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ABC had national security correspondent Jonathan Karl (subscription required) accompany Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her visit to Moscow. Karl commented that "it is certainly getting chilly here in Russia." Rice and her diplomatic companion Defense Secretary Robert Gates were "kept waiting forty minutes" before President Vladimir Putin agreed to see them. Then what was "supposed to be a simple photo opportunity" turned into an opportunity for Putin "to lecture the United States--and lecture--and lecture--for more than eight minutes." NBC did not send State Department correspondent Andrea Mitchell on the trip but she summed up two main sources of friction: NATO's plans for a missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Russia's objections to a lack of United States diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear program. After Rice had heard Putin out, she "seemed stunned by his frosty tone."
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