as the risk of president biden showing up to the meeting versus declining and protest. i think the risk is giving putin this world stage, given, of course, what he s done and the fact so much has changed since the last time not only they spoke but since president biden and president putin saw each other, when they had this huge summit last summer about a year ago from now in geneva where they met several hours one on one and since then the relationship deteriorated to a point where russian experts haven t seen the relations between the united states and russia this low in decades and of course, biden called putin a war criminal said he committed genocide there and so i think that is that that s what they re weighing. also, when it comes to the risks of not going, the white house seems to think the most likely scenario now is that biden does still go and of course he said russia will be remove said from the g20, anderson, that s very unlikely to happen because it has to be a consensus
russia before the invasion of ukraine had actually happened, but i think what s notable they have not rescinded the invitation since it happened and do not seem poised to do so because they put out a statement today that there needs to be unity among these g20 nations, the leading industrialized nations in the world so doesn t seem they re about to change their mind on the sbrigds so that s what puts the united states and president biden in a weird spot of making this decision of whether they go and are in the same room as president putin of these meetings, you know how the summits go, often these family photos with all the world leaders in them, a lot of one-on-ones often with the world leaders and would be the first time biden had seen putin in person face to face since the invasion started so i think that s what the white house is weighing, what do they do here, boycott or does president biden go? what does the white house see as th
president biden s management of u.s. involvement in this war extends beyond the aid and arms intelligence being sent to ukraine, today russia indicated later this year, vladimir putin would attend one of the top economic meetings for world leaders, g20 summit in indonesia, a lot of time between now and then but already the white house trying to determine how to respond and even to attend while keeping united front among allies across the world, joined by chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins. so this is a strange situation, vladimir putin invited to this meeting, with indonesia hosting the meeting, any effort for them not to extend that invitation. reporter: so indonesia extended this invitation to