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Moments world leaders at least go through the motions of small talk, right, how was your flight, how are you, i hope we have a productive session. even though there was a nod to that, it felt very uncomfortable. >> it was so uniform it struck me as deliberate because it was biden and putin and blinken and lavrov. putin almost looked like a teenager brought to a dinner by his parents and he department want to be there, legs apart. that's message-sending, right? as we said earlier, summits are about moments. and this is one of those moments and the message seems to be we have serious things to t...

Instance, with missile treaties? you know, extremely unlikely here. does it begin a conversation? perhaps. message sending and so on. i will say this. when you look at what the seed was for this summit, a few weeks ago, when russia was massing forces on ukraine's border and there was genuine concern in the u.s. that russia was going to go out and invade, and when alexey navalny was in danger of death in prison, being denied basic medical treatment and the u.s. was afraid that he might die, at that time, the level of concern in the u.s. led to saying, we got to sit down and talk. now, both thos...

>> it's throwing him for a loop, and he may try to recover next week with the state of the union, and that's probably what he's preparing that speech right now. >> susan -- well, and a lot of people are looking forward to that. they want to hear what he has to say. the daily caller asked the president if the acting a.g. whitaker, if he had communicated to the president that the mueller probe was wrapping up. trump says they haven't spoken about that, but did they have to because whitaker went on tv and said as much. >> well, that's right. first of all, that was some sort of a message sending. ...

Ft. lauderdale is spooking him. >> yeah, threw him for a loop. >> it's throwing him for a loop, and he may try to recover next week with the state of the union, and that's probably what he's preparing that speech right now. >> susan -- well, and a lot of people are looking forward to that. they want to hear what he has to say. "the daily caller" asked the president if the acting a.g. whitaker, if he had communicated to the president that the mueller probe was wrapping up. trump says they haven't spoken about that, but did they have to because whitaker went on tv and said as much. >> well, that...

Continue this tougher policy on russia even though we're dismissing this idea of russian agent or operative we still have an eye on this. of 11 republicans you need more is 11 enough to get the president's attention? >> no. i agree in part that it's message sending, but with this president on this issue you need a hammer over the head, not just a message. i mean, you do. you need to make it so and this is why there are checks and balances for this exact reason, and when people say to me, i'm sure all of us sitting here, when are the republicans going to stand up to the president? the answer is...