Trump and Putin's planned summit in Hungary boosts an authoritarian ally

Hungary "is a country that doesn’t normally have such a level of international clout, so, for Orbán, this is a bit of an outsized role he is playing in foreign policy here," she told NBC News in a telephone interview Friday. "There aren’t a huge amount of places where Putin could comfortably meet Trump in Europe," Ferris said, pointing to the fact that the Russian leader faces an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court for the "war crime" of overseeing the unlawful abduction and deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia — an allegation denied by Moscow.