Overnight that grounded flights and triggered delays nationwide. Good morning to our viewers here in the United States and around the world, its tuesday, june 15th. On the eve of this historic summit with Vladimir Putin, President Biden stands on The World Stage this morning with americas closest eu allies. He started out this morning by meeting with the president and Prime Minister of belgium. This gathering with eu nations follows nato talks and for the first time china is a big focus. The 30 nato members singling out beijings rising Military Power as a top challenge. Later today, the president Travels To Geneva for his highly anticipated meeting face to face meeting with Vladimir Putin. President biden said the United States snot looking for a confrontation. Jeff zeleny traveling with the president. Jeff joins us now live from brussels. Another big day before i think the most anticipated moment of this trip, jeff. Reporter good morning, john. President biden is holding that final se
listen, this is not working, we want everything turned back on and russia wins in the end. that s what happened after 2014 and the invasion of ukraine then, it was tough for a while but gradually those sanctions eroded. and i think that s what putin is betting on this time and, oh by the way, during the beijing olympics and the putin summit before then, signed siberian gas deal, so putin can sell gas to china and cut europe off and have their cake and eat it too if europe does not go with their demands. so, energy policy and failed energy policy under american leadership and under this white house leadership is at the heart of all of this. sandra: speaking to general keane on that, not as much leverage in this moment with vladimir putin with the nord
they are still headed for a major attack. he s talking about the nature of what this is going to look like saying that in his view, based on the intelligence that they have gathered, this isn t going to be some kind of conventional warfare. the intention of russia is to go in to crush the ukrainian people to repress them saying this is going to be, quote, extremely violent if it does happen. they are saying they are on the path to they do believe it s going to happen. there s been talk overnight after the french president put out a read out of his calls yesterday with president biden and president putin of this idea of a potential biden/putin summit, similar to the one in geneva last year. but the white house is really downplaying the likelihood of that. there s no format, no date, no time figured out for that yet because they believe, of course, that summit and they say they re open to one having, open to dialogue between these two presidents. it s contingent upon whether a russian in
blinken and delivered by our ambassador in moscow. yeah, and frankly, again, that p-5 statement i mentioned was one positive step, it seemed, in addition, following the biden/putin summit several months ago, we had resumed strategic stability talks with russia. those are now suspended, of course, as well. so we really have taken a big step backwards because of president putin s reckless behavior. thanks to you and former senator sam nunn for keeping this front and center on your agenda. thank you to both of you. and coming up next, confirmation countdown. democrats hoping to have the president s supreme court pick approved by early april. is that realistic? this is a special weekend edition of andrea mitchell reports on msnbc.
moscow s battle plan calls for overwhelming intensity of fire on the ukraine, won the u.s. warrants can kill tens of thousands of just the first few days. the kremlin now insists it s too early to talk about a biotin, putin summit. a hit list is being created for activists in ukraine. jake sullivan warned this morning about the scope and magnitude of russia s plan. we believe that any military operation of this size, scope, and magnitude that we believe the russians are planning will be extremely violent. it will cost the lives of ukrainian and russian civilians and military personnel alike. we also have intelligence that suggests there will be an even greater form of brutality. this will not simply be a conventional war between two armies, it will be a war waged by russia on the ukrainian people to crush and harm them.