i don t know. you know, president biden has chosen to give very few press conferences, he s been very disciplined. obviously a joint press conference with putin kind of elevates putin to the same level and, you know, he may have just decided that that s not the kind of message he wants to send. obviously he wants to recalibrate the relationship, president trump had a very strange relationship with putin, almost celebrating him. i think biden wants to be careful not to do that and i m merely speculating here, wolf, i m not exactly sure. yeah, i mean, it s really i think hovering over this summit as you correctly point out to a certain degree was that joint news conference that putin had with former president trump and during that session as all of us remember and i was in helsinki covering it, the former president basically ridiculed and rejected what the u.s. intelligence community, the
only temporary. we saw producer prices rose at the fastest annual pace in 11 years in may, retail sales fell in may following a few months of stimulus-fueled growth. the arrival of russian president vladimir putin happening just a short time from though, roughly about an hour. wolf blitzer is live in geneva, switzerland. wolf, over to you. thank you very much. cybersecurity clearly certain to be high on president biden s agenda for his summit meeting with vladimir putin. in the wake of recent russia-linked hacks and ransomware attacks in the united states. but there are areas as we keep saying of mutual agreement for these two leaders. let s discuss with cnn national security analyst peter bergen. in light of these latest cyber attacks how important is it for president biden to establish what is called a red line with putin when it comes to this issue? well, i think obviously it s very important and there are things that the united states could do, for instance, getting the rus
welcome back. fresh off meetings with traditional u.s. allies the summit with russia s vladimir putin is a major political test for president biden. both leaders have acknowledged going in that relations between the two nations are at a low point. let s bring in cnn s jeff zeleny he s live in geneva for us. jeff, good morning to you. plenty for these two men to discuss today but what is top of mind for president biden? reporter: lawyer ration good morning. top of mind for president biden i m told by white house officials is if he can see if russia wants to have really a productive relationship. we should set expectations here as the white house has been really doing for several days is a lot of the aggression and the disagreements will remain, but the question is can president biden engage in a productive
a party along with the united states and of course syria, the middle east being a top concern of both countries. what we re going to see today is a tightly choreographed summit, very very on message, very disciplined. there is not going to be a breaking of bread, there won t be meals that will be shared by the u.s. president and by the russian president. everything is going to be pretty tightly choreographed so there are fewer opportunities for the russian president to go off script but of course anything could happen. u.s. officials told us that the talks could extend well past the allocated times here and of course the president likes to go off script, the president likes to be chatty and chummy with the foreign leaders that he does meet, but what we re anticipating is that there will be a lot of frank and blunt talk by the u.s. president here to russian president vladimir putin today. he s been hearing from world leaders the last few days about what they need from this relatio
the kind of confidence building measure where you have a prisoner swap potentially for russians held in the united states that can kind of, you know out of the summit kind of, you know, auto these are minor wins potentially but there are some wins for both sides, wolf. where do you think, peter, the president, president biden, will try to hold putin to account? well, i mean, i think, you know, what fred and jim were talking with you about, i mean, certainly the ransomware issue because if a way that s an easier win, i think, for both biden and putin which is to say, look, with he note the ransomware attacks are originating in russia, we know they are not directly tied to the government. you have to get a handle on these attacks. you have to crack down on these cyber criminals who we believe are based in russia. so i think that s an area where, you know, obviously once you get to the gru which is the military intelligence wing of the russian government which the cia identifies as