Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to Climate Change to recent cyberattacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for rusamericans detained in russian. There will not be a joint news conference. Our team is covering every angle. We begin coverage with cnn chief National Affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. Tell us whats happening right now. We were
white house and natasha bertrand as well. natasha, what prompted these comments from president biden, war criminal? reporter: well, john, white house press secretary genjen ps said they came from the heart. after seeing images for days after the atrocities of ukraine, the potential use of cluster bombs, targeting humanitarian corridors, pictures we saw of people being held against their will in a hospital, and of course the shelling of this bomb shelter in mariupol, this just came out. and it s not, you know, uncommon. this is something that prime minister boris johnson has also said. he called it earlier war crimes that vladimir putin was committing. but for him to be the highest level u.s. officials to call these atrocities war crimes by president pune. this is not the first time he
talk about all of these matters. of course, it began with a handshake, and we saw a chaotic moment inside the room there, but then we do not know what the conversation how it unfolded after that. that will be up to the white house and the kremlin to really shape their own narrative about this. we re already getting a sense of that. a u.s. reporter asked president biden in the photo opportunity there if he trusts vladimir putin. it appeared that president biden nodded in the affirmative. a few minutes after that white house press secretary genjen ps was not nodding in the affirmative, but acknowledging the scrum in the room, a sign from the white house that president biden does not necessarily trust president putin. all of this is happening as