asia, he still managed to squeeze in three meetings with russian president vladimir putin on this trip. despite the fact that the white house never confirmed in advance whether or not those meetings would happen, luckily for us, the kremlin and russian media was able to let us know that those meetings had happened, as our soonest notification, as americans. after his meetings with putin, president trump found time to make extensive and uniformly supportive comments about putin and russia. i believe that he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. i believe that president putin really feels, and he feels strongly, that he did not meddle in our election. what he believes is what he believes. and, you know, people don t realize, russia has been very, very heavily sanctioned. they were sanctioned at a very high level. and that took place very recently. it s now time to get back to healing a world that is shattered and broken.
state department, under secretary of state rex tillerson. according to this new reporting, the u.s. state department has awarded a no-bid contract for security at the u.s. embassy in moscow, it s a no-bid contract, $2.8 billion contract, awarded without competition. that security contract has gone to, quote, a private russian company that grew out of a security business cofounded by havladimir putin s former kgb boss, a veteran spy who spent 25 years planting say gents in western security services. quote, security guards at the american embassy in moscow and at u.s. consulates in st. petersburg and vladivostok will be provided by elite security holdings, a company closely linked to former top kgb. his name is victor budanov. he and vladimir putin worked closely together as kgb officers. he has been vocally support of president putin. he helped start the firm.