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Confronted vladimir putin about russia meddling in the u.s. election. during a bilateral meeting with uk prime minister theresa may this morning, president trump did not answer a reporter's question on russian foreign minister sergey lavrov's account that trump accepted putin's denial. >> prime minister may and i have developed a very good relationship, and i think trade will be a very big factor between our two countries, so i want to thank you very much. >> mr. president, did the russians lie about your meeting yesterday? >> we're also getting a taste of the blowback in congress awaiting pre...

And jon, in this new interview with reuters tonight, the president for the first time describing how he questioned vladimir putin about meddling in the u.s. presidential election? >> reporter: the president tells reuters he spent the first 20 to 25 minutes in that meeting with putin in germany, talking about russian interference in the election. this is how the president described it. i said, did you do it? he said, no, i did not. absolutely not. i then asked him a second time in a totally different way. he said, absolutely not. but david, there is no indication in this interview whether or no...

Trump accepted putin's assurances that russia did not metal. >> greg: donald trump started the meeting with putin by raising concerns over the election meddling. that son of a toilet flushing right now is cnn's bogus narrative. they said that he would not confront putin over that, and he did. >> dana: this was something like this a few weeks ago. say >> greg: people who set firs and throw rocks at people are not called protesters. they are arsonists.

>> okay. well, that was interesting. that's his interpretation. okay, thank you for that keir simmons, we appreciate it. let's get some more top political headlines. to do that we bring in republican strategist noelle nikpower. with a welcome to you both, peter, i'll going to you first. what do you make of president putin's comments there. do you think he's coming out of this summit with the upper hand? >> absolutely, no question about it. if we look at what trump said in poland where he used the word "urge," i urge russia to stop destabilizing and used the word "ukraine" and then "syria." t...