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Speaker 1: Interesting developments with Tillerson today. Our Secretary of State. By

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Speaker 1: the way, this you know what this means, because Vladimir

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Speaker 1: Putin did decide to meet with Rex Tillerson today. It

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Speaker 1: means that, you know, those people over at NBC News

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Speaker 1: are gonna be claiming this is more proof that Putin

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Speaker 1: orchestrated the Syrian missile strike to make Trump look good.

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Speaker 1: That's what they're saying on NBC News every day anyway. So,

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Speaker 1: the Secretary of State waited for much of the day

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Speaker 1: wondering whether he would actually get a face to face

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Speaker 1: with Vladimir and the two men sat down at the

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Speaker 1: Kremlin late this afternoon Russia time, and if their first

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Speaker 1: face to face meeting. And Russia said earlier this week

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Speaker 1: that Putin would not be with Tillerson, but on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: the Russian leaders spokesman Dmitri Peskoff held out the possibility

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Speaker 1: of meeting later in the day. Russian leaders have greeted

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Speaker 1: virtually all new secretaries of state since the end of

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Speaker 1: the world World War Two, but Mr Peskov said any

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Speaker 1: meeting would depend on how Mr Tillison and his other

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Speaker 1: talks went. So the Foreign Minute Street spokesperson said it

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Speaker 1: was useless to Mr for Mr Tillson to arrive in

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Speaker 1: Moscow with ultimatums, and suggested that if he wanted any progress,

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Speaker 1: he should start by getting Mr Trump and his administration

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Speaker 1: on the same page about Syrian strategy. And there was

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Speaker 1: a question about all this anyway. The bottom line is

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Speaker 1: Poutin caved