Big announcement, no 'formal' meeting with Putin.

Who would have imagined there'd be a formal meeting?  A formal meeting requires others to be in attendance, ….witnesses.

Putin and Trump don't want no witnesses.

Trump's Secretary of State Tradecraft, Tillerson, said meetings are now to be called pull asides.

Got that?   Now the meeting between the two are gonna be called a 'pull aside'.

As in Putin pulls Trump aside and gives Trump some more orders.

That way Trump can lie about the 'meeting' and Putin can laugh at the incompetent useful idiot he's recruited.

Hey, and no witnesses.