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We know the president has been preparing for weeks, he has -- the language has changed a bit, he is now calling putin a worthy adversary, less a killer, more a worthy adversary. so what's the strategy for dealing with putin knowing putin and what he's capable of? >> reporter: well, that's right, christine. he has been preparing for weeks and weeks, he actually met with top russia experts and former officials before he left on this trip to have them brief him essentially on vladimir putin and what to expect. of course, the russian president is notorious for throwing curve balls and trying to un...

Agreement with the eu, that was one of the sparks for russia's military occupation, destabilization in ukraine before. to fred's point it's amazing. seven years ago russia annexed crimea, you know, to great outrage around the world. it's almost a fate a come plea at this point. what's the last thing that happened that might change that situation there? big picture the status quo suits russia on a lot of these things. the status quo of cyber hacking, status quo on ukraine, they've got crime yarks big pieces of eastern ukraine. status quo in syria is also good for russia. they have established a...

That war ten years still going on, a lot of people still getting killed. for putin and you cover putin you've been to moscow, fred, many times, this is an enormous moment for him because he is a world leader on the world stage. he loves that. >> he absolutely loves that. one of the things that you have seen from russian state media from the kremlin as well is the fact that president biden as jim was just saying maybe those overtures to get that summit going in the first place, that was seen as a huge victory for the kremlin. it shows that vladimir putin is extremely important to the united sta...

I don't know. you know, president biden has chosen to give very few press conferences, he's been very disciplined. obviously a joint press conference with putin kind of elevates putin to the same level and, you know, he may have just decided that that's not the kind of message he wants to send. obviously he wants to recalibrate the relationship, president trump had a very strange relationship with putin, almost celebrating him. i think biden wants to be careful not to do that and i'm merely speculating here, wolf, i'm not exactly sure. >> yeah, i mean, it's really i think hovering over this su...

Welcome back. fresh off meetings with traditional u.s. allies the summit with russia's vladimir putin is a major political test for president biden. both leaders have acknowledged going in that relations between the two nations are at a low point. let's bring in cnn's jeff zeleny he's live in geneva for us. jeff, good morning to you. plenty for these two men to discuss today but what is top of mind for president biden? >> reporter: lawyer ration good morning. top of mind for president biden i'm told by white house officials is if he can see if russia wants to have really a productive relations...