side on this past week's g-20 summitt. and new characterizations on tim pr the impromptu meeting. evening. did either party persuade the other in any small way, even? >> alex, good afternoon, your time. well, frankly, the answer is, no. anyone who thought that russia's president putin was going to sit down with the president for 20 minutes and then walk out and say, actually, i agree, all is forgiven, was kidding themselves. no one thought that and it didn't happen but what's interesting when you look back at the way the nations at the time g-20 divided they didn't divide clearly. russia suggests they have most of the support but where president putin said he believes that the rebels may have been responsible for the attack he wouldn't have had any support at all except for by the chinese and it's clear that even france and his support of the u.s. has some preconditions. >> what about -- can you say definitively which countries took the u.s. side and which countries are siding with russia on the syria question? >> well, we can't entirely say that. everyone seems to be taking a dif