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Back with general special coverage from helsinki. i'm wolf blitzer reporting. tomorrow, the historic meeting between president putin. the summit comes days after the u.s. justice department indicted a dozen high-ranking military intelligence officers for their cyberattack on the 2016 presidential election in the united states, the russians are accused of hacking the democratic national committee, the democratic congressional campaign committee, the clinton campaign, e-mails across the board. let's talk all about this with our specialist and our analyst michelle kozinski who's joining us. david...

They still could be wins for putin. that's what u.s. allies are worried about. they think there are real risks to having meeting. and privately, trump is saying he already knows what putin is going to say about meddling in the u.s. election. he doesn't see the point to bringing it up. they feel like he sees that as an impediment to getting whatever wins he thinks he can get out. >> on the eve of the summit, pretty extraordinary. the president of the european council, put it up on the screen once again, he tweets america and the eu are best friends, whoever says we are foes is spreading fake ne...

Telling vladimir putin i've spoken with our allies, not only about election meddling, but how we will apply sanctions that damage you as a result of that meddling. instead we go back with a contentious g-7 meeting, a disastrous nato meeting and a painful meeting with closest allies. putin looks at this, and says i know if the president asks me about meddling, i'm going to say the same thing he told me to say on twitter, i didn't do it, what's the next question? >> do you think, david, given the historic perspective, the fact he worked for other presidents, president trump should be going into ...

David, for this summit. there have been summits between u.s. and russian leaders before. give us a little perspective. >> you can go back in history, so much have often been about arms control and about really central issues. and there have been turning points, wolf. go back, one of the most famous summits was in 1961, when president kennedy went to vienna to meet khrushchev. he ripped into kennedy. it was very humiliating for kennedy. when kennedy came out, he told scotty rushton of the "new york times," the columnist, he said scotti, this have been humiliating. i have to show strength. i may...

Talking about, is the fact that they all ran on repeal and replace. >> yep. >> period. >> right. and for years and years and years we heard about that. david gergin, you know, how do you, though, advising the president or the president's role moving forward, i mean, they're hoping to get this blueprint by friday, they're all going to go on vacation and celebrate the fourth of july, come back ten days later and hope to get rolling on this. so then what. >> brooke, i think it's really important that the republican part have a bill that they can champion and go to the country to sell it. and that...