so. do you think that your proposal could lead to a. gap. in the energy security system to then will make europeans more exposed my second question you called president putin. but you said you'd be. become friends with him had you cheap that a competitor and a good competitor here. and i think the word competitor is a complement. i think that. we will be competing when you talk about the pipeline i'm not sure necessarily that. it's in the best interests of germany or not but that was a decision that they made will be competing as you know the united states is now. or soon will be but i think it actually is right now the largest in the oil and gas

world so we're going to be selling l.n.g. and will have to be competing with the pipeline and i think will compete successfully although there is a little advantage locational so i just wish them luck i mean i did i discussed with uncle michael in pretty strong tones but i also know where they're all coming from and. they have a very close source so we'll see how that all works but we have lots of sources in the united states is much different than it was a number of years ago when we were unable to extract what we can extract today so today we're number one in the world at that and i think we'll be out there competing very strongly thank you very much. as well as with the way just one remark. because but as we discussed this. with the us president we are aware of. it because of the us.

williams but the us is also a major gas country and we believe we can work together to regulate global markets because we don't want a drastic cuts in the prize and our producers will suffer from that and including us produces. shale gas produces we don't know the prizes to fall too much. otherwise the production is not profitable anymore so we are not interested in ceding really high prices because refinery and machine. building will be killed so we do have. a choice here is that we can discuss going back to north stream. was more u.s. president expressed concerns over the past disappearance of trans

ukraine. short you know that it's we are ready to. go on with the transit of our ukraine and we are ready two weeks stand with. the contracts if the issues resolved to the stockholm court of arbitration the first question to. jeff mason reuters. thank you mr president you tweeted this morning that it us foolishness stupidity and the moeller probe that is responsible for the decline in u.s. relations with russia. do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular and if so what would you what would you consider them that they are responsible for yes i do i hold both countries responsible i think that the united states has been foolish i think we've all been foolish we should have had this dialogue a long. time ago not

a long time frankly before i got to office and i think we're all to blame i think that the united states now is step forward along with russia and we're getting together and we have a chance to do some great things whether it's nuclear proliferation in terms of stopping have to do it ultimately that's probably the most important thing that we can be working on but i do feel that we have both made some mistakes i think that the the probe is a disaster for our country i think it's kept us apart it's kept us separated there was no collusion at all everybody knows that people are being brought out to the fore so far that i know virtually none of it related to the campaign and they did have to try really hard to find somebody that did relate to the campaign it was a clean campaign i beat hillary clinton easily and frankly we beat her and i'm not even saying from the standpoint we won that race and it's

a shame that they could even be a little bit of a cloud over it people know that people understand it but the main thing and we discussed is also zero collusion and it has had a negative impact upon the relationship of the two largest nuclear powers in the world we have ninety percent of nuclear power between the two countries it's ridiculous it's ridiculous what's going on with the pro. for president clinton you know i could follow up as well. why should americans and why should president trump believe your statement that russia did not intervene in the twenty sixth election given the evidence that u.s. intelligence agencies have provided and will you consider extraditing the twelve russian officials that were indicted last week by u.s. grand jury well i'm going to let the president answer the second part of a question but as you know the whole concept of that came up perhaps a little bit before but it came out as

a reason why the democrats lost an election which frankly they should have been able to win because the electoral college is much more advantageous for democrats as you know than it is to republicans we won the electoral college by a lot three or six to twenty three i believe and that was a well thought. that was a well formed battle we did a great job and frankly i'm going to let the president speak to the second part of your question but just to say it one time again and i say it all the time. there was no collusion i didn't know the president. there was nobody to collude with there was no collusion with the campaign and every time you hear all of these twelve and fourteen it's stuff that has nothing to do and frankly they admit these are not people involved in the campaign but to the average reader out there they're

saying well maybe that does it doesn't and even the people involved some perhaps told mysteries are all but one case the f.b.i. said there was no lie there was no one somebody else said there was. we ran a brilliant campaign and that's why i am president thank. you talking back on credibility. is there any credibility well you cannot trust anyone why do you feel the president trusts me or trust him fully he defends the interests of the united states of america i defend the interests of russia not use the we do have points of convergence and we're looking for a shared interests of. we we're not on the same page and we're trying to find a way to make it work constructively and. we should not rely.

on short term. political goals political forces we should rely on evidence can you name at least one piece of evidence that points to any kind of collusion with you in which you're in the race because this was absurd we didn't know each other president that when you finished those rule of opinion you mean you would be there was. a particular opinion in the russian society concerning warning the particular candidate. presidential candidate certain donald trump he was talking about the need to reestablish political ties with russia and that led to the fact that there was opinion among russian people that he's the preferred candidate and it's natural to be. a liking to wards someone who wants to.

build better chinese. it with another country for us here accusations against concorde as well concorde hired lawyers and basically what's happening is that. charges are collapsing just look at what's happening at the court proceedings so that's what you have are two. i'm. going back to the indictments of twelve russian security services i need to look into it so i was not really aware of what's behind it but the president did raise this issue now here's what i can propose if we do have with an existing treaty between russia and the united states. you should give it would you not give them because it was signed in one thousand nine hundred ninety and their treaty for mutual facilitation on

criminal cases and that's been a fact treaty deal with the. request from foreign authorities we old person up to one hundred fifty criminal cases and as you might remember the former no nuclear power minister was extradited from the u.s. to russia and he was persecuted and prosecuted here and there's a formal procedure there is part of these treaty. but again your commission led by the mr myler which it would. put up with it would go that not throw the polls. sent an official request to rush that we hold the. investigation or in questioning of those individuals and our prosecutor generals are not parker

says we'll look into it or they will hold the questioning and will then send all those materials to the u.s. and we can even make another step forward. that we can also invites u.s. official representatives including the members of the mother of probe we can invite them to be present during the questioning but if that takes place then it must be a two way street and we would also expect us to question the various officials including from we are that it was security services that we believe are behind illegal activities on the territory of the russian federation with the presence of our investigators well what are what i mean by that you might remember the notorious hermitage capital case bound by mr

browder according to our investigators a group of people he and business associates illegally and more than half of me as a one point five billion u.s. dollars which they didn't pay a cent of taxes but they transferred. at the money to the u.s. and they also donated four hundred million to the clinton campaign four hundred million well they might have done it legally but they earned that money either legally and we do have evidence to believe that some of the u.s. security services. have helped. to conduct those illegal. transfers but there's just one step we can talk about expanding our car wasn't

there a multiple options there on the table and there was a pilot of the did you want president. did you direct any of your officials to help him do that. yes i wanted him to weigh in on that and he talked about the need to normalize u.s. russian ties but those. continue. to be. two three questions so r.t. but go ahead thank you. good afternoon my name is really up to trying. to. represent our team or mr trump in english mr president. would you please go in to the details of possibly and specific to rage mintz for the u.s. to work together with russia in syria if any of these kind of arrangements were made

today or discussed in the puzzle what it's about you know if you told me you mr president you russia question in russian. we even mention world cup several times mr. ware when you talk about cooperation in syria the ball is on the side of russia. is it correct that. what's your next step. i guess so and so the first part of the question we've worked with israel long and hard for many years many decades i think we've never never has anyone in any country been closer. then we're. president putin also is helping israel and we both spoke with bibi netanyahu and they would like to do certain things with respect to syria having to do with the safety. of israel so in that

respect we absolutely would like to work in order to help israel and israel be working with us so both countries would work jointly and i think that when you look at all of the progress that's been made in certain sections with the eradication of isis with about ninety eight percent ninety nine percent there and other things that have taken place that we've done and that frankly russia has helped us with in certain respects but i think that they're working with israel is a great thing and creating safety for israel is something that both president putin and i would like to see very much one little thing i might add to that is the. helping of people helping a people because you have such horrible. if you see and i've seen reports and i've seen pictures i've seen just about everything and if we can do something to help

the people of syria get back into some form of shelter and on a humanitarian basis and that's what the word was really a humanitarian basis i think that both of us would be very interested in doing that and we are we will do that thank you very much excuse me but for now nelson pacific agreements for instance between the military well our militaries do get along fact our military is actually have gotten along probably better than our political leaders for years but our military has to get along very well and they do coordinate in syria and other places. thank you. but not all about them as i mentioned earlier. we discussed humanitarian area. well that was in syria and i discussed the same issue with french president marc cron yesterday and we agree that it's we will step up our efforts with european

countries including france and we are ready to provide our cargo planes to deliver humanitarian aid and we discussed it too with u.s. president will work so there's a lot to work with here now what's important is. many refugees holed up. lebanon jordan syria's neighboring states if we provide them assistance or they could go back to their homes the migration pressure. on the european countries and other countries who will decrease so many times so i feel it's very important from all the perspectives both from the humanitarian perspective of using. the situation with refugees but overall i agree with the u.s. presence there so our military has been working hard together have been working hard together and they've been getting along and i hope that this will be the case

going forward forward we are also continue working together this part of the formats russia turkey and iran were ready to align these efforts with the efforts of the so called a small group of states but it will but we so the process. bill in which we cough and that we have the best chances for the ultimate success. for. all on our side. the football metaphor you used us president just said this we find the financial concluded the conducted the ball can do. to the world cup but it may speed that you like to give the bullet to the u.s. president now the bullies on he saw it with those little put out you should be the u.s. . is expected to host the two thousand and twenty three thank you very much we do

host it and we hope we do as good a job that's very nice that will go to my son baron we have no question in fact mon in here you go. ok final question for the united states will go to jonathan omar from the a.p. . thank you question for each president president trump gives you first just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election your parents or twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did what who my first question for you sir is who do you believe by second question is would you now with the whole world watching tell president putin would you denounce what happened twenty sixteen and would you want him to never do it again so let me just say that we have two

thoughts you have groups that are wondering why the f.b.i. never took the server why haven't they taken the server why was the f.b.i. told to leave the office of the democratic national committee i've been wondering that i've been asking that for months and months and i've been tweeting it out and calling it out on social media where is the server i want to know where is the server and what is the server saying with that being said all i can do is ask the question my people came to me dan coats came to me and some others they said they think it's russian i have president putin he just said it's not russian i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be but i really do want to see the server. i have i have confidence in both parties i really believe that this will probably go on for a while but i don't think it can go on without finding out what happened to the server what happened to the servers of the pakistani gentleman that worked on the

d.n.c. where are the servers they're missing where are they what happened to hillary clinton's e-mails thirty three thousand e-mails gone just gone i think in russia they wouldn't be gone so easily i think it's a disgrace that we can't get hillary clinton's thirty three thousand emails so i have great confidence in my intelligence people but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today and what he did is a credible offer he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the twelve people i think that's an incredible thank you. possible to the way it does allow me to be there in mark those you know i was also a security officer. doss years these.

reports are drafted. you secondly i believe russia is a democratic states. and i mean i'm sure that. you believe that the u.s. is a democratic state is it that well if it is so. i can live with the old summit but. what we need decision in this dispute only be stablished by court and we're not by security. company called concord. charged with interference but they don't represent the russian state. you will be where you are putting your. and one of the u.i. given many examples of the union you have many people take it mr cyrus the

billionaire has been interfering everywhere but is the position of the us state this is the position of individual good it is the same use could be applied here and you. see the. verdict can be only because they are provided by cords and again it applies only to individuals it has nothing to do with the stadium you would mention in the final episode when you can died. on it and regarding are a security. threat again we do have a mutual treaty send us an official request of the mother commissioned an official request and we'll do our part of the job and we will reply. we can expand our card peroration as i said and if they again should be a two way street we will then also expect. to meet them provided by the us

to those individuals that we feel are also part of the security. detail cyclone it's not so good when you use the russian u.s. ties as a bargaining chip in the u.s. domestic affairs for president for president putin thank you are two questions for you sir can you tell me what president tried may have indicated to you about officially recognizing crimea as part of russia and then secondly sir do you just do the russian government have any copyrighted material on president trump or his family. and should. we present a clump of. u.s. president. transposition is well no crime in he's been sticking to it and you look on it he says he says you could try me and your speed. because if we should be

taken illegally we have a different opinion we believe that if we held a referendum in line with these rules and procedures you were in so for us this. closed. for a compromising materials is going to complain when i heard about it was there's been an allegation that so we compiled. trump when he came to moscow and my colleagues in the. trump came over to moscow i was not aware of it so i respect the president. of the united states but when he came over business man on the way with i was not even aware that he's in moscow beatable to speak and they wish to take the st petersburg for. more than five hundred sixteen executives from the us came over to russia i don't even remember all the names but i do you

feel that so we're compiling compromised materials and all of them so it's definitely it's absurd i cannot really imagine anything more absurd than this so please throw it's this nonsense your out of your heads and i have to say if they had it would have been out long ago and if anybody watched peter struck testify over the last couple of days and i was in brussels watching it it was a disgrace to the f.b.i. it was a disgrace to our country and you would say that was a total witch hunt thank you very much everybody thank you. we've just been listening in to

a joint press conference. donald trump in helsinki the two of them touched on a number of topics anything from syria to iran to the russian meddling but instead of lifting off all that i'm now joined again in the studio by our worlds apart. they both said at the beginning when they made their initial statements that this was a good conversation putin called it an important first step forward trump said that it was the meeting represented the beginning of a longer process between the two of them and expressed hope that the two would meet again putin did speak first if you want to go ahead and start with putin was there anything in particular that he said that stood out to you well i would first begin with the tone what struck me is that they were both very self conscious and i think especially president putin made an impression on me on me off trying to you on the one hand support emotionally and psychologically president trump but on

the other hand not to create an impression that he was overjoyed. by this. just of the american diplomacy because you know there is an on the curtain in the american political fog by granting this meeting to russian president putin trump was supposedly aborting russia's bad behavior and that russia should not be treated . as an equal and i think they both. struggled and i thought succeeded in finding just the right tone because president put it was more reserved than usual but also president trump i think he was a little bit the last cover of full that colorful then and outgoing and i would say extravagant and he tends to be you know stuff and at the beginning he really stuck to the script that he had in front of them and interestingly enough i thought that both of them had hand no that wasn't something i mean apparently at least for putin

this was something that was drafted at the very last minute rather than being prepared well in advance and they both sides the fact as you were saying that this is just the beginning and that they do disagree on certain points but that this was a way to move forward looking but i also felt that trump was a little bit apologetic i mean he had to go into all these historic. overview of the russian diplomacy to justify the fact that he should not be. penalized in the court of public public opinion for meeting with the russian president reach i think kind of shows where the state of affairs are with relation to both countries but. he did put himself in that long line of american presidents who sought the dialogue with russia even in the most difficult moment then i was very i mean his personality also show that because he at one moment you remember he said that you know we've reached a. point in our relationship but that changed four hours ago and thinks to me

well you know trump is always talking about the talk about his deal making skills and yes i did think that was interesting that he was saying that four hours ago that change and from here we can finally move forward obviously something that was discussed quite a lot a lot of the questions coming from the journalists were about russian meddling again and something extremely interesting that trump also commented on on one of the amazing offer it was was coming from putin and he was saying that if the u.s. would be open. to it to sending an official request to look into the accusations that are being made against russian nationals that the u.s. could even send over representatives to be a part of that questioning but he did make the caveat that this would need to be a two way street but then russia would also want to be involved in their side it takes two to tango and it takes two to play political football and i think that connects and ties well with the with the reference of.