Well, it's 8 p.m. on the East Coast, and we already know that Donald Trump's summit

with Vladimir Putin in Alaska ended with a, the only way I can describe it really is a low-energy

press conference that lasted all of 12 minutes. It was really, it was

hardly a press conference at all. Not only because they didn't take a single question from the

press, people, the United States delegation who had traveled all the way to Alaska with them,

the Russian delegation, many of them state run, but they were there too, but also because

they had

literally no updates or details whatsoever to share with the public. I mean, this is pretty much

all we learned about what they discussed behind closed doors. I expect that today's agreements

will be their starting point, not only for the solution of the Ukrainian issue, but also will

help us bring back business-like and pragmatic relations between Russia and the U.S.

Many points were agreed to. There are just a very few that are left. Some are not that significant.

One is probably the most significant, but we have a very good chance of getting there. We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting

there. We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there. I have no idea

how to translate for you what exactly Trump was trying to say there. It was a collection of words.

That's what I can tell you. But the big winner of today's summit, outside of all of that, what we just saw, was undoubtedly Vladimir Putin.

And that has been true since the summit was announced.

I mean, a decade of isolation from the international community ended today when he was welcome back onto the world stage, thanks to Donald Trump.

Meeting with adversaries is something American presidents have done for a very long time,

and they absolutely should continue to.

That's how you make progress, how you end wars, how you negotiate peace.

But the optics of such meetings are always a choice.

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