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May be part of their bilateral meeting together. well have to see. it just came on to the agenda on friday. so its something brand-new. >> why does it matter that the president have a warm relationship with putin whether you call it a friendship or not? hes -- this is putins actions theyre pretty outrageous, annexing crimea. intervening in syria to prop up a brutal dictator. interfering in our elections and by the way, poisoning british citizens, just recently in the uk. and yet were bending ove...

I stayed there very short period of time. his memo said i left immediately. i never said that. i never said i left immediately. >> so comey has written a memo and testified to that under oath. theres an argument whether the president said i didnt say i didnt stay overnight. >> the president has no credibility on these issues. hes been shown time and time again to misrepresent things. i was intrigued by the quote of the president saying ask putin. well, apparently he did ask putin. did you guys i...

>> ask putin. >> what youre saying is that the state has a system of disposing of its enemies. >> yes. >> by murder overseas. >> yes. >> and that cant possibly be without putin, do you believe? >> its not putin, its about system. >> is he not responsible for the system? >> he is responsible. he is head of system. >> reporter: so what he also said was that the communication that he had that was warning of an attack against him and an attack against skripal, and he has been poisoned before in the ...

>> amy: hi, david. well its not entirely clear why a proper between the two leaders did not take place. it could be quite frankly that russia is too toxic in the united states and it wouldnt have looked great for trump but apparently president putin did want that meeting and he told reporters this afternoon it was down to scheduling issues and protocol issues but he added that whoever on his team was not able to work through those issues would be punished; however i must add he did have a glenn ...

But i want to ask about this meeting with president putin coming up next week, just confirmed. and the question is whether the president will bring up election interference. it is clearly the big topic between russia right now, the fact that russia meddled in the election, will the president ask putin about that? >> obviously im not going to get ahead of the meeting. well talk about it when that takes place. >> the president will indeed meet with vladimir putin next week, kind of a side bar conv...

The trump white house quickly put out a statement pointing out that there were quote, no allegations of knowing involvement by anyone on the trump campaign. thats true. at least for now, in this indictment. what president trump didnt do was express outrage over the russian hacking. what he did do was to re-affirm his claim that the mueller investigation is a witch-hunt and tweet that the russian criminality took place during the obama administration and that it failed to respond. what the presid...

Russians doing the hacking. maybe theres no hacking. it could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. >> though mr. trump says hell bring up hacking with putin in the monday meeting, he was demissive. >> you wont have gee, i did it, you got me. there wont be a perry mason here i dont think. you never know what happens right? >> and joining me now from helsinki the site of the trump/putin summit is the u.s. ambassador to russia huntsman. welcome back to "meet the press." >> thank...