disgraceful performances by an american president at a summit in front of a russian leader certainly that i ve ever seen. an extraordinary press conference. i m back with cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, david gergen, international anchor christian amanpour. christiane, given the opportunity, asked by an american reporter who he trusted on the issue of russian meddling, the u.s. intelligence or vladimir putin, he blinked and he went to hillary clinton s e-mail server. as to who he holds responsible, he holds both responsible. i think we are all to blame. we have a chance to make some great things. made no mention of the shooting down of a plane, crimea and election interference. in fact he said all he can do is ask the question about election
translator: president trump well, the posture of president trump on crimea is well known and he stands firmly by it. he continues to maintain that it was illegal to annex it. our view point is different. we held a referendum in strict compliance with the u.n. charter and international legislation. for us this issue and now to the compromising material. yeah, i did heard these rumors that these allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moscow. distinguished colleague, let me tell you this, when president trump was in moscow back then, i didn t even know that he was in moscow. i treat president trump with utmost respect, but back then when he was a private individual, a businessman, nobody informed me that he was in moscow.
we ll send a formal response. as i said, we can extend this cooperation, but we should do it on a reciprocal basis because we would await our russian counterparts to provide us access to the persons of interests for us who we believe can have something to do with intelligence service. let s discuss the specific issues and not use the russia and u.s. relationship as a loose change for this internal political struggle. a question for president putin, thank you. two questions for you, sir. can you tell me what president trump may have indicated to you about officially recognizing crimea as part of russia? and secondly, sir, do you does the russian government have any compromising material on president trump or his family?
well, president trump on crimea is well known and he stands firmly by it. he continued to maintain that it was illegal to annex it. our viewpoint is different. we held the referendum in strict compliance with the u.n. charter and international legislation. and now to the compromising material. yeah, i did hear these rumors that we allegedly collected compromising material on mr. trump when he was visiting moscow. distinguished colleague, let me tell you this. when president trump is in moscow back then, i didn t even know that he was in moscow. i treat president trump with utmost respect, but back then, when he was a private individual, nobody informed me he was in moscow. let s take st. petersburg economic forum for instance,