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also President Joe Biden on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s openness to swap cyber criminals with the U.S. is “potentially a good sign of progress.”

But Biden was not saying he’s going to exchange such criminals with Russia, the president’s national security adviser later clarified.

"What he was saying was that if Vladimir Putin wants to come and say, 'I'm prepared to make sure that cyber criminals are held accountable,’ Joe Biden is perfectly willing to show up and say cyber criminals will be held accountable in America, because they already are,” Jake Sullivan told reporters afterward. "This is not about exchanges or swaps, or anything like that."

Biden will sit down with Putin in Geneva on Wednesday at a time when both leaders say the relationship between the countries is at a low point.

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Wrapping up a meeting with the world’s wealthiest large democracies, Biden told reporters he may not be able to sway Putin.

“Autocrats have enormous power, and they don't have to answer to a public,” he said.

But Biden added that Putin may have incentives to work with the United States.

“Russia has engaged in activities which we believe are contrary to international norms,” Biden said. “But they have also bitten off some real problems they’re going to have trouble chewing on.”

Biden mentioned Russia's need to rebuild conflict-torn Syria, as well as deal with its own economy and with the coronavirus pandemic.

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