opportunity to press his points and state what he wanted. and that he outflanked trump. and at the time, before this hamburg meeting, cnn reported that in the briefing book that trump had before this meeting, that the pages on putin wer very, very few. and the reason for that, the white house gave, was they wanted to keep the points short and focused so that trump could be focused in this meeting. but tillerson said that he was unprepared, especially compared to putin in this point in time. >> yeah. i'm sure putin was prepared. the former kgb agent. michelle kosinski. thank you. >> pentagon members could brief senior members of president trump's security team as early as today on a plan that could send thousands more u.s. troops to the middle east, this as tensions grow with iran. >> the story was first reported by our pentagon correspondent