Joe jets off to the G20: Biden leaves for New Delhi - as dire polls raise MORE questions about his 2024 run and less than 24 hours after the Special Counsel said they were seeking gun charges against

President Joe Biden departed Thursday for the G20 Leaders' Summit in New Delhi, India after days of speculation over whether the president would catch COVID-19 from his wife and scrap the trip. President Joe Biden departed Thursday for the G20 Leaders ' Summit in New Delhi, India after days of speculation over whether the president would catch COVID-19 from his wife and scrap the trip The maskless commander-in-chief didn't take questions from the press as he boarded Air Force One through the smaller steps One addition that popped up on his schedule is a visit to the John McCain memorial in Hanoi. His trip begins just 24 hours after the Department of Justice warned they would seek to indict his son Hunter on gun charges by the end of the month, and he faced criticism from 9/11 families for marking Monday's 22nd anniversary of the attacks in Alaska Biden salutes as he boards the steps of Air Force One for his flight to New Delhi Sullivan encouraged the Chinese to come to the summit 'in a constructive way' and work with other nations on the issues of 'climate, on multilateral development bank reform, on debt relief, on technology' and 'set aside the geopolitical questions.' He's attending the G20 in place of Putin this weekend in New Delhi LEADERS ATTENDING THE G20 ARGENTINA: President Alberto Fernandez AUSTRALIA: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese BRAZIL: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva CANADA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau FRANCE: President Emmanuel Macron GERMANY: Chancellor Olaf Scholz INDIA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi INDONESIA: President Joko Widodo ITALY: Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni JAPAN: Prime Minister Fumio Kishida REPUBLIC OF KOREA: President Yoon Suk Yeol SAUDI ARABIA: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman SOUTH AFRICA: President Cyril Ramaphosa TURKEY: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan THE UNITED KINGDOM: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak THE UNITED STATES: President Joe Biden THE EUROPEAN UNION: President Ursula von der Leyen At the G7 in May in Hiroshima, Japan, some of the planned topics of discussion were overshadowed by the Ukraine war. President Joe Biden gave a controversial fist bump to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a trip to Saudi Arabia last July LEADERS SNUBBING THE G20 CHINA: President Xi Jinping MEXICO: Andrés Manuel López Obrador RUSSIA: President Vladimir Putin With Putin and Xi skipping the G20, no meeting of Biden's will be more closely watched than if he decides to sit down with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the summit.