didn't make any firm agreements. let's go to our global foreign affai affairs correspondent one said the summit itself was meaningless? >> reporter: brooke, it is interesting how the administration is spinning it. no one knows as we have been discussing what went on in this meeting. i think what u.s. officials have told me is european officials were really afraid that president trump was kind of going to give away the store to president putin, and that didn't seem to have happened. there's a lot of talk about vague agreements, but president trump doesn't seem to have made any ironclad agreements with president putin. certainly none of his top aides have gotten any instruction about new policy directives, so in a sense this was talk between president trump and president putin that often doesn't go anywhere because president trump makes a lot of agreements in meetings and then when diplomats