UPDATED: President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended their summit with a press conference in which both leaders made statements but took no questions.
Media outlets scrambled to try to figure out if there was any kind of agreement, with Putin talking about improved relations with the United States, yet calling the meeting a “starting point.” Trump, meanwhile, said that the summit made “some headway,” but that “there’s no deal until there’s a deal.”
That left correspondents and pundits to fill in the information void, to the point of reading the body language of the respective leaders and they delivered statements to the press.
CNN’s Kaitlin Collins said that as Trump was listening to Putin, “I flashed him a thumbs up to signal, ‘Did the meeting go well?’ He ki