donald trump to win. and we know that vladimir putin wanted donald trump to win, not just because the american intelligencencies found that but because vladimir putin said that on monday. >> did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> did you want him to win, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? yes, i did. yes, i did. donald trump was told that by the heads of our intelligence agencies on january 6th, 2017. he was shown e-mails and texts from some russian military officers possibly including some or all of the officers who were indicted on friday, showing what they were doing on line to attack our election. donald trump was shown all that. he was shown what they were doing to help donald trump win. so donald trump has known that, known that it was the russians following vladimir putin's orders who attacked our election. he has known that every single day of his presidency. so now let's listen again to preside

we will take you there live once it happens. >> we are awaiting donald trump's arrival ahead of his meeting later today with vladimir putin. you are looking at the road outside the official residence, donald trump and first lady milania trump arriving in moments because the motorcade is on the move, motorcade is watching to make sure their staff, the press corps traveling with them are safe, you see them arriving right now, the president, the beast it is it is known, the general motors vehicle arriving, you will see them emerge in a minute, a reporter saw in the lobby of the pres.'s hotel a number of staffers, the us ambassador to russia, john huntsman and the chief of staff giving a thumbs up as if they're going into these meetings optimistic. we will see the pres. and first lady emerge in a moment, a high-stakes summit getting together with vladimir putin for the first one on one. and other summits in recent months over the first year and a half of his presidency and a lot of international travel. you see the first lady on one side of the vehicle and the president of the united states, donald trump entering the official

as much as vladimir putin has played donald trump. > certainly. putin's motivation is based mostly on leg matitimacy and appearing larger than he is on the world stage, and he succeeded in doing that. president trump i think understands the key, if there is a key forward to any success with improving our relations, is to use that against putin. he is flattering putin, to a certain degree complimenting him diplomatically. he plays the good cop while administration people play the bad cop and i think it is appropriate. the way forward with russians is not by publicly criticizing but privately criticizing them behind closed doors, which i hope will happen today, and that will allow us to move forward. certainly overt criticism of russian policy is not going to be the path to success in improving our relations. >> so, mr. ambassador, let's pick up on that. donald trump told me right before he got sworn in he felt one of barack obama's biggest mistakes was calling russia a regional power and he thought by doing that he insulted putin, backe

. >> what does he want from donald trump? >> putins going to eat him like a sandwich. >> he'd rather have a puppet as president. >> you're the puppet. >> just how powerful is he? >> putin has the authority. >> i haven't seen -- >> so powerful, he apparently tried to rig the american election. >> of course putin want hillary clinton to leave. >> he dispaized hillary clinton. what would you like better? >> vladimir putin is not a friend to kmoksy, it is a crook. >> after the strange summit between vladimir putin and donald trump at helsinki, americans are asking, what did putin get and what more does he want. is he really the most powerful man in the world? december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in east germany. it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. [crowd chanting] . >> all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found the target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building as the hour grew lat

essentially i mean he got a very warm reception from donald trump you could see the personal report donald trump took a lot of the talking points that of lattimer putin would have used so for him it was a rhetorical and optical political success ok and what about donald trump himself you know we'll talk about what he took away from the summit in a second what i want to ask you thoughts though is what was he hoping to get out of this summit well this is where you see the preparation sometimes pays off his his intention here was just basically to wing it and that's to some extent what he did he didn't go in with any concrete asks and he didn't come away with much i think that that's been the general consensus i mean when you look at this it's all very shocking but not very surprising this is a pattern that has kind of defied his interactions on the world stage and at home for the past seventeen months so i think it's not surprising to say that there's not much except for criticism of this is when the united states ok well we'll talk about what he really did take away from the summit and in a minute first though let's look at reaction to the house think

trump nothing short of treasonous. vladimir putin is much more smoother and eloquent than donald trump. vladimir putin is not nearly as smart as any of the smoother leaders of the g-7 and other major countries in the world. and vladimir putin proved that when he admitted that he wanted donald trump to win the presidency and that he did indeed direct his government to help donald trump win the presidency. donald trump said there wouldn't be a perry mason moment in his private meeting with vladimir putin, and i'm sure there wasn't. but the perry mason moment did come today when vladimir putin revealed in public the smoking gun in his hand in response to a question by jeff mason of routers in which the audio was a bit muted at first, but it's all there. >> did you want president trump to win the election? and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> you just heard vladimir putin asked did you want donald trump to win and did you direct any of your officials to help hi

i didn't find that to be as fair statement at all because so far vladimir putin hasn't gotten much out of donald trumpt all being president. reporter: talk about fair and balanced committee says vladimir vladimir putin help donald trump get elected is actually why the president chased out this whole idea of election meddling. but the democrats have not gotten their arms around, let's try to say one more time so it's loud and clear. two different issues. the russia metal in the election except to robert mueller. there are serious allegations that they interfered with the last election. the second or important issue is that it affects one vote? did it impact the election? no evidence that it did. the term campaign and the russian government. the democrats like to seem like vladimir putin delivered the 2016 election to donald trump. there is no evidence of that. there's evidence of meddling, but no evidence that was the determining factor. that's what annoys president trump. that's what he calls this a witch hunt a witch onto the lot of of people falling into the trap and conflating two things. train to

counterpart in helsinki, vladimir putin denied that russia meddled inn the u.s. election which donald trump accepted. the finnish capital sweltered as people gathered to watch the biggest show in town, the meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump. putin arrived half an hour late. trump, in turn, kept putin waiting. both leaders expressed the desire to improve relations. president trump: the disagreements between our two countries are well known and president putin and i discussed them at length todayay. but if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world, then we're going to have to find ways to cooperate in pursuit of shared interests. reporter: putin and trump spent more than two hours in one-on-one discussions behind closed doors with only translators present. the summit covered everything from trade to terrorism, from nato to nuclear weapons to china. there was another question at the top of many minds. >> once again, president trump mentioned the issue of the so-called interference in the american elections and i had to reiterate things several times, including now

>> it was a very disappointing meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. sed a golden opportunity to hold pres. putin to account on the international stage. very unfortunate big issues pressing russia like their invasion of crimea, the fact that today marks the fourth anniversary of the shooting down of the malaysian airliner over ukraine where 298 people were killed or the fact that a few weeks ago a british citizen was killed in england because of russian nerve agents. i was disappointed by the summit. rob: a lot of people trying to analyze what happened. ben schapiro did a write up because i thought it was so good. the president hates the meddling story, he hates the collusion story because it cast doubt on his ability to win the election, he couldn't have gotten this done without russia helping him. that is why he is so hesitant to believe our intelligence because it marginalizes him as a politician. do you agree? >> it is unfortunate for him but facts are facts and 17 us intelligence agencies say russia was meddling to some extent in the election. whet

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putin? >> some say it was shameful for president donald trump to put russia --. >>> first lady melania trump shook hands with vladimir putin before they sat down to lunch. president donald trump tossed this soccerball to his wife and said they would give it to their son, ben. >>> a man calling for the u.s. and russia to ban nuclear weapons was forcibly removed from the room. >>> meanwhile, outside, thousands demonstrated against the president and vladimir putin. demonstrators in helsinki carried an array of messages and signs with calls to take global warming seriously. protests were also held up the capital in finland. >>> today the san francisco administration has ordered a stop to family deportation. that is until the government response to the aclu allegations that there would be improper math deportations. the trump administration says it has completely reunited all children under the age of five with their parents. >>> noncitizens are being allowed to vote in school elections. >> reporter: on the steps of city hall, a historic day. noncitizen parents can register to vote for school boa

donald trump. for unpredictability of donald trump. foeradimir putin, it unpredictability of donald trump. hich has been isolated, under international sanctions, still under sanctions, particularly because of the annexation of crimea from the ukraine, that remains the case. even so, even though the state of politics is so dire, the two powerful leaders are 110w dire, the two powerful leaders are now going to sit down and talk. extraordinarily important for russia and particularly mr putin who is normally sitting in the kremlin, face—to—face encounter with the most powerful leader in the world. but president putin himself will be able to sit there with some confidence, for example the role russia has played in syria, a country that is able to change the rules of the game, have a real impact, beyond its own borders. yeah, i think that is right. i do not think we can expect from vladimir putin any concessions on anything, frankly. there has been discussion about possible status of ukraine, perhaps donald trump might be prepared to make concessions on that. certainly from russia and nothing wil

. >> what does he want from donald trump? >> putin is going to eat him like a sandwich. >> he'd rather have a puppet as president. >> you are the puppet. >> just how powerful is he? >> putin has an untram melled a authority. >> i have not seen the checks on the power. >> so powerful that he apparently tried to the rig the american election. >> of course putin wanted hillary clinton to lose. he despised hille lary clinton >> who do you want vladimir putin or a crook? >> and so americans are asking, what did putin get and what more does he want? is he really the most powerful man in the world? >> december 5th, 1989. it was a cold night in dresden, east germany, and it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. they were lash iing out against communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb headquarters. the mob was outside and peering through the curtaining was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. >> he was terrified that they were going to storm the buildin

as people gathered to watch the biggest show in town the meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump putin though arrived half an hour late trump in turn kept putin waiting before he himself left his hotel yet despite the slights both leaders expressed a desire to improve relations this agreement between the two countries or president . discuss them at length today. but if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world then we are going to have to find ways to cooperated pursuit of shared interests. put in and trump spent more than two hours in one on one discussions behind closed doors with only translators present true to trump's word of a summit covered everything from trade to terrorism from nato to nuclear weapons to china but there was another question at the top of most minds was mr. brilliant would you do it as once again president trump mentioned the issue of the so-called interference in the american elections and i had to reason right things i said several times including now in a personal context knowledge that russia has never interfered but he's not going to use i

and sixteen elections they say that russia's involvement helped tip the presidency in donald trump's favor if putin likes donald trump guess what folks that's an asset not a liability now we can only guess what vladimir putin thinks about. the russian president holds back on making remarks about counterpart but it's clear that putin will be a well prepared for this meeting he will likely praise from. him for swimming against the tide and blame any problems on. barack obama from the tram you see on t.v. is different from the real person he's very particular accurate he's quick to analyze he answers every question if our future relationship turns out like our meeting here then i'm sure we can find the necessary consensus with donald trump russia's head of state finally wants a real reset for us russian relations the question is whether the president is interested in that idea in any case since you started he's touring relations between the two countries haven't improved in fact things have become significantly wars so he said one nice thing about me he said i'm a genius yet the how trump is a colorfu

american president look as weak as donald trump looked, as fearful as donald trump looked, as out of control as donald trump looked, as owned as donald trump looked. vladimir putin owned -- look at that picture. vladimir putin owns donald trump, and both of the men know it and david ignatius, i -- i cannot imagine what it's like being dan coats this morning, or being somebody in america's intel agencies that have delivered the goods to the commander in chief. have proven the attacks took place and where the attacks came from, and -- how they -- how they were launched. in fact, who specifically launched them and from what buildings half way across the world they've been launched in. this should be a moment in america's intel community for celebration. they got a chance to prove that they are the best and the brightest on the planet. instead they have a president who yesterday defended vladimir putin and his spy agencies against forensic evidence that cannot be denied. what -- how do they go to work this morning? what do they do? what is their attitude? >> joe, i think this was a tipping point. i wrote yesterday, you could almost hear the fabric of trump's preside

does vladimir putin have some kind of hold over donald trump? we simply don't know. y is now cryst crystal-clear. american intelligence has established that putin interfered with our election to help donald trump. mr. putin did not want to speak about this. but his closest aid, dmitry peskov did. >> you're humiliating yourself saying a country can intervene in your election process. america, a huge country, the most powerful country in the world. this is simply impossible. >> we will get at the truth of all this. but to do that, we need to g back. to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. >> i think that down deep in putin, there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union because it wasn't just the soviet union. it was the russian empire. >> putin returned home from his kgb posting in 1990, to a country he did not recognize. the ussr had been transformed by mikhail gorbachev and his policy of openness known as glasnost. >> a lot of things happened very quickly. >> big mac is big mac. >> coca-cola, coca-cola. >> a roma

senior officials from the two countries then came the first ever joint press conference by donald trump and vladimir putin i looked into the faces of donald trump who was standing right here by the way with a bigger microphone and vladimir putin here with a smaller microphone and i saw two men who were genuinely enjoying talking together but today first of all their message to the journalists was that they want this kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago but guess what still worries the entire u.s. presidential poll allegations of meddling and collusion there were sitting right here and almost all the questions from this part of the room were about that and it was rather fascinating to see how the two leaders almost teamed up to dodge these kind of questions do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference or twenty sixteen every

the weakness of donald trump alongside vladimir putin. not a word of criticism on russia's annexation of crimea. trump didn't even mention the nerve agent attack by the russian government against the united kingdom. he had multiple opportunities to criticize the russians for the cyberattack on our election, and then the cowardly response by president trump when he did not even defend his own intelligence community and the fbi against the word of a dishonest russian dictator. i was trying to search in my mind in modern presidential history going back 100 years, there's nothing comparable where the american president effectively concedes point after point to a dictator. the most dangerous adversary of the united states. and i just imagine how it feels to be a career foreign service officer at the state department or someone at the cia or justice department or the fbi right now when your president has just sided with a dictator over all the work they've done. it's shocking. it's going to hurt us around the world. it will look like after that

pours in, chuck schumer going as far as suggesting vladimir putin may have something on the president. >> what could possibly cause donald trumpo put the interests of russia over those of the united states was the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that pres. putin holds damaging information over donald trump. >> reporter: members of congress behind closed doors this afternoon, unclear whether this will come up. perhaps we are not done with this story. jillian: thank you. it took just minutes for democrats to cry collusion after donald trump's summit. >> republicans have been critical of the summit as well but nothing compared what democrats have been saying, tammy bruce is the american people eye-catching gone to the outrage from the left. >> the overreaction is extraordinary net neutrality was going to literally kill people, donald trump meeting with north korea was going to cause world war iii and a press conference after a 4-hour meeting is supposedly treason or at least as you noted from the congress members should require a military coup. the american people at this point know someth

questions, there was a laugh in the room when a vladimir putinif had personal information on donald trump. putin said he did not even know donald trump was in russia at the time. kevin: it was classic vladimir putin. during the answer, president trump tried to get the answer of president bruton with the throw away -- the answer of president putin with a throwaway line involving the world cup. president clinton -- president putin offering a delayed response back. the laughter was muffled. it was not a thing that dominated the room. there was a key moment in which the reporter asked president he wanted candidate donald trump to win the election and putin saying directly, yes i did and then changing to another question. vladimirof policy, putin saying president trump reiterated the u.s. position that the u.s. does not recognize the annexation of crimea to russia. beyond that, in terms of cybersecurity, president bruton suggestingt putin they would be open to an international framework between the united states and russia. the fallout here will be dominated by president trump's comments regarding hi

that gave context to donald trump's praise to putin and turning the united states in a junior partner of an exkgb officer. the american public is waking up. it's not going to do well for donald trump. >> now here's the interesting thing. it doesn't seem it affected donald trump much. the numbers on russia despite those that we highlighted, this is kind of mind boggling. we put that up there on the screen. 88% of republicans approve of how he's hand willing his job. is that cause for concern? >> it is really remarkable that supporters of trump are still standing by him even after this incredible press conference that he gave last week with putin. i mean, we've seen that the numbers broadly in the general population are very, very negative. the majority of people disapprove of that performance. it was so shocking after the announcement of the officers. i do think that it also shows that trump understands the power of repetition. he keeps saying over and over and over again he's drilling it into his supporters heads that the mueller investigation is a witchunt. now we still see this happ

people who work for donald trump don't know what he gave away to vladimir putin. >> katty kay, these ou have, again, you have donald trump bowing and scraping to an ex-kgb agent who maintains power through assassination, and tries to undermine -- tries to undermine american democracy and western democracies. but, again, you look at the administration's positions against russia and, you know, i'm torn. first of all, because donald trump is so -- towards vladimir putin you know we have to have the toughest policies, the toughest sanctions possible against vladimir putin. at the same time when you take a step back you go well wait, at some point we need to start to actually start building a positive relationship with the russians. but it seems that donald trump's bowing and scraping actually gets in the way of us being able to have any constructive talks with the russians. >> yeah. this is the confusion surrounding u.s.-russian relationships at the moment. i spoke yesterday to bill browder, the american financier who was on that list that president putin wants to have interrogated, he le

putin played his part perfectly and donald trump, this is where people may disagree with me, i think e stuff he's been saying all along. what people were troubled by is he didn't condemn putin to his face. he's not known for being -- he's a personality type who behind the scenes says nasty things about, let's say mrs. merkel or theresa may in london. then, when he's in front of them, suddenly, he's magically making nice. i didn't expect him to condemn putin. i didn't expect him to agree this is all true. because of the drama, because this was a moment in which everybody was watching, they really fully embodied this unbelievable moment, where the united states and its president are on a different wave length. >> speak to his point that it may look more significant in that arena at the putin summit and if so, does that make it worse or does that make it less cause for concern because it's just a rerun? >> i do agree with jamie, some of this material, obviously we've heard it all, heard it on the campaign stump, some of it was new and certainly changed things he was standing there with p

as people gathered to watch the biggest show in town the meeting between vladimir putin and donald trump putin though arrived half an hour late trump in turn kept putin waiting before he himself left his hotel yet despite the slights both leaders expressed a desire to improve relations this agreement between our two countries are well known and president putin and i. discuss them at length today. but if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world then we're going to have to find ways to cooperated pursuit of shared interests. put in an trunk spent more than two hours in one on one discussions behind closed doors with only translators present true to trump's word of a summit covered everything from trade to terrorism from nato to nuclear weapons to china but there was another question at the top of most minds in this. region which it was once again president trump mentioned the issue of the so-called interference in the american elections and i had to reason right things i said several times including now in a personal context knowledge that russia has never interfered but he's n

donald trump and vladimir putin have both hailed their helsinki meeting as a success. ident putin acknowledged that he had wanted donald trump to win, but denied that he had interfered. resident trump pointedly refused to back repeated allegations by us intelligence that mr putin did interfere. i think that it is a disaster for a country. there interfere. i think that it is a disasterfor a country. there was no collusion. everybody knows that. people are being brought out to the fore. so far, that i know, virtually none of it related to the campaign. you 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 won that race. it is a shame that there can be even a little bit of a cloud over it. the talks come days after after the justice department announced the indictments of a dozen russian intelligence operatives for allegedly hacking democratic targets in the 2016 us presidential election. when asked whether he would extradite the russians putin instead detailed a plan, which trum

vladimir putin also claimed that he never knew that donald trump was in moscow in 2013. your book goes over that pretty clearly. it does seep seem that vladimir putin didn't know that donald trump was there. why would he try to obfuscate that now? >> well, look, this does go to the credibility of vladimir putin, the very man who is denying that the russians hacked the dnc and had an influence campaign in the election. but i was really struck when putin said that because as david corn and i reported in russian roulette, trump was hoping putin would be there. he invited him. at the last minute dimitri pescov calls trump to apologize that putin can't make it, but says that putin is going to send a high-level emissary to the event. he tells him, putin also invites trump to the upcoming sochi olympics. he has a gift for him. a gift that is later delivered to trump tower. so the idea -- and by the way, after i tweeted this with an excerpt from our book laying all this out, rob goldstone, publicist who set up that trump tower meeting, re-tweeted it and said, i know this is true

putin... did i hearyou...? yeah, yeah. ok... that's going to be special. laughter questions remain about what donald trumparly during their closed—door private meeting. and democrats say until they get clarity on that, there should be no further one—on—one sessions between the presidents, in washington or anywhere else. chris buckler, bbc news, washington. jane o'brien is in washington. fairto fair to say that people are still stunned the president has made this offer? obviously as we saw there, even members of dan —— his own administration were caught off guard. this is classic trump. he a cts guard. this is classic trump. he acts quickly with no game plan, trying to drive the narrative. he has been saying the meeting on monday was a great success despite the fake news media's criticism, and what better way to show that mantle immediately start planning the next one in the fall? i think this is creating a storm, but when you see it and think about donald trump, it fits right in with the way this president has operated. it leaves members of his own administration scrambling to try to figure out what to do

road and said things donald trump is likely not going to be happy about, told the press he has no idea what happened in the private meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin but he would have suggested a different way, the reason he put out that statement defending the intelligence community's a sense of russian meddling is because he felt the need to set the record straight. >> i felt at this point in time that was we had assessed and reassessed and reassessed and gone over still stands and it was important to take the stand on behalf of the intelligence community and the american people. anyone who thinks vladimir putin doesn't have a stamp on everything that happens in russia is misinformed. >> reporter: imagine his surprise when he was completely broadsided by the news on live tv that a second meeting with vladimir putin had been planned this time in the united states. >> the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? [laughter] >> vladimir putin -- yes, yes. >> okay. that is going to be special. >> reporter: is going to be extra special since rod rosenstein described in great

putin, his ac . agents. to make donald trump look like a fool on the world stage certainly undercuts his position in this investigation. >> so let's in that context now talk about the announcement that came up this week, late this leak that putin will be coming to the u.s. at an invitation in the fall. we heard from majority leader mcconnell an nancy pelosi's office over in the house, he will not be welcome to visit congress. but should there be something more than simply saying you cannot come here, that congress should do or can do in opposition to this visit that's coming in the next few months. >> if anything, putin ought to be indicted, not invited to the united states. donald trump is threading on exceedingly dangerous ground. dan coates warned we are in a pre-9/11 moment, because of the ongoing attack, pervasive. and ongoing attack on this nation from the russians. so it's more than just about donald trump's ego and what happens to putin while he's here. it's about the national security of the united states and the most i

putin. he will have to ask him, tell me, did your boys metal or not? —— meddle or not? do you think they are worried in western europe in particular about what donald trumplking about? you bet, indeed they are. everything is interconnected, so we know that trump wants to get the troops out of syria, that there is a possible deal with putin in, kind of, crowning him the foreign power who is deciding everything in syria. he will want a deal on iran because that is what trump is worried about. what is happening here... moscow has a lot of influence in tehran. absolutely. there is the issue of oil. the americans want russia to increase their share. there are a lot of deals going on which do not involve the western world. that raises the question whether in real politic terms, whether we should welcome these two engaging with each other, even if we don't like how they choose to carve up parts of the middle east. is it better than war? i don't think that the position that alexander has just presented of a totally innocent kremlin, whether it's the ukraine or syria or so many other issues, or novichok for that matter, is going to be convincing. if mr putin take

and i can tell you that we have more on what donald trump is had to say because news just in is that the white house is announced donald trump has invited putin to washington this autumn. bring in a guest now don glazebrook independent political analyst joins me on the line very good of you to. donald trump it seems you can't make his mind up about what he thinks about russia and whether russia meddled in the u.s. presidential elections why the inconsistency what he says. well this is part of his his his schtick isn't it this is the madman strategy keep everyone on their toes keep everyone guessing don't let anyone feel too secure in your backing this is this is part of how he how he operates and of course if you're dealing with someone like trump who semantic ability doesn't even stretch to knowing the difference between would and wouldn't then of course what else can people do but keep guessing as to what your nonsensical statements actually mean but if we go beyond those statements to look at his actions actually there reveals revealed a pretty consistent policy towards towards russia which is that he wants to enlist putin in his economic

democrats calling on donald trump to cancel monday's meeting, chuck schumer said meeting with vladimir putin heels of these indictments would be an insult to our democracy. mark warner wonders if donald trump can be trusted to be alone with lamivudine. >> the president and his team are not willing to make the fact of this indictment a top priority of the meeting in helsinki and the summit should be canceled. >> vladimir putin is thinking of what he wants. he wants donald trump to make good on his pledge or his belief that crimea should be part of russia. watch out for alaska next. >> reporter: donald trump acknowledged the illegal occupation of crimea and blamed it on his predecessor. >> pres. obama failed very badly with crimea. he would not have done it if i were president. >> reporter: is what he wants in syria. >> i will talk to him about that before i talk to you and if something happens it will be great. i'm not going in with high expectations but we make come up with surprising things. >> reporter: the white house is donald trump will spend the weekend prepping for his meeting with vl