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He says one thing and a different way if he says another. we didn't do things in an ad hoc way. i want to br b clear, i think at g20 meetings and nato summits, there are chats between heads of state. that is normal. i would encourage it because you want as much face time as you can between leaders but you want them to be prepared and ready to discuss certain topics. of course, my concern with president trump would be did he prepare for that? did he think about the talking points? and in particular if i were working at the white house, and even with president obama i always worried about any pu...

Russia disagreeing sharply on syria, on hacking of the u.s. election, on just about everything. so now they're going out to sit down again and this is with president trump so there are lots of variables there, how the personalities match or don't is going to be a big part of it. how they lay the foundation is what the world will be watching for as well as that question, does trump even broach the subject of russian meddling in the election. the white house is not expecting him to bring it up, but they said because it's still an open-ended meeting, there's no specific agenda yet set for those d...

Talking about white house aides being most worried about this meeting because they cannot predict what president trump will do. the optics will be crucial, how will a handshake go, will we get to see it? a lot of this, we just simply don't know. a official i have spoken to says the details are still being figured out. i asked how long will the meeting be. he said, i don't know that either, but the two presidents, he said, will meet for as long as they need to, and just think about that statement, because it tells you a lot, the russians, president putin is getting something he wants already be...

Raise the mistakes by agreeing to make this a full bilateral meeting instead of a pull-aside? seems like the expectations just got a whole lot higher. >> the message is what does president trump have to gain and what does vladimir putin have to gain. putin has more to gain. the economy is not in great shape, the russian ruble has struggled with low oil prices, he wants sanctions lifted, wants his wealthy russian buddies to be able to move money around the world again. and putin is a political showman. he has a lot to gain just from showing up and exercising his strength as he did with the megy...

Just two more days before president trump and russian president vladimir putin sit down for official talks on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in hamburg, germany. this will be the first such meeting between the u.s. and russian president in nearly two years. this morning the kremlin said the goal of this meeting will to establish a working dialogue. the conflict in syria and conflict in ukraine will possibly be of discussion. so, jill, that this is an official bilateral meeting, not an informal pull-aside, what does that tell you? >> you know, it tells me that they want at least symbolically ...