PBS NEWSHOUR: New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including President Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Trump’s federal takeover of Washington and the battle over redistricting.

AMNA NAWAZ, PBS NEWSHOUR: So, this summit we saw between President Trump and Putin, Jonathan, it began with that handshake on the red carpet, a warm greeting between these two men, the first time Putin was met by a major Western leader since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and, as you heard Nick report at the top of the show, no clear deliverables out of this summit, no questions taken from reporters either, but progress and agreement to another meeting. What was accomplished here? JONATHAN CAPEHART, WASHINGTON POST: I don’t know. After looking at the – well, I was going to say press conference. It wasn’t even a press conference. But maybe this was the diplomatic equivalent of, could have been an e-mail. I’m still trying to understand what came out of this meeting. There was a lot of conversation about, we have agreed to something, and the president’s saying that he’s going to call NATO and he’s going to call Zelenskyy. Putin’s saying he hopes basically the Europeans don’t throw a wrench in it. And yet we still don’t know what that is. And so you fly all that way, at least I was hoping that we would get at least one piece of paper that had the framework of something that they talked about. NAWAZ: David, as you know, going into these kinds of summits, there’s usually a lot of preparation. That didn’t happen in this case., There’s usually clear deliverables. Was this progress, the fact that the summit happened at all? BROOKS: No, I don’t think it was progress just that it happened. He gave credibility to a war criminal, so I don’t count that as progress. I must say, this is the weirdest press conference to have to try to comment about, because it was like watching two guys eat salad, and then I’m supposed to say, here’s what it means for world history. Like, they – like, Vladimir Putin talked like Sarah Palin about how close Alaska is to Russia, and then Trump was making moon eyes at his dear friend Vladimir. And they talked about sort of agreements, but there was no – nothing there, as Jonathan said. The words that leapt out at me – there was the word agreement there, so maybe there’s some agreement. The word that leapt out at me is what Vladimir Putin said, root causes. Now, when Vladimir Putin talks about root causes, that is the same demands he’s been making since the start of this war. He wants territory that his army has not conquered. He wants to control who runs the regime of Ukraine, no Zelenskyy, no NATO membership, a whole bunch of other stuff, no support for Ukraine. These are nonnegotiables. This is not – there’s no peace with these root causes. So, if he’s sticking to the same plans which he has stuck with for all these years, there’s no big agreement. And so the way I read the presser is that they didn’t reach an agreement, but they don’t want to look like a failure. And so they’re making nice with each other. They’re using these vague words about things, but they have nothing to announce. And that might not be the worst outcome. The worst outcome would be that Donald Trump gave away the store or gave away something. There’s no chance Vladimir Putin is giving stuff away. And so if, it’s just a nothing burger, it could have been worse.

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