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Versofficials have not been briefed. the meeting took place in the presidential palace in helsinkh. i assume that room was wired as well. but top officials are still in the dark. now theres talk of a second summit. >> president trump had said he wants to invite president putin again. theres talk that it could be on the sidelines in washington after the u.n. general assembly. the danger is not only is president trump still cleaning up the mess from this summit, but that will just continue if he c...

Putin visit to washington in the fall. joining me, republican congressman mark sanford. this weeks concerns about the summit prompted him to renew his call for the president to release his tax returns. tell us what happened at the summit this week that worried you so much and why it has anything to do with the presidents tax returns. >> well, to state the obvious, most people -- and this isnt just a media thing -- but i literally had a friend of mine send me a photoshop picture of putin in black...

Conversations were. we need to know that before you set up a second summit. its clear that mr. trip was um not prepared for the first. certainly he was not prepared for his news conference. lets make sure we understand what was done in helsinki before we have another meeting. >> do you support efforts by some members of your own party to subpoena the american interpreter from the helsinki summit? >> i believe we need to know what happened in that room. obviously the interpreter has that informat...

In the hides aunited states and be denied the opportunity to visit the united states. its working. putin despises that law and its having an impact. >> theyre already preparing for a second summit in the fall with vladimir putin right here in washington. john bolton was instructed to go ahead and issue the formal invitation to putin. whats your reaction? >> wolf, we first need to understand what happened at the first summit. we saw the presidents news conference. it was shocking to all of us. cl...

Offer. he offered to have the people working on the case come and work with their investigators with respect to the 12 people. >> reporter: what the president twice called incredible on monday was still being considered yesterday at the white house. >> the president is going to meet with his team and well let you know. >> reporter: even as the state department rejected the idea. >> is that the oval assertions that have come out of the russian government are absurd. the fact that they want to que...

Transparency that would answer the questions out there and go a long way to clearing up the gray. this would clear that you have so you dont have that specter haunting the administration. >> this morning the president was tweeting quite a bit. hes clearly angry at the news medias coverage of this summit. let me read a line that really jumped out at me and ill get your reaction. the summit with russia was a great success except with the real enemy of the people, the fake news media. here hes sayi...

27% say theyre republican, 29% say theyre democratic. but 45% or so say theyre independent. and those people, those people are important and those people disapprove of this summit. so trump can say hes keeping his base. his base is small. his base is a small part of this electorate, as is the democratic trump believes as do a lot of republican strategists that this will help him. this will galvanize his base because the more the media complains about what donald trump did in helsinki the more th...

The director of national intelligence now acknowledging, now admitting he doesnt know what happened at the first summit three days ago, hasnt been briefed on that puti putin/donald trump meeting. and he was taken by surprise when a reporter told them theyre working on a second summit in the fall. >> i dont know whats more ridiculous that he didnt know or that the invite had been extended. both are equally ridiculous. were talking about now sitting down again with putin with no clear agenda with ...

Been tapped to set up a second summit. vladimir putin coming to washington this fall. that caught many in washington by surprise. it also caught the director of national intelligence by surprise was doing an interview in aspen at the time. >> we have breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. [laughter] okay. [laughter] thats going to be special. >> the dnr released a statement apologizing thing he didn...

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