President Trump’s first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, which took place earlier this month at the Group of Twenty summit, naturally received a lot of media attention. However, it was recently revealed that the more than two-hour meeting that dominated the press was not the only private discussion that Putin and Trump had while they were in Hamburg.

On Tuesday, Ian Bremmer, the president of the international consulting firm, Eurasia Group, informed Bloomberg’s Charlie Rose that Trump and Putin also had a second, informal meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit.

Bremmer didn’t provide many details about the meeting, other than to say that it happened and lasted about an hour, but he did share his thoughts on the troubling closeness that is shared by Trump and Putin.

After pointing the similarities between this meeting and the one that took place between Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, Bremmer noted the significance of Trump spending so much time with Putin “given the extraordinary focus and attention” that the media has directed towards these two leaders.

Bremmer then went on to say that he thinks Trump’s connection with Putin is “clearly his best personal relationship” with any G-20 leader.

‘Never in my life as a political scientist have I seen two countries — major countries — with a constellation of national interests that are as dissonant, while the two leaders seem to be doing everything possible to make nice and be close to each other.’

Bremmer also pointed out the fact that, while Trump has flip flopped on a number of other important foreign policy issues, he has remained “remarkably consistent” on his desire to improve relations between the U.S. and Russia.

When Rose asked him why he thinks this is the case, Bremmer admitted that he doesn’t fully understand the president’s reasoning. While he noted that Trump “likes the strong man” and has a “very transactional” leadership style, he also said that he doesn’t think those factors “add up to where Trump is with Putin right now.”

Bremmer went on to tell Rose that he thinks we will learn “what’s missing” and fully understand the president’s motivations “either through leaks or through the Mueller investigation.”

‘I expect that we will learn something. ‘At this point, we can’t look at all of this…and say this is just smoke.’

Watch the discussion between Bremmer and Rose in the video below, courtesy of Bloomberg.

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