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For about four to five hours tomorrow. of course that is subject to change depending on how those meetings are going. one thing that we do know is they say nothing is off the table when it comes to topics. but when it comes to actually what's on the table, there are not going to be any shared meals between the two delegations, which of course does speak to the level of formality that the white house is bringing to these first talks with putin. kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in geneva. >> folks, kaitlan opened her report with some of the history in geneva and the summits wit...

Alliances, making -- expanding the reach of democracy, which is what he was able to do with mckale gorbachev and his handling of the collapse of the soviet union. those were central to his world view. also central to his world view was a certain kind of gentility. i use the word class only in the best sense of that word, maybe another term would be the sense that having been born to privilege, he had an obligation to serve. and that the presidency wasn't really about him. it was about what he and his team could do for the country and for the world. and there's a contrast. i'm reluctant to pain...

Putin who is in paris for tomorrow's commemoration of the d-day landings in normandy. joining me is michael mcfall. ambassador, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> so, we're in a situation where the white house has pushed hard to ramp up the sanctions, to have a threat of sanctions that was pretty explicit. wasn't the president undermined by his own european allies? >> well, no, i don't think so. i think this was a success that they hthe g-7, first time in 17 years and you have to go back, they first invited mckale gorbachev in 1991 though he wasn't a member. this is an unprecedented event....