vietnam. president trump and president putin there for the apec summit. the big question, will they meet? it could happen on summit side lines today, tomorrow or never. a top russian aide says the sit-down will happen today. but white house press secretary sarah sanders says no formal meeting is planned at the summit though the leaders might still bump into each other. any meeting between them comes amid multi investigations into meddling. the president also facing criticism for missing a deadline for enforcing sanctions for russian. the. the first meeting in july at the g 20 summit caused a diplomatic furor. russia said president trump accepted putin s assurance his country did not meddle in the 2016 election. the u.s. firmly denied that. this time, the white house hopes
russia said president trump accepted putin s assurance. this time, the white house hopes to keep the focus off the president s trip to vietnam squarely on business trade and security. for the late let s go to jeff zeleny. i ll say this once. good morning, vietnam. what s the latest? reporter: good morning vietnam to you, dave. i can tell you when president trump arrived here he did want to talk about the trade imbalance he s been talking about. but it is that meeting or perhaps not a meeting with russian president vladimir putin that is causing confusion here. the white house en route from beijing, said there would be no meeting. they would not be a formal meeting scheduled. but the criminal lkremlin spoke
michelle, there are still some areas of december s disagreemen. president trump accepted putin s denial he meddled in the u.s. election but the president tweeted he strongly pressed the russian leader on the issue. is there any way that we can figure out who s right? reporter: there are a lot of problems here. whenever you re dealing with russia and their statements, even their descriptions of phone calls or meetings, it always differs from the u.s. account. and because it s russia, you have to take whatever they re saying with a pile of salt. i mean, russia still denies they had anything to do with cyber meddling in the united states. then again, you know, donald trump and his campaign and the people around him have always played fast and loose with the truth and with facts as well. there s will the difficulty is. i mean, as soon as the u.s. description of what happened came out, all over social media there were doubts as to its
voracity. there are reasons for that. but you re dealing with russia. however, you know, we should point out that whenever somebody like secretary of state rex tillerson describes what is said, when he s asked directly, did the president accept that? tillerson denies that the president accepted putin s claims, but he keeps saying that he talked about concerns that the american people have. he never says that those concerns are shared by trump himself. and remember, it was only one day before this meeting with putin that he was there in poland casting enormous doubt on whether russia did play a role as well as, you know, as some describe it, throwing the u.s. intelligence community under the bus. wolf? interesting. michelle, thank you. michelle kaczynski at the state department. talk about all of these developments with my next guest. democratic senator jack reed of rhode island. ranking member of the senate armed services committee and a member of the senate committee
greg: what you mean? don t applaud that. what you make of it. greg: answer the question. i was startled by that put. we are missing the point. mr. trump can take all the credit for this. greg: who can? mainstream media, stand up and take a bow. they re going to read families out of their homes, they re going to take her firstborn and eat at heart. and then make you eat it too. then the giant people like me are going to come here kids, you gone. let s keep it real. greg: that is such a good. [cheering] i thank you reframe the conversation. it used to be about amnesty.