administration come in like that of donald trump that's going to throw out agreements that the united states had made? and so i think one of those questions that world leaders have is america -- you know, does it have a national foreign policy or just a partisan foreign policy? so that helps. i also think the other issue on the agenda here is ukraine, and i think that's something president biden is going to bring up with xi if only to point out the u.s. sticks by its friends and russia has not done very well with its territorial war of aggression. >> speak of russia one world leader that won't be at the g20 summit is of course vladimir putin. earlier this week biden spoke about negotiating brittney griner's release with the russian leader. let's take a listen to what he said. >> my guess is, my hope is that now that the election is over that mr. putin will be able to discuss with us and be willing to talk more seriously about