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Kirby, cnn military and diplomatic analyst and also the former pentagon as well as the state department spokesman. and jackie kucinich, cnn political analyst and washington bureau chief for "the daily beast." i want to ask you, with your extensive experience with protocol with the state department and executive branch, if you have these two leaders, initially supposed to have an informal pull-aside, which signaled something. says, we're just going to get together in a more casual way. now it's been upgraded, we learned today, to a bilateral meeting. a formal meeting's what do we take away from...

Our military exercises. we're not going to get the russians, and the chinese are clearly more important. we're not going to get president xi to basically do this for us without a price and that price right now is not acceptable to this administration. >> yeah. on russia, gentlemen, let's just look ahead briefly to this bilateral, full fledged bilateral meeting, no longer this informal pull-aside in germany between president trump and president putin. colonel, to you. i mean, this is unlike the quick pull-aside of president obama and president putin two years ago. what sort of message, just the...

We learned president trump and president putin will no longer have a brief, on the go, sort of sidelines meeting. instead, it will be a face-to-face sitdown. so let's go to caitlyn collins covering the white house for us today. the white house has said that president trump and president putin will focus on, they say, the u.s.'s priorities being ukraine and syria but with this now icbm, the north korean threat, how is the white house perhaps preparing to change focus? >> yeah, the topic could definitely include that now. the white house has confirmed that they will have an official, bilateral m...

As the u.s. weighs a response to north korea, president trump is now waiving the profile of his meeting this week with russian president vladimir putin. instead of just a brief sideline at the g20 summit, a pull-aside, as they call it, president trump is now saying a full-fledged bilateral meeting is in the works for both sides and many other people involved in the room. ryan nobles joins me live from the white house. ryan, the kremlin said advantages of a meeting with the u.s. and russia are at zero level. do the people you spoke with at the white house today see it the same way? >> reporter:...

A big week on the world stage for president trump includes this giant question -- will he rebuke vladamir putin and raise the issue of russia's meddling in the election? they are scheduled to come face-to-face at the g20 summit in germany this week. it likely won't be a formal meeting, but what diplomats call a pull-aside. it comes after a number of contradictory statements from the president about their history. >> i never met putin. i don't know who putin is. i don't think i ever met putin. i was in moscow recently and i spoke indirectly and directly with president putin, who could not have ...