Damage Control Effort News Today

This morning, a part of that damage control effort. take a listen to what he had to say. >> i think he was straight up with what he said. you know, i think there are people trying to connect dots. >> straight up how? >> when the facts -- by basically saying that there was no quid pro quo in the sense of what those folks out there would like for it to be. that were going to give you this money unless you go investigate joe biden and his son. i never heard that said anywhere, any time in any conve...

Match. european diplomats describe a meeting between trump and putin as successful. at least for putin. then there are the e.u. back channel communications. following the helsinki meeting in july, the european diplomats talk about the damage control effort by the white house after president trump went off script in joint news conference with putin and said he would allow russians to question former u.s. diplomats in exchange for americans being allowed to interrogate russians who had been indict...