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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
Comes if it indeed does. sam kiley, thanks so much. well, let s talk more about these developments with leslie vinjamuri, she is head of the u.s. and america s program at chatham house. good to see you. always appreciate you coming on. thank you. at this point can you imagine a scenario for a trump/putin followup summit in the new future? what benefit would that serve? well, i think it would raise a lot of he questions right now. of course the reaction to this summit was certainly not favorable in washington. it is even not clear that it did much good for the president more generally, although the republicans are obviously staying with him. i think that there is when he gets too close to putin, i think there is a bit of a question and certainly americans even republicans i think were skeptical and not pleased to see him seemingly siding with putin overtelligence