Trump failed to make meaningful progress with Putin, as no concessions were made by the latter, the former director general of European Union military staff Lieutenant General David Leakey says.
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00:00So do you think President Trump should have and could have tried to extract more concessions
00:06from President Putin than he managed to do when they spoke on Tuesday night?
00:10I think we need to be cautious about criticising the individual day-to-day tactics on how to
00:18conduct the negotiation and whether and when to extract more concessions or conditions
00:23from either side because these things don't happen quickly and armchair critics like me
00:29or you or others sitting listening to the radio or the television won't know what's
00:35going on in the backroom deals and there'll certainly be more discussions going on between
00:41officials, between ambassadors, may even be between the military as well.
00:47So I think we should be cautious about criticising President Trump for insisting on more conditions.
00:57What I think we can say is that I don't think Trump made anything like as much progress
01:03as he hoped to make during that telephone call and I think what we can also say is that
01:08Putin gave absolutely no concessions at all and is still holding all his cards having
01:15not declared any on the table.