right. i ve been to a lot of meetings where it starts with the big meeting and then skinnies down with president biden and president putin in the room. the whole point of this meeting was for him to be able to sit down in a very small setting, just one other person in the room, someone he trusts more than anyone else, toy blinken, and just lay out, here s what i see. here s what i think you re doing. here s where we can measure progress and we can assign these guys, lavrov and blinken, to set up some teams to work on it. and, chuck, what i do think was effective in that press conference, he was pretty honest to say, i don t know if we re going to solve these problems. i m not trying to raise expectations too high here. what i ve done now is communicated what my views are in all these things, and we ll be able to see in the next six months to a year to two years whether or not there is any progress on these things. and i think it s smart to not raise expectations too much given that it
we re hearing from president putin about what to do, what about-ism, covering trump in the campaign, then asked to respond to president trump. if they sort of follow the same blueprint that they operated with the former president. there are times where you proactively engage in something that trump said. there were times in which they would hold their fire until asked about it. and then there were times that they felt it was best to simply ignore it. based on some of the things we heard from putin, i bet they re weighing the range of responses based on what they think merits response or not. on the balance, look at what putin said about this meeting. yeah. he was generally, i think, praising it on being a good conversation, constructive talks. eye look at the joint statement that andrea references, it focuses entirely on new s.t.a.r.t. joe biden the former senator on the senate relations committee
off. at this point, i mean, what s your top question for president biden as he walks to this podium? the top question is whether he wants to take on things that putin said and demonstrably push back. with press conferences with this, keep in mind, the american people, the russian people, the russian president, it s also the world. i think biden has to recognize what he says, the words he speaks about how he responds to that performance by vladimir putin is very predictable. that s going to be consumed by people who believe in democracies, for people who are concerned about putin and who he represents. and how he combats the message democracy standing up to autocracy, how he frames that while talking about nuclear arms control. it s a tricky balance to strike. but if he can set it up, he can point to the fact that he was with the world democracy, at the
that is not confiscated in the free world. that s how you get putin s attention. now he has aextra pipeline in europe. europe is hostage. whatever biden says, whatever macron says, he doesn t care. he always asks why not. garry kasparov, it s a pleasure having your perspective appreciate your time. thank you, sir. let me bring back andrea, andrea mitchell, you know, garry kasparov never holds back. he never hide what is he thinks. it s straightforward there. and i ll tell you, he s not alone in those that believe that the u.s. hasn t done enough to support the russian opposition to really push back on putin here. you know, we ve heard it from people close to navalny. i felt like i heard similar frustration out of garry
so president biden has shown his willingness to engage putin where he can. and i think if we don t see any reciprocity, if putin doesn t want for play then this mix that president biden has offered is going to have to skew much more heavily towards the confrontation side so he gets the last word. stick with us, andrea, as we await president biden, he s set to begin his press conference in a few minutes. we re at the top of the hour. we ve been discussing what will president putin said in his press conference. he spent a lot of time doing what about-isms, denying, deflecting any criticism going his way. but trying to create the condition saying, hey, we re creating a stable situation with president biden. let me bring in mike memoli, of course, traveling with the president. mike, i m curious, i know you ve been doing some reporting as