Meeting with Putin
By ADAM KELSEY
ALEXANDER MALLIN
Jun 29, 2017, 2:36 PM ET
President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at next week's G20 summit in Germany, National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster confirmed Thursday, amid investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump's campaign and the country's officials ...
On Monday, a spokesperson for the Kremlin said that Russia was ready to attend a full-scale meeting -- the first since Trump has taken office -- in addition to any interactions the pair would have at the summit.
In November 2013, Trump said on MSNBC that he did have "a relationship" with Putin, whom he claimed sent him "a present" when he attended the Miss Universe pageant in 2013, that he "got to know [Putin] very well" when they both appeared -- in separate segments -- on an episode of "60 Minutes" and that they had communicated "directly and indirectly."
Trump later walked back the idea of a relationship with Putin in a 2016 interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos ...
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