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The presidents lawyers would know do not tweet because youre creating legal problems. that could be the explanation. >> it look like the thrust of everything donald junior has said is they were approached through this guy and so forth. listening to the lawyer, she said it was the opposite. that it was -- it cape from the other direction. that rather than the russians taking the initiative according to her story, it was the americans taking the initiative. >> and the other is different. >> the ot...

Meeting with president putin. bringing in cnn white house correspondent athena jones. >> reporter: hi, fred. this is very interesting, because we know that president trump did not have a press conference before leaving the g-20 and so there wasnt an opportunity for reporters to ask him about the discrepancy between the readouts from the russian side and the u.s. side after that two-hour-plus sitdown with russian president vladimir putin but he has taken to twitter to address some of these questi...

We had heard from secretary tillerson, who was the other official in the meeting. these were the two people sitting across from vladimir putin and describing what went on during the two hours and 16 minutes. both men are saying president trump went after putin in terms of pressing him, is the word, each of them used, about the hacking. both say that putin denied it. putin is saying publicly that the president accepted his response. u.s. officials are not characterizing it that way, although the ...

A senior administration official says president trump did not accept putin a denial. >> joining us now to talk more about that, ambassador nicolas burns, former u.s. secretary for political affairs. also a former u.s. ambassador to nato and greece. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> lets first start here with the discrepancy over the discussion of russian meddling. you earlier said its a dereliction of duty, president trumps treatment of this meddling. after the description weve learned fr...

Minutes yesterday. there was a little bit of a diplomatic discrepancy over his claim that he and russia were not for at least the russian government were not involved in meddling in the us election. his foreign minister claimed that he told the president he was not involved in - and the president accepted appeared within vladimir putin is that he believes that the president listened to him at the very least as to whether he accepted what he said, we have to ask the president. which we were hopin...

Arise in discussion, new elements, so it seems to me that we will be able to build future relations on the kind of meeting we had yesterday. and we will be able to actually get to the level that we need. >> so you have there, russian president vladimir putin speaking about his meeting with president trump. expressing some optimism after this meeting that happened yesterday, lasted for more than two hours. first you heard from the russian president talking about this upcoming bilateral working gr...

>> we enriched foreign countries at the expense of our own country, the great united states of america. but those days are over. im not and i dont want to be the president of the world. im the president of the united states. and from now on, its going to be america first. >> so agree with the investment or do not? well put that aside. is there a discrepancy here between this $50 million pledge and the president who said im not the president of paris, im not here to represent paris, im here to re...

North korea did not fire an intercontinental ballistic missile, they insist it was a medium range ballistic missile despite claims to the contrary by both north korea and the u.s. military. >> all right. ivan watson, appreciate the update. thank you. >> lets bring in cnn political commentator and kellyanne the ed door at the weekly standard. >> lets start with this discrepancy. you have president trump who has late as thursday on salutely could not say they meddled in the election and then on th...

[inaudible] >> keep in mind, the president was very optimistic about the potential for china to put pressure north korea after they have their first bilateral meeting in mar-a-lago. he has been somewhat disappointed since then. >> arthel: back to the other meeting, there was discrepancy over what was said during the presidents meeting with putin about russia meddling during the election. >> this goes back to the bilateral meeting yesterday that lasted two hours and 15 minutes. the foreign minist...

Election hacking in president trumps mind fuels this talk he might not be a legitimate president. we know hes deeply insecure about the loss of the popular vote and about this too. i think he went in toe to toe with vladimir putin for two hours and 15 minutes. he said something about the election happening which was not a guarantee. yesterday he sort of suggested he may not bring it up. today he did. he was in there. he spent a long time in there. he probably feels good about it. >> i thought al...