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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.
"Russia continues to say they had nothing to do with Meddling in our Election!," Trump tweeted at 7:25 a.m. "Where is the DNC Server, and why didn't Shady James Comey and the now disgraced FBI agents take and closely examine it? Why isn't Hillary/Russia being looked at? So many questions, so much corruption!" A half hour later, the White House announced that Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Helsinki, Finland on July 16. But coincidence or not, the twin events of Thursday morning serve as a very important reminder: Donald Trump appears to not believe that Russia not only actively interfered in the 2016 election but did so with the express goal of helping Trump and hurting Hillary Clinton. That is, of course, the unanimous conclusion of the intelligence community.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet for their first summit on July 16 in Helsinki, a venue famed for its Cold War diplomacy. The Kremlin and the White House simultaneously announced the place and date a day after reaching agreement for the two leaders to meet following a visit to Moscow by U.S. national security adviser John Bolton.Trump will meet Putin after attending a July 11-12 summit of NATO leaders and a visit to Britain.
Don't get me wrong; I understand why the prospect of a sit-down seems sensible. Scheduled for July 16, in Helsinki, Finland, Trump hopes to win progress from Putin on issues related to Ukraine, Syria, Iran's nuclear program, Russian cyberactivity, and Russian breaches of United Nations sanctions on North Korea.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a summit in Helsinki on July 16, the Kremlin and the White House announced Thursday.
The summit between US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will take place in Helsinki on July 16. The synchronised announcement by the Kremlin and the White House comes a day after Mr Trump's national security adviser John Bolton held talks with Russian officials in Moscow to lay the groundwork for the meeting in the capital of Finland. Mr Trump said on Wednesday that "getting along with Russia and with China and with everybody is a very good thing".
As my colleague Priscilla Alvarez reported on Wednesday , the Republican nominee has made several comments in recent days that suggested he might be softening up his views, veering away from the hardline stance in which the only suitable solution to illegal immigration was a massive deportation of some 12 million people. Trump only deepened the mystery later that day.