MELISSA: WELL THE BODY LANGUAGE
ALWAYS TELLS IT ALL AS PRESIDENT
TRUMP STARTS ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS
WITH WORLD LEADERS AT THE G20
SUMMIT TODAY.
SAUDI CROWN PRINCE BIN SALMAN
WAS PICTURED, EVERYBODY SAW
THIS, HAVING AN ENTHUSIASTIC
HANDSHAKE AND A BIG LAUGH WITH
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADMIR PUTIN
AT THE START OF THE CONFERENCE.
HERE SO REACT TO ALL OF THE BODY
LANGUAGE, STEPHEN YATES, FORMER
DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY
ADVISOR, FORMER ADVISOR TO
VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
TALK TO ME ABOUT THE HANDSHAKE
FIRST.
PEOPLE PUT ALL KINDS OF THINGS
UNDERNEATH ABOUT THESE GUYS
REALLY BROKING IT UP.
WHAT DO YOU TAKE FROM THAT?
>> SUPER UNUSUAL, NOT SOMETHING
YOU SEE AT ONE OF THESE AUGUST
SUMMITS.
OBVIOUSLY THERE HAS BEEN TALK
THERE WOULD BE CONTEXT BEFORE
THIS HAPPEN, BEYOND MY
COMPREHENSION, ACTUALLY.
TWO LEADERS HAD MEETINGS
CANCELED.
MAYBE THEY HAVE EXTRA TIME TO BE
FLIPPANT ABOUT IT.
BUT SUBSTANTIVELY THIS IS THE
PROBLEM, IF WE FOLLOW BASICALLY
WHAT THE CRITICS AND THE LIBERAL
PLAYBOOK IS, BY JUST ICING
RUSSIA AND ICING SAUDI ARABIA,
YOU PUSH OTHER COUNTRIES
TOGETHER, THEY WILL FOLLOW THEIR
OWN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN WAYS
THAT PROBABLY WILL LEAD TO WORSE
OUTCOMES THAN IF WE'RE DIRECTLY
ENGAGED, INVOLVED IN TRYING TO
SHAPE THOSE.
MELISSA: THAT IS AN INTERESTING
POINT.
WHEN YOU ISOLATE SOMEONE THEY
TURN AND GO BUDDY UP WHOEVER
YOUR ENEMY IS.
THAT IS A GREAT POINT WHAT THAT
WAS.
NOW THE GROUP PHOTO.
EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO ANALYZE
WHO IS STANDING WHERE.
FIRST OF ALL PRESIDENT TRUMP, ON
EITHER SIDE OF HIM HE WAS ONE OF
HIS BESTTIES, JAPANESE PRIME
MINISTER, SHINZO ABE AND FRENCH
PRESIDENT EMANNUEL MACRON,
SOMETIMES HIS BESTTY BUT THEY GO
BACK AND FORTH.
HE WASN'T NEXT TO THE HOST, FOR
EXAMPLE.
>> THAT IS A LITTLE BIT UNUSUAL.
BUT SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE I'M
GOING BACK TO THE COLD WAR AND
WE'RE DOING KREMLIN-OLGY, WHAT
LEADER WILL DISAPPEAR TOMORROW
AND WHO IS RISING IN POWER BASED
ON PUBLIC PHOTOS BUT YOU'RE
RIGHT OF A SWEET AND SOUR
RELATIONSHIP HE HAD WITH MACRON.
THERE ARE A LOT OF COMPLICATED
RELATIONSHIPS IN THIS ONE.
WHERE DOES THE SAUDI LEADER
STAND GIVEN ALL THE NEWS CYCLE.
WHO IS STANDING BY HIM.
MELISSA: LOOK AT THAT, WAY, WAY,
WAY OFF ON THE EDGE IN THE BACK.
>> SURE IT WAS TOTAL ACCIDENT.
MELISSA: RIGHT.
>> THERE IS QUESTION OF WHO IS
STANDING BY PUTIN.
SO THERE IS, I IMAGINE, A REALLY
COMPLICATED GAME OF TETRAS, HOW
THESE PIECES FIT TOGETHER.
IN REALITY THEY LOOK AT WHO IS
NEXT TO WHOM, THAT IS NOT A BAD
FLANKING FOR THE PRESIDENT.
HE HAS BEEN WORKING OVER MACRON
IN SOME WAYS.
YOU'RE RIGHT, WE HAVE A VERY,
VERY SOLID PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
WITH SHINZO ABE, THE U.S. ALIGNS
IS STRONG.
THAT IS KEY TO ISSUES THE
PRESIDENT IS DEALING WITH AT
THIS SUMMIT.
MELISSA: LET ME ASK YOU, DO YOU
KNOW, IS EVERY SINGLE SPOT
ASSIGNED AND DO THEY EVER GO
ROGUE AND NOT STAN WHERE THEY
ARE SUPPOSED TO?
I CAN'T IMAGINE SOMEONE IS
STANDING OUT FROM THE SIDELINES,
PRESIDENT TRUMP, EXCUSE ME,
YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE,
YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE,
YANK.
THEY USUALLY IGNORE IT.
HOW DO THEY GO?
>> THESE ARE SCRIPTED.
THERE ARE MARKERS.
EVERY MOVEMENT IS CHARTED FOR
EVERYONE OF THESE LEADERS.
I REMEMBER ONE MOMENT WORKING
FOR VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY HE
MADE IT VERY CLEAR TO ME I WAS
HIRED TO GIVE HIM ADVICE, HE WAS
UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO TAKE IT.
SOME OF THESE LEADERS FEEL THAT
WAY WHEN THEY'RE TOLD THIS IS
WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO STAND AND
SOMETIMES MISS THE MARK AND MIX
IT UP.
OF COURSE THEY WERE RIGHT.
MELISSA: I CAN IMAGINE TELLING
VLADMIR PUTIN EXACTLY WHERE TO