>> reporter: this was his doing. this started at the beginning of a conversation when he called putin to congratulate him and used that word "congratulate" him when his advisers asked him not to. he wanted to have a one-on-one meeting. his advisers were saying that he wanted to have a meeting like his with kim jong-un last month in singapore. one key difference, vladimir putin has been around the block with four american presidents, 18 years, two decades of this. he was not the new kid on the block today. this summit was done on putin time. he made the president wait. he controlled this entire event today. erin, it seemed to show. >> all right. jeff zeleny, thank you very much. we're going to have much more on that, by the way, putin showing up 40 minutes late and more on that in just a moment. there is, though, more breaking news this hour as the president codesies to putin and enrages his intelligence chiefs in his own party. the justice department charging a russian national tonight with spying. not just any russian national, a woman who attempted multiple