bureau. keir, what can you tell us? vladimir putin coming to trump's rescue? come on now. >> yeah, this is a pretty stunning intervention by the president of russia in effectively u.s. domestic politics. unusual for him. oftentimes he will avoid a question that asks him to comment directlyn what's happening in the states, but here, at a news conference alongside the italian prime minister in russia in the black sea resort of sochi, vladimir putin talking about that meeting president trump had with foreign minister lavrov and saying that they do not believe, the russians, that they were passed any sensitive intelligence in that meeting. president putin saying, i spoke to lavrov, his foreign minister, today. and joking in kind of a deadpan way that president putin does, i'll be forced to issue him with a reprimand because he did not share those secrets with us, not