy market in this part of the world, russian interference in american elections, americans jailed in russia, and cybersecurity, like that ransomware attack, both of them that recently disrupted american gas and meat supplies. >> i think putin has been testing this president, particularly with the cyberattacks that we've seen recently. reporter: when this trip started in england president biden got cheers from american troops when he told them he was coming here to meet with putin and let him know what i want him to know but the white house has since started tempering expectations saying they don't expect a big set of what they call deliverables today here in switzerland, which is hosting this summit because it's switzerland. it's neutral ground, and it was unlikely

meeting is vladimir putin. this is the point where and he's also elevating for beyond what he needs to be. it's an economy as large as it has been for ours. russia's economy is smaller than canada's, so why is joe biden going to meet with automate code and on neutral ground to elevate his in stature once again? it was uncalled for and i think the summit has been bad for america. >> to be clear with our viewers it was awaiting of the sanctions that were on the ceo of the boulder that allowed the continuation of the building of that pipeline that have been just a short time ago. going back to president biden's initial remarks there, as he was about to board air force one, he said, after all of this and the many meetings he had with world leaders over the past several days, would put a different face on what we have been, where we have been and where we are going he said. he said e.u. leaders are glad that america is back and he said he received many thanks from world leaders while on the ground there and thanks t

this is where he will meet with vladimir putin in their historic summit. that is coming up very shortly. as you saw, president putin is already there. they will be meeting momentarily. you're watching "cbs this morning." president putin prepares for these summits extensively, and usually tries to throw off the u.s. president. >> reporter: yeah, there have been interesting stories about that through the years. i was reminded the other day that years ago when he met with a major foreign policy figure forton, h w back to strobe talbott from a dissertation that talbott had written in college, trying to prove to talbott that he was, in fact, that well read in on the people he was meeting with. talbott apparently laughed it off because it was sort of seen as a -- a really comically -- just how detailed he'd gotten in reading the kgb file on him. yes, i mean, that's the kind of preparation we've seen. and russian officials much like white house officials in the last 24 hours or so have done a pretty strong job of also downplaying expectations, saying they're comi

vladimir putin has no intention about talk about this topic. when he was recently brought up in an nbc interview i want you to take a look at his reaction. >> will you commit that you will personally ensure that alexei navalny will leave prison alive. >> i perceive from the premise that the person you have mentioned the same kind of measures will apply not in any way worse to anybody else who happens to be in prison. >> his name is alexei navalny. people will note that you -- >> i don't care. i don't care. >> you see vladimir putin visibly irritate there had and joining me now from london is the executive director of alexei navalny's anti-corruption foundation which has just recently been declared an extremist organization in russia which is very, very grave for your organization. what do you expect from president biden in this summit and what do you hope he can achieve for alexei navalny? >> well, the u.s. president and the russian president have a wide agenda, it includes security issues, iran, china, climate change. i don't know what place w

president biden sees vladimir putin differently, as a model line actor who does not have the interests of america in mind and probably his prime interest is staying in power himself, there is good reason to believe vladimir putin will still be there until 2030. there is a high bar today which is why the white house is lowering expectations and we are not going to see these two together or get a measure of how they are beside each other. todd: 30 seconds on the final question, your tapped into the white house. do you get the sense the white house itself is confident that biden is up to the task? we've had a number of experts giving their opinions on the matter but is the white house confident president biden will delivered today? >> if they are not they won't say it publicly. the fact that there was no joint press conference does say a lot. the white house, we don't want to give putin a platform standing next to the american president but if you're a tough confident american president, he has a message for russia, you want to be seen publicly standing next to that leader delivering that

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the image of helsinki, of president trump and vladimir putin on the same stage. of course, president biden would act in an entirely different way but they do not want to sort of have that level of equality there with both the leaders speaking at the same time. so every white house official we're talking to said they're absolutely not going to do a joint press conference. something can always change of course during the course of the summit. they'll meet in a smaller group and larger group but, john, the mood here is one of anticipation and preparation. and interestingly, president biden was the last world leader to leave nato headquarters last evening. the sun had gone down. it was after 10:00 p.m. local time he had met with virtually every world leader talking about putin. really picking the brains of other the baltic leaders, german chancellor angela merkel. he's about as prepared as you can get. we heard the first lady say a few days ago he's overprepared. of course the stakes are certainly high, but the expectations actually quite low of what tangible effects

then they will watch as closely as we all are what vladimir putin has to say. from the campaign, i remember how they didn't -- the biden campaign weren't a fan of twitter. they thought there was often a misconception. the framing of the race, the stakes, the issues was never what they felt the broader public represented. they used twitter for rapid response. how are they going to be engaging? might we see -- >> live tweeting putin. >> i would guess that may be not the case. the philosophy is the same. you want to respond as quickly as possible. they know, even if they did a joint press conference together, which was very low in terms of expectations, that vladimir putin would still try to frame this on his own terms down the road. this is an interesting arrangement that they have now have where they can have the president come out and directly use his own message, speak directly and respond if he feels the president of russia, he misrepresented that conversation at all. >> typically, as it works on the american side, the white house will offer what's called thi

we learned when vladimir putin will arrive tomorrow. when you will see the coverage of the summit unfold. for now expected likely based on the timing we're getting from senior white house officials between around 7:00 a.m. and maybe noon, although likely later given that this thing, many experts say, will probably go longer than is slotted for. in the room for the first part of the meeting president biden, president putin, tony blinken, sergey lavrov. i want to thank you for being here as all of this has unfolded. we have so much more to cover here on msnbc, and we also have more on the show from foreign affairs to concerns about domestic terrorism. the fbi just out with a new warning for lawmakers over more threats of violence from online conspiracy theorists. next up, why they are sounding the alarm. ben collins joins us after the break. break. [lazer beam and sizzling sounds] ♪♪ ♪ sometimes you wanna go ♪ ♪ where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪♪ ♪ and they're always glad you came ♪ welcome back, america. it sure is

putin and the challenges dealing with vladimir putin. i always, though, remind uh the people, the only thing frightening and destabilizing than vladimir putin as the president of russia is what happens after vladimir putin. it could be quite chaotic there. there is -- he is a plan who has absolutely no secession plan whatsoever. if he were to leave the stage tomorrow, anymore who remembers what it was like in the early to mid-90s knows that's not necessarily a good deal for the united states or for international stability. talk about that >> i can. the way to think about this, having spent a lot of time studying and having been to the kremlin and so on, the russians in terms of leadership, they look for strong unitary figures and they kind of role the cosmic dice. and one time you get ivan the terrible and then peter the great. one time you get stalin, the next time you time you find it landing on another. those dice have landed, joe, as you correctly point out, on vladimir putin, who will be the czar of all the russians until the day he

president joe biden and the russian president vladimir putin. president biden arrived last night after meetings with g7 and nato leaders. he has prepared intensely for an encounter that will test his decades of experience on the world stage and his diplomatic skills with a truly, truly

>> well, vladimir putin got exactly what he wanted. you have to remember, maria, he had a pretty good year. i could e make an argument that the first five months of the biden administration has been have been the best of vladimir putin's political life. just from an economic standpoint, vladimir putin was 3-0 when it comes to pipelines. joe biden shut down the keystone pipeline, that was a win for putin. criminal networks in russia shut down one of our major poplines, the colonial pipeline, that was a win for putin, and joe biden responded by giving putin the one thing he wanted most, which was the nord stream 2 pipeline, the ability to finish that and control the flow of energy into western europe. so it had already been a great year before he ever got to geneva. but then joe biden gave him a political win. he invited the, a russian dictator who governs a country with an economy small, dwindling economy the size of the state of texas to sit down with him. and as a result of that, vladimir putin was on the world stage with equal billin

trevor reed, vladimir putin said he was a trouble maker and a drunk. perhaps they can do a prisoner exchange. paul whelan, he's been charged with espionage. >> martha raddatz with us every step of the way. martha mentioning the two former u.s. marines being held in russian jails. russia has repeatedly floated the notion of a potential prisoner swap. the white house saying no comment on that. we have no expectation of whether the u.s. expects any movement on that front. right after the summit, unlike the last one, there won't be a joint press conference. it will be president biden addressing reporters after president putin. they'll answer questions on their own. president biden saying he didn't want to be compared on the world stage to putin. he didn't want their body language to be read, who shook who hands. there were headlines immediately made when president trump took the side of vladimir putin on the world stage over his own u.s. intelligence community. i want to bring in rachel scott. she's one of the few american reporters who has been credential

vladimir putin leaning back in his chair. president biden quite frankly looks very comfortable in that room. >> he really does. they've had months of prep for this. joe biden knows exactly what he wants to say. we talked about helsinki where you were. donald trump had been prepped as well. something things don't go as predicted. biden has been very disciplined of late. he too can say things that are a little off script. >> i love the handler in the room. go away. go away please. >> not mincing words. >> we stay as long as we can and ask as many questions as they can. they do want to get the summit started. this is the eighth day of president biden's first international a trip. america's allies will be paying close attention. president biden has said he entertains ideas, opinions and advice from not only his allies at the g7, but at nato. cecelia, it was clear going into the summit that the white house believed that president biden would have the wind at his back if he could get our allies with him in this meeting with vladimi

but it's vladimir putin and he gets a vote. usually his vote is to be disruptive and try to undermine u.s. priorities. he will have his own readout of the meeting, as will biden. i think we know how the story will end. the story will end with the u.s. saying we're backing some values, we will be firm on the things we care about, and putin, i think, will be the often difficult leader that he is. the problem is, is this spiraling things like cyber hacking. we won't know that until a few weeks. >>> we're getting a ton of news from that exclusive interview between keir simmons and putin. what putin said made headlines, but also what putin did not say is making news as well. a couple examples come to mind, ben, specifically president putin refusing to answer directly about whether or not he would agree to not send more troops to the ukraine sovereign territory. president putin not answering directly whether he could guarantee if alexei navalny will get out of prison alive. that's how putin operates. you see president biden coming ou

i also have two questions about vladimir putin. the first is, have any of the world leaders you met with this week expressed concern that by meeting with president putin this early in your presidency, it will look like you're rewarding him? >> what's the second question. >> reporter: the second question is what it will mean for the u.s.-russia relationship if alexei navalny were to die or be killed in prison. >> every world leader here as a member of nato that spoke today, and most of them mentioned it, thanked me for meeting with putin now. every single one. i think there were probably 10 or 12 that spoke to it, saying they were happy that i did that, that i was going to do that. they thought it was thoroughly appropriate that i do, and i had discussions with them about -- in the open about what they thought was important from their perspective and what they thought was not important. and so the interesting thing is, i know -- and i'm not being critical of the press, i really mean this, give you my word. but generically you all th

is flattery. putin. vladimir putin is driven by his own fear of being overthrown by the russian people. he is a collector crowded, stolen enormous amounts of money from his own people. he, the people are, as time goes on, getting more and more upset, but they don't have the normal things that people should have in a middle income country. and so normally the anger would be directed towards their leader. but vladimir putin who has been in place for more than 20 years, has to redirect that anger. and so he's creating foreign enemies in order to redirect that anger. and, and so all of the things, the nasty things vladimir putin does are driven by his own fear of being overthrown . and we can't control that, that's all internally driven him. so it's naive to think that anything we're going to say to him is going to make him behave differently and for different us presidents of have of now the 4th $33.00 previous us presidents have all come to that conclusion. and so, if he's not a man to be negotiated with, he's a man to be contained and constrained by with his bad intentions. so what, wha

a divided america is good for vladimir putin. he tried to insert cyber attacks during the elections. america, including president biden have different interests including china. if you're vladimir putin in this summit, you're going to say i've got to get on the world stage with the biggest player on the planet along with the chinese, that is, president biden. already by having the meeting i think putin wins. i close by saying what's biden going to do about it? how is he going to confront russia? i don't see it happening. sanctions are already tough and putin get as what he wants. >> we're told president biden is en route. he should be arriving very shortly at the villa la grange where this summit will take place. president biden arrived moments ago. this is going carefully as scheduled. you're talking about putin has what he wants. what are d chances he has some information that could surprise vladimir putin? you know what? hang on one second. let's go to jeff zeleny on the ground. i think we're getting close to a presidential ar

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dan, you know that vladimir putin's brain very well. question the president watch out for when they sit down together next week. reporter: with the first thing know about vladimir putin is that his experience serving the kgb and then as director of russia's federal security service at the fmp internal security police. those at the heart of it by mayor putin is an intelligence officer and what he says publicly is for sure meant to influence, not inform rated in the second thing is that vladimir putin in some way similar to president of biden will be speaking to his own audience, his own constituents. in the parliamentary elections in september included my super terry himself to his own citizens as the only one to defend russia. the fortress from nato and other attacks. obviously not true that's the way that vladimir putin was his own countrymen to perceive the summit that vladimir putin is on a level playing field with the main enemy united states. any us to go toe to tell otto of the major issues today. eric: does vladimir putin benefit

here's vladimir putin on the question of alexei navalny. translation: first, this person knew full well that he violates the law that exists in russia, and he had to understand that he is a person that is a repeated offender. he deliberately violated this law. he went abroad to seek medical treatment, and once he went out of hospital and posted his videos online, a requirement appeared but he ignored the acquirement of law. and he knew full well that he is wanted. nevertheless, he came back to russia and he deliberately wanted to be arrested. so, he did what he wanted to do. so, how would the us respond if alexei navalny were to die, or be killed, in prison? here's president biden. i made it clear to him that i believe _ i made it clear to him that i believe the consequences of that would _ believe the consequences of that would he — believe the consequences of that would be devastating for russia. well— would be devastating for russia. we'll go— would be devastating for russia. we'll go back to the same point. what _ we'll go back to

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recess to sit down with russian president vladimir putin. the meeting in geneva will be the highest level face-to-face talks between the two nations in three years. . biden and putin first met in 2011 when then vice president biden said he looked into then prime minister putin's eyes and told him, he has no soul. they clashed again in 2014 when biden, speaking for the obama administration, condemned russia's annexation of crimea. today other issues on the table. from hacking to american rights. the meeting will take place in geneva's largest park. president putin will arrive at 7:00 a.m. eastern time and then president biden will arrive after. the three leaders will appear before the cameras where only the swiss president is expected to make remarks. then the meeting. secretary of state tony blinken will accompany biden for the first phase and putin will have his foreign minister and they each have a translator and five aides on each side and expected to last four to five hours with some breaks. after the meeting, president putin will hold a

vladimir putin does a lot of terrible things. it is not as if you can convince him to stop and badly. what you have to do is punish him, put in place very strong consequences for his bad actions , and those consequences, and my opinion, should be financial consequences. financial consequences for him and the people around him. so vladimir putin has a very vast personal fortune. those around him have as well. that is the one thing they respond to. so if he is going to be hacking our pipelines and elections where we can't respond symmetrically, we should be freezing his assets, and there's tools to do that now. there's the magnitsky act, which allows us to freeze the assets of human rights violators, and it is specifically designed with vladimir putin in mind. guy: do you think that is going to happen? if it is not going to happen, expectations for this meeting are incredibly low. putin has been through this cycle time and time again. is he just going through the motions here once again? bill: putin has the benefit of us having a d

network vladimir putin denied all of this. he said, where is worth the proof? he really said there was no evidence 12, this month's sort of a similar answer that he gave with respect to the meddling that has occurred recently. whether it be the colonial pipeline that affected how americans were able to get their gasoline for their cars or other sort of ransomware attacks that have occurred against us businesses. the allegations by the united states are that, that if russia hasn't ordered this, if this wasn't state sponsored, at minimum, these cyber hackers are being given safe harbor in russia and the one reputed flat out denies this. and so it's hard to even have some sort of agreement when you're starting points in your narrative. your basic facts are so very different. and after that we've been talking about this relationship a, it's really no secret that it doesn't appear. vladimir putin has a sort of any liking for joe biden, if you will. i mean, he went out of his way to say how much he liked the predecessor, donald trump. he described donald trump is bei

that, of course, is what vladimir putin wants. and i think the challenge for president biden, as he goes home, he had his engagement play. he did that today. he made small steps toward that. now his homework back home is to have a more robust, deterrent strategy or containment strategy for stopping and resisting those belligerent things that putin has been doing for the last several years. >> ben rhodes, word of the day, perhaps, is consequences. i think that's the word that most people have been using in terms of what the united states should be prepared to do to deliver what ambassador mcfaul was highlighting, a litany of violations committed by russia. what were your sxeks for this meeting? do we have a clearer sense whether or not the united states, after today, is prepared to exact consequences for the aggressions as ambassador mcfaul described them, being committed by russia? >> i think it wept as i expected, too. for putin, the achievement is the meeting itself, on equal par with the president in this third country, geneva.

what did vladimir putin want from this summit and did he get it? >> well, he wanted to show that he is an equal of the united states. that's why he made sure to let us know that he didn't want the summit, he didn't call for it, but he showed up. that's him showing his i'm above it all kind of, yeah, feeling. he also really clearly enjoyed his press conference. you could see him not really wanting it to end. he would say, okay, this is the last question, and then he would take a few more. i do agree with what ben rhodes said. putin doesn't really care about his position on the world stage. i think he decided after 2014, after the annexation of crimea and the u.s. sanctions and western sanctions that followed that it's better to be feared than loved, and fear is a kind of relevance and the fact that there is a media circus around this whole summit, that we're covering it live wall to wall, that twitter is part of it, there is a hoard of journalists there, i think that also gives putin a measure of -- i think he really benefits from this and he does g

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>> he's vladimir putin. i'm not going to get into much more than that because i've got to sit down with him and i'll be happy to talk after that. >> just to conclude, today he said russia would be ready to hand over cyber criminals to the united states if the u.s. would do the same to russia. and an agreement came out of this meeting coming up. are you open to that kind of a trade with vladimir putin? >> yes, i am open to, if there's crimes committed against russia, then, in fact, are -- the people committing those crimes are being harbored in the united states, i am committed to holding them accountable. i heard that. i was told that as i was flying here that he said that. i think that's potentially a good sign and progress. thank you all very, very much. thank you. i'm going to get in trouble with my staff. >> you have often said repeatedly that america is back. >> yes. >> at the same time you've kept in place some trump-era steel and aluminum sanctions. when you're having these conversations with european

the problem is unpredictability is vladimir putin's thing. keeping the west guessing about his next move — that's what the kremlin leader is all about. and he's unlikely to give that up unless it's on his terms. arms control and strategic stability — they may find some common ground here. but ifjoe biden raises the issue of human rights in russia, expect the kremlin to hit back. america is not perceived in russia as a democracy and of course, as a country being superior. i would not expect any great breakthroughs in the relationships, of course. but talking is better than not talking. and this is where they'll be talking, at this 18th—century villa. as he arrives in geneva, joe biden knows it will be a difficult conversation. don't expect one short summit to turn adversaries into allies. steve rosenberg, bbc news, geneva. i asked a specialist if you can see any positivity from the summit when expectations seem so low. t summit when expectations seem so low. ., , so low. i do see some positivity _ so low. i do see some positivity coming

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you have met vladimir putin before. what have you learned about him that informs how you approach this sitdown with him? and what's your mindset walking into a meeting with a former kgb agent who you said has no soul? president biden: i will tell you all that when it's over. look, i've been doing this a long time. the last thing anyone would do is negotiate in front of the world press into how he's going to approach a critical meeting with another adversary and/or someone who could be an adversary. it's the last thing i'm going to do. but i will tell you this -- i'm going to make clear to president putin that there are areas where we can cooperate if he chooses and if he chooses not to cooperate and acts in a way that he has in the past relative to cybersecurity and other activities, then we'll respond, we'll respond in kind. there need not be -- we should decide where it's in our mutual interests and the interests of the world to cooperate. and see if we can do that. and the areas where we don't agree, make it clear wh

vladimir putin has delivered to russia. a country almost doubled the size of the united states of america has an economy smaller than italy's economy. the economy of the state of california is almost double the size of the entire russian economy. the economy at the state of texas is the same size as russia's economy. the texas economy sustained a state population of 29 million people, the russian economy of exactly the same size, has to sustain a population of 144 million unhappy people. the russian army defeated germany and world war ii, and now the german economy dominates the region, because the soviet union in russia chose dictatorship after world war ii, and dictatorship has left russians far behind the germans, who they defeated in war. the primary reason american presidents must pay as much attention as they do to russian leaders is not the russian economy, obviously, but that russia has the second largest nuclear arsenal in the world. that was one of the most important issues, if not the most important issue, the pr

what specifically will you do differently to change vladimir putin's behavior? >> first of all, there's no guarantee you can change a bf a person's behavior. the fact may very well be if i respond in kind which i will that it doesn't dissuade him, he wants to keep going. but i think we're going to be moving in a direction where russia has its own dilemmas. >> why do you think hi hasn't changed his behavior in spite of everything the u.s. has done to this point? >> he's vladimir putin. >> the format of the face-to-face in geneva is being finalized still but we have learned after the meeting, both leaders will appear at solo news conferences. he's president biden explaining why. >> i think the best way for us to deal with this is for he and i to meet. he and i to have our discussion. i know you don't doubt that i'll be very straight forward with him about our concerns. and i will make clear my view of how that meeting turned out. and he'll make clear from his perspective how it turned out but i don't want to give into being diverted by did they shake hands? who ta