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Government or a free president, he would pick a free press bus because that's where accountability comes from. but neither president putin nor trump represents that notion. >> no, they don't. what we're seeing now as president trump says, is it a competition. president putin sees it as a competition, too. who is going to come out of this ahead. already for president putin it's a victory. because he will be treated to a summit. there's no agenda. there's no multitalks. it's just hour or two of a meeting into no preparation, no deliverables. >> exactly. we don't know whether there will be a join...

Would spend two hours one on one. i'm wondering why the president doesn't want other people to hear what he was talking to vladimir putin about. then with respect to the agenda, if you go in with no agenda, in a sense, you're a weather vane. you let putin blow you in one direction or another and out comes what, i'm not sure. >> jeremy, then this bilateral press availability, that, too, is kind of a new notion to see these two guys and it will be interesting to see the various press corps. one is used to an increasingly number of rules to see whose questions are allowed. >> we can expect presid...

Do that. he said, actually, yesterday, he said, well, even if i did confront him on this and i plan to, i don't think he is going to confess to it in a big perry mason moment. it's not so much that vladimir putin needs to admit to it, it's that the u.s. president needs to confront him on it. and that is what u.s. lawmakers are certainly looking for out of this meeting. >> we will see if that happens. we know the first portion of the meeting, according to what we know from our people there, will be one-on-one and then administration officials will come in. there is this bilateral press availabi...

Fault. i'm still the victim of a rigged witch hunt and hoping for a good relationship with vladimir putin. >> it is also clear that a lot of people in scotland don't want the president there. or will be. here is what's happening in the last few minutes in scotland. cnn's nic robertson is live in helsinki. >> start in scotland with abby. what's the president saying this morning? >> reporter: good morning. the president is not far away from here at his golf course. he has been talking about his summit with putin. as you mention, the white house did confirm there would be some press availability ...

President is that interested in dragging out. but of course it is a difficult position. this one-on-one meeting that he is planning to have with president putin, that will be closely scrutinized just because of in whole issue about the odd relationship between the president and putin and the election meddling. >> just imagine if the president asked putin during that press availability, put him right on the spot. that would be something. steven and jill, thank you both very much. up next, a closer look behind mueller's latest indictments. ment russians accused of hacking u.s. election website...