it s good to be with you. i am jeff bennett. as we come on the air, it s touchdown geneva. president biden has a meeting with vladimir putin less than 24 hours away. this afternoon nbc news is learning new details about the intense preparation behind the scenes and what president biden plans to raise. here s how it all set to go down. the two leaders will meet over several hours at a swiss video overlooking lake geneva, and there will be two sessions, including one meeting with four people, biden, putin, russian foreign minister and the secretary. biden intends to confront putin on human rights abuses and
for putin on where biden stands. and some beg to question, is the putin prep already being put to use. he s bright. he s tough. i have found that he s, as they say, when you used to play ball, a worthy adversary. joining us is andrea mitchell, who is in geneva, and michael crowley, and a forter nato department general, and then also the author of the book, surviving autocracy. that last bit of sound on biden, he is bright, he s tough, he s a worthy adversary, and when i heard that it struck me as strategic heading into the
was not there. i think on the other side you have progressives, those like bernie sanders that feel like republicans are not acting in good faith. i think we might have lost anna s signal there. so give us a sense of how much the white house is involved in the current talks? they are focused on the meeting with vladimir putin in 24 hours time? yeah, you are right a lot of white house officials are traveling with putin here in geneva, and they are ironing out the details about the high stakes meeting with the president of russia, and i just got off the phone with white house officials back in d.c. and there are a number of them trying to figure out if a bipartisan deal can be done. the white house has signaled to lawmakers they will give seven to ten days for the bipartisan deal to come together possibly,