Ryan says ‘no question’ Russia interfered

While Politicians express concern that the United States president would not align with North Atlantic Treaty Organisation interests, protesters in Helsinki say both Trump and Putin are not welcome.

There was some initial optimism that Trump would represent a fresh start for the USA and Russia – Russia’s state-run media greeted Trump’s election with a wave of positive coverage, though that subsided quickly. “Too often in both recent past and long ago, we have seen the consequences when diplomacy is left on the table”.

Associated Press reporter Jonathan Lemire asked Trump who he believed: the U.S. intelligence community, which has overwhelming said that Russian Federation interfered with USA elections, or Putin?

Top Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer of NY, says never in the history of the country has a USA president supported an adversary the way Trump supported Putin.

Husseini’s forcible removal caused a commotion minutes before the Trump-Putin press conference, as Husseini struggled against the police officers who pulled him out of the room.

May says she “welcomes” the summit but wants to see a change in Russia’s actions.

The Ukrainian issue at the meeting, trump and Putin is not the main theme.

His handling of the Putin meeting drew scathing reactions from lawmakers. On Sunday, the Republican senator followed the calls of several top Democrats and tweeted that the President should not be “dignifying Putin with the meeting”. Corker added that he thought Putin was likely celebrating the outcome of the meeting.

“I wasn’t doing a protest”, Husseini said in an AP interview.

“No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant”, said McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. President Trump opened his statement by saying that he was there “to continue the proud tradition of bold American diplomacy”, and added that diplomacy and dialogue were preferable to conflict and hostility.

The Russian foreign ministry “liked” his words and tweeted back: “We agree”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that it was the responsibility of both the United States and Russia to maintain global security.

Russian Federation denies interfering in the USA presidential election.

He continued when asked about the Mueller probe by another reporter: “When you hear the 12, 14 [12 Russians were indicted at the weekend as part of the probe]… these people had nothing to do with the campaign”.

Bolton himself has also negotiated with Putin during the Bush years. They met on the sidelines of world leader meetings in Germany and Vietnam past year. Trump initially supported it, but then reversed himself. “He feels very strongly about it and he has an interesting idea”.

Trump congratulated Putin on Russia’s hosting the World Cup and said he looked forward to discussing a slate of issues with the Kremlin leader.

It came just three days after the special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers for efforts to interfere in the 2016 USA presidential election. What happened to Hillary Clinton’s emails?

Former CIA chief John Brennan went further, suggesting Trump should be removed from office: “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors”.