we are back here next sunday. see you then 11:00 eastern with the latest buzz. eric: a fox news alert. president trump on his way to finland where he'll meet face to face with russian president vladimir putin. that happening tomorrow. right now we are getting new information on the agenda for that meeting and the president's expectations for that. welcome to "america's news headquarters," i'm eric shawn. arthel: demonstrators hitting the streets of helsinki. the commander-in-chief talking about his expectations ahead of the meeting president trump nothing bad is going to come out

of it. but i'm going into the with low expectations. i can't tell you what's going to happen. but i can tell you what i'll be asking for and we'll see if something comes of it. arthel: in helsinki, ellison barber has the latest. reporter: president trump called the european union a foe. president trump referred to russia a number of times as a competitor, not an enemy. a description criticized by some. his remarks about the e.u. are raising eyebrows. he's on his way to finland after spending the first part of the weekend in scotland. the meeting in finland is a headlining event. russian military action in

crimea, russia meddling in the 2016 election and joinltd military proliferation. the u.s. ambassador to russia says this is a meeting that absolutely needs to happen. >> you have to build trust in a relationship that has none. so the collective blood pressure in our bilateral relationship is high. we are not talking with one another, we are talking past one another. reporter: the stakes are high. russia increasingly isolated itself from the rest of the world. the british government blames russia for a never agent attack that killed one of it citizens. the rest of the world, including the u.s., expelled russian diplomats as a result.

the justice department indicted 12 officers for allegedly spying and hacking hundreds of emails from democratic political groups as well as the hillary clinton campaign in the run-up to the 2016 election. the white house refused to cancel the meeting. >> it's too late to cancel this meeting. but president trump need to make it clear who he's meeting with. he's not meeting with a competitor or potential friend. he's meeting with an adversary. >> engagement is good. even during the cuban missile crisis there was a direct line of communication between kennedy and khrushchev. >> we have a former kgb who has done his homework. i'm afraid he'll come in with maps of crimea and syria and try

to cut some deal and take advantage of this president. reporter: they said that the indictments prove what they said all along that no one in the campaign was involved in russia. missing from that statement was criticism of russia. eric: the former director communications and spokesperson from u.s. ambassador to the united states, nikki haley and he worked as a journalist in the ussr for many years. you the mof

leading up to we have a nuclear weapons contest with russia. they haven't many missiles pointed at us and we do at them. we need to make sure there are safeguard on that particular issue. >> do you think they can reach an agreement on this? >> i think it's good that during this recent interview he said there are lower expectations of the summit.

i don't think we should go into the summit with huge expectations. i think it's important for the president of the united states to raise his concerns about the nuclear situation. about the geopolitical problems we are facing in syria and what russia has been doing with its neighboring former soviet republics of ukraine, scaring the eastern european countries that managed to break away from the iron curtain and look at moscow as a constant threat. eric: there are concerns he could recognize crimea or give concessions. but he would congressional authorization to formally recognize it. what do you fear or expect would happen with the invasion of crimea, and that could be traded for let's say russia influencing iran to withdraw from syria. >> the problem with crimea it would be a giveaway that would

be part of the overall dream of vladimir putin. which is to reconstitute the former soviet union. eric: you said that was the greatest tragedy in the human history, the fall of the soviet union. >> crimea is essential to the russian navy and the russia project. to what vladimir putin looks at as part of the former russian empire. not just the soviet empire. it goes back to the time of the czars. giving away something like that -- eric: the land bridge to crimea, there is no way putin will withdraw or concede anything on crimea, i think. >> vladimir putin is doing everything he can to make realities on the ground to insure that type of thing never happens. russia is a powerful country and there are ways in which we can

influence them. the sanctions we have are punitive. and putin does want those sanctions lifted because it will enable him to have access to the western markets. eric: do you think the president will lift any of the sanctions at this meeting. >> if something like that were to happen we would be making amazing progress on the front with russians. this summit should be what president trump says, something that has some low expectations. it's important to have a dialogue. we have some very serious issues in which people are losing lives. americans and russians are threatened by the prospect of a nuclear holocaust. what's happening in syria with the atrocities and the bombings going on. eric: putin wants u.s. troops out of syria. >> they have to step up.

the russians have to stop playing a menacing role in syria by propping up a man who is essentially a war criminal. eric: they backed assad completely. off course they have. they have a military base there. they are solid in area and they don't want to undermine something like that. eric: what about the tenor. the president says he supports nato and the spending will increase among nato countries. listen to what he said to cbs about calling the e.u. a foe. president trump i think we have -- president trump: i think the european union is a foe what they do to us in trade. russia is a foe in certain respects. chain today is a foe economically. they are a foe.

but that doesn't mean -- eric: that mirrors and echos what putin thinks. you lived in russia for' years. sergei lavrov, the foreign minister, get inside putin's head when he hears something like that. what is putin thinking as he meets with the president of the united states. >> having the president of the united states call the european union a foe is of course something vladimir putin likes to hear. i wish he would have used a different word. an adversary, a competitor which he likes to use. i think using the word foe in regard to europe is stretching things. the president of russia who enjoyed influence, and some of the countries feeling secure because they are understood the umbrella of nato. the ball particular states which were overrun by moscow following

world war ii. they don't want to hear that they are a foe. really, the foe for them is russia. and the concern that russia in its strong state where it is now, and feeling empowered will try to make a move, a power play move, territorial move on them. they don't want to see that happen. it's important to have the united states stand behind its european allies firmly. yes we do have issues on a variety of fronts with the germans and french. but that's not the same league as what we have with moscow. eric: russia is the foe. good to see you as always. arthel? arthel: days ahead of the president's meeting with president putin, special counsel robert mueller indicting 12 russian intelligence officials, accusing them of hacking the dnc

and clinton campaign in order to interfere in the 2016 election. here is the president on whether he would demand putin extradite those officials to the u.s. president trump: i might. i hadn't thought of that. but certainly i will be asking by the. this was during the obama administration. they were doing whatever it was during the obama administration. doug mcelway live in washington. reporter: some critics are questioning the timing of this indictment. is it an attempt to embarrass the president? others say the indictment is another small victory for the president. no drawing, no connection, no collusion thus far to the trump administration or trump campaign. i think democrats are arguing the president should cancel the summit. republican senator john mccain writes, quote, if president trump is not prepared to hold putin accountable the summit in

helsinki should not move forward. other say some other officials should in the room with mr. trump and mr. putin. >> this meeting shouldn't take place. russia massively intervened. they are an adversary. my fear is this president in particular is reluctant to call out that activity. he's completely reluctant to call out putin as a bad actor. we need to make sure there are other people in the room. reporter: john bolton argues the indictments will help the president in his talks with putin. >> he was perfectly prepared to have it come before the meeting with putin. i would say it strengthens his hand. it shows the justice system, the department of justice are aware of the russian meddling in the election.

reporter: he noted the president has expelled dozens of russian diplomats from the u.s. criticized germany buying russian gas. and at the same time the president is fond of photo-ops on the international stage. he declared the summit with kim jong-un to be mostly successful in advance of any denuclearization. arthel, back to you. they will, joining me now for more on this is former deputy assistant attorney general bob driscoll. glad to have you here on this important topic this sunday morning. national security advisor john bolton says the indictment strengthens president trump's hand in this meeting with president putin. how should the president play that hand?

>> i think it does to some extent. there is a limit to what we can do legally in the united states. no one expects the russians to be extradited. but the indictment dem scraits the u.s. justice system can track these hacking events and can track them so specifically that we were able to name 12 individual agents being involved in the hack of the dnc and the clinton campaign. that send a good warning for the next election, if you engage in these activities we'll be on to you and aware of what happens. arthel: some are saying it would be futile for the president to ask for the tradition of those 12 russian officials. so nothing happens to them. they have been shamed and called out and named. but they can go back into the fabric of russia and continue working under another pseudonym. >> i think you raise lots of things you probably won't get in

international relations. legally you are right. the russian agents. the on impact on their lives is travel might be tougher. they might get a red flag in the system and be unable to travel in europe. but it's unlikely we would extradite them because there is no extradition treaty with russia. arthel: is there anything to make of the typing of these indictments and any reason to believe there will be americans caught up in this dragnet? >> well, so far, we don't know what mueller has. what special counsel mueller has. this indictment, rod rosenstein was clear, did not up reply kate any americans being involved. some americans were involved peripherally thinking they were dealing with a romanian hack her or u.s. hackers. so there is a little bit of american involvement. but no one had any knowing

involvement. we'll have some to wait and see if this is supplemented with further information. arthel: people are critical of the president for trying to sort of hit hat reset button with putin. other administrations have tried without any success. might it be possible president trump's unorthodoxed approach could work? is that possible? >> i'm not sure ho how unorthodd it is in this cyber age. when china has found to have taken the gsa personnel documents of the people of the department of justice from which i was one. and so china did a major intrusion into the u.s. system and got a bunch of information. and it didn't grind our relationship with china to a halt. similarly, this kind of thing has to be dealt with with russia

and hopefully the president will do that. but i think that doesn't mean he's not going to deal with other issues as well. arthel: like what? >> he'll want to deal with ukraine and talk about the upcoming elections more than the past elections, and see what he can do to dissuade russia from what it has apparently done in the past which is interfere with the american election which is a serious matter. eric: democrats vowing to stop the supreme court nominee. but some are divide on whether to support judge kavanaugh. how well that split will affect the red state senators up for reelection. 24 hours until the landmark summit between vladimir putin and president trump.

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economy and a proposal to raise the minimum age for receiving a pension. reporter: he's probably not thinking about those too much now. it's been an incredibly successful week for him and he must be riding high. world cup is wrapping up. the finals are going on. there were a host of v.i.p.s in town the last couple days. president putin met with benjamin netanyahu. and abu abbas. all this before he goes off to meet with president trump tomorrow. so putin's global clout is not in dispute. he was re-elected to a fourth term in march with the highest levels ever. he improved living standard and

restored pride in his country. generally made russia a player on the world stage. but his popularity which is normally in the 80s took a hit because of his unpopular decision to raise the pension age. people took to the streets in numbers and will likely demonstrate again. this story is not over. it comes at a time of stagnating wages and rising prices in russia. you hear different explanations for that. mismanagement, corruption, falling oil prices. not everyone in this oil-rich country is doing so great. >> inequality in russia is huge. you see the wealth of the oligarchs and many russians living worse off than many underdeveloped country.

what we saw in 2014-2015 is a huge increase in many russians leaving russia. reporter: this is brain drain. when the soviet union collapsed, a lot of people just left. but the ones leaving now are reportedly skilled people. and you are hearing more and more in focus groups that russians would like to see president putin allocating less money to the military and foreign adventures and more to social programs at home, infrastructure, a lot of the roads in this country are in great need of repair. he'll be under pressure to deal with that after helsinki. they will will be as president trump is preparing for this high-stake summit, activists are calling on him to put pressure on the russian president to release dozen of political and religious prisoners held in

russian prisons. the state department calling the charges bogus. lauren green is following the story. reporter: the human rights activists are using this historic backdrop of helsinki to demand that president trump challenge putin during the summit to release his political and religious prisoners. there are 150 jailed. some 20 are jehovah's witnesses. russia outlawed them. some could face 10 years in prison. a statement from jehovah's witnesses said peaceful people are being treated as terrorists for reading the bible, singing and praying with fellow worshipers. the greatest concern for human

rights groups is the issues don't appear to be on the summit agenda. >> so far president trump has made it quite clear he doesn't see any human rights problems in russia. that's troubling. i believe the rest of his administration does understand that. reporter: analysts say the overarching issue may be a low priority. >> for this administration, religious freedom is important. but it is not of paramount concern when there are burning geopolitical issues such as syria and ukraine. arms control. reporter: a silver linerring for human rights activists is the state department issue sad directive calling on russia to release political and religious prisoners. eric: house republicans grill

both fbi officials, peter strzok and lisa page on the origins of the russia investigation. what are they finding out? we'll have a live report look at that coming up. cash back on every purchase, everywhere. actually, that's super easy. my bad. you might or joints.hing for your heart... that's super easy. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember.

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jan stzrok here and was broadcast live in president trump weighed in with more of his reaction today. >> i watched some of the testimony even though i'm in europe of stzrok and i thought it was a disgrace to our country. the >> reaction to the testimony of a hold of the nation's capitol has been swifter largely broken down along partisan lines. republicans offer nearly universal condemnation in line with the president. many democrats blame in their gop colleagues at the hearing. >> character assassination, demagoguery, connecting dots that are meant to be connected. generalizing an isolated incident, cherry-picking facts, sometimes fabricated facts. it's astounding. it's a new though in the united states congress. what a shame. >> going forward, republicans are worried about what impact these hearings will have on the ongoing muller investigation.

congressman radcliffe today and "sunday morning futures." >> government can walk into a courtroom with peter stzrok is a star witness. within 10 minutes the jurors would have reasonable doubt in their minds. the credibility of peter stzrok and lisa paige will be of primary importance to ultimately what people think of the special counsel's findings. >> slated to return tomorrow for the second part of her closed-door deposition. it may go into a classified session. after part 1 rocked friday, one of the harshest critics concede that she'd been forthcoming, transparent and said the committee has learned new information from her testimony. >> gillian turner, tina mike very much. >> it turns out some red state democratic senators may be breaking their party's leadership over supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh. some of the senators up for reelection this november.

in the states won by the president in 2016 saying they are in washington to serve constituents and they will not be influenced by democratic minority leader, senator chuck schumer. west virginia joe manchin said i'll be 71 years old in august. you can do with me? kiss my you know what appeared in the msm under joe donnelly explained my decision won't have anything to do with chuck schumer. vowing to block the confirmation and hillary clinton has been sounding the call. >> i used to worry that they wanted to turn the clock back to the 1950s. now i worry they want to turn it back to the 1850s. >> or commentary writer for the "washtington examiner." joe manchin from west virginia, colorful and blood. does he have a point? would he think of the prospects from other red state democrats will cost party lines? >> the chances of joe donnelly,

joe manchin and heidi heitkamp whenever brett kavanaugh of the supreme court are high considering the fact in 2017 they voted for the first supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. they simply wanted to go vote for them. you can put politics considering the fact they were a tough reelection campaign and at least three of them -- elise. this red state democrats, heitkamp, donnelly and manchin are down to the liar. you can also look at mccaskill , but really those three are the ones who got to look out for. >> we have one you left out was jon tester. you did point out that manchin voted for gorsuch as well as joe donnelly. but they voted again sent three.

do you think because of the pressure in the fact they are up for reelection that they will perhaps switchover and cassius took out or not? >> it's tough to say. mccaskill will say no. a lot of this comes down to what happens before the votes. if there is a united front in which one of the senators breaks and says they're not going to break for susan collins or lisa murkowski say they will not vote. some of these need to vote no in the same seats. by voting for brett kavanaugh by helping chuck schumer more. >> republicans have their own

pressure, too. they could cause a mini stampede together they could defeat kavanaugh? >> it could be. my parents i was a would be the tie-breaking vote. john mccain is out and probably not voting in this particular supreme court nomination. it really rests on the first line of defense murkowski and collins. as soon as they decide they will vote for him, the pressure relies on red state democrat and i have a pretty good feeling i'll be voting for kavanaugh, who graduates run-of-the-mill conservative. a lot of these attack ads are going after him. they would not be the same if they were an off election year. eric: clearly the critics are going after kavanaugh. dire warnings about if he does get to the court. orin hatch on "sunday morning futures" this morning. he is the prediction democrats

would join. here's what he said. >> they've got a breakthrough that we are against everything attitude. they hate him so badly that it's all against trump. i think it's against any republican judgeship nomination, that they really hate trump and want to do everything they can to her charm. >> you agree with that? the vote ultimately is pro-or anti-term. >> it's obviously more anti-trump considering the main argument against kavanaugh for not voting for him is an election year. they focus on mitch mcconnell blocking merrick garland in 2016 during a presidential election year. he's still in his first term. a lot of the mms from democrat seemed to be hurting democrats more because now they are campaigning against donnelly, manchin, heitkamp in their own states and hurting their chances

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a few hours of calm this morning, but the fighting resumed a short while ago. it comes after a big day of israeli airstrikes. one of the largest since the 2014 war. israeli prime minister benjamin that yahoo! called yesterday against a monthly punishment below. but we've seen today in recent weeks with golden sand from gaza into israel that israel response of airstrikes. a temporary pause come international intervention to calm things down and it picks up a few days, maybe a few hours later. this is the back and forth for several weeks. an effort by the trump administration to have some type of dialogue in the peace process here. so far we are not seeing much evidence on the ground to release some type of blueprint. >> thank you so much.

arthel: a south korean news agency is reporting u.s. military officials met with their north korean counterparts today at the dmv to discuss the return from u.s. soldiers and one of the conditions outlined between president trump and kim jong un during their summit in singapore. lieutenant colonel daniel davis and senior fellow at military expert for defense priorities. so good to have you here with us. i want to start by asking you to tell us what more can you tell us about any progress made that repatriated remains of u.s. soldiers who lost their lives or didn't return for the korean war. >> this is a positive development talked about from the beginning. president trump expressly said this is one of his conditions he was pressing for along with it. we've had some starts and stops. we were unable to get it done a week ago. this is the first time in nine years we've spoken back and

forth between specifically north korean officials in something the administration will press hard for because it's an important issue for the united states and family members and is still something meaningful. >> doesn't look like this is going to happen? >> i think it will. because it is such an important issue to us that if they were to not follow through it would be a barrier to any of the things they want. anything in the negotiation you can be sure they will not give anything away for free. they expect something in return, but negotiations will continue to work because we will not give anything away for free either and that is how negotiations work. arthel: following the summit between kim jong un and the president, which president trump tweet about thursday and kim jong un refers as your excellency, mr. president.

four times in your excellency once. what is your take on this letter? >> i think it is an attempt to present himself as a responsible head of state and he's giving trump some honorific comments here and there to make him show respect to him. i think in that letter you also see him continue to say we want to continue to work to this empty concrete result unless one of the more important parts of the letter. >> he says later in the letter that we want to continue the baby steps to improve relations. he did not make any mention of the nuclear station. so is kim jong un on some level driving the narrative then missing him control the process? >> he is trying to that would be his object is, but i don't think he will succeed.

he doesn't have the negotiating cards. kim needs an outcome with our being saved no matter what good >> years under the sanctions and economic pressure. he needs an outcome better than we do and that is what will keep us in the driver seat on this. arthel: last wednesday another letter was sent in pitch and to block north korea's attempts to get petroleum or legal transfers are good about this letter. >> that sends a signal that you are trying to minimize in continue to be vigilant and we will not allow that. we'll continue diplomatically keeping the pressure not to participate on that in our intelligence and reconnaissance our eyes are on it but we will

see and shut it off when it happens. eric: colonel davis, thank you for your expertise and we'll see you again. >> always my pleasure. thanks, arthel. eric: the oldest member of senate in the cold shoulder by treatment of rum party. the state democratic party is not backing dianne feinstein for a fifth term on capitol hill. live with what this means next as the fox news channel continues covering the world this sunday afternoon. before i had the shooting, burning, pins and needles of diabetic nerve pain these feet... ... made waves in high school... ... had a ball being a dad... ...and built a career in construction. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica.

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eric: california democratic senator dianne finds in getting snubbed by her own party. the second time it happened this election cycle could the california democratic party's executive committee voted yesterday. kevin daly on earlier this year the state party refused to back her bid for a fifth term in the u.s. senate. jeff paul in the west coast newsroom. this is pretty stunning. >> yeah, despite senator feinstein stay neutral, the democratic party overwhelmingly voted to endorse her rival. a much-needed boost for kevin daly on who has to make up ground against an opponent to california voters have sent to washington five times.

california democrats will spend its money pushing and promoting has run. the group is looking for a different approach, one more progressive to battle against president trump. it's a clear rejection of politics as usual. we presented californians with the first real alternative to the worn-out washington playbook and a quarter century. despite the back, find and has more cash on hand in a healthy amount of voters who remain loyal. the june primary with 44% compared to the ranking member of the senate judiciary meeting shall be a crucial part of his supreme court nomination this summer. the campaign manager released a statement last night saying he is confident a large majority of democrats will vote to reelect senator feinstein in november. the top two primary system

sending the two highest vote getters in the primary to the general election regardless of their party. >> jeff, thank you so much. news in the world of sports. >> france has won the world cup second time. they beat croatia so if you're rooting for france are happy, if croatia -- eric: for croatia, but france won. now what are they due? arthel: disneyland, they celebrate. eric: thank you geared arthel: stick around because bill hemmer is live in helsinki. he is going to begin his coverage of 3:00 p.m. eastern. right now, the news continues in washington. the

>> headed to helsinki, president trump in transit to finland in its one-on-one meeting with russian president vladimir putin tomorrow. >> is president trump is set to make history, let back at the milestone means between u.s. leaders in russia including this one with president reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and what was accomplished in 1985. >> lawmakers in washington reacting to robert mueller's indictment of 12 russians interfering in the 2016 election.