Difficult job to do simultaneous translating, such a difficult job to then remember what was discussed if youre not note taking at the same time, fnor i it their job to take notes for all of pos perty. Thats why we have all note takers who are usually in the meetings. The whole thing is stunning when you think about the pomp, circumstance, and the show thats going on here. President trump loves and is extraordinarily successful at creating these big media moments but at what point are we going to say what are they resulting in . Remember singapore. How many weeks ago is that at this point . Four . At the time President Trump took all of that and the ratings as a massive win. Several weeks later kim jongun snubs mike pompeo, and it doesnt seem that President Trumps denuclearization no, big deal, thats all over and done with, its not. And north korea continues to be a place of vulnerability at a risk for the president where we looks more embarrassing today than he did a few weeks ago. What could the president have discussed in the last two hours with Vladimir Putin who has been preparing for a meeting like that his whole career . What would President Trump have done in that meeting that hes now going to present to us that gives america a leg up that we didnt have hours ago . Kelly odonnell, sixth row center in a room where kelly, weve been told feels a little bit closer to arrival . Reporter theres something happening here, brian. Theres a gentleman here who said hes from the nation. Security has come in and asked him to leave the room. I asked is a journalist being removed. The report e says he believes he is. The security said that he would be invited back in. Obviously we want to watch this. When the underpinnings of so much of the dialogue about this whole summit has to do with the treatment of journalists, the freedom of the press, someone who is wearing credentials, and had been through the screening process that we all went through to get here is now being taken out of the room. That is not the United States secret service. They must be part of the Putin Russia Federation delegation. In realtime we may be watching the kind of clamp down on press freedom that is at issue in the Russian Federation and something that certainly u. S. Journalists and the American People want to remind President Trump about the importance of our ability to stand here and ask whatever questions are necessary and to witness these events in an independent way. And so this is unfolding right in front of us. I dont know what it means. Again, he said he was from the nation. Im sorry i dont know him to give you more identification. But what happened . All right. This is realtime assessment here. There is some description of perhaps he was heckling. I did not witness any of that. He appears to be a credential journalist who has been taken out of the room. Perhaps thats part of the delay. We also understand the president agreed to do interview and his schedule indicated when this press was over, he was headed back to the United States. Perhaps some of the delay is the president doing interviews. We dont know that expect to put inference knowing people talked about their access to the president , and this would be a beautiful venue to do it, the president ial palace in finland. Weve watching and assessing this as its happening. It certainly creates a different dynamic in the room. The room is packed. It is hot. It is filled with journalists. We all have many questions and there are many important issues to discuss, but right now theres an issue of freedom of the press unfolding in front of us. All right. There is the possibility of the president doing press interviews after the meeting with putin, but before he has shared the outcome with the wider press corps . Reporter we know he is scheduled to do interviews and we also know he was leaving right after this. So a window of time needs to be found somewhere. So that could be one thing to account for the okay. Im going watch this. The gentleman is saying that all right. We lost kelly odonnells audio, but theres the gentleman walking back in. The journalist who was identified as being with the nation taking his maybe hes just coming in for his belongings. We dont know. Brian, what if what were witnessing is journalists being cherry picked and asked to leave the room. Hes holding up a sign or trying to. And it looks like oh, my goodness. Kelly is right we just cant hear her audio. She doesnt know that. Shes live narrating this scene. Oh, my goodness. When we reestablish communication with kelly odonnell, she had a clear view of all of that, and more importantly, what was on the handwritten sign that he was holding up. But that man, we dont have an identification beyond what kelly heard that he was a credentialed member of the press corps and affiliated with the nation magazine. A little preevent excitement. Certainly a rare thing to see at one of these events. Theyre so staid. The journalists present are all kind of vetted and credentialed very carefully. Half of them or such are from the traveling press corps of the president. To see someone kicked out or turned heckler is a rare an unusual thing to see in one of these events. We dont know details about this individual, but we know that we are coming off a time when the president has called the free press an enemy of the people. Its really stunning to watch all this go down. We saw kelly odonnell. Still no comms . Okay. David ignatius continues to watch with us. Id love to get you on the record of the last conversation we had here. The relative size and strength of the russian economy, especially when compared to the United States. And just matters of stature and balance and whether the u. S. In having in holding any of this event is punching down. I think thats really an important point. The russians and especially Vladimir Putin have a real chip on their shoulder about having lost what they thought of as superpower status. The reality is the russian economy simply hasnt modernized in the way that so many people expected. Its still largely a onecommodity export commodity. It produces oil and gas and sells then. Thats the principle source of income. They aspire to have a modern i. T. Sector. They have a lot of smart computer scientists. They never really have crossed that threshold. So we do have to remember as loud as putin talks on the world stage, as seriously as hes taken, that this is not a first order competitor. When people think about arising china, thats a competitor that is able, really, to contest the United States in terms of economic power. Russia isnt that country. Its a country able to make trouble for the United States, but not really project power in any profound way. Weve just seen the delegations walk in. Steven miller, the president s point person on immigration, a former aide to Jeff Sessions is on this trip. Bill shine, a former daytoday head of fox news is the new messaging guru at the white house on this trip. We saw lavrov enjoying a laugh on the way into the room. It was recently a Fox News White House reporter who took to fox news air to defend both nbc news Kristen Welker and cnn when the president went on with one of his fake news. Youre seeing more and more defense across the media landscape of those saying lets represent and defend what the free press is. You know, whether its shep smith of our colleagues across the board. But also to davids point again about russia here they are. Here they come. Translator thank you so much. Shall we start working, i guess . Distinguished mr. President , ladies and gentlemen, negotiations with the president of the United States, donald trump, to place in a frank and business like atmosphere. I think we can call it a success and fruitful round of negotiations. We carefully analyzed the current status the president and the future of the russia and United States relationship key issues of the global agenda. Its quite clear to everyone that the bilateral relationship is going through a complicated stage and yet the impediments, the tense at fear, essentially have no solid reason behind it. The cold war is a thing of past. The era of acute ideological confrontation of the countries is a ves taj of the past. The situation and the world changed dramatically. To date both russia and the United States face a whole new set of challenges. Those include a dangerous maladjustment of mechanisms for maintaining security and stability. Crises, the creeping threats of terrorism and transnational crime. Its the snowballing problems in the economy, environmental risks and other sets of challenges. We can only cope with these challenges if we join the ranks and Work Together. Hopefully we will reach the understanding with our american partners. Todays negotiations reflect our joint wish with President Trump to redress this negative situation and the bilateral relationship. Outlining the first steps to restore the acceptable level of trust and going back to the previous level of interaction on all mutual interest issues. As Major Nuclear powers, we bear special responsibility for maintaining interNational Security. Its vital and we mentioned this during the negotiations, its crucial that we fine tune the stability and Global Security and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. We submitted our american colleagues a note with a number of specific suggestions. We believe it necessary to Work Together to interact on the desired agenda, military and technical cooperation. This includes the Strategic Offensive arms limitation treaty. Its a dangerous situation with a global antimissile defense system. Its the implementation of the imf treaty and the adjustment of nonweapons in space. We favor the continued cooperation in counterterrorism and maintain cyber security. And id like to point out specifically that our special services are cooperating quite successfully together. The most recent example is their operational cooperation within the recently concluded World Football cup. In general the contacts among the special services should be put to a system wide basis. Should be brought to systemic framework. I recall i reminded President Trump about the suggestion to reestablish the working group on antiterrorism. And also the crisis is not always that our postures dove tail exactly and yet the overlapping and mutual interest bond, we have to look for points of contact and interact closer in a variety of international forum. Clo clearly we mention the regional crisis, for instance syria. As far as syria is concerned, the task of establishing peace and reconciliation in this country could be the first showcase example of this successful joint work. Russia and the United States apparently can take assumed leadership on this issue, and organize the interaction to overcome humanitarian crisis and help Syrian Refugees to go back to their homes. In order to accomplish this, we all all the required components. Let me remind you of that. Both russian and American Military have acquired useful experience of coordination and operational channels of communication which permitted to avoid dangerous incidents and unintentional collisions in the air and near the ground. Also crushing terrorists in the southwest of syria, the south of syria should be brought to the full compliance with the treaty of 1974 about the separation of forces about separation of forces of israel and syria. This will bring peace to golan heights. And bring more peaceful relationship between syria and israel and also to provide security of the state of israel. Mr. President paid special attention to the issue during todays negotiation, and i would like to confirm that russia is interested in this development and this will act accordingly. Thus far we will make a step toward creating a lasting peace in compliance with the respective resolutions of security counsel, for instance, the resolution 338. Were glad of the Korean Peninsula issue starting to resolve. To a great extent it was possible thanks to the personal engagement of President Trump who opted for dialogue instead of confrontation. We also mentioned our concern about the withdrawal of the United States from the gcpoa. Well, the u. S. Our u. S. Counterparts are aware of our posture. Thanks to the Iranian Nuclear deal, iran became the most controlled country in the world. It effectively ensures the peaceful nature of the Iranian Nuclear program, and strengthened the nonproliferation regime. While we discuss the internal ukrainian crisis, we paid special attention to the implementation of agreements. And the United States can be more decisive in nudging the ukrainian leadership and encouraging it to work actively on this and pay more attention to economic cooperation. Its clear that both countries, the businesses of both countries are interested in this. American delegation was one of the largest delegations in the st. Petersburg Economic Forum. It featured over 500 representatives from american businesses. We agreed, me and President Trump, we kreeed to create a High Level Working Group that brings together captains of russian and american business. After all, entrepreneurs and businessmen no better how to articulate this successful business cooperation. Well let them think and make their proposals and suggestions in this regard. Once again, President Trump mentioned the issue of the socalled interference of russia when the american elections, and i had to reiterate things i said several times including during our personal contacts that the russian state has never interfered and is not going to interfere into internal American Affairs including election process. Any specific material, if such things arise, we are ready to analyze together. For instance, we can analyze them through the joint working group on cyber security, the establishment of which we discussed during our previous contacts. And clearly its past time we restore our cooperation in the cultural area in the humanitarian area. As far as i think you know that recently we hosted the american congressman delegation and now its portrayed almost as a historic event. Although it should have been just a current affairs, just business as usual, and in this regard, we mentioned the proposal to the president. We have to think about practicalities of our cooperation, but also about the rationale and the logic of it. And we have to engage experts on bilateral relationship who know history and the background of our relationship. The idea is to create an expert counsel. That would include political scientists, prominent diplomats and former military experts in both countries who would look for points of contact between two countries. That would look for ways on putting the relationship on the trajectory of growth. In general, we are glad with the outcome of our first full scale meeting because previously we only had a chance to talk briefly on international forum. We had a good conversation with President Trump, and i hope that we start to understand each other better, and im grateful to donneald for it. Clearly there are some challenges left when we were not able to clear all the backlog, but i think that we made the first important step in this direction, and in conclusion, i want to point out that this atmosphere of cooperation is something that we are especially grateful for to our finish hosts. Were grateful for finnish people and leadership for what theyve done. Weve inconvenienced you, and we apologize for it. Thank you for your attention. Thank you very much. Thank you. I have just concluded a meeting with president putin with a wide range of Critical Issues for both of our countries. We have direct opened deeply productive dialogue. It went very well. Before i begin, i want to thank the president of finland for gracious ri holy hosting today summit. President putin and i were saying how lovely it was and what a great job they did. I also want to congratulation russia and president putin for having done such an excellent job in hosting the world cup. It was really one of the best ever, and your team also did very well. It was a great job. Im here today to continue the proud tradition of bold american diplomacy from the earliest days of our republic, american leaders have understood that di loam si and engagement is preferable to conflict and hostility. A productive dialogue is not only good for the United States and good for russia, but it is good for the world. The disagreements between our two countries are wellknown and president putin and i discussed them at length today. Were going to solve many of the problems facing our world, and were going to have to find ways to cooperate in pursuit of shared interests. Too often in both recent past and long ago, we have seen the consequences when diplomacy is left on the table. We have also seen the benefits of cooperation in the last serchg century or nations fought alongside each other in the second world war. Even during the tensions of the would war when the world looked much different than today, the United States and russia were able to maintain a strong dialogue. But our relationship has never been worse than it is now. However, that changed as of abou