The president s ad hoc style. All of that is of major concern as the president may very well give mr. Putin assurances, and that would be extremely dangerous to the National Security interest. I think we would have a very good chance for a relationship with america and president putin. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good saturday morning to you. The summit will go on. That is the message from the white house as President Trump will likely hit the links today. The president at golf ahead of his meeting with president putin. 12 russian intelligence officials are now facing charges of interfering in the election. President trumps response, im still the victim of a witch hunt and im open to a relationship with Vladimir Putin. Jeremy is in glasgow. What are you hearing . Reporter well, the president subpoena and already tweeting here this morning in scotland. We saw him take to twitter to address for the first time the indictment, 12 russian nationals related in the campaign, the hacking in particular of democratic emails. The president , though, is not necessarily bemoaning the russian actions. In fact, the focus appears to be that this occurred during the president obama era. You heard the story that it took place during the obama administration, not the trump administrations. Why didnt they do something more to stop this. This is the second reaction we heard from the white house. The first from the president. But yesterday, White House Press secretary Lindsey Walters put out a statement from the white house addressing these indictments. And she did focus, again, on the russians actions here, or russian intervention in the election. Instead, it was quite a defensive statement. Pointing out todays charges include no allegations of any involvement on anyone on the campaign. And this is consistent with what we have been saying all along. Notable, first of all, that shes referring to the alleged hacking here. Even though we do know that emails were indeed hacked during the 2016 election. Furthermore, the focus again here is really on defending the president and his campaign from any suggestion that they were involved in any of these russian activities. All of this, of course, coming as the president prepares for his meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. U. S. Officials have touted this as the first of the highlevel summit between the two leaders. This will be the most extensive meeting today. So far, the president has indicated that he does plan to raise election meddling again. At the same time, the president yesterday speaking alongside the british Prime Minister theresa may, making it clear that he doesnt bleen the russian actions are the biggest imp impedmentes to the actionsback to you guys. Yeah my diamond for us in glass glou. Meanwhile, antitrump protests are about to kick off in the next hour. Phil black is in the city of edinburgh, what are you seeing. Reporter the paparazzi last night, even before he arrived there was a big protest under way. And even bigger protest expected to begin in an hours time. And that is also, were going to see, the return of the trump baby balloon which was transported here overnight on a train from london. Other focus of protests in scotland is turnbury where the president is saying. And we saw an extraordinary event yesterday, a pilot glider piloted by a peace activist, flew very close to the hotel there, trailing an antitrump banner. The police say they are hunting that person because there are airspace restrictions in place, over the hotel, in order to protect the president and violating it, police say, is a criminal effect. One of the things that has annoyed some people here is the fact this is not a working visit for the president. This is essentially private time. Hell be staying at his resort, not meeting with skoshish government officials. There are some political leaders annoyed that they feel scotland is being left with a big bill of security and protection, millions of dollar, while they say the president is merely here to play golf and check in on his business interests. Phil black, appreciate the update. Lets remember from here, from scotland, President Trump going to finland for that oneonone meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin. And although lawmakers are calling for the meeting to be cancelled, the white house says the summit will go on. Senior correspondent Matthew Chance is live in helsinki do for us. Matthew, the president says he will absolutely bring this up. But he says hell firmly ask. Reporter right, look, this place where the conversation is going to be hd with Vladimir Putin by President Trump is unclear. Hes always said he would bring up the issue of russian interference. And the fact is, that the kremlin and the white house speak with a single voice on this issue. They used the same language. There was a reaction from the 12 indictments last night. After the indictments were named. And they said, it is fake news. In the past, they called it a witch hunt, exactly the same term that President Trump uses. And the russians, or the foreign ministry, they cast it as politically motivated. But also to undermine donald trump and divisive opponents in the United States. Thats the kind of language that trump likes to hear. Its how he speaks about it himself. So, far from being a point of confrontation between the two sides on the election meddling, it actually looks from here like something that both the president s can agree on which is an extraordinary situation, of course. There was an article written in Time Magazine by a woman that were going to talk to in a little bit, but he said at the end of the day, putin was basically already won. Because in tellers terms of op plays the game better than President Trump does. With that said, do the optics matter so much in russia, as much as they do around the rest of the world, or are the optics the same . Does russia view the optics of the leaders the way others would when they compare the two leaders . Reporter you know, christi, i think the optics are important but theyre not seen in the same way, if you catch my meaning. This meeting with Vladimir Putin is extremely important. Remember, putin has been isolated by mump of the International Community over the years. From the annexation of crimea, to the shooting down of mh17, the airliner, which, by the way, the fourth anniversary of that is just after the summit. And Bashar Al Assad in syria, and the chemical weapons in britain. All of this has led to sanctions, condemnation from the International Community. But the fact that putin is back at the top table meeting oneonone with the president of the United States is in itself a victory. Theyre also going to be looking for any concessions that trump might give. And it was a few days ago, that if president putin asks it, he will stop military exercises in the ballotic the baltics. Matthew chance, there in helsinki, in place of that summit for monday, thank you. As the president prepares to meet with putin, hes doing that to say that 12 russians were charged in the election. We now know that the president knew the indictments were coming even when he had some interesting things to say yesterday at the podium about the indictments and about the meeting with putin. Well talk about that. The question is should they really cancel the summit as democrats are calling them to do. Well get to that. Also, the audio of a plea to a family, a 6yearold girl is back with her mother after a month. Weve got their reunion coming up. 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Minutes after the hour and President Trump is facing pressure to confront Vladimir Putin or cancel their monday summit altogether, after 12 russian agents were charged with trying to influence the 2016 election. The white house says this meeting will go on, and as recently as yesterday, President Trump is still calling the Mueller Probe a witch hunt, despite the fact that Robert Mueller has now brought 191 criminal charges against 32 people and 3 companies so far. Reporter and coauthor of playbook at politico, daniel littman, and cnn legal analyst joey jackson. Gentlemen, thank you both for being here. Thank you. Joey, first and foremost, looking at the big picture, what is the significance of these latest indictments . Good morning. Heres the reality. The significance is that it confirms you know, i dont know how much more you can confirm and dispute and refute any notion of a witch hunt, that russia was just completely involved in the, you know, attacking in a cyber fashion of the system as it relates to the elections. The allegations in the indictment, christie, are very specific. These are not just people in russia who had Nothing Better to do, who are just saying, let me interfere one day. These are Intelligence Officers. And if Intelligence Officers are so intricately involved in hacking of the system, you know, the Democratic National committee, the Democratic Congressional committee, you know, just in this massive cyber attack, it makes you wonder, i wonder who directed that attack and i wonder how high that official was. It comes right back to putin, in my view. And so, i really would believe that any notion of some type of witch hunt or this is nonsense, that has to be refuted. National Security Experts say this could not have gone on without putins approval. So, with that said, daniel, when we look ahead to mondays meeting, if President Trump does not very boldly and aggressively confront president putin on this, can this meeting be even can it be called or characterized as successful, or would it be a failure at that point . Yeah, you have to remember the meeting with kim jongun in singapore, where the first few hours of coverage of that meeting was pretty positive. Things seemed to be going well. And yet, we saw in the letter that kim sent a few days ago, no mention of denuclearization. And so, if trump just checks off on his, you know, list, confront putin about election hacking, and doesnt actually present the evidence to putin, and then they just move on to other topics, then thats going to be a huge headline out of this summit. And there doesnt seem to be any real agenda for this monday meeting. All russia watchers, they usually see that theres a joint communique, and there is nothing here. So, it seems like just two leaders are catching up as old friends, almost. So, joey, what do the indictments tell you first of all about where muellers investigation stands . And secondly, do you expect, as some do, more indictments to come, possibly against some americans . You know, i really do. Having no inside information at all but just reading and evaluating what has happened so far. At the outset of this, you and victor put up the various indictments that have been made against, of course, many russian officials, in addition to the companies and americans also, but i think theyre doing it systematically. And what i mean by that is that you see mueller certainly pointing to the russian involvement by virtue of the last indictment in february and how Many Russians were involved, by virtue of this indictment and the 12 Intelligence Officers. And i really and fully expect the next step to be the shoe to drop in terms of what, if any, americans were involved, was there any collusion, et cetera. And you could note in the indictment itself, it does speak to the Intelligence Officers being in contact with one official who was in contact with the campaign. And so, i do otherwise anticipate that that would be the case, you know. And for finally, christi, for Rudy Giuliani to send out and i guess that hes the attorney to the president , the Public Relations person to the president but an irresponsible tweet suggesting the president s completely innocent. Right. And this goes to show that its all nonsense. I just think its irresponsible. Okay. Daniel, real quickly, the real question at the end of the day here is whats being done to prevent the same scenario in the midterms, in 2020 . Any indication that the white house has any plans to try to thwart any more interference . So, were relying on the department of Homeland Security and state election monitors and cybersecurity people for the states to protect them, themselves. It doesnt seem like trump is going to tell putin very much to stop interfering in the midterms. And so, this is really dangerous territory for the u. S. To have a repeat of this, because it seems like russia takes it much more seriously. They see it as a cyber war, and a lot of americans are just asleep at the switch. All right. Daniel lippman, joey jackson, appreciate both of you being with us today. Thank you. Thank you, christi. Thank you. My next guest knows Vladimir Putins plays inside and out. She authored the putin mystique, and she knows whatever happens at this summit, putin has already won. Thats her take, and ill ask her why. Mrs. , a mother and daughter separated at the southern border are reunited after nearly a month apart. Why their Story Made National Headlines in the first place and where they are today. 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Well, wed be talking about meddling, and i will absolutely bring that up. There wont be a perry mason here, i dont think, but you never know what happens, right . But i will absolutely, firmly ask the question. That was President Trump in the uk on friday talking about his meeting monday with Vladimir Putin and russias meddling in the 2016 election. Theyve talked about this before, during both the g20 meeting in germany last july and again in november at the apec summit in vietnam. After each meeting, President Trump said putin sincerely denied the claims. Mr. Trump told reporters, every time he sees he, me says, i didnt do that. And i believe, i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. Well, putin may mean it, but heres what the Intelligence Community determined. Two key findings in their january 2017 assessment russian president Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the u. S. President ial el