morning here in moscow now this saturday over weekends going good starting with this president's donald trump putin of met for extended talks last evening on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit with the first face to face diplomatic meeting lasting for over two hours. to listen said they had

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 addressing major crowds earlier today as donald trump and putin went off for a one-on-one meeting. she said some things, including that the sherpas were finding it difficult to find language that everybody agreed on when it comes to trade. all. sure, no supplies at they could not find any agreement on the issues when they met earlier. donald trump has not made any indication that he has moved from his isolationist positions and i think everybody knew ahead of time there woul

putin and donald trump, nor between putin and donald trump, nor between putin and leaders of the westerny particular thought between donald trump and the leaders here with whom he has so many differences. underlying differences, you can be sure they will remain. of course, all eyes were going to be on this meeting between trump and putin but what else is the g20 hoping to achieve? some important issues on the table? many. they will and have been discussing such things as how to constrain north korean aggression. no clear answer to that beyond pressure being applied to the chinese leader president xi jinping. to use whatever influence he may have to try to constrain the leadership of north korea. that effort has been made. concerns and differences over the issue of global trade, some tense scenes between the french president emmanuel macron anti—american president also. what is seen as a protectionist state of mind of the president of united states and a wish for something much more between trading relationships of other countries. theresa may will be calling on donald trump tomorrow to s

trump and vladimir putin. >>> hello, everyone. ime john berman. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. u.s. president, donald trump and vladimir putin are about to sit down for their first official meeting. this meeting about to begin any minute. we expect to see pictures of it when it does happen. one of the most anticipated meetings of the year. now, they did shake hands earlier today. you are seeing images of them in a group setting. this may have been the first time the two men ever met, although, president trump, during the campaign, said clearly he met him in the past. he changed that story as the campaign went on and into office. the official white house version is what you are seeing there, is the first time the men ever shook hands. when they sit down to talk, this will be the first discussion they have on conflict in syria and ukraine, trade in europe and asia. domestic politics in the u.s. and russia and spying. very real question about past, present and future intelligence operations by the russians maybe even in the 2016 u.s. election. will president trump bring that up in this meeting? again, y

vladimir putin really looks at donald trump during this meeting. the ukraine will be a huge issue. potentially, yes. i asked mr putin's spokesman this morning. many people said this was a fairly strong statement coming from donald trump, colin ——: russia to stop. again, the kremlin spokesman was keen to be cautious. he said mr putin was informed of all comments made in poland and that he would bear them in comments made in poland and that he would bearthem in mind. comments made in poland and that he would bear them in mind. the kremlin, mr putin himself has been careful since mr trump was elected not to criticise him openly. vladimir putin has been waiting for this moment, this meeting when they can sit down and hammer out the big issues they have to go to. this is surely vladimir putin that will be trying to set up his position. there isa trying to set up his position. there is a filling in russia that in the us policy wise things are in chaos, donald trump is weaker than putin is at home. it is imagined that factory putin is setting out his stal

donald trump looking straight at the camera, as he talks about vladimir putin, and putin interestingly, the body language suggests ok, let's hear what you've got for me? we have helped you, we've been good to you, so let's see what you can deliver. i think trump, asjohn said, coming out of the meeting with a spring in his step, putin is a very experienced ex—kgb man who specialises in recruiting. he would have played to his vanity, and... to his own vanity? to donald trump's vanity. putin is used to dealing with oligarchs. trump is an oligarch, they would be sizing one another up. and ultimately, what i think they would have discussed, we need to look back at trump's speech yesterday in warsaw, where he said we will defend civilisation, it is about family values and the church. his almost verbatim in quoting what putin was saying in terms of the russian church, russian culture and russian church, russian culture and russian language. he would have agreed with trump's assessment of western civilisation but saying, here is the line, you have your civilisation and you can be in charge of

putin was more guarded in his remarks. translation: the russian leader referred to phone conversations by donald trump but he said definitelyugh. if you want to have a positive outcome in bilateral relations, and resolve most policy issues, that will really need personal meetings, vladimir putin continued. i am delighted to be to meet you personally, mr president, andi meet you personally, mr president, and i hope as you have said, our meeting will yield positive results. like most of us, other world leaders at this summit will now be hungry for much more detailed information, where all the difficult issues are discussed by the two presidents. syria, ukraine, north korea and perhaps even the allegations of russian meddling in the american election. allegations continue to haunt the american administration. demonstrators resent both vladimir putin and donald trump being there. that has pitted against police with water cannon, determined to keep protesters away from the summit. in some overnight battles, a minority of protesters hurled missiles and used slingshots. summit leaders hope all of this can be contained and they are

the world's attention will focus on the meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. t outbreak of prison violence in mexico in years. 28 inmates found dead. ethics. government's chief hands in his resignation. with they clashing administration over donald trump's conflicts of interest. time now for the business news. we are starting out with a top story at the g 20 summit, where international trade is a large part of the agenda. >> world leaders currently meeting every of their facing the difficult task of trying to find consensus on international trade at a time when the u.s. seems to be pulling further back from multilateral free trade agreements. while g 20 leaders fly the flags of free trade president donald trump is looking increasingly isolated. after turning his back on the international community by pulling out of the paris climate accord, his protectionist stance has been roundly criticized. >> strongest power wanting to be it is the strongest power saying only america, remaining the strongest power. it becomes more -- less important. >> in january trump aban

president trump pressed putin on more than one occasion. >> dana: some claimed that trump accepted putin's assurances that russia did not metal. >> greg: donald trump started the meeting with putin by raising concerns over the election meddling. that son of a toilet flushing right now is cnn's bogus narrative. they said that he would not confront putin over that, and he did. >> dana: this was something like this a few weeks ago. say >> greg: people who set firs and throw rocks at people are not called protesters. they are arsonists. all day i was at the gym, not all day. [laughs] if you're at a gym in new york city, all you see is msnbc or cnn. so you're watching this, and all they're saying is a protester is throwing rocks. a protest is a setting fire. they are not a protester, they are a criminal. no, the cops are there because the thugs are there. >> dana: anarchists. >> greg: they are not anarchist, they have no beliefs. it makes you just scream it. >> juan: these people are anti-globalists, anticapitalist anticapitalists. you see them as all thugs. i think a lot of them are in-line with donald trump's anger at free-trade. >> greg: find o

donald trump en vladimir putin -- y vladimir putin se reunieron cara a cara por primera vez. un honor conocer a vladimir putin. vladimir putin reconociÓ que habÍan hablado en varias oportunidades por telÉfono, pero dijeron que esto no era suficiente para profundizar y mejorar la relaciÓn bilateral. ambos coincidieron en calificar el encuentro como muy positivo. no se dieron detalles a quÉ se referÍan. dijeron que la expectativa estaba centrada porque hace muy pocas horas donald trump acusÓ a vladimir putin de movilizar el medio viviente -- oriente. nada de esto ha trascendido. a puertas cerradas no sabemos de quiÉn hablado. javier: cuÉntanos de la otra reuniÓn que genero mucha expectativa. el encuentro de donald trump con enrique peÑa nieto. hablaron del muro? pablo: efectivamente. enorme interÉs en saber que paÓo puertas adentro. ellos habÍan cancelado el encuentro pocos dÍas que donald trump asumir en enero de este aÑo por diferencias sobre el muro. el canciller mexicano dijo que no se iba a tocar este tema del muro. sin embargo, donald trump no pudo con su genio. cuando la

it's also curious that only vladmir putin had an interpreter present. donald trumpstates does not have somebody else there to corroborate whatever happened in that meeting. it makes it awfully hard for americans to determine if it becomes vladmir putin's word against donald trump's word. if there's a dispute about what was discussed in this. it is an odd meeting and it's odd how we're finding out about this particularly given donald trump junior's lack of unwillingness to be forthcoming about his own meeting with russia. >> it's odd that everything that happens has to be pried out of this white house. they don't offer any information up about these things. >> right. things? >> right. and on a subject they should be forthcoming about. in the aftermath of all the controversy with donald trump jr. and his own meeting with the russians you think the white house would be conscious of the fact these things should not come out in a drip, drip, drip fashion. that they should be more transparent about what the president of the united states is doing. >> i want to bring matt

. >> what does he want from donald trump? >> putin is going to eat him like a sandwich. >> he rather has a puppet as a president. >> how powerful is he? >> putin has an trample authority. so powerful he rigged the america's election? he didispice hillary clinton. america asks, what 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. it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just formed. all over east germany, angry crowds roamed the streets and lashing out symbols of communist rules. that night in dresden, they found a target. the local kgb headquarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside peering through the curtains was a young kgb lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. he was terrified. putin was a junior officer, but the boss was away, he was in charge. >> police wanted to help. he called for instructions. >> desperate for help, putin dialled kgb headquarters in moscow over

, peace process -- sanctions, peace process, even the strategy in syria potentially while donald trump and putin keep things a little more simple. we will see how the meeting in 30 minutes went. mark: you wonder if donald trump will address the cyberattacks. we just spoke with our bloomberg reporter on that, the suppose it attacks on the u.s. utility system. his domestic audience, especially congress, will want him to do so. and it is questionable whether he actually will. so many unanswered questions, which hopefully we will be be a bit clearer on after the meeting, which we hear will be between 30 minutes and one hour. it is 3:15 p.m. in london this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ london in new york, i'm vonnie quinn. mark: this is bloomberg markets. let's get the futures in focus. gold has been going between gains and losses. crude falling. --ning us to discuss this crude is down 4%, up 7% last week. are you happy that volatility is have returned? >> i think many traders are happy about the returns. crude is under pressure again today. technically it still looks like it is in a downward trend. i expect man

from the new york times, it said rex tillerson, the secretary of state, said that donald trump had confronted vladimir putinn a robust and lengthy discussion that putin had denied involvement in election interference. , thegn minister of russia only other official in the meeting, said donald trump accepted the denial and both sides were trying to present their leaders as having stood their ground. i call from jacksonville, florida, independent line. what did you think of the meeting? >> i was so happy to see they would meet, russia is kind of like an enemy and it is good to know thy enemy. i have something to say, if you do not mind, i will make it briefly, to the conspiracists that keep searching for the russian involvement in the elections. they have been trying that since 1960. to carry the absurdity further, let's say, go back in history and two when john wilkes booth assassinated abraham lincoln. saint president donald trump had something to do with that. we do not have proof but we know the evidence is there, this reduces the argument to silence. thank you. host: ronald is calling in from salem, misso

donald trump and europe together against. vladimir putin you look at north korea and you have. total triumph. against vladimir putin and president gee you look at climate change and donald trump is more less isolated on that. a you could trade issues and again the u. s. position is kind of pretty alone at the moment. so he has come unsourced spoken in a more positive way about the west and his relationship with the west but i still think there are some pretty big ticket issues out there. that remain unresolved on a not going to be so by the time this communiques issued tomorrow which will test the drafting skills. of the bureaucrats in the ship has here in hamburg. john so below north america editor thank you very much for joining me. well for more on the significance of the trump pitch in meeting on the g. twenty summit in general i spoke earlier with angela stent she's the director of the center for russian studies at georgetown university. angela thanks very much for coming in good to be here now both the russians and the americans said that they didn't want to re litigate th

putin. it's cleared up already. donald trump never met putin before. putin told us that. donald trump thinks in the terms of brands like himself. the whole world, the meeting vladimir putin is a big deal for trump. but, i think what's going to happen out of this is going to be a continuation of meetings. they are going to touch on syria, north korea, you know, defeating global terrorism. the ukraine, perhaps. what's going to come out of it is an invite to mar-a-lago or washington d.c. this will be an ongoing dialogue between the two world leaders. i think the urgency at the moment of north korea means trump has got to talk about that. i see it as much more friendly. i think we are treating it as if it's a summit meeting when it's just a quick hello and got the phone call, now we can look at each other eyeball to eyeball. >> about that. the fact they have at least three phone calls before this meeting, they have talked about how good it is to meet in person. does that personal contact make much of a difference, doug? >> i think it does. i remember when ronald reagan was mee

demonstrators resent both vladimir putin and donald trump being him.etty slim against police was water cannons. in some overnight battles, a minority of protestors throw missiles and used sling shots, summit leaders hope it can be contained, they are nervous enough about the crises in the wider world that already divide them. so, no surprise, all eyes on donald trump, less than six months in office, and bringing to the summit his unsettling style and america first policies. his host, angela merkel, has clashed with him repeatedly in recent weeks but it is donald trump's first face—to—face trial of strength with russia's leader that will electrify the gathering. today he tweeted... vladimir putin may stand seven inches shorter than his american rival but he too is a natural fighter, with 17 years at the top in russia to his advantage. yesterday, donald trump landed early blows, accusing russia of destabilising tactics in syria and the ukraine, something that the kremlin strongly denies. the two presidents have shaken hands for the first time, a scene ca

. >> what does he want from donald trump? >> putins going to eat him like a sandwich. >> he'd rather have a puppet as president. >> just how powerful is he? >> putin has an untrammeled authority. i don't see checks on his power. >> so powerful he rigged the american election? >> of course he wanted hillary clinton to lose. he despies hillary clinton. >> who would you like better? >> of the world. >> while russia celebrates. americans ask what does he want? and is he really the most powerful man in the world? >> december fifth, 1989, it was a cold night in drezden, east germany and it would change the course of vladimir putin's life. the berlin wall had just fallen. all over east germany angry crowds roamed the streets, lashing out at symbols of communist rule. that night in dresden they found a target, the local kgb head quarters. a mob surrounded the building. as the hour grew later, the crowd grew larger. inside, peering through the curtains was a young kgbt lieutenant colonel named vladimir putin. is there he was terrified that the

donald trump and vladimir putin met twice at the 620 summit. not the once we'd been told about.from hamburg on july 7th. that meeting lasted over two hours. now we know they also spoke again during dinner that night. the us national security council says it was a "pull aside," not a meeting. "a conversation over dessert should not be characterised as a meeting." that is what it went on to say. we are being sucked into serious semantics. so how should we assess this? this is ian bremmer, who first reported the second meeting. it is certainly true that at summit meetings you have little pull asides between heads of state to discuss business all the time. when our pull aside —— a pull aside for one hour is highly unusual. a pull aside of one hour between putin and trump where only the kremlin translator is there, we do not know what is discussed, given the uniqueness of the russia/ us relationship, it makes the president, frankly and disturbingly, not credible in the white house response to this story. a senior white house official has said... "the insinuation that the white house

donald trump, surrounding his administration, surrounding russia, they seem to be coming thick and fast or pretty regularly at least. what do we know about this previously undisclosed meeting in hamburg with vladimir putin. rob: up until now all the discussion about donald trump and vladimir putin at hamburg, and there was a lot of it, focused on the official meeting they had which lasted far more than the half an hour originally allotted, i think it was two hours and 20 minutes in the end and the discussions were about whether or not, as donald trump said, he got tough on the russians. the russians denied it, donald trump said he did. now we know there was a second meeting, undisclosed, which took place at the end of a dinner for the members of the g-20. apparently according to sources the white house no longer denies, donald trump got up at the end of the meeting and sat down with vladimir putin and had a conversation, animated and friendly, which went on for around an hour. the white house denies it lasted anything like that time and says it was a short conversation but does not deny the conversation takes place and it's a normal sort of thing in a meeting like that, its informal leaders get down tog

putin -- why wasn't he pressed further by trump? well, trump gave us the answer himself it seems to me in the news conference in poland. even donald trump on the eve of this meeting with putin has not accepted fully the finding of u.s. intelligence agencies that it was russian meddling. he continues to say perhaps it was other countries as well. so clearly, donald trump is not going to go into this meeting with putin and make a big issue of it. >> and it's surprising i think to a lot of people that he raised it at all. that was the low bar i have been talking about all week. so low it could have been underground. hans, it to bring you in on the question of the temporary cease-fire in southwestern syria because a former obama official with national security responsibilities said to me this has been tried before. how big of a deal is this and how optimistic are folks that you cover that this is a significant breakthrough if it is at all? >> it's not so much optimism because this is a part of syria where the u.s. has virtually no presence. every morning we get flight ops, strike lists and it's almost all along the euphrates valley. n

stopper of this summit, of course, was yesterday's first face—to—face encounter between donald trump and vladimir putin eventual outcome of the talks, today, the russian leader used his press conference to offer this assessment of donald trump. translation: trump on television is very different than in real life. he's very concrete. he analyses things quite quickly. i think if we can continue to build our relations, then there's every reason to think we can restore, at least in part, the level of cooperation we need. but donald trump himself passed up the chance to brief the press or answer questions. his reserved podium left empty. the stars and stripes eventually removed. this summit did survive all the efforts of violent protesters to disrupt it. james robbins, bbc news, hamburg. well, unlike some other world leaders, donald trump left the summit without giving a press conference. so, how unusual is that for a us president? that's a question i asked our washington correspondent, david willis. it is unusual, i think, because other leaders did, and also because it leaves the last word on that crucial

have you started it is going good it's one o'clock in the afternoon here first president's donald trump putin of met for extended talks on the sidelines of the g twenty summit with the first face to face diplomatic meeting lasting for over two hours at the end of it u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said they had a very robust exchange. there was so much to talk about all these issues. just about everything got touched on to one degree or another and i think there was a level of engagement and exchange neither one of them wanted to stop. times i had to remind the president of sticking their heads in the door and i think even the first lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there and i didn't work either the meeting brought about a potential breakthrough for the syria conflict leaders agreed to establish a cease fire in the country. because in hamburg he's been there for the last couple of days you know hi again so the leaders convening for a day or two and wrapping up i guess later today bring us up to speed where we've been was going out for the rest of the day. kevin hello

vladimir putin and donald trump, with the russians. bt about aspects of that meeting. some contention. vladimir putin said that president trump accepted the assertion that russia gave, that it had not sought to interfere in the outcome of last year's presidential election here in the usa. vladimir putin said that donald trump noted that, and accepted it. the white house has told reporters that that was not, in fact, the case. that donald trump did not accept that there was no russian intervention in there was no russian intervention in the election here. nonetheless, the fa ct the election here. nonetheless, the fact that they agreed by all accou nts fact that they agreed by all a ccou nts to fact that they agreed by all accounts to then move on and put these things behind them and scope out her tories for the future, seen asa out her tories for the future, seen as a positive sign by both —— territory for the future. this went way beyond its 35 minutes or so, but two hours and 16 minutes. an interesting meeting that a lot of people were

of days there there will be group meetings, bilateral meetings, in particular between donald trump an vladimir putindonald trump said russia was destabilising ukraine, the most explicitly has been on the issue of ukraine, but will he also accused vladimir putin of destabilising america? the american intelligence agencies say russia meddled in the us election, something russia denies. the meetings go into saturday and then saturday afternoon is about a communique from all who have come here, and press conferences from some of the leaders, we do not know how many will take questions from journalists and we cannot overstate the power people here have. the g20 represents two thirds of the world's population, 80% of its economic output, so while some countries say they feel left out and this is an unreasonable way of going about global business, the idea of the g20 born just global business, the idea of the g20 bornjust under 20 global business, the idea of the g20 born just under 20 years ago was that this is a better decision—making arena than the un assembly and if you get these people in the room, ma

putin? for months, president trump has expressed optimism that the relationship with russia could improve. >> if putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset. not a liability. we have a horrible relationship with russia. as far as again, putin and russia, i don't say good, bad or indifferent. i don't know the gentleman. i hope we have a fantastic relationship. that's possible and it is also possible we won't. president putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election. and probably putin said, you know, he's sitting behind his zpeks he's saying, you know, i see what's going on in the united states. i follow it closely. it will be impossible for president trump to get along with russia because of all the punish he has with this fake story. probably putin assumes he won't be able to make deal with me because it is politically unpopular. we're not getting lane with russia at all. we may be at an all time low with russia. i'll see with putin, it would be fantastic if we got along with putin and with russia. >> anything president trump says or does is likely to be leaked of course. in m

rob: we are going into the vladimir putin donald trump meeting in two days, nothing in that press conference sounded good to vladimir putin. the natural gas thing, troops on the border thing, the president say russia meddled in the election, to make this meeting more awkward. >> the great irony of this administration is donald trump has been more hawkish on russia then any of the previous presidents, obama, george w. bush, clinton, hw bush during the cold war. this has been extremely hawkish administration as katie hendrix pointed out, syrians in syria backed by russia, that might make this awkward. heather: the last question cut off and russian meddling in the election, will this force donald trump's hand now and force him to bring that up in the meeting regardless whether he was going to or not? >> reporter: that is the meme that will dominate the next couple days, the only thing anyone talks about. the polish president and donald trump both bonding, really hate the media, poland like the united states has been run by a red center government, and they really dislike. >> the press in europe

it has finally happened, donald trump and vladimir putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at 620 summit in hamburg. donald trump called it an honour, the russian president said he was delighted to discuss things personally. in the last few hours we have heard that they agreed a ceasefire in south—western syria, which will come an effect on sunday. but a discussion on russian meddling in us elections last year is reported to be robust. the bbc‘s north american editorjon sopel reports. it's hard to overstate the significance of this meeting, this handshake. two men with nuclear arsenals who could blow the world to pieces. two self—proclaimed tough guys who like to win. but today at their first face—to—face meeting, they were the epitome of restraint and respect. thank you very much, we appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things and i think it's going very well. we've had some very, very good talks. we are going to talk now and that will continue but we look forward to a lot of great, positive things happening for russia, for the united states and f

again, short and sweet, but we see the two leaders, donald trump to the right, vladimir putin on the giving a quick summation of what's happened so far. donald trump saying it's going very well, look forward to continued talks. talked about various things, as he put it, and then vladimir putin at the end there saying very happy to meet donald trump personally. so all very happy, all looking relatively relaxed as you can be with the world's media hunched into that small room with the camera clicks going off. but we, obviously, would like more detail, and we are expecting to get that sometime later this morning. tammy, your first impressions? >> well, you know, i think that it's what you would expect, not many details. but i think some in the media will try to analyze, in fact, body language and the two handshakes. and as long as they do that, they're not getting into the details of vladimir putin's position. ashley: yeah. >> they're not getting into the details of the strength of america and exactly what we do want to accomplish. they don't want to talk about north korea. they don't wa

morning here in moscow now this saturday over weekends going good starting with this president's donald trump putin of met for extended talks last evening on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit with the first face to face diplomatic meeting lasting for over two hours. to listen said they had a very robust exchange. there was so much to talk about all these issues. just about everything got touched on to one degree or another and i think there was just such a level of engagement and exchange neither one of them wanted to stop cheryl times i had to remind the president of people sticking their heads in the door and i think maybe this is the first lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there and i didn't work either. and the meeting brought about a potential breakthrough for the syria conflict too as the leaders agreed to establish a cease fire in the country. it was following the historic told us mr trump and mr putin at the g twenty summit and hamburg the two leaders finally met and talked about three times longer than both administrations expected and now straight after the meeting w

ambassador mcfaul, what could possibly go wrong with that hour with vladimir putin, donald trump and putin's translator. >> let's be clear, i was deeply disturbed by the official meeting when they only had secretary tillerson there. no note taker to the best of my knowledge. i don't think tillerson was taking notes. and you're playing defense. you're sitting with man who's been in that job for 17 years. he knows all the foreign policy issues cold. trump is new. but to sit down with him for another hour i think it puts him in a very awkward position. and one more thing to add, you know, you seem to me, lawrence, like a guy who has attended dinner prties from time to time, right new work the room. 3 1/2 hour meeting. other heads of state there. spend time with hosts, by the way. one of our most important allies, angela merkel, to sit with one person for an hour and not talk to anyone else, sends a terrible signal to the rest of the world. in fact, that's exactly why they read out the meeting to ian bremmer. they saw that and were disturbed. so diplomatic disaster. and that's not even kn

donald trump and putin sat down at the g-20 summit. we have more on the first meeting between the two. do we know more about what was discussed? >> i wish there was something i could tell you about that but the white house and kremlin playing it really tight and not speaking at all about what might have been on the agenda here. ongoing investigations into possible ties between the leaders. they did sit down face to face for the first time today as frustrations and going show of force continues to spread across this city. demonstrators trying to block access to the summit. police yugz water cusing water . crowds filling the in the ro roadwa roadways, lighting fires and protesters slashed the fire of vehicles belonging to the delegation. others shattered windows. as the unrest continued to unfold president trump and russian president met for the first time shaking hands before the family photo. a few hours later. >> president putin and i have been discussing various things. we have had -- >> sitting down for their highly anticipated face

rob: strong words from donald trump ahead of his sitdown meeting with vladimir putin. >> we urge russiaits destabilizing activities and instead join the community of responsible nations. heather: will miss -- the panel ways in. heather: donald trump calling russia out demanding moscow stop fueling unrest around the globe. did he send the right message? will that play in the discussion with weber putin today? counterterrorism expert jim hansen and foreign policy expert rebecca heinrich. you are with us yesterday, you heard the joint statement between the president of poland and donald trump. later, the speech donald trump gave, did he send the right message there? >> the exact right message. the only speech, i commend, go up and read it your self. it defended western values, the opposite of what president obama did apologizing for things the united states and then, in the context of that speech, a slight rebuke to russia, russia -- also deployed nuclear missiles to the polish border, supports bashar al-assad, iran, what donald trump did is lay down the mark saying that won't happen anymo

intriguing head—to—head meetings, trump and angela merkel, donald trump and angela merkel, donald trump and angela merkel, donald trump and vladimir putin for to the most? donald trump and vladimir putin. in the united states now i think there is such importance at seeing how they will act with each other, and what the canister will be between the two of them. that's what i'm most excited about. good to see both of you. thank you very much. you're not going anywhere. if you have questions about the 620 send them my way. you can see questions about the 620 send them my way. you can see our questions about the 620 send them my way. you can see our e—mail on the screen, and the hashtag. we will do oui’ screen, and the hashtag. we will do our best answer your questions. i mentioned the protest. we will tend to those in detail in a few minutes and bring you right up to date off what has happened on the streets and why these protesters are turning out to object to donald trump at this whole summit. we will try to understand why. central london has been rocked by series of terrorist attacks. police say there have been many casualties and there

and say, hand ona will read that headline and say, hand on a minute, i thought president putin and donald trumpd trump were being friendly and starting a new relationship, a new era. what's happened? the president isn't a tyra nt happened? the president isn't a tyrant yet, so the us congress has overwhelmingly passed new sanctions that make it really difficult for the president dry and, you know, reduce the amount of sanctions that are already against russia. it is a big blow for donald trump. the vote was overwhelming be passed in the house and senate and his spokesperson indicated he would sign the bill. it is a blow for donald trump. the law that ijust referred to that the president may or may not sign doesn'tjust to that the president may or may not sign doesn't just apply to russia, it also applies to north korea and iran. the president, allthis controversy about his links with russia, it will be difficult for him to block this law. pre—empting his signing, but a mere putin has retaliated already by expelling back to the cold war 755 us diplomats. it leaves me to ask exactly how many diplo

repeatedly in recent weeks but it is donald trump's first face—to—face trial of strength with russia's leader that will electrify the gathering. today he tweeted... vladimir putin inches shorter than his american rival but he also is a natural fighter with 17 years at the top in russia to his advantage. yesterday, donald trump landed early blows, accusing russia of destabilising tactics in syria and the ukraine, something that the kremlin denies. the two presidents have shaken hands for the first time, a scene captured only by a 6erman time, a scene captured only by a german government camera but even this glimpse will be replayed to analyse clues in the body language ahead of face—to—face talks later. today the america's european allies welcomed what they saw as donald trump's defence of allies. donald trump mentioned yesterday, and spoke of axes that matter. and the first test is our meeting in hamburg. it's a tense day, both outside on the streets of hamburg and here inside the heavily fortified summit centre. tense politically too, as all the other world leaders are looking to the first head—to—head between the president of the united states and of russia,

corporation between our countries to a new level two different donald trump's you heard it right that's how the washing president puts it but mr putin met only one donald trump in that blue room on friday and as we found out from right still or should there was some positive chemistry between these two men there was so much to talk about all these issues. just about everything got touched on to one degree or another and i think there was just such a level of engagement and exchange me to want to want to stop sure more times i had to remind the president of sticking their heads in the door and i think maybe the first lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there and i didn't work either well if that blood man who spent more than two hours talking to a lot of my approach was the real donald trump then there is potential for the lot awaited political thaw says a lot of our approach going back to the many issues that the two presidents discussed of course they spent a while talking about syria which resulted in the announcement of a breakthrough cease fire in three districts of the country at the russian president's press co

and this just ahead of that meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin. so the sequence of events over the course of this second foreign trip for donald trump has been extremely interesting. you can understand why he accepted the polish government's invitation of a pit stop here. this is after all a government that he has much in common with. a government that has through its policies, through its apparent attacks on the free press here in poland attempts to rein in the independent judiciary over the course of the last couple of years since the law and justice party came to power here in november 2015, its populist instincts extremely worrying to the wider european union. so you can understand that donald trump might have chosen to visit a country where a government is in charge that he has a certain affinity with. after all, the law and justice party has made anti-immigration a central plank, also suspicious of organizations like the european union. coming to warsaw ahead of what will be a bilateral meeting with vladimir putin presents a fresh set of chal

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what president donald trump and putin have met for extended talks on the sidelines all the g twenty summit with their first face to face diplomatic meeting last thing over two hours u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson said they had a very robust exchange there was so much to talk about all these issues. just about everything got touched on to one degree or another and i think there was a level of engagement and exchange neither one of them wanted to stop. i had to remind the president of people sticking their heads in the door and i think even in the first lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there and i didn't work either on the meeting brought about a potential breakthrough for the syria conflict to the leaders agreed to establish a cease fire in the country big hopes for that one. so right still or so and was really impressed with how the first ever meeting between lattimer putin and donald trump went on saturday morning donald trump said that he was equally happy he called the meeting tremendous as he was talking to you case prime minister to resume a i had a tremendou

but today's meeting, the first between donald trump and vladimir putin, has added significance. ry positively of vladimir putin. if putin likes donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability. but since he became president, their relationship has been controversial, with claims of russian interference in the election process that could have helped him win. so, how do the two leaders match up? in terms of political experience, putin's 13 years in the top job over two spells easily outweighs trump's six months in office. but with 326 million citizens living in the us, compared to 142 million in russia, donald trump is the leader of many more people. in terms of how these people see their president, vladimir putin is much more popular on paper. over 80% of russians say they support him. fewer than 40% of americans approve of donald trump. when it comes to controversy, you don't get much bigger than possible impeachment. donald trump is still facing calls to be removed as president as investigators continue to probe those alleged links to russia. for vladimir putin, the bigge

weekly standard, trump caves to putin, trump's meeting with vladimir putin tells us about the future of russia-america affairs. if secretary of state rex tillerson's read out of donald trump's meeting with vladimir putin is a preview of the trump administration's approach to russia, it's going to be a rough 3 1/2 years. in a diplomatic -- it will have repercussions far beyond russia. the comments did more to further russia's interests and russia propaganda outlets could have possibly hoped to accomplish themselves. you can read the full essay at weeklystandard.com. on our line for independents, don is joining us from glen burnie, maryland, good morning, don, welcome to the program. caller: good morning to you, steve. i think trump is a genius. host: why so? caller: well, he uses -- he exacerbates the divide in the country. uses weapons of mass distraction, you know? and then trump can laugh all the way to the bank. while we're sitting here arguing over russia and all these other situations. his family is becoming more wealthier and wealthier, you know? host: denise from cincinnati, ohio, your take on this. good morning. as the president boards air force one back at

were having a lively discussion that's something we often see from donald trump a lot of emotions on his face when it comes to mr putin and merkel and that little chat after the family photo session it was just something very calm and very mild. maybe thinking of a few friendship american deals in the pipeline. donald trump away from the side of the photo. very much for no as you say we are indeed waiting for president strom putin to begin their first face to face talks but let's continue to bring you the latest developments from the g. twenty in humbug over the next few minutes and the other stories that we're looking out as well. says the interior minister was revealed at around one hundred registered gun owners in the country are in a terror watch list. i have asked local police to identify the registered owners of firearms on terror watch lists we have identified about one hundred people and the author of cesar taking action to correct the situation this appears to be a significant dysfunctional so well one spring comes just a couple of weeks after the latest terror attack in central park when a car full of weapon

donald trump and vladimir putin had a second meeting, we're learning about now, and david gergen witnessed such meetings. donald trump jr. said, fake news story of secret dinner with putin is sick. all g20 leaders and spouses were invited to the chancellor of germany. press knew. >> trump seems to have a misunderstanding of what is now being reported today, so what the press recently learned is that president trump and his russian counterpart vladimir putin spoke for a second time on july 7 in a previously undisclosed discussion at the end of that dinner during the g20 summit. we knew the actual dinner was going on, but apparently this is a conversation after the dinner, and a senior white house official told cnn this discussion was nearly an hour and only included president trump, putin and a russian translator. so president trump was alone. now, the white house is confirming this meeting today only after being pressed by reporters, and it said in the statement that this conversation took place in full view of other world leaders and their spouses at this dinner hosted by german chancello

showing pictures of the demonstrations and it will be an interesting g20 and meeting between donald trump and putinomorrow, which will be fascinating. this is a meeting where donald trump is out of his comfort zone. he is relatively safe when he is doing his speeches in america but here he is, over in europe and we had that difficult meeting, the nato meeting where trump met various european leaders, lots of handshakes, jostling in pictures, move people out of the way. trump is meeting the same group of people again and he has this high pressured meeting with president putin and i am not entirely sure what is going to happen after this because you might see a quieter time from putin or you might see more flexing of putin's muscle. this is a crunch meeting very sizeable muscles, we have seen them many times! that will be the money shot, when they shake hands. so, the express, eu told you can't write in britain. this is a tory, david campbell saying you can't frighten us. saying that eurocrats are trying to scare us because they think we might walk away from the negotiations, scare tactics on their p

we are talking about an important meeting that happens tomorrow between donald trump and putin. and david you were saying though not expecting that donald trump should go in there and say this is what's happening. we know you've been doing in the election. you need to stop or there will be hell to pay. is there more hell to pay for russia? is there more that if the president of the united states would agree with the intelligence agencies that russia was behind the hacking and directed by vladimir putin, is there more america can do to put the screws to russia? >> for sure there is. when we impose the sanctions, for russia's activity in ukraine, we did if in a way that left a lot of head room effectively. sanctions we imposed on the financial institutions were calibrated in a way we could dial up the pressure on russian financial institutions if that's what we wanted to do. we could dial up pressure on russia's energy septemberor. there is a whole host of things we can do just following through on sanctions we have previously imposed. and there are a range of additional sanctions