Maggie Haberman Agrees With CNN Anchor That Trump’s Blockbuster Summit ‘Failed’: ‘They’ll Never Admit That’

New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman agreed with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper that President Donald Trump’s blockbuster summit has “failed.”

It has now been three weeks since Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin for a high-stakes summit meeting in Anchorage, Alaska that did not result in a hoped-for ceasefire. Since then, Putin has made no progress toward talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

On an episode of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 this week, Haberman gave Cooper her insights on a number of foreign policy issues, including the fizzling post-summit peace prospects.

Haberman agreed the talks seem to have failed — even though Trump’s White House “will never admit that”:

COOPER: It certainly seems like the reach out to Russia has pretty much failed on Ukraine.

HABERMAN: So they’ll never admit that. The White House is never going to say that. But yes, we are well past the two weeks from that Alaska Summit, and there has not been any movement toward a bilat between Zelenskyy and Putin, let alone a trilat. Now, President Trump is supposed to go to Europe in the next two weeks and there is some hope by some advisers to the president — President Trump that there could be some activity before that or maybe right after that. But hopes are understandably dimming.

COOPER: I mean, he had also talked about significant consequences if —

HABERMAN: Correct.

COOPER: — nothing came out of the Summit and obviously, that — there have been none.

HABERMAN: He has just been punting on this issue for some time. And I think what you are seeing is he genuinely does not know how to alter Putin’s behavior.

COOPER: Maggie Haberman, thanks very much. By the way, he’s not the only one.

HABERMAN: Well, correct.

COOPER: No one else has had much —

HABERMAN: But he is the only one who said only I can do it.

COOPER: Right. That is true.

Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.