cia officer who once served in moscow. he is the director of intelligence and defense project at harvard's bellford center. thank you so much for being with us, rolf. the president obviously wouldn't allow us to cover it. he says that's the most important thing that the internationally broadcast press conference isn't the thing to focus on. put aside for a second what he said at the press conference. how interested or even concerned are you about what happened in that one-on-one meeting, given what we saw publicly happen? >> the problem with the president holding a two-hour one-on-one meeting in which all the substance is discussed and no one is the beneficiary of that discussion sits very difficult for any progress to actually be made in doing what the president says he wants to do, which is pursue relations across the board the russians. how does the u.s. intelligence community, state department, defense department, and everyone else involved, all the policy advisers, take notes from an interpreter and translate that into action and implementable programs? it raises questions of the