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We know the president has been preparing for weeks, he has -- the language has changed a bit, he is now calling putin a worthy adversary, less a killer, more a worthy adversary. so whats the strategy for dealing with putin knowing putin and what hes capable of? >> reporter: well, thats right, christine. he has been preparing for weeks and weeks, he actually met with top russia experts and former officials before he left on this trip to have them brief him essentially on vladimir putin and what t...

Agreement with the eu, that was one of the sparks for russias military occupation, destabilization in ukraine before. to freds point its amazing. seven years ago russia annexed crimea, you know, to great outrage around the world. its almost a fate a come plea at this point. whats the last thing that happened that might change that situation there? big picture the status quo suits russia on a lot of these things. the status quo of cyber hacking, status quo on ukraine, theyve got crime yarks big p...

That war ten years still going on, a lot of people still getting killed. for putin and you cover putin youve been to moscow, fred, many times, this is an enormous moment for him because he is a world leader on the world stage. he loves that. >> he absolutely loves that. one of the things that you have seen from russian state media from the kremlin as well is the fact that president biden as jim was just saying maybe those overtures to get that summit going in the first place, that was seen as a ...

I dont know. you know, president biden has chosen to give very few press conferences, hes been very disciplined. obviously a joint press conference with putin kind of elevates putin to the same level and, you know, he may have just decided that thats not the kind of message he wants to send. obviously he wants to recalibrate the relationship, president trump had a very strange relationship with putin, almost celebrating him. i think biden wants to be careful not to do that and im merely speculat...

Welcome back. fresh off meetings with traditional u.s. allies the summit with russias vladimir putin is a major political test for president biden. both leaders have acknowledged going in that relations between the two nations are at a low point. lets bring in cnns jeff zeleny hes live in geneva for us. jeff, good morning to you. plenty for these two men to discuss today but what is top of mind for president biden? >> reporter: lawyer ration good morning. top of mind for president biden im told ...

A party along with the united states and of course syria, the middle east being a top concern of both countries. what were going to see today is a tightly choreographed summit, very -- very -- on message, very disciplined. there is not going to be a breaking of bread, there wont be meals that will be shared by the u.s. president and by the russian president. everything is going to be pretty tightly choreographed so there are fewer opportunities for the russian president to go off script but of c...