David Gergen

Yes. Absolutely. Listen, you know, let's take with regard to this particular meeting. They have been trying to hide what happened at this meeting. They have covered it up.

What's obviously needed now is for President Trump to talk to the American people, to talk to the world and make what Rex Tillerson would call a robust statement, making it definitive and clear that he believes the Russians hacked in this…

We should welcome the fact that they spent two hours and 15 minutes or so together and not the 30 minutes that was originally on the schedule, because it does mean they went deeper, they were more serious, they've engaged more.

You have to have some clear path of what you're really trying to accomplish.

The real news out of the United States today on this Russia front was Pamela Brown's reporting about the growing number of Soviet or Russian spies who are coming into the country posing as businessmen.

These are probably the most important international meetings that he's going to have the first couple of years in office, because everyone is still taking a measure of Donald Trump as a world leader.

The big question is, is he going to get serious cooperation on Syria and ISIS and fighting ISIS?

Vladimir Putin represents the big leagues.

I think he may make a couple of concessions, minor concessions to the Russians, which again will not be greeted well here.

If you start out hating people, they will hate you back.

There has been a double standard Jeffrey, but you work.

Well, Press Secretary is only as good as the White House that person works in.

You would think tonight that the president would be scrambling, doing everything he could to rescue the health care reform bill, which is now in serious trouble in the Senate.

But, unfortunately, he doesn't have any major legislative victories. He does have the Gorsuch victory and that's turning out well from a conservative standpoint.

When is it that the Trump people are going to own up to the things they've said that are wrong? We may wait a long time even past the next election for that.

I never want to underestimate Mitch McConnell who's a wiley coyote, but it's very hard to see how this additional time when they go home and hear from their constituents is going to make this work.

I think his testimony is going to be extremely important.

He's discrediting the whole special counsel investigation and everything that's going on this issue.

I think it's a legitimate question of whether President Obama acted properly. You know, there are some Democrats, Adam Schiff going public saying he was too soft on the Russians.

Well, I interpret it that he's -- if he's totally exonerated, it's going to be an honorable conclusion. And that if he's not, it is dishonorable. I think the president is clearly trying to discredit in advance any kind of conclusion which…

You better give me damn or give me an alert if something is going wrong. I don't want any surprises.

This probe -- and James Comey -- Mueller, we also know has now -- is now hiring a first class, very tough minded team of investigators.

What we've been talking about forever has just come true and I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous I think this is for the president.

Anderson, Gloria's point's well taken, but I think in every case in which there's been a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department, it is because the person being investigated has essentially brought it upon himself.

Donald Trump's disapproval rating today at Gallop went hit 60 percent.