he's the president of turkey. just wanted to clear that up. max, what are some of the potential pitfalls with putin that president biden needs to avoid? >> well, obviously the big danger is you don't want to seem to elevate putin in the eyes of the world. he is not the equivalent of the president of the united states. "a," he's not democratically elected and "b" russia is not the same level as the united states. it's an economic pygmy compared to us, equal to us or close to us in nuclear weapons and that's about it. we have to deal with them but we have to be clear that we are not going to allow putin to hijack the summit for his personal self-promotion, which is what he did so successfully with trump and i think it's a smart thing that biden is doing by not holding a joint press availability afterwards, with putin. obviously we all remember what happened in helsinki in 2018, one of the low points of the trump administration, where, you know, trump seemed to kowtow and