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The men will first meet with a single aide for each in the room, then the meeting will expand to include more officials after the talks biden and putin will hold separate at least as of now separate news conferences potentially that could change, but thats highly unlikely. so the stakes here are clearly enormous. joining us here in geneva cnns chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen. but first lets get straight to our moscow corresp...

Russian propaganda aligns with a lot of the lies you hear from the former president. >> the former president trump. even while biden is here on a critically important summit is really railing against the current president of the united states. politics does not necessarily stop at the waters edge, at least not now. david, thank you very much. jim sciutto will stick around. lets go back to new york, laura jarrett is on the scene for us there. >> thanks, wolf. president biden set to meet face-to-f...

Know, i cant see president putin giving an inch on any of those issues. so it promises to be a very tense encounter indeed. i think thats reflected in the fact that they decided not to have a joint press conference and will be having news conferences separately. >> back to back news conferences. stand by, matthew. jim sciutto i just want to get your thoughts. most experts dont believe theres going to be a radical change in u.s./russian relations as a result of this summit but theres so much at s...

Adversary. >> this will be the first meeting when the two men since mr. biden became president. they are starkly different missions with president biden trying to restore americas diplomatic credibility, as president putin works to undermine it. lets return live to geneva and cnns wolf blitzer. hi, wolf. >> hi, guys, thanks very much. final preparations clearly under way right now for the start of this historic summit. president biden he is already here, spent the night here fresh off two largel...

Heard anybody talk about crimea. that is one of those issues. you talk to russian officials and they will say we are not going to talk about that subject because we believe crimea is ours. difficult arms control also as well. i think one of the things that is really going to be a tough subject at this summit and we have heard it from the russians and u.s. is going to be the whole complex of cyber hacking, cyber hacking, cyber warfare, disinformation. the russians clearly view that being militari...

>> it has. listen, theyve got a naval base in the mediterranean now, too. thats a change we dont talk about a lot in the last several years, but its a big one in terms of their influence and their muscle flexing in and around europe and in and around nato. >> im told that syria will be a subject of discussion between the russian and american leaders during the course of this summit. there are significant issues in syria right now and a lot of people are still getting killed. >> a lot of people a...

Foreign policy that he believes is his strength. >> decades, right? that is his resumé and hes met putin before as vice president when he said famously, right, i dont think you have a soul. someone who has experience standing up to putin. its interesting to me as you look at this summit here biden is approaching this in a you might say much more realistic way than several of his predecessors. each president, george w. bush came in, obama came in and trump came in saying we can reset this, right...

Impressive older man, but there is still that level, there is still that level of trolling. i watched some tv last night, russian state tv of course, in which they deliberately took sound bites from president biden where he said, um, im not quite sure. so he looked -- you know, not quite in command and these are the things that continue to go out because its very important for president putin domestically for his own audience to look like a strong leader, on top of things, doesnt really need thi...

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Russia was planning for a further innovation that have country and alexei navalny his life was this danger, severe concern within the state department that he might die. at that point u.s./russia relations on a press a tis. those troops on the board of ukraine were pulled away, navalny is getting medical care, but those pig picture issues remain. in the negotiations for this summit both sides deliberately allowed for flexibility in the timing here and yes four or five hours of talks today but th...