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Putin. >> from the white house's perspective it was always a good thing that tim had a personal relation shin with putin. the objection is to improve the russia/u.s. relationship. so that is added leverage. my point of view is putin needs more from trump than trump needs from putin. putin needs economic sanctions relief, putin needs some type of resolution to syria. because the syrian intervention is not very popular in russia either. so putin is coming in with asks as well. this is not just about trump meerp a here and we didn't have the look into the soul moment yet, we'll see if that appear...

Welcome to all of you. let me he get -- we're going to chew through this russian aspect a bit, but from what you heard from secretary tim llerson on ts cease fire agreement, is it smoik asmoke and mirrors or something serious? >> we don't know yet. i think it's potentially a good thing. on the military front, we have made real progress against sooiisis. so i think it's excellent that the administration is trying to figure out what the day after looks like. so this is really a confidence building measure. if we can get this to hold in the southwest corner of syria, that is a good thing. i still...