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Putin. >> from the white houses perspective it was always a good thing that tim had a personal relation shin with putin. the objection is to improve the russia/u.s. relationship. so that is added leverage. my point of view is putin needs more from trump than trump needs from putin. putin needs economic sanctions relief, putin needs some type of resolution to syria. because the syrian intervention is not very popular in russia either. so putin is coming in with asks as well. this is not just abou...

Welcome to all of you. let me he get -- were going to chew through this russian aspect a bit, but from what you heard from secretary tim llerson on ts cease fire agreement, is it smoik asmoke and mirrors or something serious? >> we dont know yet. i think its potentially a good thing. on the military front, we have made real progress against sooiisis. so i think its excellent that the administration is trying to figure out what the day after looks like. so this is really a confidence building mea...