reporter: that s right. and that was the really the purpose of his meetings in bustles and in england this past week was to get the foreign leaders input on what should be on this agenda with putin and kind of get the wind at his back is what u.s. officials have been saying prior to meeting with russian president putin. of course, he even talked about it with the queen of england, bringing up vladimir putin with her, and, you know, this is all part of an attempt by the u.s. to show allies that they are going to incorporate them back into the process here as opposed to president trump s go it alone strategy. less america alone, more all together in the same boat together. thank you so much. let s head back to geneva with special coverage. wolf blitzer takes it from here. guys, thank you very much. one of the most pivotal summits in years just about two hours or so away if that. just ahead some of the areas where president biden and president putin might agree.
essentially stay the same that s a good thing for putin, not a good thing for biden. well, to a certain extent, yes, but i do think that, number one, president putin does want to be on the world stage. i mean, the way that he depicts and russia depicts russia itself and president putin is a major power, whereas at this moment we know that probably the biggest concern of the united states is china. so russia is happy to be on the stage and president putin and then i think, you know, when the united states talks about red lines, vladimir putin has some red lines of his own and they deal with the neighborhood, ukraine, belarus, and his message is i ve got my area of interest, you should not be interfering. and those are really serious red lines for president putin. jill, you say that the president the u.s. team should be wary of any last minute
russian propaganda aligns with a lot of the lies you hear from the former president. the former president trump. even while biden is here on a critically important summit is really railing against the current president of the united states. politics does not necessarily stop at the water s edge, at least not now. david, thank you very much. jim sciutto will stick around. let s go back to new york, laura jarrett is on the scene for us there. thanks, wolf. president biden set to meet face-to-face with his craftiest adversary, vladimir putin. it all starts in just a couple of hours so what are the two sides thinking? that s next. as your business changes, the united states postal service is changing with it. with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now. next day and two-day shipping nationwide, and returns right from the doorstep. it s a whole new world out there. let s not keep it waiting. it s a whole new world out there. i don t just play someone brainy on tv - i m an actual neuro
know, i can t see president putin giving an inch on any of those issues. so it promises to be a very tense encounter indeed. i think that s reflected in the fact that they decided not to have a joint press conference and will be having news conferences separately. back to back news conferences. stand by, matthew. jim sciutto i just want to get your thoughts. most experts don t believe there s going to be a radical change in u.s./russian relations as a result of this summit but there s so much at stake right now nevertheless. no question. the fact that both leaders, both countries felt these talks were necessary is indicative. and remember the genesis of this that biden expressed interest in this first when there was a real crisis in u.s./russia relations. tens of thousands of russian forces masked on the border. concerns at the pentagon that
going to talk about that here but cyber is very much at the top of their agenda and by the way those weapons are being used every day. the nuclear weapons there was this idea let s prevent the possibility that these horrific tools could be used. they weren t being used every day thankfully. cyber warfare is taking place right now, that is an active low level cyber war confrontation that s taking place for biden he s got to change that dynamic. the status quo serves russia. when do you anticipate, david you and i have covered these kinds of summits for many, many years. what do you anticipate emerging from this one? well, i think in the cyber arena they re going to try to get to some understanding of what the sort of guardrails are here. i think president biden will have to make a point, look, there are certain parts of our infrastructure where we simply can t tolerate this because it veers off toward an act of war, but as jim points out here, these are all short of war activities