wet teddy bears! wet teddy bears here! only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. after about two hours of the first round of their summit talks, president biden and vladimir putin are right now taking part in a second round. it s a larger, expanded meeting with a number of their top diplomats involved. they have multiple crucial issues on the agenda, lots of them very difficult ones, including russian cyberattacks on the u.s., russia meddling in u.s. elections, russia s continued occupation of ukraine
angle. we begin coverage with cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny just outside the building where the meeting is taking place. tell us what s happening right now. we were told at the start of the day four to five hours with the total of talks, but with the possibility that it might go longer or perhaps be shorter. how are things going based on reading the clock at this point? that first meeting between president biden and russian president vladimir putin and their two top diplomats went 93 minutes. that s according to the time announced by white house officials. now they re moving into phase two. it was scheduled on the clock, on the itinerary to go about an hour and 20 minutes. right about shaping up as people thought it would. again, it is on track, this longer summit in total, to go about five hours. but so many issues on the agenda to discuss. of course, it is up to the two presidents and their officials who are in there with the room to decide how long they want
meeting with you so we can finalize legislation that can become law. to put it plainly, governor wolf, how do you know what we re willing to change or compromise on this bill if you will not come to the table. poppy, i should add that there are many republicans in pennsylvania who feel this bill is not extreme enough. it s not exactly smooth sailing within the republican-controlled legislature. dianne gallagher, thank you for explaining all of it to us. on capitol hill, bipartisan talks on prosecuting officers. lauren fox joins us. tim scott, cory booker, karen bass have been optimistic in the last few weeks. has that changed? reporter: poppy, they have set really a june deadline for themselves, hoping they can wrap these negotiations which have gone on for months now in the next couple of weeks. they are stuck on a key question
villa la grange in geneva. earlier the two shook hands, exchanged words as the press watched with stoney faces. biden noting that it is, quote, always better to meet face to face. putin hopes the talks will be, in his words, productive. cnn s fareed zakaria joins us. good to have you on this morning. the operative words in this summit are stability, predictability. that s what you hear consistently from the u.s. side. there s no discussion of a reset, a rejuvenation of this relationship, more realistic. i wonder if that speaks to the urgency with which both sides see the current crisis in that relationship. is that the right way to read this? i think very much so, jim. if you listen to the russian side, they always pointed out that they were trying very hard to get to some stability and predictability, because from their point of view, i suppose,
degrang in geneva before heading into the first round of talks. they lasted about two hours, the two presidents as well as secretary of state antony blinken, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. larger groups under way trying to hash out a possible agreement. good morning to you. i m jim sciutto live in geneva. great to have you there, jim. i m poppy harlow live in new york. the sit-down comes as president biden looks to send a clear meggs to his russian counterpart in a relationship he says has reached a low point. so what can the two leaders accomplish over the course of today? there s a lot on this agenda from nuclear arms to climate change to recent cyberattacks and a potential prisoner swap for rusamericans detained in russian. there will not be a joint news conference. our team is covering every