Interesting developments with Tillerson today, our Secretary of State.

By the way, this means because Vladimir Putin did decide to meet with Rex Tillerson today.

It means that, you know, those people over at NBC News are going to be claiming this is

more proof that Putin orchestrated the Syrian missile strike to make Trump look good.

That's what they're saying on NBC News every day.

Anyway, so the Secretary of State waited for much of the day wondering whether he would

actually get a face to face with Vladimir and the two men sat down at the Kremlin late

this afternoon, Russia time and their first face to face meeting.

And Russia said earlier this week that Putin would not be with Tillerson, but on Wednesday,

the Russian leader's spokesman, the Mechri Peskov held out the possibility of meeting

later in the day.

Russian leaders have greeted virtually all new Secretaries of State since the end of

the World War II.

Mr. Peskov said any meeting would depend on how Mr. Tillerson and his other talks went.

So the foreign ministry spokesperson said it was useless to Mr. for Mr. Tillerson to

arrive in Moscow with ultimatums and suggested that if he wanted any progress, he should

start by getting Mr. Trump and his administration on the same page about Syrian strategy.

And there was a question about all this.

Anyway, the bottom line is Putin caved.