What plan?

They still think they can make plans with Old Lardass???

Heading into the summit, the White House had planned for Mr. Trump to “push Putin” at the news conference, one White House official said. The White House thought any confrontational approach from Mr. Trump toward the Russian president would come as a surprise and “make him look good.”

“Obviously, it didn’t happen,” the official said.

  WSJ

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway. (THAT's the attitude they're not catching on to.)

P.S. Here's the essence of that private meeting:

Mr. Trump, in a separate interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, said the Russian president had expressed his concerns that the investigation was impeding relations between the two countries.

“We’ve had a phony, witch hunt deal drive us apart,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s the thing that [Putin] told me when he went in. He said ‘What a shame.’ He felt it was very hard for me to make a deal because of, you know, all of this nonsense.”

Putin immediately let him know that he needs to shut this investigation down NOW. He has his marching orders.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who often advises the Trump administration, said the president should “clarify” his remarks about the U.S. intelligence community and Mr. Putin. “It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected—-immediately,” he said in a tweet.

How's that, Newt?

Nicholas Burns, former undersecretary of state in Republican President George W. Bush’s administration, said he anticipated some government officials would resign in the wake of Mr. Trump’s news conference.

I think Mr. Burns overestimates officials in the Trump administration.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the talks went “better than super.”

Whew! Don the Con can breathe a bit easier now.