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You're listening to the NPR politics podcast this week's weekly roundup

We'll look at a lot of news from Russia this week and we'll talk about that Russian operative who went to jail

I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover the White House. I'm Carrie Johnson. I cover the Justice Department. I'm Mara Liason National political correspondent

And I'm Scott horse Lake Comic Con correspondent

Ha ha ha an occasional White House correspondent. Yeah kind of the same thing

So we broke down president Trump's remarks earlier this week on the podcast at the Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin

You know, first of all he said I don't have any reason to believe it would be Russia meaning who interfered in the

2016 election next day we did a podcast looking at his reversal on that when he said I'm into say I don't see any reason

It wouldn't be Russia, but that is far from the only thing the White House has had to clarify clean up walk back this week

A lot of things along those lines. We're gonna talk about those and what we know about what Trump and Putin might have said behind closed doors

So let's start there because today Congress took a vote related to that

Mara explained to us. What do we know and what was the Senate voting on the Senate voted on a non binding resolution

98 to zero

That the United States should not make

former diplomats available for interrogation in Russia by the Russian government and the reason that they

Felt they had to pass that

Right was that in the press conference on Monday between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump Trump said twice

He referenced and quote incredible offer that Putin had made and the offer was that Putin would make available

These 12 indicted GRU officers so that Mueller could come over to Russia and question them, but in return

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