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Rex Tillerson says Trump's meeting with Putin took so long, the First Lady was called in to 'get us out of there'

"And neither one of them wanted to stop."

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Vladimir Putin, President of Russia (right), at the opening of the G20 summit on July 7, 2017 in Hamburg, Germany.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said President Donald Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit took so long that First Lady Melania Trump was sent into the meeting "to see if she could get us out of there."

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"And I think there was just such a level of engagement and exchange, and neither one of them wanted to stop," Tillerson continued. "Several times I had to remind the President, and people were sticking their heads in the door."

Well, we went another hour after she came in to see us," Tillerson. "So clearly she failed."

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"It was an extraordinarily important meeting," Tillerson said. "I mean, there's just — there's so much for us to talk about. And it was a good start."

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