he s a worthy advocate. the opposite of the nasty, sharp language that putin was using, opened the door to some reasonable balance. and i think if putin is looking for this moment to shake hands with a strong president, which i think biden showed this week, he actually is, biden has given it to him. i also think biden has set himself up pretty well to be sharp about some very specific nos, some red lines. he s made clear on cyber, on ransomware, there are going to be red lines coming out of this meeting. so it s so different in tone from trump. he s not a supplicant, he doesn t need putin. he doesn t want to be putin s friend. i thought the worthy adversary, it was just right in saying, i m ready to sit down with you. i ll give you that. but i m not going to give you anything else. elizabeth, what does the white house want to take away from the putin meeting? i think what they ve wanted to do from the beginning is just lower the temperature,