Chris Wallace on Trump, Putin Meeting: ‘Sometimes a Photo Op Is Just a Photo Op’

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WALLACE: "Sometimes a photo op is just a photo op. I think we make the mistake of trying to read too much into it. We will find out soon enough what comes out of the meetings, the degree to which of one side dominated or another might be substituted to make progress on any of the issues. This is the first of what I suspect will be many meetings between these two men. But it’s an important meeting and sometimes, as we pointed out, the impressions that are formed early on in these initial meetings can have an effect on what one leader thinks he can get away with or due or press. In addition though, we do need to point out, this is an important point, each country has their own national security interest. We have interest in terms of pushing back on Russia interfering in Ukraine, pushing back on the Assad regime in Syria, obviously in terms of what’s going on in North Korea. Conversely, Putin has some national interest in terms of making Russia a great power again like the Soviet Union was. They will advance their interest."