we know the president has been preparing for weeks, he has the language has changed a bit, he is now calling putin a worthy adversary, less a killer, more a worthy adversary. so what s the strategy for dealing with putin knowing putin and what he s capable of? reporter: well, that s right, christine. he has been preparing for weeks and weeks, he actually met with top russia experts and former officials before he left on this trip to have them brief him essentially on vladimir putin and what to expect. of course, the russian president is notorious for throwing curve balls and trying to undercut foreign leaders when he does meet with them. so he has been doing extensive preparations with his foreign policy and national security team, particularly secretary of state antony blinken and national security adviser jake sullivan, but really what this summit is going to focus on is narrow issues where they can cooperate as jeff mentioned there will be talks about extending nuclear arms agre
putin a worthy adversary, but having that tough talk, saying he s ready to challenge him on a host of issues. so he is intensely preparing. what topics are we expecting to be covered? reporter: well, white house officials have really set modest expectations for this summit. they re saying not to expect a large amount of deliverables coming out of it but there are some areas of agreement that they want to focus on. one of those being arms control as well as climate change. but the president is prepared to tackle some heavy weight issues head on, including those recent cyberday cks we ve seen originating from russia, president biden expected to take a tough tone when he talks to putin about that, about trying to address some of those issues that have been emanating from russia relating to those cyberattacks that have affected so many u.s. companies. president biden has also said he will raise human rights violations in this meeting with
now. he called putin a worthy adversary. what do you make of putin weighing in on the maga insurrection on the side of the insurrectionists? doesn t seem surprising, but what do you make of him going out of his way to do that? well, i don t think there s anything surprising in that at all. there s been a putin that s always been something of a troll that likes to insert himself in american politics. let s not forget if you look at the russian disinformation campaigns and interventions in our politics, it s often to fuel the kind of conspiracy theories that led to that insurrection. they ve been a party to this kind of information ecosystem that has propulgated conspiracy theory. on the other hand of the equation, joe biden very deliberately wanting to moot with our allies before he sits down with vladimir putin. just as he s working to fortify american democracy where there s a lot more work to do, there s work to be done to try to unify our g7 partners, part of the