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Pull-asides, right, with the leader of russia and now xi jinping. >> i think its really interesting that it seems like the president really could not help himself here but have this inform an conferring with the russian president. last year in hamburg the president had a similar informal conversation linked to adoption. it seems like this is not a moment when they would be having an inform an, heal, hey, hows weather conversation. theres certainly no media glare because reporters were not actual...

Relationship with. but there is a lot of tension in that room. a lot of tension with a lot of those world leaders over especially trade, really, but over a number of different issues. president trump at this g-20 is in a position where he could be perhaps more isolated than he has been in his presidency. i remember his first g-20, when he was first getting to know these folks, he seemed to really enjoy kind of being part of this club. but over the last two years, there have been some serious ups...

There would be no informal meeting between the two. the white house pushing back on the statement the russians put out this morning saying the two men would meet on their feet. that was the phrase suggesting there would be an informal meeting, what are known as pull-asides here. thats clearly not happening. i talked to a foreign policy administration who are relieved this meeting between the presidents trump and putin is not happening. because it means that president trump wont necessarily, if h...

Flowing. now that schedule is drying up. his formal meeting with the president of south korea the leaders of turkey. those were reduced to informal pull-asides. the meeting with angela merkel had to be rescheduled, she isnt attend. the president putin meeting isnt happening and he may have action with mohammed bin salman. well see if that takes place tomorrow. i would point out the marquee event is tomorrow night between president trump and chinese president xi, all about finding a way to deesca...

Scenes planning for events like this. whats the calculus for the president in determining who he is seen being taken -- who hes seen taking a picture with publicly, who hes seen avoiding. what is the calculus? >> theres usually a tremendous amount of preparation for this, and theres a lot of choreography. with trump they dont do it so much. when trump canceled these formal meetings with world leaders, any other administration there would have been planning for months and months on that, and you ...

No. thats according to u.s. intelligence level. not minor anyone in the community. u.s. intelligence assessments has been that north korea is not taking concrete steps to try and deter its nuclear or change its nuclear posture or even? any way dismantle the nuclear arsenal. they believe that north korea is trying to skirt the sanctions with the help of russia and china. so when you have the intelligence community make that assessment and you juxtapose that with what is coming out of the politica...

To challenge? they challenged rick gates in cross, but why didnt they bring anybody in to help us? >> i think thats in the back of their minds a little bit, but i think that jurors tend to really follow the judges instructions. when theyre told not to consider that, they dont. i think the defense is sending a slight message that we feel confident. were happy to sit back and attack and say they havent proven their case. of course, as a practical matter, they may have lacked any good evidence to p...

Past, question him on the outstanding relationship. >> were used to presidents, there is pomp and circumstance to this. presidents you served and pull-asides with presidents, with leaders, that they dont have these one-on-ones that involve a lot of pomp and circumstance. evelyn, theres an argument trumps meeting with kim jong-un ratcheted down tensions on the peninsula and he can reverse concessionsf talks collapse. people who are fearful trump may give unconceptions not beneficial to the u.s., ...

Sara murray is live in hanoi. shes going to be following the press conference for us. its already been a pretty busy day for the president. its been pretty busy for him if only on twitter. >> reporter: it has been busy for him. look, he arrived here. theyre going to hold this press difference together. but clearly president trump had a lot of things he wanted to get off his chest this morning. he went after people for scrutinizing his various pull asides with president putin, slammed former pres...

Fissur fissures within the republican party. maybe she happy. im sure he is happy to get a lot of this off his cleft. >> there are fish res, i heard about those, whether those are animateing reince priebus. we dont know. yes, if he was happy and factual, he is going to fill in other details that no one knows about just what happened in those meetings when donald trump was trying to have, pull-asides with jim comey and was angry before and after, all that critical period. it will be really fascin...