President Biden assembled a group of outside Russia experts — including former Trump officials — to brief him for his summit with President Vladimir Putin.
President Biden assembled a group of outside Russia experts — including former Trump officials — to brief him for his summit with President Vladimir Putin, people familiar with the matter tell Axios.The previously unreported session demonstrates the extent to which Biden wants to be well prepared, drawing on the experience of officials with first-hand knowledge of the onetime KGB colonel’s tactics and tricks.
Among the group of Biden briefers was Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official who once saidfor the meeting, scheduled for Wednesday in Geneva. There were roughly a dozen participants, including two of President Obama’s former Russian ambassadors: Michael McFaul and John Tefft.
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