they talked with north korea, iran, israel, syria, ukraine, the middle east, nuclear proliferation. when the media talk about the supreme court they talk about abortion. when they talk about russia they talk about election meddling. >> 2 1/2 hours from now the entire trump cabinet is coming over for a meeting. if anyone has any questions they're about to have a chance to ask him. >> bill: peter doocy leading our coverage from the white house. thank you. >> sandra: we also have breaking news out of capitol hill this morning where the house is getting ready to vote on a resolution to support ice after a growing number of

is trump and because there is actually a chance dialogue and progressive steps being made on syria on ukraine and on other issues this is led up this town regardless of what happened and yet if it seems it has little to do with what actually happened in helsinki let me go to mary here we have former cia director john brennan quote donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki was treasonous he is wholly in the pocket of putin republican patriots where are you we have james komi wildly i mean you know lordy james komi oh my goodness he says patriots need to stand up and reject the behavior of this president oh are they calling for a coup like they pulled off in ukraine in two thousand and fourteen go ahead mary. well i think they're probably calling for something a lot short of that but i think what is behind what they said i mean aside from being a sort of need jerk reaction that they regarded what donald trump sad as being as betraying. as it were the good name and expertise of the united states now both of them are hardly friends of donald trump now so to an extent. they were chee

continues to assail him and his base stays with him it'll be a victory and i think on these key point syria ukraine an arms control we will know when weeks and months whether the needle is move whatsoever i think on syria is where i'm the most cautiously optimistic that there may be some sort of path of agreement that we can move forward in the north and as well in the with the regime but we shall see over the next weeks and months and no matter what happens from the u.k. to the u.s. we will still see prolific a to cross the news this attack as well as russia is and russia phobia is the enemy and the responsibility for anything that happened in our election to bragg's it and stead of the. internal reflection you know in any. government failing that people going to close on these words here when the debate is lost slander becomes the tool of losers socrates that's all the time we have many thanks to my guests in washington and in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time and remember. when else shows seem wrong. but old bulls just don't call. me old yet to shape

what john what about the topic for discussion today i don't know what ukraine syria iran what do you think the two the two leaders will get down to. of course ukraine syria and iran are hot spots and i think that the two leaders will agree right away to put them on freeze in any way that they can they will also identify as they must way that they can work together i think we've lost you we've lost our connection. we've just lost our connection there i do apologize we'll try and patch it together here on the program but ality john bosnich political commentator joining us here on this program now the talks are going to happen in a few hours time do stick around if you can for the latest updates and we will be covering all of it just for you. in a world of big partisan. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bath shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watc

already sourwood on the last leg of barack obama's second presidential term over issues such as syria and ukraine however under trump's administration sign sions have been slapped on moscow diplomats have been expelled and russian diplomatic compounds have been so much the u.s. establishment as well as at least some of washington's western allies have meanwhile spared no effort to prevent or at least to spoil today's forthcoming summit the u.s. media almost competing to provide their audiences with conspiracy theories about possible collusion between trump and putin as a renewed push to promote the narrative that has become increasingly thread to bed over the last couple of years now moscow sees today's summit in helsinki primarily as a way to just restore dialogue between the two nations and add some common sense in bilateral relations and over the days preceding the summit trump has already called putin a competitor and said that the u.s. was quote tougher on russia than anybody at the same time he also repeatedly stated that if we could develop a relationship it would be good for russia and go

he's not my enemy so what's on the menu well for starters no one really knows yet we've had hints syria ukraine meddling but nothing concrete which is no surprise anything these two say especially about each other invariably gets strong out and turned upside down and inside out. he's a very bright person talented without any doubt reaffirming their bromance mutual admiration society if he is really very much of a leader he's been a leader far more than our president has been a little too mentally unstable aggressive men with nuclear buttons it's a disgrace it's gotten so bad that even common courtesy is frowned upon or reviled at this point of putin's sneezed trump would be crucified for merely saying bless you thing is trumps trump he's easy with words russia is not strong economically and we could do a lot of different things to really do numbers on them if we wanted to know what. trumps trump words for him more sound than meaning good will know much more careful politician but trump was able to succeed in business and that means he is a clever man come on the. team was more effective during

issue election meddling, syria, ukraine, and arms control with josso hruuntsmaian,, and with decraticenator chris, who says presimp should demand russianru tde intligence stopped their cyber attacks. then, we will review president trump's tense meeting wi nato leaders. is he treating adversaries better than longtime u.s. allies? >> if you look at it, germany is a captive of russia. sthey are getto much of the oil and gas from russia. >> chris: end. >> judge kavanaugh has impeccablels credentia, unsurpassed qualifications and a prov cmitment to equal justice under the law. >> chris: president trumptrsreou wermonfia askti our sunday parae blout democratic efforts to newsund" ."ox"f you areoo presidential palace in h presidt ian pruden.hss ru the 19th century palace, overlooking the waterfront marketare and th balticqu s sea,e isce the same where george h.w. bush met with soviet leader mikhail gorbachev 28yes . and hello a from fox today ins, n finland. nd mifiumrst in-depth meeting betwn the two leaders as they discuss trouble spots across the globe. but casting a t shadow over summit,

discussed many different things, including nuclear, including war and peace, including economic -- syria, ukraine. we discussed many, many things. and at the end of a long period of time, it was just the two of us. and the interpreters. and at the end of this meeting, i think we really came to a lot of good conclusions. really good conclusion for israel, something very strong. he is a believer in israel. he's a fan. and really helping him a lot and will help him a lot, which is good for all of us. >> sean: let's talk about specifics that you went over, as it relates to syria. he has been a supporter of the assad version, and of course, around, which is a state sponso. >> i think it is becoming a humanitarian situation, and a lot of people are going to move back on syria from turkey and from jordan and from different places. they are going to move back less so from europe. but they will be moving back from lots of different places, so i really think that we are not very far apart, and i think that with iran, he would like to keep the deal in place. that's good for russia, they do business. that is

been worse several thorny issues dominating the run up to this meeting among them conflicts in ukraine and syria and charges of russian meddling in the u.s. election but as we see the president a russian president vladimir putin has just arrived and will soon be heading over to meet donald trump. and let's bring in our correspondent peter craven he's covering today's summit in helsinki for us and joins us for more now peter if we can put you up here. all right there you are peter we can see you now both leaders as we said expected any minute now to sit together but very little information here on what's on the agenda what are we expecting to be on the table good question your guess your guess is practically as good as mine i would have to say just just to keep you up to date with what's happening we just have to finish president and his cavalcade coming down this main street on the waterfront here we're expecting donald trump to show up any time now and then obviously though he may have putin has been delayed at the airports and just across there behind me is the presidential palace that you wer

scapegoat in order to justify so much of what we do in our defense buildup our involvement in ukraine in syria russian sanctions all in order to counter russia in a geo political aspiration on or oil and gas reserves in the or that kid that's or pure intention but today was a very good first step and i think showed the maturity and the decorum between the two leaders i thought it was fantastic indeed this seems to be such a disconnect we thought the press conference we thought how positive they were they great body language they agreed on a number of very important issues and then the response in the u.s. media basic fiore a with the results because i have a quick listen to what's being said in the past. i don't know which side is the bride and which side of the groom manners are but it is we're sort of feels like run away you have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory why is president trump putting himself in his a vulnerable hi

he will talk about the root grain -- about the ukraine and syria.here is a possibility they will make progress. they've been talking about the problems. can russia put pressure on iran to come to some sort of deal that would satisfy both the united states and israel? hard to say but unlikely. this is probably, despite the alarm about what donald trump may or may not do, going to be a quiet summit without much coming out of it. first one tothat, one summit between president trump and vladimir putin in helsinki. thank you. has woken up celebrating this morning after a thrilling triumph over croatia in the world cup finals in moscow sunday night. this is the second time they have won. antoine griezmann scored a goal. it was the next three goals that delivered the world cup back into their hands. people doubted france going into this tournament but he managed to silence the critics. critics were a lot of for this french team in this final. it was an odd final, to be honest. the french les bleus had a little luck. everyone says you need a little to win t

spectrum of topics iran syria ukraine north korea you name it it's expected to be on the ballot today for discussion is that we understand that donald trump i'm not i'm a putin are expected to have at least one that was strictly to themselves of course they'll be accompanied by their translators but that is supposed to be it they really are supposed to have some down time as a private conversations live pictures here a beautiful day in helsinki it's one forty seven pm twenty nine degrees celsius and you're watching the international. i think i think this catastrophe unfolding in britain for the past fifteen years or so was its connection to the e.u. and the ability to have its own currency and yet asked for rights into the e.u. you take those away and you have essentially greece on steroids and all those banks and the e.u. and america are going to attack the u.k. and worse of play and drive into bankruptcy. jointly everything on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics school business i'm show business i'll see you then. seventy four design submissions

perspective could we see anything concrete any concrete outcomes coming from these talks on syria on ukraine for instance. yes the heard from the kremlin that syria and ukraine will be definitely on the table then we have with the alleged russian meddling in the us presidential election spente is sixteen these are at least stumbling blocks from the western point of view we'll see what will be the result but as a lot of it putin's wish list i think the lifting of painful economy sanctions will be the most important issue for him then they have for the ukrainian peninsula crimea if trump recognizes that the russian exception of crimea the consequences could be even worse for europe and to the u.s. presidents didn't rule that possibility out categorically so i think economic sanctions and crimea will be arguably the most important issues from their point of view today later and on a personal level your you know we know that trump he said he wants to forge a personal bond a person working relationship with the russian president what about vladimir putin how is he on a personal level approaching

world expect from the trump put in summit in helsinki accusations of election tampering the war in syria ukraine and arms control issues at stake between the u.s. and russia so will the two leaders common ground this is inside story. and welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump and russian leader vladimir putin are expected to hold their first one on one meeting in house on monday but the two leaders will hold some of those meetings without a and that's worrying diplomats trump has been under pressure to cancel the summit altogether that's after the u.s. justice department charged twelve russians with hacking to democratic party and hillary clinton during the two thousand and sixteen election campaign president trump has promised to confront putting on the issue well bring in our guests shorter but first this report from our diplomatic editor jan space. helsinki a city that joining the cold war was used as one of the few places where western allies and the soviet union could talk some believe relations are almost at a cold war level again yet one leader keeps talking up the positive a

and i think the substance of syria and ukraine are troubling as well. to talk about those. what he did, neil, on the election meddling question, blaming the u.s., blaming democrats, blaming the previous administration and accepting putin's word? i'm just stunned. you know, a lot of us criticize donald trump a lot. this was a deliberate strategy to basically say, 2016 meddling, not a big deal. maybe it wasn't putin. that is so fundamentally concerning -- >> neil: i don't know what he said privately. it's a he said he said thing and putin is telling he had nothing to do with it, blah, blah, blah. i'll give the benefit of the doubt there. what i am worried about is, if he continues with follow up talks and dealing with vladimir putin at a time that he's had harsh things to say about the european union and whether that is our enemy, whether the canadians are really friends, it -- i don't think it looks good. that's just me. >> no, i agree when given the opportunity, you should have sided with the intelligence community over what vladimir putin said. i think

ukraine. any number of russian diplomats ejected from the united states. in syria, there have been hundreds of questions killed by american troops without any apologies from the united states. probably the first time since i don't know when that american troops have been killing russians. president trump feels when he's under attack for alleged collusion, he seems to be leading vladimir putin off the hook. these are two separate issues. collusion is long but vladimir putin is an evil person. >> to that point, here's the tweet he sent out about the summit. looking forward to the meeting with vladimir putin. unfortunately, no matter how well i do at the summit, i would return to criticism that it wasn't good enough. that i should have gotten st. petersburg as an addition. maybe nothing is good enough for his critics. >> i think the president should ignore his credits. no matter what he does in russia, if russia surrendered tomorrow you would still find the new york times and others criticizing the president saying he didn't get enough. he should ignore the critics an

ukraine in 2014 and syria in 2015 and our own elections in 2016. so i think it's a false assumption to simply equate, you know, everybody in this -- in this picture as the president seemed to do. in his earlier tweet, you know, earlier today, he seemed to suggest that this was all about american foolishness. i think it is an even more exaggerated statement of the same thing. >> precisely. and i wonder what you make of the fact that he also in an interview called the eu a foe. he was talking about trade, but he lumped the eu in with china, with russia, with all sorts of other nations, as well. and to that point, you know, victoria noonin, the former bipartisan u.s. ambassador to nato and other positions, said this whole trip, this whole week abroad, would either cement american leadership of the alliances and the world order, or sign the death knell for american leadership. how do you assess now the end of this week of president trump's travels? >> it's been pretty depressing. because i think what you've seen in president trump's comments, as well a

. >> reporter: and also on the table will be ukraine, likely syria, but, again, we'll learn a whole lot more in just a few hours. linsey, kenneth. >> molly hunter, thank you. abc news will bring you live coverage of the president's news conference with vladimir putin this morning on air and on abc news app. >>> we turn now to chicago and the growing outrage after the fatal police shooting of a popular barber. frustrated neighbors protested in the streets clashing with police, and more demonstrators are expected today. the chief of police looking to ease tensions has now released body cam footage of the moments leading up to the shooting and abc's lynda lopez joins us with more. good morning, lynda. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth. after protests that led to four officers being injured and led to several arrests, the police superintendent making the decision to release that body cam video saying it was because the community needed some answers about the shooting and because he wanted to try to prevent any future clashes. police releasing two versions of the body cam video. one version

meeting and good meeting, we discussed so many things including nuclear, war and peace, economic syria, ukraine, we discussed many many things and at the end of the long ago, it was just the two of us and interpreters and at the end of this meeting we came to a lot of good conclusions. >> what exactly those conclusions are remain unclear. also unclear will donald trump continue to believe vladimir putin more than he believes his own intelligence community. he was asked about it tonight, didn't bring it up. >> the president facing harsh criticism from both parties following his talks with vladimir putin, chairman of the senate republican party joins us now with his reaction, great to have you with us. let me start with something from your side of the aisle, here is what he said today. >> there is no moral -- between intelligence community and vladimir putin, no ambiguity about that. nothing great, nothing confusing, the are a couple things that need to be articulated and for some reason the president decided to say things that are the opposite of true. >> vladimir putin is not our friend and i d

we will not tolerate war crimes in syria or invasion of ukraine.that should be the objective to get russia to behave better. anybody can get along with putin as long as you couldn't criticize him. >> president trump has given no indication he will say anything of th that you just said. beyond wanting to be pal was putin, what do you think trump's end game is here? >> it is a really good question. i would agree with max. you cannot base a policy on just having a good relationship. that is not a policy. that's a mechanism that can be used to achieve a policy. there are important things that russia and the united states do need to talk about. not a lot of things. i think putin would like more things. for example, some nuclear and other treaties. you don't need a summit for that. you don't need to give an easy win to vladimir putin who is concerned about appearing as a great power. leader of a great power. you don't need to give him this win. you can have your experts meet and have a summit to formalize a significant accomplishment. this made for telev

discussed so many different things, including nuclear, including war and peace, including economic, syria, ukrainei'll tell you that i thought it was a really amazing time. not about that. i think it's a shame we're talking about nuclear proliferation, we're talking about syria and humanitarian aid, we're talking about all of these different things and we get questions on the witch hunt. >> let's put a fine point on this. for those, for the mort conspiratorial among us who watched today's doings in helsinki and see something dark afoot on the part of president trump, what do you say to them? >> well, if we're going to go to the darkest side of the room, that he's an asset of the russians, i think that's very unlikely. but there's a lot of troubling issues well short of that. >> reporter: we know now at least 13 trump allies including some of donald trump's innermost circle his son don jr. and campaign manager paul manafort had more than a dozen meetings and numerous in person communications with russians between june of 2015 and inauguration day 2017. most of these meetings and communications were

bert: beyond the russian meddling, what aboutnsrs on syria, ukraine when these two meet?hose issues have beenfestering for a long time. peter: you're right. a normal american-russian meeting right now could address. thddle east is up for grabs in effect. ukraine is a frozen conflict. what about the poisoning of the russian former spy in the u.k. and the death of a woman who ca apparently washt on this nerve agent by accidents? that's an important issue. just a few months ago, the west was expelling russian diplomats over there. you have the sense, though, that president trump is notg gon with any particular demnleds. he makinge demands of a allies about spending money but not on thed a ver sorry who is making it unsafe in the first place. robert: two republicans saying the president better take a monday ne on putin on but there's not a chorus of republicans making that statement. katty: the only chore royals -- chorus from rerublicans they have stuck together in opposition against the pres hent been on the issue of free trade. they came up with a resolution on that just t

syria and ukraine, what does trump want? >> trump wants to bring the u.s. of syria just as he wants to bring troops out of korean peninsula. he doesn't want to be involved. he wants to say mission accomplished, we got rid of islamic state caliphate in syria and iraq and let's bring them all home and wants russia to assure that iran gets out of syria. paul: is that realistic? >> that's not realistic at all. look, putin -- paul: why not? >> put i doesn't want to commit serious military assets to syria, he can't afford to have body bags coming home to russia in the same way that he did with ukraine and it's also not clear that he would militarily be able to unroot iran from syria. paul: because assad and iran. >> iran has military bases, they've moved civilians, they are taking over sir aib. they want to turn it into lebanon. you have to be careful with what putin promises. he's spoken pretty much at every promise. paul: dan, look at it from the other side. what does vladimir putin hope to get out of this from donald trump? >> well, i think he wants some -- wel

chance for member nations to reaffirm their commitment to an alliance that focuses on afghanistan, syria, ukrained other world hot spots, but president trump appeared determined to upset that tradition, demanding nato countries spend 4% of their gross domestic product on defense, up from the 2% the u.s. has previously requested. >> we're protecting everybody, and yet we're paying a lot of money to protect. >> reporter: stoltenberg said nato should focus for now on reaching the 2% goal by 2024, something just five of the 29 nations have done. the u.s. is at 3.5%-- o 85 billion last year. >> we have to step it up immediately. >> reporter: the mood here is gloomy, with genuine concern about the future of the alliance. increasingly, nato members wonder if president trump sees himself as a significant voice within an alliance that seeks consensus, or as an american president barking orders to sovereign nations perceived to be weaker. if it is the latter, over time, nato itself could be in jeopardy. jeff? >> glor: heck of a start to this four-nation trip. major garrett, thank you. we move now to those

ukraine and chile me. there is no any connection within these two important if. we are here to discuss a world the. relation. russia in connection with cooperation in syria as for ukraine and two is. this a poor the position of the. russians or the question do you know. your cry now speaking about the syrian talks. the western media report about it as a as a sort of a possibility that may happen but many analysts in russia suggest that this has already been implemented to some extent on the ground for example. iran's role in the operation is good or earlier this year was last pronounced than usual its role in the current southern offensive and daraa is even more limited would it be fair to say that iran has already partially deliberate what the americans and to some extent the israelis are asking for. or present in syria doesn't related to the desire of the united states and other western countries which are following the diplomacy of the united states or some regional countries which are connected with the diplomacy of united states we are in syria on the basis of the invitation of legal government of syria to help the current of people of syria he supp

syria deal. now this morning he is saying we also talked about potential agreement in ukraine. >> i think so. i think the trump white house now has to at least match the rhetoric coming out of moscow. we should be able to know what was said about syria, about ukraine, about cyber attacks. we need information. the united states does best on these summits when the public is part of it. on this idea of a secret chamber with only a translater who can't talk, no secretary of state or nsc person in the room, it goes against the american grain. when we have tried things like this, when fdr tried to do deals with stalin in the dark days around world war ii, it left a lot of confusion over what is a free election. it is always better to have a transcript and know what occurred, but donald trump doesn't like that because that means he is not the only one in the cat bird seat, he is not the unique king who knows everything that's going on. the chaos and lack of information emanating from trump about that meeting, the president thinks it serves his own personal interests, makes him seem large when in actu

syria and ukraine. on syria, trump wants to get out. he wants to hand over responsibility. that is not how his national security officials feel or u.s. allies feel. that is not how the syrian people feel. the u.s. could strike a deal that jordan supports that could take all of the u.s. troops out and endorse russian control over syria. in turn, russia will get iran out of syria. it is unlikely that would ever happen. it is a basic surrender. again, donald trump supporters may like that plan. they think russia in charge of syria is better than america in charge of syria. there is argument for that, but it has risks for syria and the region and national security. as we look at the way donald trump is handling these diplomatic and foreign policy iss issues, it is hard to imagine he thought through the risks. i know the administration and a lot of people share those concerns. >> josh rogin. thank you for being here this morning. >>> ahead, a contentious day as embattled fbi agent peter strzok testifies before congress. >> i don't appreciate what was originally said being change

in washington all the talk has been over the last few days not about issues like syria ukraine nuclear disarmament north korea it's been about the indictment handed down by special counsel robert mueller concerning these twelve allegedly members of russian intelligence services which mueller suggests hacked the d.n.c. e-mails now apparently for the press corps and political establishment in washington and indictment is good enough as a court proven or a case proven in court because all the way up to the meeting today the very last moment nikki you had a mainstream networks in the united states calling for trying to cancel the meeting not even make an effort at diplomacy purely based off this indictment again not even ruling in court now the fact the meeting went on in the fact that it went on long made the washington press corps that i was traveling with quite distraught if you can imagine waiting around for the press conference i could hear many reporters from the american side making jokes about what could possibly be taking so long with these. two world leaders of two very powerful

expects from the trump put in summit in helsinki accusations of election tampering the war in syria ukraine and arms control issues at stake between the u.s. and russia so will the two leaders reach a common ground this is inside story. and welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump and russian leader vladimir putin expected to hold their first one on one meeting in house on monday but the two leaders will hold some of those meetings without a vat's worrying diplomats trump has been under pressure to console the summit on.

expects from the trump put in summit in helsinki accusations of election tampering the war in syria ukraine and control issues at stake between the u.s. and russia so will the two leaders a common ground inside story. and welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump and russian leader. i expect to hold their first one on one meeting in house on monday.

discussing a range of other issues with president putin including alleged election interference syria ukraine relations with china and russia to possibly deescalate the conflicts going on in the world but until july sixteenth we won't know exactly what happened so we'll just have to wait until then. and it's not just crimea that's causing friction between russia and the west sanctions and the script poisoning have also soured ties russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov touched on these issues in an interview with britain's channel four news. hasn't he to give any assurances that the upcoming midterm elections if he wants time will not be meddled with my version of the press or something because we can look intelligent to discuss something which is based on highly unlikely might be. the best a geisha in the united states has been going for her on the euro because no we'll probably regard to the internet research the russian troll factory now that there isn't any judgement in that is something which requires a trial and then they submitted their old case and they chipped quite a number of thin

they call it better than super, they talked about syria, ukraine, military security. we are getting the news from the two men from moscow, since the white house hasn't said much of anything of what went on in that meeting. senior national correspondent sam kylie is live from moscow. tell us more how the russians are characterizeing this meeting, how they are moving forward on some of the agreements they say were reached in that one-on-one. >> reporter: well, they're absolutely delighted as you said, you were quote, sergei lavrov, the russian foreign minister, a man not given to fusions of any kind was high fiving his staff at the presidential palace in helsinki after the meeting and after the press conference between donald trump and vladimir putinch subsequent to that the russians have been steadily almost working if you'd like as a pr branch for donald trump by trying to reenforce his position that there were worthwhile discussions not controversial. initially, the minister of defense said there were talks about the talks of the future, salt treaty, which expires in

he just listed ukraine, syria, etc.blicly, he's made very clear what he thinks the summit is about. it's a loose meeting, sit man-to-man and see if he can form a relationship. when foreign officials were talking to the white house to get information about what they would try to achieve, the answers they found very unsatisfying. they found them they and to be no real agenda. >>chris: diplomats talk about deliverables.specific results that may come out of the summit or any kind of meeting and benefit one side or the other. are there specific deliverables for either trump or ? >>reporter: i think president trump has a view of how to do international relationships which is at the leader level. you do it through force of personality. you build a rapport and he believes he can cut through and breakthrough issues that have stymied lower-level people and start at the top. what he did with singapore and there is still debate about how successful that was. in terms of the specific agenda items, i think there are two big things be

if any details had to fall about their agenda we do assume they're going to talk about crimea ukraine syria nuclear proliferation and those accusations of meddling on the part of russia perhaps the orders of readymade brought in in u.s. elections in u.s. democracy but we really don't know and this is very much donald trump style that he wants to go in there and have a one on one conversation that's very much sort of man to man we're not even going to know jure in the course of the conversation or after the conversation properly what they've talked about because there's no real indication that it's going to be there's certainly going to be nobody else in the room apart from the two translators and there's no indication as yet or we simply don't know whether that's going to be an official record of this conversation but that makes the advisors of donald trump the diplomatic corps the washington people very nervous indeed because they know that their man has only had eighteen months in office whereas vladimir putin is out eighteen years in office it's a vast dearth in fast difference in experi

that could be a good thing, cyber, syria, ukraine. we need a better relationship with russia, but i'm doubtful in the progress. >> and we don't know if there will be a press conference. >> we're hoping there will be something. working reporting on the ground here a little bit, i'm being told that there is talk coming into this that maybe they'll have a team to work on cyber meddling, that it's not going to happen. it's too fraught with political par re peril, a victim doesn't work with an attacker. >>> moments ago we saw vladimir putin land in helsinki more than a half hour late. he is on his way to the summit, or the meeting, the timing in his hands. will the subject matter of this discussion be in his hands as well. we have former nsa and cia director michael hayden with us next. stay with us, our live special coverage continues after a quick break. you finished preparing overhim for college.rs, in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal,

ukraine, syria, talking about other parts of the middle east. i will be talking about nuclear proliferation. >> the elephant in the room. >> president trump: we will be talking about other things. meddling, and i will absolutely bring that up. >> while most of these agenda items are highly contentious, policy experts point out one issue the two could potentially agree, on the nuclear treaty, new start. >> nuclear arms control is the one place where the u.s. and russia are the two great powers. so the russians should want this, the u.s. should want this. >> it limits the number of weapons each can maintain in their arsenal and allows washington and 340s could you to monitor one another. neither side can have more than 700 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 1,550 nuclear warheads and 800 missile launchers. the treaty set to expire in 2021 but can be extended. when lawmakers on both sides of the aisle accuse the president of being soft on russia, experts say getting a revamped nung lar treaty -- nuclear treaty could be a home run. >> doing an arm

unpredictability he did say when he was in england that they'd be talking about things including syria ukraine a nuclear proliferation but we wouldn't be surprised if they turn out to discuss other topics and that's what's worrying some of those european governments just in the last few hours it's come to light that in that c.b.s. interview he also called the european union a photo that will have gone down very badly in much of europe and very well perhaps among certain supporters of president putin that's the fear by among some people that he's just playing into the hands of president putin he says that he will bring up the question of meddling in elections but he's also said recently that he accepts rather me putin's flat out denials already whether anything will come of it in terms of policy he's put a damper norn or he's tweeted in the last few hours that even if no matter how well i do he says that. i would return to criticism that it wasn't good enough he's he's saying that he called get a break he's also again criticized the media and there are a bonus up there opposes rather by a newsp

we are afraid trump is going to give away the store on ukraine, crimea, syria, pulling out our troops, abandoning the israelis. i don't think he did that because i saw nothing in putin's statements that showed that. charles: his actions have been tough compared to the prior administration. charles: a top intelligence officer says we are facing a cyber-security equivalent of 9/11. we'll be right back.

there may have been agreements on ukraine, on syria and who knows what else? we know that after leaving that meeting and coming back home, the president undercut our commitment to the collective security of nato. was that a topic of discussion too? did montenegro come up? it is i think, negligent with our security for us not to know, and as you know, we tried to subpoena the interpreter and on a party line basis, the republicans rejected it. some of who talk a good game, but when it comes to defending the country, they're not willing to follow through. >> you call this a greatest threat to democracy. other democrats have followed that up as well. just bluntly, do you believe he is compromised by vladimir putin? >> well, i certainly think he is acting like someone who is compromised and it very well may be that he is, or that he believes that he is compromised, that the russians have information on him. we were not permitted to look into the the allegations that was most serious to me, and that is, were the russians laundering money through the trump organizati

it is carrying on all sorts of machinations as he mentioned in ukraine, crimea, syria, and elsewhere, but, yes, to be able to get relief on those sanctions would be a game changer for russia. it certainly propped up their economy. cheryl: in total 700. in the trump administration 200