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Pull-asides, right, with the leader of russia and now xi jinping. >> i think it's really interesting that it seems like the president really could not help himself here but have this inform an conferring with the russian president. last year in hamburg the president had a similar informal conversation linked to adoption. it seems like this is not a moment when they would be having an inform an, heal, hey, how's weather conversation. there's certainly no media glare because reporters were not actually allowed in the event but in terms of the other headlines, you know, reforming the wto, excludi...

Relationship with. but there is a lot of tension in that room. a lot of tension with a lot of those world leaders over especially trade, really, but over a number of different issues. president trump at this g-20 is in a position where he could be perhaps more isolated than he has been in his presidency. i remember his first g-20, when he was first getting to know these folks, he seemed to really enjoy kind of being part of this club. but over the last two years, there have been some serious ups and downs. i think we can expect that even in addition to some of these meetings he's having that a...

There would be no informal meeting between the two. the white house pushing back on the statement the russians put out this morning saying the two men would meet on their feet. that was the phrase suggesting there would be an informal meeting, what are known as pull-asides here. that's clearly not happening. i talked to a foreign policy administration who are relieved this meeting between the presidents trump and putin is not happening. because it means that president trump won't necessarily, if he fails to you tow hold putin's feet to the fire or worse, should he accept putin's version of eve...

Flowing. now that schedule is drying up. his formal meeting with the president of south korea the leaders of turkey. those were reduced to informal pull-asides. the meeting with angela merkel had to be rescheduled, she isn't attend. the president putin meeting isn't happening and he may have action with mohammed bin salman. we'll see if that takes place tomorrow. i would point out the marquee event is tomorrow night between president trump and chinese president xi, all about finding a way to deescalate this trade war. there are no big winners. certainly, we'll have to see if that dinner produc...

Scenes planning for events like this. what's the calculus for the president in determining who he is seen being taken -- who he's seen taking a picture with publicly, who he's seen avoiding. what is the calculus? >> there's usually a tremendous amount of preparation for this, and there's a lot of choreography. with trump they don't do it so much. when trump canceled these formal meetings with world leaders, any other administration there would have been planning for months and months on that, and you can't cancel it. even these pull-asides, which is the technical name for it, those also have p...