have a set of rules that enables us to determine who comes into our country and that is what as a government we have been doing and will continue to fuch do in the future. reporter: you spent the week taking on nato allies, criticizing prime minister may on her own soil and i wonder if are you giving russian president vladimir putin the upper hand given that you are challenging these alliances that he seeks to break up and destroy? see, that s such dishonest reporting, of course it happens to be nbc which is possibly worse than cnn. possibly. let me explain something. we have left nato with more money, more unit, more spirit than nato probably has ever had. we have a strong and powerful nato. when i became president we didn t. we had people that weren t
and also he tried to answer questions on crimea and a he said i ve been handed a bad hand. hold that thought. jim acosta, are you with me? reporter: sure. you tried valiantly to get a question in, the president said, and i quote, i don t take questions from cnn. what were you trying to ask him? reporter: yeah, he does take questions from cnn. he took a question from me in singapore at the conclusion of his summit with kim jung-un. but putting that aside, perhaps his own version of fake news there in saying that, i did try to ask a question at the very end of that press conference. i m not sure if you heard it because the president and prime minister were leaving the scene. i asked mr. president will you tell putin to stay out of u.s. elections. and he did turn and say yes. so, you know, the question that has been phrased to him in recent weeks is will you raise the issue of meddling with vladimir putin.
jonathan swan from axios. mr. president, two questions if i may. the first one, now your british trip is coming to a close, could you tell us the three or four things you hope to achieve in your meeting with vladimir putin and if second question, what s the benefit to america of having tens of thousands of american troops stationed in europe? thank you. so i ll be meeting with president putin on monday. we go into the meeting with a tremendous meeting that we had with nato. most of you have reported it correctly. it was testy at the beginning but at the end everybody agreed to come together and do what they should do and what they ve committed to do which you fully adhered to. you didn t have a problem but some people did and we left that meeting i think probably more unified and wealthier as a group than ever before so we go in
samen crimea. he blamed the annexation on barack obama, but he didn t say whether he would keep the sanctions on crimea or on russia as a result of that or whether he was open to making a deal as he suggested in the past. he actually as you note said about crimea, i was handed a bad hand and he said nothing much i have to say about it. so it makes you wonder what will you say about to vladimir putin. congressman, thank you for waiting patiently as we get through all of this breaking news. as a republican who weeks ago served in congress with president trump, what is your take on immigration? clearly he is talking to his base there. this is the only thing where he kept the same message in the sun interview as he did in the press conference saying its has been damaging for europe and they better watch themselves. smart play for his party?
he is president of the united states, he is achieving vladimir putin s foreign policy goals. unraveling nato and the european union. the european union is a 70 year peace project. and for the president to speak about it in these terms, i think it is terrible. i was one of the leaders on trans-atlantic relations in congress. words matter. his words are having terribleable terrible impac impacts. he has to cease and desist. it is helping russia. congressman dent, thank you. again, this is the last meeting that he will have with a foreign leader before this weekend and the next one is in helsinki on monday with vladimir putin. thank you all very much. a quick break and back with more. there are multiples on the table: one is cash, three are fha, one is va. so what can you do? she s saying a whole lotta people want to buy this house. but you got this! rocket mortgage by quicken loans makes the complex simple.