the fallout from the helsinki summit is continuing with the back and forth between washington and moscow over will there be a second meeting. we are learning a few moments ago, sarah sanders said that president trump is open to going to moscow if he has a formal invitation. they say they still look forward to having vladimir putin here in the u.s. after the first of the year. of course, this is a walk back when he invited him here in the fall which many republicans were saying should not happen during or right after the midterm elections. this is all coming on the heels

want this kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track and it's quite clear to everyone that the bullet true relationship is a complicated stage there is no solid reasoning for the impediments the current tense atmosphere the cold war ended some time ago our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago at this presidential palace the word we heard quite a few times was syria and on the one hand that this is the area that was looking rather promising ahead of these talks but on the other hand it wasn't promising at all given the interests of israel and iran had a unique opportunity to ask the heads of russia and the u.s. whether they could share the details for some specific arrangements for russia and the u.s. to work in syria together if any of those were made but the leaders didn't spill the beans on any of that however i got the impression that steps together could be also perhaps surprisingly donald trump even said that the armies of russia and the u.s. could

want this kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track and our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago but guess what still worries the entire u.s. presidential poll allegations of meddling and collusion there were sitting right here and almost all the questions from this part of the room were about that and it was rather fascinating to see how the two leaders almost teamed up to dodge these kind of questions do you hold russia at all accountable for anything in particular president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference or twenty sixteen every u.s. intelligence agency has concluded that russia did who do you believe president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with three. thanks to the twelve people i think that's an incredible if there's ever going to be an intelligence of some muscle and i do know how. however none o

washington d.c. and we sure were in the russian capital moscow thank you both. all right we've got lots more analysis for you where with me in the studio now is nicole ren very she is a foreign policy expert at the german council on foreign relations a very warm welcome you've been with us all day so we're very happy that you were able to stick around where does this go from here one of the interesting part about the press conference was even though both heads of state came up with a list of issues where they want to cooperate starting with the man on proliferation and working group to fight cyber terrorism social context they didn't have a very concrete ideas on how they want to go about it also with respect to the situation in syria they basically said we want to protect the interest of israel trump made a very strong point in this respect but again it was absolutely not clear what the concrete next steps and you're wondering where does the u.s. define its interests because it seems like there were two brothers in spirit but very little interest every bit of i

want this kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track and it's quite clear to everyone that the by the true relationship is a complicated stage there is no solid reasoning for the impediments the current tense atmosphere the cold war ended some time ago our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago at this presidential palace the word we heard quite a few times was syria and on the one hand that this is the area that was looking rather promising ahead of these talks but on the other hand it wasn't promising at all given the interests of israel and iran had a unique opportunity to ask the heads of russia and the u.s. whether they could share the details for some specific arrangements for russia and the u.s. to work in syria together if any of those were made but the leaders didn't spill the beans on any of that however i got the impression that steps together could be also perhaps surprisingly donald trump even said that the armies of russia and the u.s. could

want this kind of relationship to spread beyond their personal time somehow they want to put washington moscow relations back on track at this presidential palace the word we heard quite a few times was syria and on the one hand this is the area that was looking rather promising ahead of these talks but on the other hand it wasn't promising at all given the interests of israel and iran that are at stake i asked the leaders whether they came to any specific arrangements when it comes to the russia and us working together on solving the syrian crisis plus mr trump perhaps surprisingly said that the russian and american military could be doing a better job at working together compared with the white house and the kremlin. is quite clear to everyone the true relationship is a complicated stage there is no solid reasoning for the impediments the current tense atmosphere the cold war ended some time ago that our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago tonight it will be years since donald trump was elected but guess what still worries the. u.

thousand report from our washington correspondent claire richardson and our correspondent in moscow yury rich chateau with regard to the summit with putin on monday president trump himself says he's heading to hell in finland with quote low expectations now to some of the other stories making news around the world in iraq police have clashed with anti corruption protesters as they try to storm a government building in basra several people are reported to have been wounded for the past week demonstrators in cities across the south have been demanding better public services and protesting a lack of jobs. haiti's prime minister. has resigned the move comes as. no confidence vote that could have forced him out of office after a wave of deadly protests at least seven people died during three days of demonstrations triggered by the government's failed attempts to raise fuel prices. heavy rain and thunderstorms have killed at least fifteen people and caused major damage across china state media says more than two hundred reverse have flooded roads and railways are under water and bridges have b

in moscow if we're hearing shock and disbelief in washington i'm guessing but there must be joy there in moscow. well at least quite the opposite there is of course a big cities faction in moscow after the summit analysing to because of the new putin really wanted to once again to try to reset to the u.s. russian relations on the personal level but he apparently didn't know why as the u.s. president was interested in that idea in any case since his inauguration relations between the two countries haven't improved in fact things have become significantly worse so far today moscow tried once again to find a way out of its international isolation and to normalize the u.s. russian relations also moscow has realized that it is probably going to remain in power for the second term and ultimately for the next six years whether they want it on not that's why the today's summit was a great symbolic boost for russia's geopolitical and economic interests feels so alexander phenomena we can talk about anything involving a president trump without talking tweets so let's let's talk about this morni

thanks to the atmosphere of the meetings in washington and moscow, and as a result of the agreements reached, americans and soviet people now have more opportunities for communication and for getting to know each other. i am convinced that scientists, students, schoolchildren, cultural personalities, ordinary tourists, athletes and, of course, businessmen will continue to enlarge and add new colors to the fabric of cooperative and even friendly relation. sometimes they can do that better than politicians. historians who will one day describe and evaluate what is now being done have probably not yet been born. but every day babies are being born who will live in the 21st century and to whom we must bequeath a safe and humane world. on behalf of the soviet leadership and the soviet people, i wish to tell all those who are concerned and yet hopeful about the future. we shall work to achieve that goal. and we can only do it by working together. thank you. [ applause ] >> mr. general secretary, these are historic moments. as we exchange these documents, the instruments of ratification, th

the fallout from the helsinki summit is continuing with the back and forth between washington and moscow over will there be a second meeting. we are learning a few moments ago, sarah sanders said that president trump is open to going to moscow if he has a formal invitation. they say they still look forward to having vladimir putin here in the u.s. after the first of the year. of course, this is a walk back when he invited him here in the fall which many republicans were saying should not happen during or right after the midterm elections. this is all coming on the heels of the strong economic news. as you said, we saw the president in the south lawn of the white house really talking about this economic growth. 4.1% growth of gdp in the second quarter. certainly, very strong. a sign of a robust economy. there are questions, can this be sustained or not? without a doubt, very good news here. if that was the main headline of the day, that would be a good news for this administration. so many self-inflicted wounds, if you will, still coming from the variety of controversies and investigation

russia with other republican senators in early july it was aimed at improving relations between washington and moscow leading up to the trump putin summit but even after the senator did a one eighty upon returning to the states the kremlin said it wasn't surprised we're not wearing rose tinted glasses and understand perfectly well how much the american political establishment is pressured by stereotypes and internal and russian pressure and these stereotypes didn't only have an effect on how americans view russia upon their return democrats slammed the republican visitors they claimed the trip amounted to surrendering to some sort of kremlin kleptocracy and as for the mainstream media they began to claim trump became a russian spy back in nineteen eighty seven their new cover story from new york magazine writer jonathan chait lays out what could be considered the worst case scenario for trying. russia collusion the dollar trump has been a russian intelligence asset since one thousand nine hundred the peace acknowledges that is probably not true but it might be so with all the name calling and spy all

because when there's teri schultz in helsinki on time to fund nominee in the washington russia moscow welcome all with you in helsinki teri schultz that you've covered plenty of these summits did anything substantive come out of today. that's right i've been covering summits in the finnish capital since the cold war since president bush met mikhail gorbachev here as have plenty of other people here today and all of us agree we've never seen anything like this press conference before in one nine hundred ninety even when president bush wanted to kill gorbachev help on the iraq war you could never could have imagined a press conference where he walked in and said their interests converge as president trump did today with president putin i think we we will be discussing later in this show the most substantive thing that came out of that and that's the shock in washington at the things president trump said the way that he rejected his own intelligence and in fact embraced president putin's denial of any interference what the europeans would have liked to hear was barely on the agenda at al

a single critical word about russia on any of the issues that've brought relations between washington and moscowernight, a fresh parliamentary battle over brexit for theresa may today after being forced into a major climbdown over amendments to the customs bill. looking at bloomberg and plunging netflix stocks. what's the reason for the slowdown? analysts say it could be the company's spending spree on new content or potential customers may have been distracted by the world cup. staying with football, or soccer as it's called in australia, the sydney morning herald has the story on the world's fastest man starting a trial with australian a—league team the central coast mariners. and finally on the bbc website, the uk heatwave doesn't look to be disappearing anytime soon, it's here for weeks, but what is appearing are remains of prehistoric features. they're normally kept hidden by lush grass and crops with the help of yellowing fields and drones the ghost images are coming to the surface. so let's begin. with me is james hughes a chief market analyst from brokerage firm axi trader. let's get stu

foreign language ] >> translator: thanks to the fiscal year of t atmosphere of the meetings in washington and moscowericans and soviet people now have more opportunities for communication and for getting to know each other. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: i'm convinced that scientists,students, school children, cultural personalities, ordinary tourists, athletes, and of course businessmen will continue to enlarge and add new colors to the fabric of cooperative and even friendly relations. sometimes, they can do that better than politicians. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: historians who will one day describe and evaluate what is now being done have probably not yet been born. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: but every day, babies are being born who will live in the 21st century and to whom we must bequeath a safe and humane world. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: on behalf of the soviet leadership and the soviet people, i wish to tell all those who are concerned and yet hopeful about the future, we shall work to achieve that goal, and we can only do

russia with other republican senators in early july it was aimed at improving relations between washington and moscow leading up to the trump putin summit but even after the senator did a one eighty upon returning to the states the kremlin said it wasn't surprised we're not wearing rose tinted glasses and understand perfectly well how much the american political establishment is pressured by stereotypes and internal and russian pressure and these stereotypes didn't only have an effect on how americans view russia upon their return democrats slammed the republican visitors they claim the trip amounted to surrendering to some sort of kremlin kleptocracy and as for the mainstream media they began to claim trump became a russian spy back in nineteen eighty seven and a new cover story from new york magazine writer jonathan chait lays out what could be considered the worst case scenario for trying. russia collusion the dollar trump has been a russian intelligence asset since one thousand nine hundred the peace acknowledges that that is probably not true but it might be so with all the name calling and spy

moscow. vladimir putin said that he is ready to visit washington but also inviting president trump to come to moscow. why's the russian leader praising the president for keeping his campaign promises? >>> economic spike, the u.s. economy is sizzling, growing at the fastest pace in almost four years. president trump is taking the credit now but what will he say if things cool off? >>> and stalling tactics, north korea returns the apparent remains of some american troops killed in combat many decades ago but what about kim jong-un's other commitments? is he stalling when it comes to giving up his nukes? wonderful blitszer is off today. you're in "the situation room. s . >>> president trump denies a stunning claim by the former fixer and lawyer michael cohen that he knew ahead of time about the 2016 trump tower meeting where russians were supposed to provide dirt on hillary clinton. but sources say that cohen is willing to tell special counsel robert mueller that he was present when donald trump was informed of that russian offer. that comes as russia's vladimir putin praises president trump and

words of donald trump hours before today's summit taking place trump took to twitter to say that moscow washington relations have never been worse thanks to years all foolishness and stupidity by the u.s. of course during his election campaign and after his own operation trump repeatedly said that he would like to have better relations with russia which had 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

president trump's performance at the meeting with vladimir putin is causing anger and disbelief in washington, moscowbrating a major victory on the international stage. so you can see, wolf, very happy people in moscow and indeed in a lot of parts of russia after the summit. they obviously believe it was vladimir putin who came out on top. also, it is interesting to hear because the russians believe there's a shift in american politics and american policies, a shift of the u.s. towards russia and away from some of its traditional allies. of course, not necessarily something that the traditional allies especially in europe are keen on hearing and concerned after the summit of president trump and president putin, wolf. >> understandably so. thank you. >>> coming up, can president trump succeed with his effort at damage control or is he only digging a deeper hole for himself with his explanation of what went wrong at the summit? >>> and outrage here in washington up on capitol hill. while democrats called for urgent testimony on what happened behind closed doors in helsinki, even some of the president's

at the same time while state and defense department leaders are defending the putin visit to washington, moscow putting its own spin on what happened at that one-on-one meeting in helsinki. >> cnn has teams covering the story around the world. senior international correspondent sam kiley and sarah westwood. sarah is near the opinipresiden golf club. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump is back in the headlines for his dealings during the campaign. michael cohen, his longtime lawyer and fixer again making trouble for trump thanks to a newly unearthed recording that is in possession of the fbi. on the tape cohen and trump can be heard discussing the prospect of making a payment to karen mcdougal, the former "playboy" model, alleged to have an affair with president trump long before he took office. ultimately, mcdougal signed a contract with american media, inc. ami owns the "national enquirer" and other publications and whose ceo is a personal friend of president trump's. rudy giuliani, president trump's attorney, has downplayed that agreement between ami and mcdougal, describ