EXCERPT:
WEISS: “I think the most generous interpretation we can make is that Donald Trump genuinely believes that the force of his own personality, and I suppose his charisma and his intellect, could bend Putin to his will. And that Putin, as a gesture of good grace, if you like, would stop the war, pause the war, diminish his capacity to do harm in pursuit of these negotiations. And, you know, the Russian president's response is, eff off, basically. He's humiliating Trump. He's embarrassing Trump's so-called peace process.”