BOB SCHIEFFER: What should we do now? Should we not go to that international economic conference in Russia? Should the president cancel the individual summit that he had planned with President Putin?
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): Yeah, I would urge the president to cancel the bilateral summit he's having with Mr. Putin. President Putin's behaving like a schoolyard bully, and in my experience I've learned, unless you stand up to that bully, they ask for more and more and more. And he's always going out of his way, President Putin is, to seem to poke us in the eye, whether it's in Iran, in Syria, now with Snowden. So I would urge the president not to go forward with the bilateral meeting next month. That would give Putin the kind of respect he doesn't deserve at this point in time. I'd also urge the preside to try to urge our allies, if it were possible, to move the G-20 summit away from St. Petersburg. Some of them may not want to do that. The G-20 summit's important, but certainly, on our own end, for the president to meet with Putin in a one-on-one meeting later this month would give him respect he doesn't deserve after all he's done.
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