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Back with general special coverage from helsinki. im wolf blitzer reporting. tomorrow, the historic meeting between president putin. the summit comes days after the u.s. justice department indicted a dozen high-ranking military intelligence officers for their cyberattack on the 2016 presidential election in the united states, the russians are accused of hacking the democratic national committee, the democratic congressional campaign committee, the clinton campaign, e-mails across the board. lets...

They still could be wins for putin. thats what u.s. allies are worried about. they think there are real risks to having meeting. and privately, trump is saying he already knows what putin is going to say about meddling in the u.s. election. he doesnt see the point to bringing it up. they feel like he sees that as an impediment to getting whatever wins he thinks he can get out. >> on the eve of the summit, pretty extraordinary. the president of the european council, put it up on the screen once a...

Telling vladimir putin ive spoken with our allies, not only about election meddling, but how we will apply sanctions that damage you as a result of that meddling. instead we go back with a contentious g-7 meeting, a disastrous nato meeting and a painful meeting with closest allies. putin looks at this, and says i know if the president asks me about meddling, im going to say the same thing he told me to say on twitter, i didnt do it, whats the next question? >> do you think, david, given the hist...

David, for this summit. there have been summits between u.s. and russian leaders before. give us a little perspective. >> you can go back in history, so much have often been about arms control and about really central issues. and there have been turning points, wolf. go back, one of the most famous summits was in 1961, when president kennedy went to vienna to meet khrushchev. he ripped into kennedy. it was very humiliating for kennedy. when kennedy came out, he told scotty rushton of the "new yo...

Talking about, is the fact that they all ran on repeal and replace. >> yep. >> period. >> right. and for years and years and years we heard about that. david gergin, you know, how do you, though, advising the president or the presidents role moving forward, i mean, theyre hoping to get this blueprint by friday, theyre all going to go on vacation and celebrate the fourth of july, come back ten days later and hope to get rolling on this. so then what. >> brooke, i think its really important that t...

Fiercely going to defend his agenda. >> tough. >> yeah, he loves tough. but compare this to the clinton administration. in the early years they found themselves floundering. and they brought in david gergin. they brought him into a democratic administration to right the ship. i think they said a political professional, and that is probably whats really required here from the white house. not necessarily a loyalist. >> and, yet, corey le wan dow skis tenure with the trump campaign didnt end, you ...

Mike is out. he says this morning he is resigning for personal reasons. white house officials insist a wave of departures is not imminent, but they do add changes coming. >> a new press secretary apparently not part of that change. sean spicer isnt going anywhere and in fact he will brief reporters in front of cameras later today. this as were seeing some old faces from the campaign reemerge. literally walk around the white house grounds in the evenings. lets discuss this. david, to you, communi...

I mean, it doesnt get worse than this. cant the democrats figure this out? >> there is a faction within the party thats very much into purity. i tell those people fight as hard as you want during a primary. but when it comes to the general election, we have to hang together or well hang separately. thats why i think there will be more unity going forward. but some things have to get worked out within the party. judge jeanine: david? >> i think this is about bernie sanders trying to get the milli...

Booed by the sanders people. i mean, it doesnt get worse than this. cant the democrats figure this out? >> there is a faction within the party thats very much into purity. i tell those people fight as hard as you want during a primary. but when it comes to the general election, we have to hang together or well hang separately. thats why i think there will be more unity going forward. but some things have to get worked out within the party. judge jeanine: david? >> i think this is about bernie sa...

I heard david gergin talking about the worst 100 days he has seen a president have. its not a difficult segue from what we just heard happening at berkeley and what i heard david gergin saying with our president. -- about our president. there is a negative attack against the right. not even the right. hes our president. >> there is a lot of what i call presumptive negativity. always lying in weight to deny the president the credit hes due. 8 -- 28 laws signed in by this president, more than obam...