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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump disembark from Air Force One upon arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Helsinki Sunday, on the eve of a summit in Helsinki between president and his Russian counterpart. HELSINKI President Donald Trump will hold a summit Monday Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul says asking for the extradition of the Russian intelligence agents indicted Friday for interfering in the 2016 election would be a "moot point." "I think it'd be a moot point; I don't think Russia is sending anyone back over here for trial, the same way we wouldn't send anybody over there for trial," the Kentucky senator said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
President Donald Trump arrived in Finland on Sunday for a closely watched one-on-one summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, hours after telling an interviewer that he was going into the meeting on Monday with "low expectations." On the way to meet with a leader who has cracked down on the press in his country, Trump tweeted that the U.S. news media is the "enemy of the people" and complained that "No matter how well I do at the Summit" he'll face "criticism that it wasn't good enough."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein arrives to a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, July 13, 2018. Rosenstein on Friday announced new charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton presidential campaign.
More than 2,000 people denounced attacks on human rights, press freedom and dissent in Helsinki. HELSINKI: Protesters in the Finnish capital on Sunday denounced the meeting of a "man-baby" and "evil spy" as Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin prepared to go head to head in a historic summit clouded by Russia's alleged manipulation of the 2016 US election.
U.S. President Donald Trump drives a golf buggy on his golf course at Turnberry golf club, in Turnberry, Scotland, Sunday, July 15, 2018. President Trump and the First Lady spent the weekend in Scotland, as part of their visit to the UK before leaving for Finland where he will meet Russian leader Vladimir Putin for talks on Monday.
The Latest on President Donald Trump : 4 p.m. President Donald Trump is describing the European Union as a "foe" in an interview taped in Scotland. Trump told CBS News in an interview Saturday that he thinks the U.S. has "a lot of foes," including the bloc of European nations that are among America's closest allies.
U.S. first lady Melania Trump says she and her Finnish counterpart had a "good conversation about issues facing our nations." Mrs. Trump says in a tweet that she enjoyed Monday's talk, adding "Thank you to @JenniHaukio for hosting me!" Haukio is the wife of Sauli Niinisto , the president of Finland, which is welcoming Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russia for a summit.
Although President Donald Trump has met with Russia's Vladimir Putin twice before, he is eager to recreate in Finland the heady experience that he had last month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore: a summit that became a mass media event complete with powerful presidential images. Ever the showman and insistent on establishing closer ties to Moscow, Trump overruled his advisers and demanded the rituals and pageantry of a formal summit.
A day after the Special Counsel looking into Russian interference in the 2016 elections returned a new series of indictments against specific Russian intelligence agents, and just before his first summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed the Obama Administration for not doing enough to stop Russia's cyber meddling during his bid for the White House two years ago. "The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration," the President tweeted from Scotland, where he is spending the weekend at his Turnberry golf resort.
A summit between the leaders of the United States and Russia, scheduled Monday for this Baltic port city, appears to have no firm goals. But it is expected that U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss a wide range of issues, from nuclear arms reduction to the war in Syria, in which Washington and Moscow back opposing forces.
US President Donald Trump has played golf at his course on Scotland's west coast ahead of a summit with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin that could be overshadowed by accusations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. In an uproarious trip to Europe, Trump harangued members of the NATO military alliance, scolded Germany for its dependence on Russian energy and shocked Britain by publicly criticising Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy.
Demonstrators march in Edinburgh, Scotland, to protest President Trump during his visit to the country. Trump is spending the weekend out of the spotlight at his golf resort at Turnberry.
Two days before a high-stakes summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump spent part of Saturday playing golf and tweeting about his predecessor and a U.S.-based cable television network he accuses of covering him unfairly. "I have arrived in Scotland and will be at Trump Turnberry for two days of meetings, calls and hopefully, some golf - my primary form of exercise!" he tweeted early Saturday, referencing his seaside golf resort.
U.S. President Donald Trump plays golf at Turnberry golf club, Scotland, Saturday, July 14, 2018. Trump is spending the weekend at his sea-side Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland, where aides had said he would be busy preparing for his Monday summit in Helsinki, Finland.
The White House is rejecting calls from leading members of Congress to cancel a U.S.-Russian presidential summit in the wake of indictments that for the first time charge the Russian government with directly interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The indictments of 12 Russian military intelligence officers on July 13 for allegedly hacking and releasing thousands of documents and e-mails that were damaging to U.S. President Donald Trump's Democratic opponent came a scant three days before Trump's scheduled summit with President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland.
Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona says President Donald Trump must be willing to confront Russia's Vladimir Putin during their summit Monday in Helsinki. McCain's statement comes after the Justice Department announced charges Friday against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking into Democratic accounts during the 2016 presidential election.
Bipartisan Senate Panel Gives Middle Finger to Devin Nunes The Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have said the NSA, CIA, and FBI got it wrong when they assessed that the point of Russia's 2016 election interference was to harm Hillary Clinton and elect Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to bring up Russian election meddling during his upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin, part of a wide-ranging list of topics that could include sanctions and the status of Crimea. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he planned to discuss Ukraine, Syria and Crimea as well as election interference when he meets with the Russian president in Helsinki, Finland, next month in a summit he said could help defuse tensions between Moscow and Washington.