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Degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. They lasted about two hours, the two president s as well as Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, Russian Foreign minister sergey lavrov. Larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. Good morning to you. Im jim sciutto Live In Geneva. Great to have you there, jim. Im poppy harlow live in new york. The sitdown comes as President Biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. So what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today . Theres a lo...

Also in case there's any doubts about how serious he was on this point, he started talking about genocide in donbas, a pretty sharp retort to something scholz said, an interesting exchange. scholz said that europeans in my generation can't imagine a war in europe. putin said i'm of your generation. i remember nato bombing yugoslavia. scholz retorts there was a genocide there. putin says there's a genocide in donbas. the mood doesn't seem to have shanked what i'm getting to i don't see a change in putin's core position. look around at his messengers for any signal that you want at this point bu...

Position. that's the opposite of what president putin was saying. he was prepared to engage in negotiations today. president putin was saying if there are to be talks, it has to address those core concerns of russia. here you have president biden saying we can talk about transparency on both sides of line. we can talk about arms control. we can talk about strategic stability but we're not going to go to the other issues. i think that was a clear message for president putin about the level where any traffic of diplomacy can go. it was interesting he tried to speak around the russian leadership ...

Trump on russia. how important is that difference between biden's approach and trump's approach? >> this is a very important issue. i'm so glad you asked it, jim. fundamentally what biden understands is that the world is stable because the united states and its allies have put in place a series of institutions, rules, norms, procedures that kind of regulate, regularize, stabilize. that's why we've had enormous changes over the years and haven't had a major war. for the united states to continue to play that historic role as stabilizer-in-chief, it needs to be clear, predictable. it needs to be...

Factories there. reporter: at this point start working elsewhere because i may do this so you or is this just all tactical pressure on china to say we're thinking about it? >> all of the above and one other point, which is just that the best place to build a factory is right in the united states of america. that's the president's core position. reporter: trade experts leave if it comes to a war between the united states and china that the u.s. can ultimately win because china needs us more than we need them but at what cost would such a war of attrition come and how long can you continue to pl...