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>> i think we should not be surprised if president trump brings up russian election meddingling. the white house set the bar low to exceed it. what message should president trump send on that front and overall in this first discussion he has with the russian leader? >> john, you may be right in that they will come out and at least, from what they say, the trump administration will argue we did bring up the russian meddling. i would not focus on 2016 at this stage. it's too fraught for the trump white house as well as putin, but focus on 2018 and 2020. one aspect is naming and shaming it. presi...

>> for both. you can argue the bar is low, and people are saying the american people put the bar low and the media put the bar low, and so the cohesive sentences were impressive, but he has never shown this kind of tone or rhetorical discipline, and a few slips when he went off speech, and this is a tone that people are looking for, just to see if he had it in him to strike to the global stage this kind of tone and presidential setting he put himself in, and that said, his budget is doa, as you said, and the issues over tax and infrastructure and how he will get forward on immigration remains....

If i go to a restaurant, what's my problem? i'm hungry. i want to eat. if you look at every customer as a problem you can solve, right there you're saying i'm going to take care of you and you're not going to be alone. >> number two, treat people like human beings. it should be obvious. >> it should be, but think of the last experience you had on an airplane or at a dry cleaners or something like that. customer service seems to have gone by the wayside. i don't tell clients to be amazing. i tell them to be better than what we expect. if we set the bar low, it's not that hard. a simple smile, a...

About that. they don't want to respond to it because there is this discomfort with we don't really have the best partner on the rebel side of things yet. but it does feel like that's -- they're hoping that's the case. but they've got to find a military strike, some sort of military strike that strikes that balance. that seems to be very difficult. >> so setting the bar low in terms of what we could expect but also reassuring people we're not going in looking for regime change. ayman and chuck, stick with us. i want to bring in former u.n. adviser george lopez. he is the professor of peace stud...