not. including senior people whose job it is who need to know that information. so, again, you know, putting aside the question of what deals were/weren t struck, we don t know is the answer. and that in and of itself has made this week unprecedented, i think, in american diplomacy. there s a quote at the end of your what you wrote today that says, this is no way to run a superpower. i ll get to that. i want to play this. you said i want to read this for from your piece, there is no word on agreements a senior u.s. official told me. there is no information on the u.s. side about any agreements. so was putin lying? was trump? was it possible there was a misunderstanding and that trump thinks he made no commitments and putin thinks he did? it is terribly disturbing, the senior official said. the point is that we don t know. we don t know. susan, that is stunning. yes, it is stunning. it is really stunning, and the thing that i ve been struck by all along is that this is a
director of national intelligence dan coats. he learned the news from nbc s andrea mitchell during a live interview at the aspen security forum. we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. say that again. vladimir putin coming did i hear you? yes, yes. okay. yes. that s going to be special. that s going to be special. it is a noupsment comes after president trump faced massive bipartisan i m going to say that one more time bipartisan backlash for his commons with putin in finland. can you believe that was on monday? feels like a lifetime ago. namely for not backing trump s
thank you so much. we re going to leave it there. up in ex-, despite president trump s warning to putin, reports are that russia is still trying to hack the 2018 midterm elections. we re going to walk through the new plan to combat that threat and it includes alerting the public. but first, you knew this would happen. seth meyers raises the question, should we really be surprised that the reality show president is looking for a sequel with put putin. the white house announced today president trump plans to invite putin to washington this fall in what is sure to be the worst ever episode of undercover boss. introducing e trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you ll know what you re invested in and how it s performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your inflatable swan.
r orthodoxy, being tough on russia, going back to reagan. the president has changed that. he s done it on other issues. you look at the polling on tariffs. trump has changed that among republican voters. i actually think the walk-back week as we re calling it was the prime audience for that was republicans on the hill and all he needed to do was give them a fig leaf to go to people and say, oh, you know what, he s clarified. i don t believe there s a single member of congress who actually believes the president, you know, was sincere in reading that statement. i was in the room with putin and trump. that is what trump felt. he said what he felt. we know what he feels. reading from that statement, it s what he needed to do. i remember no one is convinced this is some sea change. when he read off state, he then went off script and reminded us yes, exactly, exactly. stunning.