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While most American allies in the region have fallen in line, authoritarian governments and those with weaker ties to the West have been more reluctant to act.

Among them, uncontroversial issues such as the ministry of defense announcing very soon after the meeting in helsinki that they would begin preparations for future arms reduction talks under the salt treaty, which comes to an end in 18 months. not very controversial. then they started talking, and i say they, the foreign ministry or putins people, sometimes ministry of defense, but russian officials talking about cooperation on counterterrorism, cyber said without irony, given the tcyber hacking...

27 minutes past 10:00. i am christi paul. >> i am victor blackwell. >> saturday morning. you never know. >> thats true. we have been at it for hours. russia is controlling the narrative about the helsinki summit, telling their version of what was discussed between president trump and president putin, all of which has yet to be confirmed or denied. >> as the presidents legal team is increasingly concerned the helsinki summit could strengthen special counsel bob muellers investigation, cnn corresp...

Is still making attempts to attack our country. when you have this manchurian candidate in trump that occupies the white house, he doesnt want to come out and criticize putin, he wants his existence again in 2020. i believe bringing him to washington, we should not be inviting him. i think senator blumenthal said this earlier, we shouldnt be inviting putin to washington, we should be indicting him, at a time we know there are operatives on his team that rigged the election. not telling us what w...

Come out and say what this country continues to -- >> how can you have it both ways. if we say in 2018 that putin is attacking this country, the first attack happened under obamas watch. can you not admit that attack happened under obamas watch? he could have done more as some democrats have said, and he did not do that. >> i would have wanted my president, barack obama, to do more. but at the time he was receiving the intelligence, we didnt know it was as deep as it was. we didnt know there wer...

President shows some backbone, like saying he would be putins worst enemy if things breakdown, he also seems to waiver and extend an olive branch, like inviting putin to washington for a summit. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> joining us to discuss, regional director for the campaign, and former communications chief of staff for georgias governor. >> good to be here. >> we spent the last few days watching the white house not would but wouldnt, no, but not that no. and hey, lets do this again. we...

>> reporter: they pounced on that with a cruel insult of trump. >> translator: when he says that because of foolishness and stupidity of the united states we have bad russian relations, it smells like he is a kremlin agent. >> reporter: another sign of putins manipulation, reports of a secret offer. according to bloomberg, he proposed to hold a referendum on russias operation in the east ukraine. the report says trump asked putin not to discuss it publicly so trump could think it over, supportin...

When he was standing next to the man. >> theres a disconnect to the words and his record. which has been much tougher on russia than we have seen historically. better record than bill clinton, than george w. bushs. >> what president obama did, youve seen the images. last time these two men met, president obama was very clear. he stood up to putin, told him a lot of thing he continues to do to harm our country, so this whole narrative that the republicans want us to believe that trump is going to...

Great power again. >> reporter: theres this high tech taunt from russian state media. putins team releasing video of russian weapons being developed, nuclear powered cruise missile, underwater drone, two missiles that fly faster than the speed of sound. a u.s. official says some weapons arent close to being operational. analysts say thats not the point. >> putin is showing videos of current or imagined russian weapon systems is part of the deterrents part from his end, saying we have capable def...

We have to fact check him constantly. thousands of mistakes he makes on a regular drum beat basis. now were sitting in the united states in a precarious position. we angered all our european allies. putin is able to take lead on what happened in helsinki, and we have no transparency coming out of this white house of what possibly was said. this can cause big problems on things like the ukraine down the line because putin will say trump told me this would be okay to do, and we have no recourse to...