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Satellite pictures, that they have some other intelligence as well. didn't really offer any proof, at least publicly, about all of this. the u.s., for its part, is saying, yes, it is training fighters down there. they say the reason they're doing that after isis was ousted from many of these places, they don't want isis to return once again. brianna? >> thank you for clearing that up. frederik pleitgen for us in moscow. joining me now is the congressman from california, a member of the armed serves committee. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, brianna, for having me. >> you just h...

If they can create a relationship with russians and understand that we would defend the three baltic states and they cannot threaten them, that's enormous. >> chris: there are a lot of if's there. >> that's right. given putin's track record i can't sit here and say it's a breakthrough. i can tell you the tone is probably right. the fact that it lasted over to your hours is probably right. putin is a tough guy, but i think he might have been surprised by tillerson intron. they are very tough guys. if you end up with two sets of tough guys and one has the largest economy in the largest military,...

Issues important to the american people like adoption is not something unusual. when you go through a campaign you're not just talking to a particular group of people, in this case adoptions in russia. you have policy teams talking to about asia, policy teams that run the gambit. apparently so. >> chris: i want to clear up what really happened in the putin trump summit in hamburg on friday. russian foreign minister says that after putin denied meddling in the election, he, trump, this is his quote that he accepts these assertions and president trump said, this is laugh off quoting trump, certa...

That they cannot threaten them, that's an enormous -- chris: there are a lot of ifs there. >> that's right. given putin's track record i can't sit here today and tell you this is a breakthrough. i can tell you the tone is probably right. the fact that it lasted over two hours is probably right. and that putin is a very tough guy, but i think he may have been surprised by tillerson and trump because they are very tough guys. and so i think to go back to something that's been said if you end up with two sets of tough guys and one of them has the largest economy, the largest military, the greates...

They did discuss it. here's how secretary of state tillerson described it afterwards. >> by and large our objectives are the same. maybe they have the right approach we have the wrong approach. >> chris: the secretary of state says the u.s. and russia have exactly the same objectives and that may be they have the right approach we have the wrong approach, russia, putin are backing aside who has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians and they may have the right approach? >> what he might've been referring to is that barack obama put a red line in the sand and did not follow through with...