under president george w. bush. good to have you on. there's in reporting from "the washington post" that trump's senior advisers were thrown when he told putin he expected to meet with putin soon. and several officials are telling the post there's no plan for a meeting. that wasn't in the briefing material. does it sound like the president has his own russia agenda here? >> i think the president is spontaneous, unstructured, doesn't take to coaching very well. i think that just came out, don. and now, like many things, you get this statement from the chief executive, and now the staff either has to walk him back from it or implement it. and we'll see which of those two dynamics apply in this particular case. you know, meeting with putin isn't quite as bad as meeting with kim jong-un without pre-conditions, but it does seem to give putin credit he doesn't