Putin has nothing to lose in Trump meeting
By Bloomberg
14 July 2018 |
9:12 am
Brookings Institution Fellow Alina Polyakova discusses U.S. President Donald Trump's meeting on Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on "Bloomberg Markets."
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