minutes later refused to conclude that russia meddled in the u.s. election. new cnn reporting this morning says russia has even stepped up its spying efforts in the u.s. more in a moment. for the latest, let s turn to the white house correspondent covering this for us, sara murray, live in hamburg. president trump meets putin face to face in just a few hours. it will be fascinating to see the optics of this meeting. reporter: yes, it is a very highly anticipated and will be closely scrutinized. this is expected to be a brief meeting between these two world leaders. an intermat one, as well. they re expected to be joined by trump s secretary of state rex tillerson as well as foreign minister lavrov. in the runoff to the meeting, trump and putin have had sharp words for one another. putin wrote an article in a german newspaper taking aim at the sanctions the u.s. levied