Secretary of State Tillerson finally had a chance to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and NBC is already suggesting that the Syrian attacks were possibly orchestrated to make President Trump look good! The bottom line here is Putin caved and met with Tillerson... Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Interesting developments with uh Tillerson today, our Secretary of State. | |
| By the way, this, you know what 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 uh Russia said earlier this week that Putin would not meet with Tillerson. | |
| But on Wednesday, the Russian leader's spokesman, Dmitry 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, but 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 of this. | |
| Anyway, the bottom line is Putin caved. |