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Unscheduled meeting with president Vladimir Putin himself. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov finally faced the press. The current straight state of u. S. Russia relations is at a low point. There is a low level of trust between our two countries. The worlds two foremost Nuclear Powers cannot have this kind of relationship. Translator the many hours we spent with Rex Tillerson together and with the president of the Russian Federation were not spent in vein. We understand each other better. Reporter the most that was likely to come from this, an agreemen...

Or lecture in the history of china and korea and north korea. after that, the president realized, it's more difficult than he had thought. >> yeah. i mean, that's stunning. serious candidates during the campaigns get briefings from people like general clark. they sit down and go through the books and get a very clear understanding. they come with policies. that's what they follow through on. you make changes on the edges as you discover harsh reality. nonetheless, there's a certain responsibility that goes with running for president of being on top of things. >> we have to leave it there. davi...

David gergen, david blinken, and nato's retired general leslie clark. general clark, nato is no longer obsolete says donald trump. he said it was obsolete a lot on the campaign trail. has anything really changed in the structure of nato that suddenly makes it not obsolete? donald trump said they had conversations about it focusing on terrorism more than it never did that in the past. but it did do that in the past. >> we carried that back 20 years ago as one of our focuses. osama bin laden struck u.s. embassies. it's been a long focus on terrorism. i don't think nato changed. i think it's impo...

People who had the best relationships with the putin money, they are feeling stronger. the people who had rested their careers and their lives on the reliable commitment of the united states, their shaking. as this plays out in the internal security services, in business, in parliament, inside the military services, in these countries, we're undercutting what we stand for. we're under cutting the western alliance, our values, and all that we tried to achieve since the end of the cold war in bringing democracy and stability and freedom to eastern europe. >> david, some supporters of donald trum...

Hostile towards russia, as we saw today, there may be less of an appetite, at least in the media to cover the story of the alleged correspondence between the trump campaign and russia. it doesn't fit the narrative now. donald trump is not going to be putin's toy or whatever. this carter page guy, it does seem like he is a bit of a phony. i wouldn't be surprised if he hadn't sort of misrepresented himself to the trump campaign as well as some of his business dealings. i still think if there is any scandal that may actually be legitimate, i think it's much more likely to be paul manafort. i thin...