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Russians have done a better job spinning their side of it in part because putin has given a press conference and has talked about it so far, as has lavrov, whereas we've only heard tillerson talk about it. i think in general this meeting was probably a win for putin in part because it lasted so long. you know melania trump tried to get president trump out of the meeting at some point so he could keep his other engagements and instead it went on for more than two hours. so i think in the end it's a bit of a bigger win for the russians. >> okay. let's all take a listen to democratic congresswoma...

No mention of the united states. then there's a meeting between trump and putin. tillerson comes out and says that the president raised the issue. the word "confront" has a very different definition than the president asked putin about intervention. it's then reported that putin said what's the evidence. at the end of the day, we need to see whether the president does anything. right at the moment the president has pretty much caved in and decided in statements by official spokes people, including tillerson, that the president has decided, our president has decided to put the intervention into...

First face-to-face sitdown with vladimir putin. president trump calling it a tremendous meeting today and ignoring a shouted question about russia's version of the story as vladimir putin pushed a narrative that trump accepted his denials meddling in the election. joining me now republican congressman french hill of arkansas. representative hill, thank you for joining us, sir. i appreciate it. >> you bet, alex. thanks for having me. >> i would love to get your take on how you think the president handled his first meeting on president putin. do you think he was tough enough on the issue of elec...

Rely on bonding over his common enemies. >> putin is not known to be a warm and cuddly guy so i don't think that bonding is necessarily his usual state of play, but he knows that donald trump is somebody who has a big ego, and he wants to have that ego stroked and so i think that's what vladimir putin would be going into this meeting knowing about the person that he's sitting down with is the type of personality and character that he's dealing with. as for donald trump and the election news, you know, i'm honestly surprised that he even brought up the hacking issue at all. because i don't real...

And other things moving forward, importing to be the administration. let's bring in the panel from washington. jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. julie pace, and michael needham. let's start with you. your sense of this meeting, the readout from taylor tillerson e secretary of treasury, what you are gaining from the white house about this? >> i think the white house feels good about this meeting. i think the president absolutely had to "push putin," or press putin on the involvement in the 2016 election. if he hadn't done that, i think that would've been the headline. that's all...