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0 there's no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agreement on 29, february, 2020, the united states had 12,600 u.s. troops with 8,000 nato and 10,500 con...

Any of the allied world leaders, he made clear the meeting was integral to what's coming next. the meetings all serve as a through line to that meeting. the president wanting to show a united front. taking not just himself into the meeting but all the alied western democracied. he's played coy about what he will say when he sits down with the russian president and what he expects from that meeting. tonight, he made clear these are his allies. take a listen. >> i'm going to make clear to president putin that the areas where we can cooperate, if he chooses and if he chooses not to cooperate, and...

He claims he will return to power. welcome to our viewers in united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're coming to you live from geneva switzerland where we're covering the biden-putin meeting. phil, the president is clearly looking ahead to a summit with putin that will take place here in geneva. >> reporter: wolf, it's been the ever present element throughout the course of president biden's foreign trip. he have seeking to bolster the u.s. approach and the u.s. involvement in g7 in the nato summit here in brussels. through each meeting he had...

Operating within the safety parameters, wolf. >> this could be potentially very disturbing. there's more breaking news here in "the situation room." president biden speaking out about his upcoming summit with vladimir putin right here in geneva, switzerland, calling the russian president a worthy adversary and previewing what he plans to tell him. if you're 55 and up, t-mobile has plans built just for you. switch now and get 2 unlimited lines and 2 free smartphones. and now get netflix on us. it's all included with 2 lines for only $70 bucks! only at t-mobile.

Concludes that there is some interest in terms of his own interests changing the perception of the world has of him in terms of whether or not he will engage in behavior that's more consistent with what is considered to be be appropriate behavior for head of state. i found that he is a, as they say, when we used the play ball, a worthy adversary. >> reporter: you could hear president biden signaling he understands he's a very clear eyed view of the meeting he's headed into. an unpredictable world leader. one known to hi jack conversations and take them in different directions and undercut any ...