They only give him a chance to pretend taking a meaningless position against Russia which he might not even do. Just as it was in the case of Snowden, Russia can just say no and that's the end of the story.

More evidence that he is not even trying to defend the US and that he takes his marching orders from Putin.

Democrats and the media should be hammering Trump every single day asking "Why won't you take even the most basic, symbolic steps to protect the country from future attacks?"

Why are our leaders acting shocked? He’s a traitor, that’s clear by now. Throw a real punch for once. Sheesh.

But it seems they must already know it will go nowhere except to serve as another strike against tRump's inaction concerning Russia.

But Putin's already given his answer and all the pressure would do is make Putin look studly to his audience in resisting the US.

However, it's another way of scoring political points--if Trump does and fails, score! If he doesn't try, score! If Trump tries and gets them extradited, score!

On the other hand, if he tries and wastes political capital, who cares? The goal is to help make sure that Trump fails, and if he spends whatever capital he has trying to get the 13 extradited then he'll have none left for other things.

Those 13 are not in my top 100 things I'd like to see Russia bend on.