and natasha, one final question, the global minimum tax is likely to come up. that s something you that pointed out president biden wants to champion. why is that such a key component of his time at the g20? well, it is important because some sort of global minimum tax is key to fighting inequality. and that s part of his big domestic agenda. and of course, that would transcend to an international agenda. and we know that 40% of profits go to these tax havens. and one way of fighting that is to have some sort of global minimum tax. of course, critics would charge that this isn t going far enough and there are going to be loopholes but i think this is part of bigger agenda for biden that coincides with his domestic agenda to try to reduce poverty, fight corporate greed and tackle these big problems on a global level. natasha lindstaedt, we have to leave the conversation there. we appreciate you getting up
major issues, kaitlan collins, our chief white house correspondent is with us here in rome watching this unfold. ind kaitlan, set the scene, what are we expecting to see from the president. today is the kickoff of the g20 summit. it s the first time they ve met in person since 2019, obviously disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and that is the pain topic sitting down today. the first session that president biden has with world leaders is focused on energy supply and the crisis happening there and the global minimum tax. that is something maybe really one of the concrete takeaways that the white house is talking about, wolf, when it comes to what they re seeing on the outcome of this summit. that is something that they want to prevent the race to the bottom with nations of the world. that is the measure that the president is taking and he s going to be tested from what he said a few months ago at the g7 summit.
welcome back. i m wolf blitzer here in rome along with jim sciutto and kaitlan collins. we re standing by for the official start of this g20 summit. at any moment now, president biden and other world leaders will gather for what s called the g20 family photo. let s set the scene, the italian prime minister mario draghi is going to receive the president. other world leaders have been receiving them. and then a photo opportunity. this is a start where you get the pictures there s the beast pulling one with president biden. when you say the beast, you better explain. the beast is the presidential moto motorcade, and the president brings his own car. we ll see president biden hop out momentarily. he will greet the italian prime minister hosting the summit, since g-19 person. we saw a little bit of it at the
careful. holidays are around the corner, thanksgiving, halloween, christmas. a lot of kids will be hanging around a lot of elderly people. another reason why people should continue to get vaccinated. we need to continue to be vigilant. i so wish my daughter was 5 years old. she s not there yet, 3 1/2. dr. saju mathew, good to have you, thank you so much. thank you. we re still standing by to see president biden and other world leaders come together for that family photo at the g20, before they head into those workinwork working meetings. we re follow all the live pictures and we ll take you back to rome as soon as that happens. stay with us.
office. you saw when he pushed past bullied his way, elbowed his way to the front. they were always revealing in the moments like that, even though they re not very scripted. and these could be similar when president biden is at the g7. you saw the president was back slapping each other, arm with each other, and laughing. we saw that laughing on the sideline at the g20. we ll be waiting to see how it looks today. what is the reaction that president joe biden gets. obviously it s warmer than for trump. when it was trump, the world leaders had a sense of trepidation when he was coming. because he was often one of these that came to the summit and did not follow the script. that s a different, of course, tone and different expectation now that it s biden. he loves these kind of meeting, the president of the united states. spent 36 years in the u.s. senate. he was chairman of the foreign relations committee. and then vice president of the united states under president obama for eig