but what sergey lavrov, the sergey lavrov said is that the united states accepted the statements fromtin that russia did not hack the election and indeed, they agreed to set up a joint committee to look into the issue of cyber security, something that russia has been calling for with the united states for some time. and so, yes, they're reporting what was discussed. they're very happy about it. their expectations were very low. they thought this was going to be a pretty cold exchange of pleasantries. it was obviously much, much more than that. that's why it lasted for nearly 20 hours, 20 minutes because it was a sort of far-reaching discussion about the whole range of issues at the heart of the very fractious relationship between russia and the u.s. and that's something that has been whole har wholeheartedly welcomed in russia, here in a country that has been disillusioned with donald trump. he came to office promising to change the relationship with russia. he couldn't deliver it. now i think those hopes have been rekindled that something substantial may be able to change. >> you too

but sergey lavrov had only what can be interpreted a as a warning for washington.e a listen. >> we don't believe in regime change anywhere. i hear very enthusiastic voices in the united states including in some parts of this administration that the patience has been over and they must do something because the threat is growing and growing and the intercontinental ballistic missile was launched. but a month ago, i think, a month and a half, maybe, secretary mattis answering a question bluntly stated that the use of force against north korean regime would mean a disaster, a humanitarian disaster in the region. >> and he had tough words, too, over syria where a u.s. and russian brokered peace deal has been holding. and today, news of a further de-escalation zone around the capital of syria, da mast cuss. but what sergey lavrov said was he wanted to talk about what he says are u.s. bases in syria. his argument, as he put it, was that while the u.s. should be in syria to type r fight isis, once that battle is over, america should leave. take a listen to that. >> after t

tillerson to sergey lavrov. mr. tillerson has very narrow experience, whereas mr. lavrov has been russian foreign minister since 2004, dealing and jousting diplomatically with pretty much all of the bright young things and the most experienced diplomats the west could throw at him in that period. so we've got the americans here, hopelessly outmatched. and that's something that putin is going to be very cognizant of. >> but perhaps the u.s. knew that going in. and maybe they wanted to try to take president putin by surprise in mentioning the russian meddling out of the gate. again, how do you think president putin interpreted that reference? >> this would only be speculation, but from what we are hearing from the meeting, it sounds like a perfunctory mention of it was made for domestic political purposes in the united states to get it out of the way and to get the kind of media coverage that is being generated now, that makes it look as if the united states is being tough towards putin without actually taking any serious geopolitical or financial rebuttal towards him

a least though it's constructive isn't it i mean listen to sergei lavrov he was saying the atmosphere those were his words were constructive and he also mentioned i thought it was interesting he said that both presidents are driven by that national interest but they are aware they have to find a balance of national interests it does suggest that they are so looking well ok we're concerned about this and and from our say well we're concerned about that and the trying to find a solution at least which didn't appear to be the case anyway from afar over the last few months a few years. it certainly is the case that they are talking constructive and you know the fact of the matter is that. this could be a starting point for further agreements elsewhere in syria and probably elsewhere in the world between the americans and the russians and we have too many flashing points perhaps with regard to the ukraine with regards to eastern europe with regards to north korea and so on there are so many conflicts but at least these two are starting to specially the two leaders having you know tested th

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

sergei lavrov went on to say that donald trump raised the issue of allegations of russian meddling innt on to say, according to the russian side, he had multiple times from president putin that the allegations were untrue and there was no proof of that, and donald trump apparently accepted these statements. we then heard from rex tillerson, the us secretary of state, he gave a rather different picture, talking of robust talks, he said donald trump raised theissue talks, he said donald trump raised the issue of russian meddling, he pressed vladimir putin on it and vladimir putin denied it. slightly different from the two sides, russia's standing its ground and a p pa re ntly russia's standing its ground and apparently donald trump accepted that russia was not going to admit to it, and according to russia, donald trump apparently accepts that russia was not involved. sarah raynsford in moscow there. let's get the view from the usa. barbara platt usherjoins us live from washington. we had two different views there, sergei lavrov insisting that president trump has accepted president trump

elections and what sergei lavrov says is president trump mepgsed it. then later on president putin starts to talk about it as president trump asking question after question and searching in the two-hour meeting that they had. i asked sergei lavrov in the interview whether in fact russia had kind of changed the story to try to help president trump and he denied that but you know, these things are of course, incredibly important. let me show you another point from that interview which illustrates just the importance of it. we moved on to talk about russia, talk also about russia and syria and there, sergei lavrov said that no one really should be allowed to intervene in syria unless they have the acquiescence of president assad. i said to him, on that basis what you're really saying is only russia, iran and perhaps hezbollah should be allowed to be engaged in syria. he said, well, really yes to that. russia has some extremely self-interested strategic interests around the world. at the same time, they want to see more cooperation with washington and they

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thanks very much for staying on the line i know we were back to gauge before sergey lavrov just started to speak then not sure what you heard of what he said but essentially in summary he said look they go through a lot syria ukraine korean peninsula no site cyber security a surprise they managed to get through so much need to pace to be in a constructive meeting. thank you ed or it's good to be with you and in fact it's a good day it's a good day for the citizens of russia it's a good day for the citizens of the united states and for the g. twenty members to see two world leaders presidents trump and putin sitting together for a constructive decision and meeting and coming across a with a constructive decision on many fronts the issue of a cease fire to take into effect on july the ninth that new and for southwest syria is a very positive sign this communicates the fact that the meeting that lasted for two hours plus resulted in some very constructive details being worked out in regard to ukraine and also the korean the korean peninsula i think all of these issues communicate that both

senator, you were able to hear that interview keir simmons with sergey lavrov? impression listening to lavrov and thinking of putin and lavrov and trump in the same way, that we're looking at a huge mismatch here and that we're paying a price? >> yes. i think it's important for us to remember that vladimir putin and sergey lavrov are very experienced players in the world stage. this is the fourth american president with which they've had the opportunity to work, and vladimir putin a skilled former kgb agent has all the tools at his disposal that russia has used to play chess with us. and my concern is president trump is on checkers or not on the same board. >> what are your thoughts on russia and tehran now that we've supposedly given up the ghost in syria. russia and tehran dominating that region of the world? >> well, that's got significant strategic consequences for us and our close allies. there was a compelling column in the post yesterday entitled "trump's breathtaking surrender to russia". it points out some of the consequences of the unilaterally walking

as i think he has in the past. >> how, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov had another version of. he said, quote, president trump said he's heard putin a very clear statement that this is not true and that the russian government did not interfere in the elections and that he accepts these statements. that's all. a senior administration official says president trump did not accept putin a denial. >> joining us now to talk more about that, ambassador nicolas burns, former u.s. secretary for political affairs. also a former u.s. ambassador to nato and greece. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's first start here with the discrepancy over the discussion of russian meddling. you earlier said it's a dereliction of duty, president trump's treatment of this meddling. after the description we've learned from secretary tillerson, what's your assessment? >> i think it's positive that president trump raised the issue. he had to do that to defend the united states and the american people. if president putin is now denying that rush engaged in a cyber attack in our elections, preside

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speaking to reporters on camera, sergey lavrov said the president denied putin's denials. >> reporter: president trump said he heard putin's clear statements, that this was not true and that the russian government did not interfere in the election and that he accepted his statements. not a single fact has been presented. and this is something that has been acknowledged by the people in congress. a senior administration official told cnn that president trump did not accept putin's denials. still, a decision to press on the interference is a significant shift. just a day ago when poland continued to express doubts about russian meddling, contradicting his own intelligence community. >> i think it could have been russia, it could have been other people in other countries. it could have been a lot of people interfered. >> in his hours with putin, he continued to blame others, including john podesta, saying, everyone around here is wondering why john podesta refused to give his computer to investigators. disgusting. he responded, get a grip, man. the russians committed a crime when they st

beyond the political rhetoric, if you like, that we heard from sergey lavrov in this interview, he alsount messages for the u.s. on some of the most tense regions of the world. north korea, he pushed back very strongly on a suggestion by the cia director this week that america might be in favor of regime change in north korea. take a listen to that, jacob. >> we don't believe in regime change anywhere. i hear very enthusiastic voices in the united states, including in some parts of this administration, that the patience has been over and they must do something, because the threat is growing and growing, and intercontinental ballistic missile was launched, but a month ago, i think, a month and a half, maybe, secretary mattis answering the question, bluntly stated that the use of force against north korean regime would mean a disaster, a humanitarian disaster in the region. >> reporter: and sergey lavrov had a tough message, too, on syria, where the peace deal that was brokered by the u.s., russia, and jordan does appear to be holding, but he appeared to suggest in this interview that whi

here's how the secretary's counterpart, sergey lavrov, described that part of the meeting saying that president trump accepted putin's election hacking denial. >> trump raised the topic of elections in the talks thinking that anything that these allegations are groundless. that's what he said. president trump has said that he has heard clearly from mr. putin that the russian government has not interfered in the elections and he accepts these -- the things that putin -- mr. putin has said. president trump said that in the u.s., there are still some circles who are talking about the russian alleged intrusion and russian alleged attempt to influence the u.s. elections. so president trump and president putin has discussed these issues and all these issues will become matters for our cooperation and the special electoral group that were created towards that. the fourth thing is that we have agreed to expedite the procedure to -- for near -- to the u.s. >> this is the scene right now in hamburg. protests so large that first lady melania trump had to cancel an appearance this morning. we'll

believe me i dealt with that with sergei lavrov when i was in the government.e had to dweel that to rebut things he would say. but more importantly there is a transcript for the rest of the trump administration. how do you make policy or implement policy when you are flying blind you don't know what was said. that was a big mistake on their part. >> gentlemen good to talk to you. thanks for being with us. coming up next ahead of this all important meeting with vladimir putin, the president was reliving 2016. tweeting about former clinton chairman john podesta. that's ahead when "the 11th hour" returns. i don't want to lie down. i refuse to lie down. why suffer? stand up to chronic migraine with botox® botox® is the only treatment for chronic migraine shown to actually prevent headaches and migraines before they even start. botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. it's injected by a doctor once every 12 weeks. and is covered by most insurance. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after inje

journalists here were hungry for the details and we got them from the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he was the first one to announce the breakthrough cease fire you may be skeptical about the breakthrough fair enough serious cease fires struck by washington in russia by far not a success story in the past but under barack obama we didn't hear about decisions like friday's one out all it was up to john kerry to do the job when it comes to syria diplomacy on the part of the u.s. in the buildup to this the number one issue discussed in the u.s. media was whether donald trump was going to bring up the issue of russian interference and the u.s. election well i can tell you that american journalists didn't give their president a chance to be the first one to bring this question up thank you very much. and their families. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson who was also in that room during the talks told us that the. arkan president opened his discussion with his russian counterpart by citing the concerns of the american people over allegations of russian hacking rex tillerson went on to

and georgia now these three southern provinces that sergey lavrov just mentioned they share a border with jordan which is also part of the agreement and they also share a border with israel and inside of this is the golan heights now this is a disputed area between syria and israel it's syrian territory but it's been occupied by israel since the sixty's according to the u.n. and of course in the past few weeks we've seen an exchange of fire a certain exchange of fire between the two sides in this this disputed areas so this deescalation zone could also help prevent more such incidents in the future we've heard from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson who said this new agreement is a sign that the u.s. and russia can work together in syria also very optimistic tone from the russian president vladimir putin. regarding whether the u.s. position on syria has changed i think it's become more pragmatic in general it doesn't seem to change but there is now an understanding that we can achieve a lot with the united effort. while this new programmatic approach from the u.s. is russia's

president and the russian president and also which the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov announced that the two sides had agreed to implement a cease fire in the southern provinces of syria that came into effect just days later on july the ninth school that's russia the u.s. and jordan have reached a cease fire agreement for syria will come into effect in three areas there or. it will come into force on the ninth of july the u.s. and russia have committed to monitoring the sushma and ensuring humanitarian access to the areas initially security in these areas will be ensured by russian military police and close cooperation with the u.s. and jordan now these three southern provinces that sergey lavrov just mentioned they share a border with jordan which is also part of the agreement and they also share a border with israel and inside of this own is the golan heights now this is a disputed area between syria and israel it's syrian territory but it's been occupied by israel since the sixty's according to the u.n. and of course in the past few weeks we've seen an exchange of fire a cert

some conflicting accounts of what went on behind the scenes from the russians, foreign minister sergey lavrove of four officials in that room. the other two individuals were translators. lavrov accepted vladimir putin's denial of meddling in the election. he added president trump basically said some had been exaggerating. moscow's role, hadn't been able to provide proof. tells nbc news that account is not accurate, from secretary tillerson, the story presented by united states president trump pressed vladimir putin on this issue multiple times. ultimately they agreed to disagree saying that the focus needed to be not on the intractable situation they had at hands but on the ways to go forward. thomas. >> peter, we know putin and lavrov both speak english. who provided the translators. do we know that? >> that's a good question. gemelli translators come with the delegation. i don't know with certitude who provided translators. one striking moment, vladimir putin does speak english, though he rarely does it, if ever. there was a moment when reporters in the pool tried to look chummy with presid

>> i think we witnessed two parts of sergei lavrov's game.e second part is, russia has a strategy. we have a series of responses to their strategy so for the news media to constantly harp on, did he meet him, did he meet him, did he meet him? for lavrov, their objectives were met. they got three solid hours of discussion, and so anything else, you know, the joke about going to the balt room, being checked up. they got what they wanted. >> some of these days you wake up and the president says what he says on the phone. today the white house appeared to be in a disarray. any given day there's a branch of our government in a lot of scrutiny. do you ever think the neighbors are watching? over seas governments are watching this? and what image must we be portraying. >> it's pretty clear the image we're portraying. what 75% of the world believes, there's 25 to 36% that don't believe anymore than what they know. look at matt chrone holding his hand and they can't care about the rest of reality. for those of us who have to live in the real world, we

to the minister allowed for all of could have led to more civilian casualties here's what else sergei lavrov said on the hypocrisy by some of the western politicians and media. talking of double standards in the media western the leper was liberated with far less loss of civilian infrastructure the most so of course we're glad not always who is losing maybe the price of victory has to be high but in this case the reason i need to put on an innocent face and not to see the log in your own eye. this was foreign minister lavrov taking part in a european informal security summit and as it is often the case during such events sure you lob rope was the center of attention which often leads to some very awkward moments are you going to the city to sort of look for you to go to go to group do you do you. do you do you choose to do decently believe that you know you still should come up with your goals seriously young to vote the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov will now continue to come out here on usenet stops on brussels and berlin. as the bible video you should watch before your next holida

welcome back to the program russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has commented on rumors of a secret meeting between putin and trump during the g twenty meeting in an interview with american news channel and b c he also commented on washington confiscating russia's diplomatic property but as the details from our tease emily take us through the main highlights when the deer in this twenty minute long interview several interesting topics were raised and some of them were just as you mentioned on these alleged to secret meetings that took place between president putin and president trump on the sidelines of the g twenty summit in hamburg earlier this month now a lot of media have been reporting and speculating that on top of the official meeting between trump and putin there have been extra secret meetings between the two where secret deals happen struck now both the white house and the kremlin have come out to the nie this and in this interview also deny the allegation and use and allergy of kindergarten children mailing with each other to describe the importance of these possible extr

this morning, president trump did not answer a reporter's question on russian foreign minister sergey lavrov's account that trump accepted putin's denial. >> prime minister may and i have developed a very good relationship, and i think trade will be a very big factor between our two countries, so i want to thank you very much. >> mr. president, did the russians lie about your meeting yesterday? >> we're also getting a taste of the blowback in congress awaiting president trump when he returns to washington. here's what congress members gregory meeks and maxine waters said on msnbc last night. >> from what i'm hearing, it's checking the box. it is what do you want to come out of this with. and number one, we want a clear declaration on russia's part that they will not interfere with our election. >> we're getting played by our president and certainly we're getting played by putin. i don't like the idea that our president again would go into a room without any note takers, without any staff, without others who should be in the room who really understand foreign policy and who really understand pu

they were just watching that the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking. at the end of his three day trip across europe many issues in the ukraine crisis nato russia nato council the e.u. russia relations lots there to see and you can continue watching the rest of the session on our website at www dot com and we'll be back at the top of the hour with our regular news program. all of the bonds that were available to trade in the public market actually taken private they've been purchased by the central bank and they've also purchased many stocks they purchased the central bank of switzerland is a huge buyer of stock the central banks are taking all the publicly traded securities bonds or stocks off the market as a way to. bail out all these corporations that are buying back their own stock them selves using that money thanks to the low low low interest rates of banks like bank of japan. and. by then. by then you. cannot. so it. was revealed to be a multiple injuries among current america so for them to keep. the look of the shows real you know most of the.

sergei lavrov, the foreign minister for russia, suggesting that president trump accepted putin's denial. the white house telling us that's not the way things played out there. the long story short of it is that secretary of state rex tillerson says they will agree to disagree. they're not going to relitigate the past. they want to focus on the future. earlier today the president met with prime minister may of the uk. here's part of that exchange. take a listen. >> prime minister may and i have developed a very special relationship, and i think trade will be a very big factor between our countries. i want to thank you very much. >> mr. president, did the russians lie about your meeting yesterday -- >> thank you -- [ all talking at once ] >> do you still want to go to -- >> thank you. thank you for having us -- >> reporter: the president would also reiterate his interest in going to the united kingdom. he said he will be going to london soon, though no specific details on when the trip will take place. this is the end of the wirl wind stop for the president. the first stop in warsaw, the

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

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

>> i think we witnessed two parts of sergey lavrov's game., actual frustration that these questions are coming up in the middle of his discussion. the second part is, you know, russia has this strategy. we have a series of responses to their strategy. and so for the news media to constantly harp on did he meet him, did he meet him, did he meet him, for loavrov, their objectives were met. they got three solid hours of discussion. so anything else, the joke about going to the bathroom, you know, the joke about the children at the kindergarten, it's almost like he's shining, but you can see how frustrated he was. like i said, they got what they wanted. >> some of these days, you wake up, the president says what he says on the phone today. the white house appeared to be in a bit of disarray for a time. any given day there's a branch of our government in a lot of scrutiny. do you ever think to yourself, the neighbors are watching, overseas governments are watching this, and what image must we be portraying? >> i think it's pretty clear the image w

. >>> our keir simmons sat down for a one on one interview with russian foreign minister sergei lavrovor points of contention between the u.s. and russia. keir joins us from moscow with the latest. keir, good morning to you. >> reporter: good afternoon to you, richard. a number of blunt messages from the russian foreign minister on geopolitical issues around the world, some of the most difficult and intense regions in the world. on north korea, lavrov saying clearly that russia does not believe that the u.s. should intervene militarily in north korea and that it should not look to remove north korea's eccentric leader kim jong un. >> we do not believe in regime change anywhere. i hear they enthusiastic voices in the united states, including some parts of this administration, that the patience has been over, and they must do something because the threat is growing and growing, the intercontinental ballistic missile was launched. but a month ago, i think, a month and a half, maybe, secretary mattis, answering the question, bluntly stated that the use of force against north korean regime

meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has confirmed a joint center to monitor the cease fire in syria that's been agreed with the u.s. and jordan but washington doesn't seem quite so sure. and the u.s. led coalition in mosul fires back at amnesty international call in their reports are responsible and denying any violation of international law in their fight against isis those stories and more coming up right now. it's wednesday july twelfth four pm in washington d.c. i'm going to sweets and you're watching our america in june the senate overwhelmingly passed a new set of sanctions against iran and now the bill has stalled in the house the reason for the new proposed legislation is set to limit the president's ability to lift sanctions on any crime country which would be only done through congress all this is how lawmakers are trying to ensure that doesn't let any sanctions on russia which in fact dominate the supposedly anti iranian bill artie's left here looks at the history of the u.s. or russian sanctions the sanctions part of u.s. russia relations has a long history and

the details and the person who gave us those details first of all was russian foreign minister sergei lavrov he was the one who shed light and who announced that breakthrough cease fire now you may be skeptical about that breakthrough fair enough cease fires serious cease fires that were struck by russia and the u.s. by far not a success story not a history of success in this case of course there's always issues with the monitoring of how things are employment but under the rock obama administrations we didn't see decisions like friday's one you know they didn't happen at all first of all putin and obama. i mean that often but when those meetings we didn't see any concrete decisions come out of there the only person who try to do the job if we talk about some kind of syria diplomacy in this case was the u.s. secretary of state john kerry but it wasn't really the business it seemed of rock obama when it comes to dealing with the russian president. thank you very much. for making that your family. just going to mention to you that going into this meeting president trump was under a bit of pres

the russian side, vladimir putin,er sergey lavrov, about years of government experience. there's a little bit of a mismatch here. >> but i can actually be of some help here this morning. donald trump is good in a meeting. he has been around a lot of very powerful people. he is not cowed by power. having that arrogance about you sometimes is helpful. he has that. he is very good at staying on point in meetings with people and understanding things. he is very different than the president you have all come to know in terms of how he deals with the media and resistance. i'm saying, in meetings. i'm not saying it's a given he's going to be that way, but to dismiss the president's ability to step up in a situation like this, ron brownstein, might be a gross underestimate of his potential. >> yeah, no, look. we have no idea what the personal interaction will be. and having not had a meeting with president trump of the kind you're describing, i have no reason to question your analysis. i do think, as tony said before, part of the problem he faces going in here is he has painted h

and then here is russian foreign minister sergey lavrov. >> translator: president trump has said that these conveying is becoming rather strange and bizarre because over many months when we've heard these allegations and not a single fact has been presented, president trump has said that he has heard clear declarations from mr. putin that russian leadership and russian government has not interfere withed in the elections and he accepts the things that putin has said. >> now, the trump administration is pushing back on lavrov's spin saying it's not accurate. but this is precisely the problem when you have an administration that lacks some credibility when it comes to the issued of russia. and of course we have to treat the russian's account with septemberi skec skepticism as well. both say that they discussed syria and assad. lavrov says they talked about ukraine and the return of the two diplomatic vacation homes seized in december. tillerson didn't mention those topics. and we don't know if trump brought up new information that russians are thought to be behind a hack with a dozen nu

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according to the russians and foreign minister sergey lavrov, president trump bought in, basically, toresident putin's denial of meddling in the elections. our secretary of state, rex tillerson, said that president trump was strong on this and that they spoke for around 40 minutes on the topic. who do you believe. >> rex tillerson also said that they both -- they agreed that the leaders both concluded it was important to move forward and not dwell on this, which is a very alarming sign. look, this is a conclusion by 17 of our intelligence agencies who are strongly -- have strongly affirmed russian interference directly led by vladimir putin to help donald trump and undermine the candidacy of hillary clinton. those are facts. and the fact that the president of the united states, who's charged with safeguarding our democracy, who's most -- one of his most important responsibilities is to keep our democracy strong here at home and around the world, the idea that in that moment, when he had the opportunity to confront this aggressor, who's undermining american national security interests a

but the difference here is that according to the russians' foreign minister sergey lavrov and president putin himself, they say president trump took putin's denials about any russian meddling, any russian involvement in last year's election to heart. that president trump took putin at his word. now, a senior administration official tells my cnn colleague jim acosta that is not what went down. but given repeated chances to correct the record, the senior administration officials briefing reporters on the flight on air force one headed back here declined to do so. listen to an exchange with treasury secretary steve mnuchin. >> the president of another country making a statement about the president of the united states, do you not want to respond to that and correct the record if it is wrong? >> i'm not going to make comments about what other people say. president trump will be happy to make statements himself about that. but president trump handled himself brilliantly. it was very clear he made his position felt. and after very substantive dialogue on this, they agreed to move onto other d

. >> it seem ts to me watching th it was classic sergei lavrov.omething that happened with you and him when you asked him about the firing of james comey. >> sure thing. >> does the comey firing cast a shadow over your talks, gentlemen? >> you're kidding. you're kidding. >> what about the russian -- what about the russia investigation? >> he's so sarcastic, andrea. that's what we saw with keir today. >> exactly. >> i don't want to say like the ultimate troll, but he definitely likes to needle americans. he li he likes to needle americans asking questions. this is just how he operates, right? >> absolutely. absolutely tactical. it's part of his tool kit. and it's part of russian disinformation. they get the headlines and they run circles around us. and i think the point is that people in the intelligence community, the professionals who have worked under republican and democratic presidents are really concerned that this president, new to politics, doesn't know how to go up against someone like vladimir putin. it would take a really experienced pla

sergei lavrov has called that robbery in this past week. you know, they are making light of it.y are dismissing the second meeting as the normal course of events. they still see serious issues that seek to interrupt improvement. >> clare, i want to ask about the new reporting coming in about sergei kislyak and the u.s. attorney general. remind our viewers about the many meetings that happened and how they came to light and now what's happening with kislyak next? >> reporter: absolutely. sergei kislyak, the russian ambassador to washington, has been at the center of the controversy surrounding allegations of potential collusion with the trump team and russia. you know, he not just meeting with jeff sessions, the attorney general, but also jared kushner. there was a report by the washington post back in may that jared kushner asked to set up a secret line of communication through the russian embassy in washington. of course, most explosively is the conversations with kislyak and mike flynn. this over alleged meddling. it was later disclosed that the sanctions were discussed in tha

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

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

tillerson who has a long standing relationship with putin before he came into this administration and sergey lavrov. what is going to come up? that is the huge question, whether trump brings up russian meddling or other issue that is could come up, navigating the crisis in north korea and how to deal with them. also, russia's actions when it comes to ukraine and syria. the most interesting thing about trump on the world stage is not just how he deals with foreign leaders, but also how he deals with our allies. that was on full display when he met with the mexican president. listen to what happened in that meeting. >> negotiating nafta and some other things with mexico. we'll see how it all turns out. i think we have made very good progress. >> mexico to pay for the wall? >> thank you. thank you. >> reporter: you can hear reporters asking trump whether mexico is going to pay for the wall. trump says absolutely. not the kind of thing that is going to sit particularly well with the mexican president or his constituency back home. >> no. sarah murray, any minute now president trump will meet with vladi

sergey lavrov. and three translatesers. it's a very small group of people who know what is actually said. and of course the key question will be how tough is he with putin? >> jonathan what will we learn from a meeting like this typically according to protocols. >> normally countries would release a readout of the meeting some within an hour a couple hours of conclusion. the trump white house has been slower than the obama white house was in giving us that -- giving that information to the press. sometimes it wouldn't even come out until the next day. but this is the event that has been months in the making, right? this is sort of the maintain east. we all waited for the trump/putin sit down. there is a possibility won't know what is said. >> what does putin want out of it. >> first he is going to flatter president trump. he knows the president has spoken highly of mr. putin throughout his campaign and before that. this is a president trump who is still rather inexperienced when it comes to foreign policy. inexperienced whe