downtown moscow, was going to be the mother of all transactions. putin was going to get certainly a huge kickback, but it was also a mechanism to funnel cash and money to the trump organization, to donald trump, while he was the republican nominee. so here we have the two avenues by which the russians were going to have their individual, hopefully from their perspective in the white house. one was by funneling large amounts of cash, and the other was hacking and dumping e-mails, engaging in propaganda placing agents influence, all to effectuate american policy going forward and that s in fact exactly what has happened. so, frank, cancelling the meeting with putin in, was that just for optics? because nothing about the russia/ukraine situation changed today, but there was obviously a shift in the people around the president. it appears they might have prevailed upon him in mid-air. so, let s put this in perspective, this very principled decision by our president to not meet with pre