they attempted to restart the u.s./russia relationship. how does president trump's first meeting measure up to those predecessors? >> well, those predecessors really swooned over putin at first and backed away and realized he was dishonest, he was somebody we couldn't trust or do business with. donald trump hasn't come to their conclusions yet. he still seems to be taken with putin. all of the 2016 presidential election he kept praising putin to holy heaven. he even intimated that he had previously met him which we now know he hadn't so this was a big deal for donald trump. this is the one person on the world stage that he seems to be most tied to, most obsessed with, most wanting to work with and i think the two-hour plus meeting went pretty well. it was a little more than a meet and greet and i think it begins at least a dialog between these