Formidable adversary. President bidens hope is to open the lines of communication with russia. He wants to stop any further deterioration in the relationship which he admits has reached a new low point. Theres a lot on the agenda from nuclear arms and Climate Change to recent Cyber Attacks and a potential Prisoner Swap for americans detained in russia. There will be no, repeat, no typical joint News Conference afterward. Instead each lead letter hold his own press briefing. The white house is determined to avoid the kind of embarrassing spectacle we witnessed back in 2018 in helsinki when then President Trump took the stage with putin and said he believed the russian leader over his own, his own u. S. Intelligence agencies. The long awaited biden putin summit takes place next hour at the historic villa la grange. Our team is here covering every monumental level and the stakes are enormous. Lets begin with natasha. Who will be there . How will it be structured . Yeah, wolf. So the format of this meeting is not going to look or feel anything like helsinki in 2018. The russian president is expected to arrive at this lakeside villa around 1 00 p. M. Local time or 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. A group of officials have already arrived at that is up mitt location. President biden is expected to arrive shortly thereafter President Putin and there will be a brief meeting with the swiss government. After that they will go into their first meeting accompanied by two of their most senior aides. On the u. S. Side it will be the Secretary Of State anthony blink condition, on the other side sergey lavrov. After that there will be an expanded meeting with five members on each side. There will be a group with biden, a group of state Department Officials, his National Security advise eric the u. S. Ambassador to russia, and on the russian side there will be a group of top aides to president Vladimir Putin in an expanded meeting there. Important to note, there will be no joint conference after the meetings. Thats to primarily avoid the spectacle we saw with President Donald Trump and President Putin in helsinki in 2018. The white house does not want to put the president and the russian president on kind of the same level and have this devolve into a tit for tat with the russian president trying to undercut the u. S. President and undermining any good conversations or progress they would have made throughout the day. This is going to be very different from what we saw in 2018, wolf. Whether or not there will be deliverables coming out of this, of course, is an entirely different question. Yeah. I was in helsinki for that joint News Conference. Clearly putin would have loved to have a joint News Conference, not so much the president of the United States. Thats why there wont be a joint News Conference. Natasha, thank you very much. Whats on the line . There are multiple issues President Biden and putin will discuss. Joining us to discuss that is kylie atwood. Kylie, Set The Seencene for us that. Theres a lot on the table, wolf. First of all i want to talk about cyber hacking. This could be the most challenging but most critical issue that is on the table today. Thats because we have seen these recent Cyber Attacks carried out against u. S. Companies, agencies in recent months. This is really high stakes for the u. S. Will President Biden lay down any red lines to say to President Putin, stay away from Critical Infrastructure in the u. S. And power plants. This is an area to keep an eye on. Challenging because putin denies any involvement in the recent Cyber Attacks. Another is Election Attacks. This has been critical in the last recent years. Russia interfered in the u. S. Election in 2016, a and in 2020. They deny involvement. This is expected to be another issue thats on the table today. Another thing we do expect to come up, ukraine. In recent months, we have seen this Russian Military buildup along the ukrainian border. The u. S. Has been very clear in that theyre supportive of ukrainian sovereignty, and this is an area where President Putin has said, listen, this is our area of the world, stay away. So this is another challenging topic. Now, navalny, he is the russian opposition leader. Hes jailed in russia right now. Yesterday President Biden said his death would be a tragedy if he died. It would affect negatively russias relations with the world and the United States. Russia does not want to address this topic. Navalny is someone putin sees as a threat and as an internal matter. He doesnt want to discuss it. The white house says this will come up. This, of course, brings us to human rights generally speaking. Theres been a crackdown on Opposition Voices in russia. This is something the white house has also said will come up today. Theres a long list, wolf. Then we have americans who are detained in russia. Two of those folks, paul whelan and trevor reed. I can tell you that their families are watching this summit extremely closely. Theyre two former u. S. Marines. Could there be a Prisoner Swap . Could the president s lay down some conversations for the future to release these two americans detained in russia . And then the expulsion of diplomats. This is one topic that both countries do want to discuss. It has been a dramatic downturn in diplomats, Russian Diplomats in the u. S. , u. S. Diplomats in russia in recent years, and that has negatively impacted diplomacy between the two countries. Know both of the ambassadors, the ambassador here in washington was called to moscow months ago. The u. S. Ambassador came back To Washington as well. And so this is an area where we could potentially see some forward movement. Will the ambassadors go back to those countries and begin some normal workinglevel diplomacy . The last area i want to discuss with you is Nuclear Stability and arms control. This is an area where actually both of the sides have said they want to discuss this. This is an area where they could potentially build upon Nuclear Arms Agreements between the two countries, and its an area where essentially if both of the president s give the green light, their working teams could work on this in the future, and so this is one area where were going to be watching to see if theres any progress out of this hourlong meeting between these two president s. Wolf . Excellent wrapup of the issues on the agenda, kylie. Thank you very much. The white house says President Biden plans to press putin on key areas of concern for u. S. National security, and they say this summit will be nothing, repeat, nothing like the 2018 spectacle when putin met then President Trump in helsinki. Lots get more from cnns jeff zeleny. Jeff, youve been working your sources. What have you been hearing . Wolf, as we know, President Biden has been traveling to geneva. Hes described Vladimir Putin as an adversary. Can they establish a more productive stable relationship with Vladimir Putin . Thats what theyre 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 nations 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 lifes work in the Foreign Policy sector. He has met with Vladimir Putin before as Vice President and hes spoken with him twice on the telephone since taking office, once in january, once in april. But this facetoface meeting t white house believes President Biden was behind this. He said he wanted to have a facetoface 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 nato headquarters on monday how he could ever determine if he could trust Vladimir Putin. Reagan said trust but verify. What you do say about Vladimir Putin . I would verify first and then trust. Everything would have to be shown as occurring. Its not about trusting. Its about agreeing. So this is one thing that, of course, President Biden has in his mind, the history framing this entire summit. Of course, geneva was the site of a 1985 discussion between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev that ultimately led to the end of the cold war. President biden was already on the scene in the senate. He comes to this meeting with decades of experience. The question is will that matter at all . The white house is going into this meeting with a sense of allowing it to play out and talks. This is essentially going to play out as an act in two parts. The first, the meeting between President Biden and Vladimir Putin and their top diplomats and later a meeting with advisers. Were told this meeting could breathe. It could last longer than five hours. As you know from being in helsinki with President Putin and President Biden, well watch the timing. Will he make him wait for the meeting as putin did with President Trump. For all the preparations that have gone into this moment, theres also an air of unpredictability and what both of them want to get out of today, wolf. What kind of mind games potentially they want to play with each other. Thank you very much, jeff zeleny reporting. Russia stateowned media has reported putin has left socci, is en route to his meeting with President Biden in geneva. What are we hearing from the russian side about todays meeting . Cnns moscow correspondent, matthew chance, hes in geneva as well. What are you hearing, matthew . Reporter weve just been in contact with Vladimir Putins Press Secretary. There was some speculation that the plane from socci carrying President Putin has landed. It hasnt landed yet. Hell make his way in the next hour to the villa la greigange lake geneva. The meet willing take place very, very shortly indeed. In terms of what the russian expectations are, they are very low. The words are the framing the white house has been using as well. The fact that the meeting is be taking place at all is an achievement. There are areas of Common Ground, Climate Change, arms redu reduction. There could be joint statements signed on some of those issues. But the substantial core disagreements in this very fraught relationship between the United States and russia, i dont think anyone is seriously expecting any solid progress during this one summit here in geneva when it comes to Cyber Attacks against the United States, many of them emanating from russia. Dont expect any progress there. The Military Threat russia continues to pose to its neighbors, particularly ukraine. I doubt very much whether the kremlin is going to be giving any ground on that. When it comes to the election of navalny and the Opposition Activists who have been targeted and the groups who have been outlawed and cracked down on inside russia, according to the kremlin when i last spoke to them, they say theyre ready to inform President Biden about that, but theyre not going to discuss it. Its not a matter of negotiation as far as the kremlin are concerned. Yes, there are some areas of potential compromise. We heard our previous reporters talking about the possible exchange or return of ambassadors to each others countries, things like that. But, again, on those substantial disag disagreements, i think putin is going to be taking a very tough line. I suspect he will. I walked over yesterday to the villa la grange where you are. Theres Security Fencing and barbed wire all around, which, of course, is totally understandable. Matthew, well get back to you. Thank you very much. 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And many of us realize a fundamental human need to connect with other likeminded people. Welcome back to the world. Viking. Exploring the world in comfort. Once again. Welcome back to cnns special live coverage of this historic summit in geneva. President biden putting things to a test with Vladimir Putin. Its not at the first time the two leaders will be facetoface. A decade ago it was vice President Biden meeting Vladimir Putin with biden telling putin basically he had no soul. Reporter over four decades in politics, joe biden has plenty of experience in Foreign Policy. He has met with at least two russian president s and three soviet leaders, and today he will sit down again with Vladimir Putin. I have met with him. Hes bright. Hes tough. And i have found that he is as they say when i used to play ball, a worthy adversary. Reporter at the then meeting he told the russian leader, i dont think you have a soul. Biden who called putin a kgb thug took it one step further earlier this year. You know Vladimir Putin. Do you think hes a killer . Mmhmm. I do. Reporter this after he had his first phone call with President Putin. It made it clear to Vladimir Putin different from my predecessor that the day of the United States rolling over in todays acts by russia are over. Reporter by april the president ordered sanction on russia in response to Cyber Attacks and Election Attacks with a