White House says Trump ‘open’ to Putin meeting – USA

The White House denied that the omission was deliberate.

U.S. President Donald Trump will postpone a second meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin until next year after the federal probe into Russian election meddling is over, national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Trump is open to receiving the official invitation and that Trump “looks forward” to a Putin visit to the United States sometime next year. A call to Marine Corps Squadron One, which oversees the Marine One fleet and works with the White House on ferrying the president, went unanswered; there was no voicemail for a reporter to leave a message.

A day after another chaotic day at the White House, President Donald Trump won’t be holding one of his signature mini-press conferences as he leaves the mansion Thursday morning.

Meanwhile, other journalists – including from rival networks – came to Collins’ defense.

Putin last visited the USA in 2015 for a session of the United Nations General Assembly in NY and a meeting with former U.S. president Barack Obama.

Trump has a particularly fraught relationship with CNN, which he often blasts as purveyor of “fake news'”.

DONALD Trump has indefinitely delayed his second meeting with Vladimir Putin until the probe into his links with Russian Federation has concluded, his national security adviser has revealed.

“There was hope that dialogue would start after the talks between Putin and Trump”.

Information for this article was contributed by Felicia Sonmez and Anton Troianovski of The Washington Post; by Andrew Higgins of The New York Times; and by Matthew Lee, Ken Thomas, Jill Colvin, Darlene Superville and Jim Heintz of The Associated Press. As he was departing, Trump did not respond to questions about his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

Following the backlash in the United States over Trump’s cordial public tone with Putin in Helsinki, US and Russian officials backed away from Trump’s proposal to schedule a follow-up meeting in Washington in the fall.

It added: “They were not”.

The White House had said the omission was “by no means malicious”, blaming an audio glitch.

Collins had served as a representative of the television networks during an earlier pool spray in the Oval Office.

She also said that the White House does support a free press.

“This type of retaliation is wholly inappropriate, wrong-headed, and weak”.

Collins, who referred questions to CNN representatives, detailed the episode on CNN, prompting anchor Wolf Blitzer to say the White House should issue a formal apology. “It doesn’t happen and shouldn’t happen in the United States”.

“With the obstruction [of justice] thing, it’s more a question of we don’t see the legal basis for a president obstructing by merely taking an action in firing somebody that he had every right to fire”, he said. Fox News announced it stood with CNN, saying the decision to keep Ms. Collins from covering the president’s press conference interfered with the press’s unfettered access.