clinton campaign staffer. everyone here is talking about why john podesta refused to give the dnc server to the fbi and the cia. disgraceful. back to you, poppy. a surprising message for the president in the middle of this g-20 summit, indeed. sara murray, thank you. president trump is ready to meet with president putin in just a few hours, but we have new reporting on new concerns in the u.s. intelligence agency here about stepped up russian spying efforts across america. shimon prokupecz broke the story. russian spies are ramping up their intelligence gathering efforts here in the u.s., according to current and former u.s. intelligence officials who say they have noticed an increase since the election. the russians have not been slowed by retaal their efforts after they meddled in the election. officials say they ve been replenishing their ranks since the u.s. expelled 35 russian
interference. you said you think he will do it. do you have reason to believe he will do that in the next few minutes? i have reason to believe because he is a skilled negotiator and he knows it is relevant and there s no way to get around it. when russia desperately would like economic relief because of the sanctions. keep in mind, 50% of gdp is dependent on trade. it s $3.7 trillion, ours is $18 trillion. they need us more than we need them economically. the other thing trump brought up is get off our energy. oil and gas prices are already down and we ll have economic problems. i think that you can t get around this because of the sanction issue, if nothing else. michael hanlan reporting overnight. picking up spying efforts, let
trump and russian president, vladimir putin, finally face-to-face for the first time. both leaders voicing optimism before starting their high stakes talk. meantime, cnn has new information that russia intensified its spying efforts here in the u.s. since the election. i want to bring in producer, shimon. you are part of the team that broke this story alongside pamela brown and perez. the obama administration kicked out 35 as a result of hacking. now there may be 150 russian operatives here in the u.s. how is that happening and why? that s right. we have learned the russian spies are ramping up intelligence gathering in the u.s. officials say they have noticed an increase since the election. the russians have not been slowed by efforts after meddles in the election. officials say they have been
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
tomorrow morning, president trump meets face-to-face for the first time with russian president vladimir putin. joining me now, nicholas kristof, columnist for the new york times, and robin wright, joint fellow at the u.s. institute of peace and the woodrow wilson center. good evening to both of you. nick, you first. your reaction to cnn s new reporting tonight that the russians have escalated their spying efforts since the election, what do you think. well, it makes it i think all the more important, don, that president trump raise this issue in his meeting with president putin and it was certainly important already, i think, to raise the issue of interference in the election, but to the extent that we re talking about going forward into 2018, it becomes all the more important. and, you know, we just don t know, as some of your guests were saying, which trump is going to show up at that meeting. yeah.