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The men will first meet with a single aide for each in the room, then the meeting will expand to include more officials after the talks biden and putin will hold separate at least as of now separate news conferences potentially that could change, but that's highly unlikely. so the stakes here are clearly enormous. joining us here in geneva cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen. but first let's get straight to our moscow correspondent matthew chance, he's outside the villa where the summit will take place a short time from ...

Russian propaganda aligns with a lot of the lies you hear from the former president. >> the former president trump. even while biden is here on a critically important summit is really railing against the current president of the united states. politics does not necessarily stop at the water's edge, at least not now. david, thank you very much. jim sciutto will stick around. let's go back to new york, laura jarrett is on the scene for us there. >> thanks, wolf. president biden set to meet face-to-face with his craftiest adversary, vladimir putin. it all starts in just a couple of hours so what ...

Know, i can't see president putin giving an inch on any of those issues. so it promises to be a very tense encounter indeed. i think that's reflected in the fact that they decided not to have a joint press conference and will be having news conferences separately. >> back to back news conferences. stand by, matthew. jim sciutto i just want to get your thoughts. most experts don't believe there's going to be a radical change in u.s./russian relations as a result of this summit but there's so much at stake right now nevertheless. >> no question. the fact that both leaders, both countries felt th...

Adversary. >> this will be the first meeting when the two men since mr. biden became president. they are starkly different missions with president biden trying to restore america's diplomatic credibility, as president putin works to undermine it. let's return live to geneva and cnn's wolf blitzer. hi, wolf. >> hi, guys, thanks very much. final preparations clearly under way right now for the start of this historic summit. president biden he is already here, spent the night here fresh off two largely successful summits with g7 and nato allies. president putin as you say set to land in about an ...

Heard anybody talk about crimea. that is one of those issues. you talk to russian officials and they will say we are not going to talk about that subject because we believe crimea is ours. difficult arms control also as well. i think one of the things that is really going to be a tough subject at this summit and we have heard it from the russians and u.s. is going to be the whole complex of cyber hacking, cyber hacking, cyber warfare, disinformation. the russians clearly view that being militarily maybe weaker than the west financially certainly as well as an equalizer and it's very difficult ...