Steven Pifer, director of the Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative and a senior fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and the Center on the United States and Europe, discusses the sensitive nature of President Trump’s initial meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany.

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