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>> against -- theres always -- >> congress had to force him into that. >> theres always a chance for a pull-aside, an informal meeting where they get together and talk but i do think cancelling the meeting, sarah sanders said they had not called the kremlin to tell them its cancelled. >> its it a black eye. gives them a punch in the face. >> well see if he actually doesnt meet with him. acting attorney general michael whitaker signed off on the plea deal, the same guy that democrats thought woul...

Thank you very much. lets get back to the firestorm over the presidents new acting attorney general and his oversight of the russia investigation that hes publicly criticized agency t criticized as the president tries to distance him from matthew whittaker. he is now speaking out about his new boss over at the justice department. our justice reporter laura jarrett is on the scene for us. laura, you had a chance too speak with the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein today. what did he have ...

>> well, we may get a little bit more than the handshake, but we may not know much about it and may not see it. the white house took the possibility of a formal bilateral meeting off the table today and basically said theres not time to do it. russia is still insisting that there will be a more informal pull aside, theyre committed to making that happen and the white house isnt saying its not going to happen, but that does, you know, kind of minimize the amount of ground you can cover. obviously...

Stwoe informal one. here is the former governor of new mexico and former u.s. ambassador to the u.n., bill richardson. hi, mr. ambassador. thanks so much for being with us. help us understand all of this on again/off again, will the president meet with vladimir putin, will he not? arent these things planned in advance? why does this have such an impromptu quality to it? >> well, theres jockeying going on between the russians and the americans, game playing. this happens. are they going to meet? ...

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Said the president wanted to call on putin to ramp up the pressure on north korea are now hedging their bets. >> the leaders are going to be at the summit together. wouldnt be at all unusual if they ended up with some kind of a pull-aside. the question is whether weve got sufficient substance. >> reporter: but a meeting with putin would also highlight a mushrooming political problem for the president back home, the russia investigation. >> that, i think, is keeping president trump from formally ...

As a frustrated kremlin spokesman put it in theory, they could travel to mars to the tonight. life is a bit different, lets wait and see. the administration officials who had said the president wanted to call on putin to ramp up the pressure on north korea are now hedging their bets. >> clearly, the leaders are going to be at the summit together. it wouldnt be at all unusual if they ended up with some kind of a pull-aside. the question is whether weve got sufficient substance. >> reporter: but a...

Convention area. and, again, sessions gives a speech, and at the end, kislyak as a pull-aside, if you will. were not sure how long it lasts, but it was described by intelligence officials who have seen the reporting as a substantive conversation. it wasnt, at least in kislyaks view, something superficial or cursory. then there was a third meeting which took place in sessions senate office, which occurred in september. >> which sessions has said in the past that that was in his capacity as a sena...

A part of the conversation that don had with this meeting. >> is this what you would expect from a u.s. president? do you think he was just trying to build some sort of rapport with putin? >> this is very unusual. and i staffed president obama when he went to the g20 summit in russia, as a matter of fact. and so the notion of a private pull-aside is actually very common place and its not that unusual that if you have a private pull-aside you dont have the right interpreter necessarily on hand bu...

Euphemism for -- look, you know, ive worked at the white house for president bush wit, the fat. 15 minutes, half an hour, thats not a pull-aside, thats a meeting. usually nicety go on 45 seconds, a minute. and the fact that the president would have an extended conversation with any world leader, especially ukraine, syria. it shouldnt happen that way. it should be planned, there should be no takers there. there should be staff there for follow up and so forth. its too important to lead to that ki...