the us election. the foreign minister, sergei lavrov, called america's refusal to return diplomatic property, outrageous, and he said that russia was ready to expel 30 american diplomats. the world has got used to health and longevity, with falling death rates. but in the united states, an opioid crisis is pleming lies. —— claiming. there are now more than 2 million grandparents bringing up children because of this epidemic. she was finally starting to get it together, then got back with a drug using friend, and she took some heroine come and kill her. —— heroin and it killed. when the policeman was talking to me, it was in the kitchen, and he said if you don't take, she will go to foster care. andl don't take, she will go to foster care. and i said of course i would ta ke care. and i said of course i would take my grandchild. you should watch a movie. i didn't think it would be a movie. i didn't think it would be a good movie when i first wanted, but it was great. it is actually really good. it is sad. plans change. we are were going to travel, picks up the house. not much

over allegations of meddling in the us election. the foreign minister, sergei lavrov, called america's refusal to return diplomatic property, outrageous and that russia was ready to expel 30 american diplomats. turkey's president recep tayyip erdogan has told the bbc that membership of the european union was not "indispensable" for his country, criticising the eu for being "insincere". in an interview with the bbc‘s hardtalk programme, mr erdogan also said he hoped for a free trade deal with britain once it leaves the eu and rejected criticism of turkey's record on press freedom. translation: we are loyal to our word. if the eu bluntly says we will not be able to accept turkey into the eu this will be comforting for us. we will then initiate our plan b and see. the eu is not indispensable for us. turkey is able to stand on its own two feet. the majority of my people, they don't want the eu anymore. they don't think the eu's approach to turkey is sincere. despite all this, we will continue on being sincere with the eu for a little more time. we will see what that brings to u

accepted by mr trump. the foreign minister sergei lavrov said president trump heard clear statements from president putin and that allegations of medley and not true and that russian authorities did not intervene and he accepted these declarations. rex tillerson was also in the meeting. he briefed reporters off camera saying the talks went well. the two leaders, i would say, connected very quickly. there was very clear positive chemistry between the two. there were a lot of things in the past that both were not happy about. i think one of the reasons it took for a long time is because, once they met and got acquainted with one another fairly they met and got acquainted with one anotherfairly quickly, they met and got acquainted with one another fairly quickly, there was so much to talk about. earlier it was the family photo with president trump in the strange position and not being centre stage. but forget any headline of, "president marginalised", it seemed there was no shortage of leaders wanting to bend his ear. two big topics —i trade, the other, climate change. i was clear to presi

people do not behave this way. sergei lavrov there. suzanne, the russians have also said they will decide on any possible retaliation after the talks and they hope that political wisdom will prevail. with the political atmosphere in washington so toxic at the moment, anything from president trump that might look like a concession to the russians is likely to cause him further problems? indeed. ukip the nail on the head. the political climate here is extremely toxic and anything that looks like a concession to vladimir putin is a major problem for donald trump, whose administration is currently mired in several investigations. this could not have come at a worse time, especially on the heels of this meeting that has raised questions between one of mr trump's sun ‘s and a russian lawyer. so, the russians have said this is a priority to them. it has been almost six months that he has been in office. it was inevitable that this was going to come to a head. what the resolution is going to be, that remains to be seen. we have not seen a statement from the state department out of the me

. sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, said president trump said sergey lavrov, the foreign minister, said "president trump said he heard clear statements from president putin the allegations of meddling are not true and the russian authorities did not intervene and he accepted these declarations." besides translators, the only other person at the meeting was us secretary of state, rex tillerson. off—camera after the talks, he said they went well. the two leaders, i would say, connected very well. there was a very clear, positive chemistry between the two. there's a lot of things in the past both of us are unhappy about. we're unhappy, they're unhappy. but i think... and one of the reasons it took a long time is because once they met and got acquainted with one anotherfairly quickly, there was so much to talk about. earlier, there was the family photo, with president trump in the strange position of not being centrestage. but forget any headline of a president marginalised, there was no shortage of leaders wanting to bend his ear, two big topics, trade and climate change. i was cle

heard from sergei lavrov yesterday, the donald trump did ask about this allegation is that russia meddled in the us elections, no surprise but a confirmation from the president that mrtrump confirmation from the president that mr trump raced back issue. he said he had a personal relationship with trump and was positive about that. he said mrtrump trump and was positive about that. he said mr trump is different in person to how he is on the tv. that was all he said. and he confirmed that the americans and russians will set upajoint that the americans and russians will set up a joint task force looking at cyber security. the irony of that will not be lost on those in the intelligence agencies because they have explicitly said that russia definitively meddled in the us elections, something that the russians continued to deny. mr trump and mr putin setting up a joint task force on cyber security and we will have to see how that works in practical terms. next angela merkel talked about africa and eight. this was fascinating. she criticised how the world has gone about assisting the wor

this — an assurance, the russians say, was accepted by mr trump. the foreign minister sergei lavrov said president trump said he heard clear statements from putin that the allegations of meddling are not true and that russian authorities did not intervene, and he accepted these declarations. aside from translators, the only other person at the meeting was the us secretary of state, rex tillerson. he briefed reporters afterwards, off camera, and said the talks had gone well. the two leaders, i would say, connected very quickly. there was a very clear, positive chemistry between the two. there were a lot of things in the past that both of us are unhappy about — we're unhappy, they're unhappy — but i think, and one of the reasons it took a long time, i think, is because once they met and got acquainted with one another fairly quickly, there was so much to talk about. earlier, there was the family photo, with president trump in the strange position of not being centrestage. but forget any headline of "president marginalised" — it seemed there was no shortage of leaders wanting to bend

diplomats as retaliation for alleged russian interference in the us election. sergei lavrov also hinted at russian retaliation, but all this leaves president trump with few easy options, as olga ivshina from the bbc‘s russian service explained for me. 0h, oh, definitely he is in a tricky position because he claimed a number of times he wants to re—establish relations with russia in this cold period. but now if he gives russians back their diplomatic premises, then he will be criticised for his actions. specially bearing in mind today's news. he will be criticised for having special relations with the russians for depending on them, and so on. if he doesn't do it, then it will be very hard to renew dialogue with mr putin in a positive tone. when president obama took this action at the end of his administration, what was he basing his act on? what evidence do they have? he said his intelligence community have provided him sufficient evidence of alleged russian interference into us elections, so there was this open source report and also there was a classified report into intell

away with today? because people around him will be thinking about the meeting in may with sergey lavrov and the russian ambassador, and there were pictures that looked like, the mood music was not in favour of donald trump and that played very badly with the us media. because that meeting took place at one of the more tense periods of the ongoing investigations, his motivations for firing former fbi directorjames comey. there are a lot of things going on at this 620 in part because of the recent launch ofa in part because of the recent launch of a long—range missile by north korea. so now there are questions of what is happening and trump won't wa nt what is happening and trump won't want to be outside that but will have this broader question of north korea in mind. that is different from what he thought he would be dealing with energy 20. but i think what professor rosemary hollis said is right, the optics matter a lot, will he come out of this looking like a strong president, holding a line on russia, but also forming a strong relationship and creating that opportunity that h

meeting with sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, and president putin himself. it is going to be an hour or less. once you add the translation in, it amounts to a short chat between two countries. even if they are talking, as has been reported, on anti—terrorism moves, can you imagine any major significant arrangement being agreed to in half an hour or 40 minutes? forgive me, i need to move on. thank you both so much for your time this evening. staying with trump, russia, and, indeed, ukraine, earlier today, i spoke with the hungarian foreign minister, peter sijarto, about being positioned both politically and geographically right in the middle of the changing political landscape. we also discussed brexit, of course, but i began by asking him about his government's perceived proximity to the kremlin and possible problems this poses for hungarian citizens in ukraine. i don't like this kind of stigmatisation. and i don't like this kind of simplification of things. we are not... it was fair to say it is a friendly relationship. no, it's a pragmatic relation. we care about our nationa

. they were both talking about constructive conversations, sergei lavrov saying it was a constructive atmosphere, they talked about many things. they talked about syria, the ukraine, about cyber security. this is where it got interesting. sergei lavrov went on to say that donald trump raised the issue of allegations of russian meddling in the us elections. he went on to say, according to the russian side, he had multiple times from president putin that the allegations were untrue and there was no proof of that, and donald trump apparently accepted these statements. we then heard from rex tillerson, the us secretary of state, he gave a rather different picture, talking of robust talks, he said donald trump raised theissue talks, he said donald trump raised the issue of russian meddling, he pressed vladimir putin on it and vladimir putin denied it. slightly different from the two sides, russia's standing its ground and a p pa re ntly russia's standing its ground and apparently donald trump accepted that russia was not going to admit to it, and according to russia, donald trump apparentl

time moscow declined to retaliate. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says washington's behaviour is unacceptable: translation: pav it is daylight robbery. they are acting like bandits on the road, taking away a pity that belongs to us. —— it is daylight robbery. in order to get it back, they act according principle, what is mine is mine, what is yours, we will share. decent people do not behave this way. well we can go now to washington to speak with suzanne kianpour who is following the story how significant are these demands from the russians? well, this is significant because one of president trump's campaign promises last year was indeed better relations with russia and now that is hanging in the balance. now russia has made it clear from a very long time it is top of the agenda. but they gave president of about six months, he has been in office for about six months now, so it is inevitable for this to have come from ahead. —— fork ——2 ahead. had a good meeting at the t20 however the political climate in washington is quite toxic right now. president tru

declined to retaliate. russia's foreign minister, sergei lavrov, says washington's behaviour is unacceptable. translation: it is daylight robbery. they're acting like bandits on the road, taking away property which belongs to us according to a bilateral, intergovernmental, ratified document. and, in order to get it back, they act according a principle — what's mine is mine, what's yours, we will share. decent people do not behave this way. the bbc‘s suzanne kianpour has been following the story in washington. this is significant because one of president trump's campaign promises last year was indeed better relations with russia and now that is hanging in the balance. now russia has made it clear for a very long time that this was at the top of the agenda. but they gave president trump about six months, he has been in office for about six months now, so was is inevitable for this to come to a head. trump and putin had a very good meeting at the 620. however, the political climate in washington is quite toxic right now. president trump has very narrow line to tread. indeed it

they seized them. we have heard from sergei lavrov the russian foreign minister and his position is clear. translation: it is daylight robbery. they are acting like bandits, taking property which belongs to us according to bilateral ratified government. in order to get it back, they are absorbed into the principal, what is mine is mine, what i have, we will share. —— what you have, we will share. moscow has been dropping not so su btle moscow has been dropping not so subtle hints that it may be about to expel lots of american diplomats and close down a couple of american diplomatic compounds in moscow. why? because last year, resident obama did something similar, he ordered diplomats out of the country and close compounds, his reaction to russian cyber attacks aimed to on influencing the outcome of the election in america. russia cried foul and accused america of violating international law but at the time of the kremlin did not retaliate. resident peter knew that president obama would be on the way out and a new man would be there. donald trump. so we decided not to act immedia

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present. sergey lavrov was the only other russian official present. it said -- it is said that vladimir putin prefers to have meetings with a small number of people and finds it easier to operate that way. but the each had translators, because even though president does speak english, he has only been learning it in the past decade reportedly. to whether the confrontations that may have happened there. we knew president trump would talk to put in about syria -- andn about syria and crimea the defense agreement with north korea and iran. but we did not know a few was going to address the hacking allegations in the 2016 -- if he was going to address the hacking allegations in the 2016 election. donald trump took that denial in good faith, and they moved on at that point. it is not clear if this means he believes putin or is just trying to continue negotiations. julia: but the good news on this is that russia and the u.s. have agreed to a bilateral working group. they are excited about that, without any level of skepticism at all. >> that as amazing as well. talk about having a wolf in the

-- put accompanied by sergey lavrov. matt miller is in hamburg. matt, if i can start with you, what is the most that trump can expect to get out of the meeting, given both his domestic audience and international audience? uh, i think the most you can expect to get out of this is

, while president clinton is in ispanied -- put accompanied by sergey lavrov. matt miller is in hamburg. matt, if i can start with you, what is the most that trump can expect to get out of the meeting, given both his domestic audience and international audience? uh, i think the most you can expect to get out of this is a positive meeting, given the international audience. he is unlikely to confront president putin with allegations of hacking, most recently into the power stations in the u.s., but of course in the 2016 elections. the two of them will probably focus on a push to fight terrorism together, although they have recently clashed in areas like syria. donald trump has to show he can be hard on upholding the minsk agreement and confront president putin certainly on the actions we have seen in crimea. vonnie: i want to bring in henry meyer in moscow, how much will putin be able to get out of donald trump when it comes to a strategy in syria or the potential for sanctions to be diminished? henry: i think that russians have been encouraged by the comments made by rex tillerson on his

vladimir putin with a sergey lavrov. the four of them and their translators in the room. vonnie: yes, and we are hearing as well from the ap that there could be some kind of deal reached on syria, with a cease-fire, which we should mention is already in existence of by the u.s. was not party to any agreement up to now. that would not be necessarily donald trump and putin, it could also be the sectors of state, right -- secretaries of state, right? matt: absolutely. the two of them were meeting before donald trump and vladimir putin went intimate with each other. they were working with others, including the u.s. team, for the last few days. these are some of the subjects donald trump had been talking about, especially in his speech and poland, calling out the russians further involvement in syria and of their backing of iran, further involvement in crimea. these were the issues they wanted to discuss. i cannot imagine a cease-fire could have been brokered in the last two hours, it was probably dealt with before. vonnie: i want to mention a couple other things. angela merkel addre

aegean sea. >>> sergey lavrov says president trump may have held more meetings with russian president vladimir putin at the g-20 summit than have previously been disclosed. but in an interview with nbc news, he shrugged off the importance of those encounters >>> the duke and duchess of cambridge continue to draw big crowds in germany. prince william and kate visiting the international maritime museum in hamburg. they were met by the city's mayor after receiving cries of approval and applause from hundreds of people >>> is seven people at a southern california starbucks couldn't get out of the way fast enough and were injured when a vehicle went careening into the building the surveillance video which we just showed you show a red car colliding with another slevehic. it loses control and smashed through the store's window seven people were hurt all right, you're up to date, haas the news update at this hour scott, back to you >> thanks so much. >>> well, white house press secretary sean spicer has resigned within the last hour. our eamon jarvis is at the white house with the very lates

after his visit to qatar >>> russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says he's surprised donald trump jr. had been accused of interacting with the russian lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya. >>> august busch iv was held overnight by police after he attempted to leave an office park in his helicopter while appearing to be intoxicated. a breath test showed he had no alcohol in his system but police say he did fail sobriety tests no charges were filed. >>> my favorite story of the day, the vast iceberg with twice the volume of lake erie has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in antarctica. it weighs one trillion tons. a scientist says it was a natural event not caused by a man-made climate change. that is the news update at this hour back to you, melissa >> thank you, sue. >>> airlines rallying following positive news from american and united phil lebeau is here at headquarters with the details. looks like united and ual -- ual and aal are up more than 3%. >> this comes down who-to-whto e see with june numbers. it's really all the airlines, much better than expected. let's take a look,

trump's much-anticipated meeting with president vladimir putin. sergey lavrov said trump heard and accepts putin's statements that russia did not meddle in the u.s. election. is that true? >> we got two very important leaders together and said okay, it's time for them to meet. this was long time coming. what we know is that when president trump meets with a leader, things do start to move. from my standpoint and a lot of the administration, it was important. what he did was bring up right away the election meddling and he did that for a reason. one, he wanted him to basically look him in the eye, let him know that, yes, we know you meddle in d in our elections. we know you did it and cut it out. i think president putin did exactly what we thought he would do, which is deny it. it is what it is. they're always going to have two different stories on this they're going to have two different stances on this at the end of the day what's most important is for president putin to hear from president trump, we know did you this we didn't like it. don't do it again. >> i want to play what th

in the kgb, other political experience before that. sergey lavrov, russian foreign minister on the job, diplomacy, now foreign minister, 45 years. donald trump has been president just shy of six months. rex tillerson, first government job, secretary of state five-plus months. does that matter? does the experience gap mat whir it comes to negotiating these things or ronald reagan was new when he started at this. everyone said a little nuts. didn't know what he was doing and brought the berlin wall down. >> well, he had been governor of a major state. >> right. >> two terms. i think it does matter. this is not their first rodeo. they've been down this. we were already have concerns about, you know, how trustworthy they are. i think it does make a differencened and i know there are people saying, donald trump's been in these, in negotiations as a real estate magnate all of these years. it's not the same thing. not the same at all. >> a different universe. >> additionally, whether or not trump has the clout in the meeting to make putin think he has credibility in the negotiations. not

vladimir putin because sergey lavrov came out of that meeting and said the president had accepted vladimir putin's denial that there was any russian interference in the last election. senior administration official told us no, the president did not accept vladimir putin's view on this. so if the president is in a position where he's going to be asked questions later on today before the conclusion of these events here, i suspect that he is going to be asked that question again and we'll have to wait and see as to what he says, because as you were playing at the top of this news cast, one of the very big questions here is why did he raise this issue with vladimir putin? is it because it's his concern or is it because he's talking about these frustrations, these political frustrations that he has back in washington? we'll have to wait and see how the day plays out here at the g20. a very interesting sequence of events before the president leaves town to head back to washington. >> jim acosta, thank you so much for the update. we appreciate it. >> all right. you bet. >>> i want to sho

translators and top diplomats. russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, and secretary of state, rex tillerson, who has a long-standing relationship with president putin. >> we've begun an effort to begin to rebuild confidence between ourselves and russia. >> reporter: tillerson is one of the top officials who has been hurriedly preparing the president for the high-stakes face-off. white house advisers say the agenda is not set. but key issues could include the conflict in syria, north korea, and russian aggression in ukraine, which led to sanctions. sources say president trump has been presented with a large binder of briefing materials for the g-20 summit. but only a few pages of notes and bullet points on his putin meeting. >> we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere. >> reporter: trump delivered a tough message to the kremlin ahead of today's sit-down. pledging sport to the nato alliance in the face of russian aggression. >> we stand firmly behind article 5, the mutual defense commitment. >> reporter: but just hours earlier, the president stop

foreign minister sergey lavrov. trump's advisers have said there's no set agenda for this meeting. only a couple of those pages were dedicated to what was going to happen in this meeting with putin. until then, there's plenty of other business going on at the g20. president trump just met with the mexican president pena nieto. and he was asked whether he still wants mexico to pay for the wall. trump said absolutely. back to you guys. >> that is something he's been reluctant or resistant to say during his time in office. he still says he wants to build the wall but he's backed off saying mexico is going to pay for it because he's been trying to improve relations with mexico since he was inaugurated. interesting to see that video. we'll play it when we get it. >>> vladimir putin now is known to prepare extensively for the kinds of meetings he's about to have with president trump. as for the president, he's new at this. his new advisers admit he can be unpredictable. nic robertson live in hamburg, germany. what does russia want out of this meeting? >> well, one of the things they want to do

reporting out of rex tillerson and sergey lavrov, his russian counterpart, talking to reporters after this meeting, sergey lavrov apparently told reporters after this meeting that president trump accepted vladimir putin's claim of non-interference in last year's election. brooke, i just talked to a senior administration official in the last few minutes who says, no, president trump did not accept vladimir putin's claim of noninterference, and so there is a little bit of a disagreement here. he said/he said in terms of what went on in this meeting. but clearly, no question about it, make no mistake, this is a significant development because just recall yesterday, president trump at that press conference in warsaw was talking about other countries potentially being involved in last year's election, contrary to what the u.s. international -- excuse me, the u.s. intelligence community has been saying for a very long time. and so for the president, despite those expressed reservations about all of this, to go into this meeting and say that, i think it's pretty significant. >> agree and we'

discussed about what actually happened inside that meeting, the rex tillerson version of it, the sergey lavrov version of it, now we have more from the president himself who said he did ask vladimir putin a couple of times whether or not russia meddled in the election. what's your assessment now a week later of how the president handled it based on what you've been told? >> truthfully, i think the president went in there and did actually pretty well. i think nobody expected him to bring up -- we were talking on all the shows, do you expect him to bring up election meddling? most people said no. he brought it up immediately. i think that probably would have caught vladimir putin off guard. >> but he asked. he didn't tell. he asked did you do it, not you did do it and stop. >> i don't know the details. the fact that he brought it up was surprising to me and i was actually pleased about it. i don't believe trump in his heart believes vladimir putin is lying that he didn't do it. this guy is a former kgb agent. however, where the damage is done is not in the meeting. meetings are meetings o

u.s. secretary of state and the russian deputy sergey lavrov. >> a lot of eyes will be on that. matthew chance, thank you. >>> right now, president trump is heading back to the u.s. as the russia fire storm grips washington. he is sure to face more questions when he lands. joining me now, maria cardona and brian lanza, communications director for president trump's campaign. great to have you on. >> thank you. >> i'm going to start with you, maria on this, the democrats calling for an immediate revoking of jared kushner's clearance. we heard nancy pelosi calling it ridiculous that he has a clearance. is this too far too soon? if not, why? >> no, i wish they had called for that as soon as we found out that he was on the e-mail chain of this meeting that he was invited to and he attended where there was an offer of collusion and the offer was readily accepted. it is unconscionable that he has a security clearance. it is unconscionable that the republicans are standing by and supporting a president who has his kids in the white house that are clearly conflicts of interest and clear

foreign minister, sergey lavrov. here he was. [ speaking foreign language ] >> i mean, senator, you hear the way he responded to that. you saw sergey lavrov laughing back. do we even know if putin actually respects president trump? >> well, i think he certainly better respect the united states and what the president represents and the abilities that the president brings to the table of the united states of america. so, i don't think -- i mean, he may make jokes about the media coverage and the incident, but i'm quite certain -- >> president trump slipping unclassified information to the two russians in the oval office. >> yeah, i think that, you know, he certainly making light of that. but i don't think he's going to make light of the fact that president trump is stopping in poland. i think that's a very important gesture, not only to, you know, support the polish are regime and what they're doing within the eu but also to send a very clear signal to russia that, you know, eastern europe is important to the united states and poland's important to the united states, and making that s

they didn't retaliate right way. sergey lavrov said they would right away and president putin overruled him and said not so fast and now are retaliatinreta. what was the delay? normally one state does this, the other state responds immediately. >> if you remember, not only did putin overrule his foreign minister and say, no. this time we're not going to provoke the americans. donald trump then tweeted, congratulating putin saying, i always knew he was a smart guy. in effect signaling, don't, you know, don't rise to the bait on this one. i'm going to be a guy you can work with. i'm going to be cooperative. so it's absolutely clear from both sides. trump expected he was going to have warm, friendly and cooperative relations with russia. putin expected exactly the same thing. i do think what you're seeing now is the delayed reaction and -- also this realization that they're in for a much tougher russia policy than they thought, because donald trump is not controlling russia policy. >> congress clearly has a say, as it obviously should. let's talk about north korea. john, the pres

. russian foreign minister sergey lavrov said, quote, president trump said he's heard putin a very clear statements that this is not true and the russian government didn't interfere in the elections and that he accepts these statements. that's all. just the day before president trump had e 85 indicated as to whether russia was behind the hacking. where does that leave the relationship? joining me to discuss is a former anchor for the russian state news cancel and carter page, a former adviser to candidate donald trump and a central figure into russian meddling in the election. he has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing. carter, were you surprised? were you disappointed that president trump brought up the subject of meddling to president putin given that you're been dismissive of those allegations in the past? >> not surprised, michael, but i think you have to ask the question, but there's nothing -- there's no -- you know, it was in the intel report, so it completely faked intel report from january 6 done for political purposes, et cetera. so i guess you have sto ask the question, but i'm w

. sergey lavrov said mr. trump had heard and accepted statements by russian authorities denying involvement in the election hacking. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> reporter: the highly anticipate ean ti anticipated meeting lasted 2 hours and 15 minutes, longer than the planned 40 minutes. melania trump was sent in to break up the meeting to keep the president on schedule but the meeting lasted another hour. tonight, she was sitting next to putin at a dinner. a white house official says they do not make the seating chart. interesting that melania trump played a pivotal role, at least a visual one, by trying to interrupt the meeting for time and later seated by mr. putin. you never know if it is by design or happenstance or diplomacy. in any case, this is the beginning of the trump/putin relationship. so many questions remain about their next meeting and how they'll go forward. john? >> jeff zeleny, thanks so much. the meeting took place in hambu hamburg, but it is no stretch to say that putin had an advantage. does that mean expectations were different in moscow than wa

trump was with sergey lavrov and ambassador kislyak and revealed some classified information. so here is president putin's response to talking about that. [ speaking foreign language ] >> ben, i mean, do you think it's possible that president putin could charm president trump into talking more than he should? >> the thing to remember about vladimir putin is as far as western leaders are concerned, he's seen it all. he first started meeting them when they visited s st. petersburg, when he was the deputy mayor of st. petersburg and he's now seen four u.s. presidents. he's seen a lot more european leaders. and he's really immune, at this point, to sweet talk, sweet nothings about russia's greatness, and for putin, the most important things in the world are money, how secure my money, how influential is my money, and military grit, military girth. like how many divisions do i have, how far advanced -- >> well, in a sense, the two would have that in common. >> well, i don't think that putin is going to be very vulnerable to trump talking up russia's sort of role in the world. but from

be sitting there with with president trump, that's the picture and whatever is said by sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister, whoever tells us from the russian side what happened in the meeting, they will have that picture and that moment and have president trump's words saying it's an honor to meet you. also, we have to acknowledge that putin for his part was delighted to see president trump. he said, you know, phone calls aren't enough. a clear indication there have been perhaps a number of phone calls in the lead up to this and gives us a hint of why president trump doesn't want to publicly criticize president putin, because he has been building for this moment and these phone calls and confidence building behind the scenes. what the russians would like on top of it is to be valued on the international stage and see a narrative that emerges where somehow the united states can support russia and syria in some way, even if it's a fight in terrorism. >> international diplomatic editor, nic robertson live for us in hamburg. this was the picture. everyone waiting for this. vladimir pu

feeling that russia is just spinning this. that it's maybe making a fabrication. and he even said sergey lavrov downright lied. what's the view from there? well, i think, first of all, russian officials looked pretty delighted with the meeting with a number of media personalities here saying that the trump/putin meeting overshadowed and eclipsed the entire g20. but, yeah, there is a question that after his kind of unprecedented meeting that went on so much longer than was originally planned that the two top diplomats hooper in the room came out and gave differing accounts, contrasting accounts about how that very controversial question was discussed of alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election. the russian foreign minister came out and said hey, vladimir putin denied any meddling, and the american president accepted it. take a listen. >> translator: president trump that he had firm assertions from president putin that is not true and that russian authorities have not meddled in these elections and that he said that he accepts these assertions. that's it. >> and lavrov went on to say

there. last night the russian top diplomat, sergei lavrov, said that's a step in the right direction. maybe syria and the awful war that's killed so many and made so many people homeless, maybe both heads of state can find some common ground since both countries have the stated goal of fighting islamist extremist terrorists on the ground in that country. >> so much has been made of the personalities and the optics of this meeting. the different personalities of the leaders. but clearly, a lot of substance to get to. thank you so much for that, ivan watson. >>> we'll turn to hamburg, site of the g20 summit. and we'll bring in international diplomatic reporter nick watson. the meeting between trump and putin, given how interconnected the g20 is, close members, many know each other, what do we expect out of this meeting? >> reporter: i don't think we can expect there to be a great meeting of the minds. i mean, there very much is a sense of this unity that there's a new world emerging if you listen to seasoned elder statesmen at the diplomatic world elder states men and women they talk a

extensive discussion. but we also heard from the russians from foreign minister sergey lavrov and from the president putin himself that they believe that president trump took putin at his word when he denied any russian meddling in the u.s. election. that of course is the no the con be collusion that the u.s. intelligence agencies came to. now, a senior administration official told jim acosta last night that that is not what happened in the meeting, but today during this gaggle an be board air force one on the flight home, as you mentioned, those three administration officials, gary cohn, hr mcmaster and steve mnuchin were asked about this and didn't set the record straight. listen to part the exchange with secretary mnuchin. >> another country making a statement about the president of the united states. do you not want to respond to that and correct the record if it's long? >> i won't make comments about what other people say. president trump will be happy to make statements himself about that. but the president handled himself brilliantly. he made his position felt and after substant

president vladimir putin. the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, said that donald trump heard and, quote, accepts put putin's very clear statements that russia did not interfere in the u.s. election. is that true? >> okay. so i think we need to all step back and just look at what we wanted to have happen. we got two very important leaders together and said, okay, it's time for them to meet. this was long time coming. what we know is when president trump meets with a leader things do start to move so from my standpoint and a lot of the administration it was important. what he did but bring up right away the election meddling and e did that for a rp. one, he wanted him to basically look him in the eye, let him know that, yes, we know you meddled in our elections, yes, we know you di it and cut it out. and i think president putin did exactly what we thought he would do, which is deny it. this is russia trying to save face. and they can't. they can't. everybody knows that russia meddled in our elections. everybody knows that they're not just meddling in the united states elections

east coast time. secretary of state rex tillerson and his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov, are going to be the only two officials in the meeting with the two leaders. they, of course, will have translators as well, because vladimir putin does not speak very good english, at least that's normally his protocol when he's meeting with american presidents. but it is going to be the smallest of meetings, and of course interestingly, rex tillerson, in his previous occupation before becoming secretary of state, he had a relationship with vladimir putin, so that is one of the key reasons that the white house wants to bring secretary tillerson into this meeting and he has already met with him a couple months ago in moscow, so this will be the setting and stage for the meeting. now, the question is, will election meddling be front and center at this meeting? all advisers are telling us it indeed will not be. it may be mentioned on the side, but that is not the thrust of this meeting tomorrow, brooke. but certainly a very big meeting. high stakes meeting for this new american president. >>

year's election. but the russian officials sergey lavrov and president putin himself have indicated that president trump took putin at his word when putin denied that russia meddled in the u.s. election. that of course is very different from the conclusion that the u.s. intelligence agencies have come to. now, last night a senior administration official told my colleague jim are beingcosta th is not how it went down, but given the chance to correct the record today, three officials, gary cohn, steve mnuchin, and hr mcmaster declined to correct that. listen to some of their exchange with reporters aboard air force one. >> they walked out and went ought and told him president trump had accepted their denial of election interference. is that true? >> let me just say first of all, i think president trump handled the meeting brilliantly. okay? it was very clear what started out as a 30 minute meeting and president trump made it very clear in addressing the issues around the election. after a very substantive discussion on this, they reached an agreement that they would start a sign are u

, officials say it will be a small crowd in the room, secretary of state rex tillerson and sergey lavrov. john? >> jim acosta in hamburg, germany, thank you. >>> congressman jim hines, a democrat, member of the house intelligence committee, thank you for being with us. the breaking news from cnn tonight, russian spies have increased their efforts to gather intelligence in the u.s. they feel emboldened to do so, we are told, because of the lack of the interference from both the trump and obama administrations. have you seen evidence of this? >> well, very haven't seen specific evidence of it but it's not at all surprising, right? if you're a russian intelligence boss, you're saying, look at the election hack caused no response from the united states president and the united states president is talking about maybe giving back those two diplomatic facilities and refuses to criticize anybody. if i were a russian intelligence boss, i would be doing all i could to get folks over here. >> just to be clear, you have not seen evidence of more spies coming in or increasing their activity in the united s

when sergey lavrov visited back in may, folks took note of this picture, and everyone looked very happy and looked like old chums and everything like that. are we going to see that same kind of imagery when putin and trump get together? >> i think both presidents would like to see that imagery. the stakes are very high for both of them. president trump after all has consistently praised president putin during the campaign, since he's been in the white house, unlike many other leaders, and president putin, although very critical of the united states has been very careful in what he said about president trump. they both need to come out of this meeting feeling as if they can present to their domestic population they've decided to put aside the obama/putin problems and move forward. for putin, important to show to his population that the u.s. president respects him, treats him as an equal and wants to work with him. >> hmm. so how do they do that simultaneously? because those are two very different objectives from this men? >> it is, but they have a similar objective inasmuch as they