what we saw at the g-.and after that the kim jong-un summit where he president goes, has a bad relationship with our closest partners and allies and then goes and embraces a dictator, in this case mr. putin. there is a very real fear of that between london, the nato summit and then heading to the meeting with putin. he has an opportunity to do just the opposite, to show real solidarity with our closest partners, to have a good nato summit, to take credit for some of the progress that nato has made in strengthening its capacity and putting more money into its efforts and then going with a united front to see mr. putin to call him to account for the things russia is doing around the world including our elections. everything today suggests he will do the opposite but he does have an opportunity to reverse the narrative. >> just to be clear, the president is going to sleep the night in london, he is just not doing anything during the day, no public appearances. susan, you wrote an -- you've written something extraordinary, which is in an odd way the trump/putin meeting is a meeting