announced sweeping new indictments of 12 russian intelligence agents. they are accused of hacking more than 300 individuals associated with the clinton campaign. dccc and dnc, beginning by at least march 2016. the president still plans to meet putin on monday despite calls from senate democrats and john mccain calling to cancel the helsinki summit. ahead of the big meeting, trump is spending the day golfing at his resort in scotland. where crowds of anti-trump demonstrators are also spending the day. want to bring in now aliza collins, capitol hill reporter for usa today and also kevin sar illy, chief washington correspondent for bloomberg and andrew desaid ario from the daily beast. great to have this gang with me as we jump in. kevin, i want to start with you. we knew from this indictment that the president knew about it, was briefed on it before this trip. but he said that when it comes to nato and theresa may, that
andrew, the topic for russians will be bad but watch as the president chastised our allies in nato this week. many countries owe us a tremendous amount of money for many years back. where they are delinquent as for as i m concerned. it is an unfair burden on the united states. i think it is very sad when germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with russia where you re supposed to be guarding against russia and germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars from russia. we re supposed to protect you from russia and they are paying billion dollars toward russia and i think that is inappropriate. what is the thinking about alienating nato members. from the president s perspective, he will argue he s been able to secure $34 billion in additional funding through nato. this is a criticism that the president is lobbed as well as
no other aides. no other members of the cabinet there. here is what russian foreign minister sergey lavrov told the kremlin-backed network rt about the thinking behind that decision. there will be no other aids in the room. you will not be in the room? well, as things stand now, that is what the american side proposed and we are polite people so we agreed. because they are polite. they agree. why do you think the president requested time alone with vladimir putin? david? or andrew, pad on me. no worries. biggest risk is the fact that has seemed prone in the past to adopt the rhetoric of people he meets with. you saw the last time he met with vladimir putin. he said, well, the president of russia said he didn t do it so