relationship completely, so it's sort of a false argument that the administration is making that they can simply not condemn them for murder, and if they do in any way criticize this murder the entire relationship falls apart. that's simply not true. i don't understand why the white house is being so cautious in this case. >> we learned that the president did exchange some pleasantries with the crown prince at the g20, not a full-on conversation. he just returned back to the white house early this morning, max. i read your column. you say that this was one of trump's most successful international trips, why? >> well, that's grading on a curve. i only said it was successful because he did not commit a major gaffe of the kind that he committed, for example, at the g7 in canada in june when he stalked out and refused to sign the communique and his obsequiousness in july in helsinki. it was a very low energy conference and also a missed opportunity for trump because what he should have been doing is confronting putin. he should have been confronting mohammed bin salman an rallying