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Conference you were out with the british prime minister headed to scotland. he also said he was doing a lot of prep work for this meeting with either mere putin. what are your sources telling you in terms of what prep went into this, what is their game plan, especially since we are hearing for two different message from administration officials. much tougher on the russians than what we hear from the president, which seems to be playing the good cop in this. >> the president does have the unique ability to be a little play good cop and bad cop on some issues. when it comes to putin, you'll see...

You have signed on to the letter with a bunch of other democratic senators calling for the president to either cancel the summit or if he doesn't basically essentially make it a one issue summit. ambassador huntsman number one, doesn't want to call it a summit, but a meeting. have you been reassured from mr. huntsman about what the president will do with putin? >> well, chuck i would feel better if ambassador huntsman who i have a lot of confidence in was actually sitting in on the meeting. i'm very concerned about a one-on-one meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump. we know that trum...

November like we saw in 2016, we're not going to have much of a relationship left. >> and democrats on capitol hill remain skeptical that president trump will even address the matter. here's what senator mark warner said in an interview earlier. >> i would feel a lot better if ambassador huntsman, who i have a lot of confidence in, was actually sitting in on the meeting. i'm very concerned about a one-on-one meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump. we know that trump doesn't do a lot of prep work for these meetings. he kind of goes in and wings it. we saw when he did that with kim jong...

>> let's talk about what virginia senator mark warner said, michael. he laid out his concerns today over the one-on-one meeting between trump and putin. let's watch and then we'll talk. >> i'm very concerned about a one-on-one meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump. we know that trump doesn't do a lot of prep work for these meetings. he kind of goes in and wings it. in putin, you've got a trained kgb agent who does his homework. my fear is putin could come in with maps of ukraine or maps of syria and try to cut some deal and, frankly, take advantage of this president. >> michael, you ...

How much is prep work and how much is gut? >> it's mostly prep work. you don't follow your gut went you're going in with someone like this. under those circumstances you normally star prepping months in advance. you have situation room meetings where you talk about where up your agenda to be, and to steve's upon, what the intel analysis is and what your adversary are going to be thinking about you. that involves listening to your intelligence committee, listening to your security adviser, intensive meetings and briefings and really paying attention to the details on these complex issues. no on...