President Trump Sides With Putin At Historic Summit

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🗓️ 16 July 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Trump himself declared his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki a success, in what he called the "proud tradition of bold American diplomacy."The president said he pressed Putin about Moscow's interference in the election, but he appeared to take Putin's denial at face value, just days after a grand jury indicted 12 Russian intelligence agents on election-related charges. This episode: political reporter Asma Khalid, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, national security editor Phil Ewing, and White House reporter Ayesha Rascoe. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	This is Steve in Helsinki, Finland, where we just saw Air Force 1 fly right over our house.
0:08.0	This podcast was recorded at...
0:10.0	How fitting, 12-24 pm on Monday, July 16th.
0:15.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear this.
0:17.0	Alright, here's the show.
0:22.0	Hey there, this is the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:25.0	President Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin today
0:28.0	and had a strange press conference in which you called the probe into Russian election meddling a disaster for our country.
0:35.0	I do feel that we have both made some mistakes.
0:39.0	I think that the probe is a disaster for our country.
0:44.0	I think it's kept us apart, it's kept us separated.
0:48.0	There was no collusion at all.
0:50.0	I'm Asma Khaled, political reporter.
0:52.0	I'm Mara Laiassin, National Political Correspondent.
0:55.0	I'm feeling you a national security editor.
0:57.0	I'm Aisha Roscoe, I cover the White House.
0:59.0	So Aisha, you are traveling with the president.
1:02.0	So why don't you start and just explain to us what happened here with the press conference?
1:06.0	So this was the press conference to end the talks that happened between President Trump and President Putin.
1:15.0	They were asked about election interference in the 2016 election.
1:21.0	And that's where things got interesting.
1:24.0	I've been in a lot of president to press conferences.
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