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Of the regime in syria. tillerson said yesterday, secretary of state rex tillerson, said that the u.s. cannot -- syria cannot be internationally recognized if assad is still in power. how they get on the same page in syria is still a big question. >> yes. especially when putin backs assad. elies athe issue of this -- eliza, the issue of this trump/putin meeting because there werent more credible people attending the bilateral meeting of putin and trump, there have so many unanswered questions ab...

Administration. lets bring in the panel from washington. jonah goldberg, senior editor at national review. julie pace, and michael needham. lets start with you. your sense of this meeting, the readout from taylor tillerson e secretary of treasury, what you are gaining from the white house about this? >> i think the white house feels good about this meeting. i think the president absolutely had to "push putin," or press putin on the involvement in the 2016 election. if he hadnt done that, i think...

Russias foreign minister tells kier simmons when presidents trump and putin met at the g-20 the president accepted putins denial of russian election meddlinmeddlin >> president putin confirmed we never did anything to entinterf in the american elections. and good day, everyone, im andrea mitchell in colorado at the aspen security conference. todays headlines are all about president trumps fixation with special counsel robert muellers investigation into russia. and the presidents reported reque...

>> dana: it was scheduled to last about 30 minutes but it lasted for over two hours. it appears there was one big accomplishment, a cease-fire in syria beginning on sunday. secretary of state rex tillotson was in the room when they discussed. >> the president opened the meeting by raising concerns about russians interference of the 2016 election. they had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject. president trump pressed putin on more than one occasion. >> dana: some claimed that trump a...

Trump accepted putins assurances that russia did not metal. >> greg: donald trump started the meeting with putin by raising concerns over the election meddling. that son of a toilet flushing right now is cnns bogus narrative. they said that he would not confront putin over that, and he did. >> dana: this was something like this a few weeks ago. say >> greg: people who set firs and throw rocks at people are not called protesters. they are arsonists.

Confronted vladimir putin about russia meddling in the u.s. election. during a bilateral meeting with uk prime minister theresa may this morning, president trump did not answer a reporters question on russian foreign minister sergey lavrovs account that trump accepted putins 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 abo...

And jon, in this new interview with reuters tonight, the president for the first time describing how he questioned vladimir putin about meddling in the u.s. presidential election? >> reporter: the president tells reuters he spent the first 20 to 25 minutes in that meeting with putin in germany, talking about russian interference in the election. this is how the president described it. i said, did you do it? he said, no, i did not. absolutely not. i then asked him a second time in a totally diffe...

Trump accepted putins assurances that russia did not metal. >> greg: donald trump started the meeting with putin by raising concerns over the election meddling. that son of a toilet flushing right now is cnns bogus narrative. they said that he would not confront putin over that, and he did. >> dana: this was something like this a few weeks ago. say >> greg: people who set firs and throw rocks at people are not called protesters. they are arsonists.

>> okay. well, that was interesting. thats his interpretation. okay, thank you for that keir simmons, we appreciate it. lets get some more top political headlines. to do that we bring in republican strategist noelle nikpower. with a welcome to you both, peter, ill going to you first. what do you make of president putins comments there. do you think hes coming out of this summit with the upper hand? >> absolutely, no question about it. if we look at what trump said in poland where he used the w...