conference. so after spending time with the russian president, do you think he feels the same way about president biden? reporter: you know, chris, i think that is a challenging question to answer. we do know from my interview with president putin what he said. he praised, if you like, president biden s long experience. we don t know what president putin is doing inside the kremlin there to prepare for the summit. it s possible that he is studying hard. it s possible that after 20 years of leading russia, he feels confident enough not to. we know what president putin has said cynically about america in the past. he has said that america has changed while washington doesn t change. so i think president biden should be prepared for a cynical view from president putin. we ve said before that it may be that they have to tackle individual issues rather than to try to solve the entire relationship. clearly they are not going to be able to do that, chris. one of the things, obviously,
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resolve to each other and the rest of the world. i want to bring in nbc white house correspondent monica alba. she s traveling with the president. she s already made it to geneva. nbc correspondent keir simmons is already in geneva where he had that interview with putin. great to have all of you with us. monica, give us a sense of the president s mindset going into this meeting and how the white house is setting expectations. reporter: well, the stakes are incredibly high, chris, but the expectations are a little bit lower. they re not anticipating a big or major breakthrough from these talks, but the president yesterday really gave us his clearest view of how he s approaching president putin, someone he did meet a decade ago under very different circumstances when he was vice president and when pint was prime minister of russia. tomorrow when they meet overlooking lake geneva just behind me for multiple hours,
bal a worthy adversary. reporter: the president says in terms of cooperation, they will be talking about climate change, arms control, containing iran s nuclear ambitions and a whole other list of things. so we expect the president, though, to come out by himself after this summit wraps up and hold his own press conference with the white deciding by design they don t want to give president putin the same image that former president trump had in helsinke all of those years ago, instead deciding they want this president to be able to be frank about all of the issues he confronted putin on and talk about that. which we expect to hear from president putin as well individually, and then of course we ll compare the two sides, because putin is known to sometimes exaggerate and misrepresent the facts. the president will be making his way to geneva here shortly, chris, and we know he has been extensively preparing for several weeks, holding a session at the white house before he departed fo