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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

The interesting thing that we've seen on the ground here is the Russians seem to have come to the conclusion that the best thing for them to do is be as silent as possible and let President Trump do most of the talking.

And the message that they're obviously trying to send to audiences here in Russia, but of course

also internationally into the US, is that Vladimir Putin is going into this meeting a winner.

He's going into this meeting with momentum on the battlefield and certainly wanting to push

through his own agenda as far as this meeting is concerned.

And the Russians have said that they haven't changed their stance on Ukraine, which means they

don't want an immediate ceasefire.

That's more interesting analysis than I was expecting based on the description on my sheet

of paper.

I thought it was just going to be kind of Trump bashing Putin, smart, Trump's dumb.

But Putin has been not saying much about this, whereas Trump's talking every single day.

Is that any advantage in a negotiation standpoint?

Where you don't really have any idea what Putin's going to walk in and say,

you have a pretty good idea what Trump's going to walk in and say.

You know, I don't know.

It's funny, I was going to take almost an opposite

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