find that russian officials find it exceeded their expectations. i ll speak with a congressman and our correspondents and specialists standing by now with full coverage. we begin with our breaking news. cnn exclusive. the helsinki summit may have been panned everywhere else but intelligence sources revealed that russian officials were, quote, pleased with the meeting of president trump and vladimir putin. these sources tell myself and jenna mclaughlin u.s. and western intelligence assessments found that the kremlin believes it delivered a better than expected outcome and that the russians were especially satisfied with the news conference in which president trump standing right beside putin voiced doubts about the u.s. intelligence community s conclusion that russia interfered in the 2016 election. but a source tells us that the russians were perplexed by the administration s move last week to impose new sanctions on
i think there was a sense consistent sense of president trump standing there next to vladimir putin and praising him in that way as not being productive for the problems that the world is having with russia right now, of him standing there and praising putin, that just doesn t that s not something that is going to lead to more productive conversations. but then, you know, that being said, the administration people have spoken and said, look, he had to take a chance. he had to reach out and try with vladimir putin. what s been particularly surprising is announcing there s another meeting in d.c. what s going to come of that? what s the agenda? how does that advance the discussion? that s another thing we haven t got a good answer to. hard to know. we don t know what happened in the first meeting. one before the second. we don t know an agenda for either. courtney, always good to get your insights. thanks, courtney. coming up next, is it a tale of
dana, as you said, a dangerous one it is. we do anticipate there to be a press conference. it s going to be fascinating to see what level of detail both men go into if at all. it is going to be it s hard to say this because every day, every five minutes you have a fascinating kind of mind bending moment from this president, but nothing is going to top what we re going to see with president trump standing next to president putin making statements and presumably we hope answering questions from reporters. because the president clearly went into this meeting trying to kill vladimir putin with kindness. and he took that to such an extent that as you ve been talking about it and it bears repeating the president of the united states went on to twitter and effectively trashed his own country, people in his own country ahead of a meeting with
americans they re not going to get an easy answer to this one because it s just weird. katy, have a good afternoon. good afternoon to all of you. it was a summit that can be summed up in one word, stunning. a disgrace. those are words, by the way, from president trump from today s summit. it wasn t a characterization against the russian government for interfering in u.s. elections, trump s criticism, a disgrace, was leveled against fbi official peter strzok reiterating again that the mueller investigation is a, quote, witch hunt. trump standing alongside russia s president, vladimir putin, broadcast to the world exactly where his priorities rest. i think that the united states has been foolish. i think we ve all been foolish. we should have had this dialogue a long time ago. i think that the probe is a disaster for our country. there was no collusion at all. everybody knows it and that was a clean campaign. i beat hillary clinton easily
president trump standing firm that his zero tolerance policy must be maintained at the border. we have to have a very tough policy. otherwise, you have millions and millions of people pouring into our country. we can t have that. we have no choice. reporter: but e-mails from customs and border protection september yesterday obtained by cnn shows zero policy has been curtailed for now after the agency told field offices to us is to suspend. and president trump contradicting his own order, saying some family separations may still occur. i signed a very good executive order yesterday, but that he wants only limited. no matter how you come, it leads to separation ultimately. the justice department asking a federal judge to phouf a court order that limits the ability of u.s. officials to detain children more than 20 days.