Welcome back to our special coverage of the abbreviated Trump-Puton meeting in Alaska today.

And for those of you just joining us, President Trump met with a Russian leader of Vladimir Putin for nearly three hours today

to discuss a resolution of the war in Ukraine, or that was supposed to be what the purpose of the

meeting was. That closed-door meeting was followed by a rather vague, rather low-energy,

joint press conference, at least by Trump, that is, in which both leaders cryptically

referred to some points of agreement, even though, by all appearances, no actual deal had been

made, at least not one that they shared any details on.

I believe we had a very productive meeting.

There were many, many points that we agreed on.

Most of them, I would say.

A couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.

So there's no deal until there's a deal.

Sounds like there's not a deal, I think, is our takeaway. I mean, I should say that the term

press conference is actually somewhat of a misnomer for what occurred tonight. Although there

were plenty of press in the room, neither Trump nor Putin answered any questions whatsoever from them.

And neither leader laid out any actual specifics about what progress they made,

if any, in their meeting today.

In many ways, today's press conference, I'll put that in quotes,

was less about what was said and more about what wasn't said and who wasn't there.

If today's press conference was your only reference point, you might have no idea that Putin started the war in Ukraine.

You might have no idea about the well-documented war crimes Russia has committed there,

or that Putin could end the war at any time if he wanted to.

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