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President biden says the u.s. will respond to russian aggression but he also called putin and he called him a worthy adversary. what does that tell you ahead of their face-to-face meeting here in geneva? >> reporter: tells me he wants this to be as constructive a meeting as he can be. every one is sdg biden and secretary of state about whether you'll hit the russians hard for the things the russians are doing that we don't like. the cyber hacks, the support for the belarus dictator. the human rights abuses, the treatment of navalny. we see the biden administration saying i want to see if there...

Jessica, thank you very much. let's get some more on all of this. joining us democratic congressman jim himes of connecticut. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. clearly there's still so much we don't know about this situation. why hasn't the biden justice department answered crucial questions about these investigations? >> reporter: well, wolf, and it's good to be with you. i would say i think they are probably being very, very careful here because i suspect that they like the rest of us, don't know how far this extends. it's shocking enough in and of itself that journalists had their...

Same time. biden would like this meeting to go as well as possible. i think we'll be surprised by some of the opportunities that biden hopes he will see. he was involved in the imf back when he was senate foreign relations committee. he like to see more of that with russians. >> very fantastic. it's interesting because you covered putin for a long time. president biden said he's ready to deliver a frank message. were you surprised to hear him dodge the question whether he still thinks that putin is a killer? >> what u.s. officials have been saying, what biden has been saying time and again is ...

Thanks so much. appreciate it. follow me on twitter or tweet the show. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." : breaking news, president biden vows putin a worthy adversary. the list of targets keep growing.

Also seeking areas of coope cooperation. whether those can be established and the president can hit the marks or goals he's laying out. we'll have to wait and see for a couple of days. >> yes, we will. phil, jeff asked president biden whether or not he thought putin was a killer. how did the president respond to that? >> reporter: it was a very interesting response to a very good question by our colleague. this came up in an interview earlier in the year and he confirmed he believed vladmir putin was a killer and asked if he still does, this was how he responded. >> vladmir putin laughed at th...