From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

Today, one week ago, President Trump was accused of being a tool of Vladimir Putin

filled with admiration for the Russian leader, defending him from critics and eager to become his ally.

Now, just one week later, Trump says the relationship is at an all-time low.

What is going on with the US and Russia?

It's Thursday, April 13th.

Good evening.

We just came from a productive meeting of about two hours with President Putin.

We frankly discuss the current state of US Russia relations.

There is a low level of trust between our two countries.

The world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Moscow at a historically tense moment for the two countries.

So is my colleague, David Sanger.

It's been a long day.

I got in around four in the morning for a couple of hours.

Then the day has been basically flat out since about 9 a.m.

And we're no place close to done.

So, David, I want you to walk me through this pretty extraordinary day.

It seems to start with it not being at all clear whether Vladimir Putin is going to meet with Rex Tillerson.

Today was a day of sort of power games that are not unusual in the world of diplomacy.

But are particularly common when you're dealing with Vladimir Putin.

Every time a secretary of state and sometimes even President Obama would be working toward a meeting with President Putin,

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