to face summit last summer. in geneva he got one. president putin wanted talks on nato's footprint in europe. this week, he got them, too. i was going to ask you, on that subject, it appears as if putin demands and biden delivers. given how critical he was of his predecessor cosying up to the kremlin, what is he up to? well, there's a chess game going on and the consequences are catastrophic here. we've got a mercurial, dictatorial leader in russia who wants to recover greater russia, who is still bruised deeply by the break—up of the soviet union and nato's expansion into eastern europe, and he said he wants ukraine, he wants guarantees that ukraine will neverjoin nato. and nato has said that's just not possible and not going to happen. and i thinkjoe biden is trying to find ways to conciliate, to give putin a way out