picture you re seeing next to ben, those are live pictures as the leaders arrive there in rome. so, kevin, turning to president biden, specifically, much. narrative here around this g20 has been around this idea of biden having to heal risks of allies, restore the very idea of american leadership around the world. i mean, that s a huge lift there for him. this is a subject you ve written about. so, how does he go about actually doing that? reporter: well, he starts just by showing up. and the president is, of course, very committed to the idea of multilateralism. his presence at the summit, just the enthusiastic presence here at g20 in rome can go a long way. that s a major contrast to the former president donald trump who is often at these summits somewhat begrudgingly, before the summits, asking his aides whether he has to attend.
kim. all right. and then, kevin, the other big meeting there, biden says with the pope, it was unusually long. what did you make of their meeting and the fact that it apparently touched on the political controversy of biden s very standing as a catholic? reporter: yeah, i think what was striking was the way that meeting sort of spans the political issues and the very personal issues. president biden, of course, very devout catholic, the second catholic american president goes to mass almost every week, once considered joining the priesthood himself. and that really was evident in the meeting with pope francis, and you saw that in the sort of scattered images you saw coming out of their greetings. the president very talkative, very warm with pope francis, this was the fourth time they d met. this was not the first time they met. and the white house saying climate is one of the issues that the pope wants to talk
powers, and the big economies can t agree on anything, then the world as a whole is going to have a hard time as well. so, it s going to be a challenge. and as i said, with a changing world, a rapidly changing world, unity at this point, and in confronting challenges is going to be difficult. yeah, but the u.s. may agree to something, but the question is whether they will stick with it, kevin. i ll ask you how does biden convince the world then that, you know from the u.s. perspective, our word is our bond. and it won t be broken by whoever controls the levers of power next? reporter: yeah, it s very difficult, you talk about the iran nuclear deals and the paris climate accord, those are all things that the former president withdrew from that this president wants to get back in. there s no guarantee that the next president, whether it s donald trump or another republican won t just scrap the whole thing again and we are
for the cop26 climate conference. cnn s ben weed dament and kevin c cliptak in rome. ben, big picture here, looking ahead to what s coming up. what are we expecting? reporter: well, what we re expecting a variety of subjects including climate change, a leadup to monday s cop26 summit in glasgow. they re going to be discussing this question of a minimum global corporate tax to be imposed on companies around the world. they re going to be discussing, as you said, the global supply chain crisis. and the covid rather, the coronavirus pandemic, which, of course, has paralyzed much of the world for the last two years. and last year, they were
meet on the supply chain crisis. biden then hits to glasgow, scotland for the cop26 conference. let s bring in white house reporter kevin liptak. kevin, big picture, what are you expecting from biden today? reporter: well, he s got three big issues on his plate today. the first is trying to secure an agreement for this global minimum tax. it s something that he s been pushing for the last several months he s been helped by secretary janet yellen. they re basically trying to get countries to end the sort of race to the bottom on corporate tax rates to embrace this 15% minimum corporate tax rate. they have had some success in that. and they do expect today, the president expects todayer that the g20 will sort of formally endorse this in their talks. the second big agenda item for the president today is energy prices, of course, gas prices, in the united states are rising. they re higher than they have been historically in a long time. and the president wants to talk to producers who ar