Trump asks for help to invite Putin to Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked National Security Adviser, John Bolton, to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington in the fall of 1969. This is the last update of Thursday's meeting. Trump with Putin, Finland. Sanders said that "these discussions are already underway" for an autumn meeting between the two presidents

That would probably happen at the White House, but Sanders did not say where Trump and Putin would meet.

In a tweet about Putin earlier on Thursday, Trump said, "I look forward to our second meeting."

Senate Rebuke

The news of the invitation came as the Senate overwhelmingly endorsed a resolution banning Russia from questioning former US ambbadador Michael McFaul or the United States. other US officials.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hastily organized the vote on the non-binding resolution after Democrats proposed the measure in response to what Trump had called Putin's "incredible offer".

Putin offered to interrogate 12 Russians accused of interfering In the 2016 election, in exchange for permission to interview Americans by the Kremlin, the Kremlin accuses unspecified crimes.

Faced with bipartisan criticism, the White House said Thursday that Trump "did not agree" with Putin.

Sanders said the proposal had been "made sincerely" by Putin but that Trump "did not agree".

The White House statement came a few moments before senators voted 98-0 on the resolution, with all the Democrats and most of the Republicans supporting it

. Even though the State Department has described Russia's allegations against the Americans as "absurd".

The Ministry of Justice announced last week indictments against 12 Russian military intelligence officers for their role in hacking Democratic groups. The record –

Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, also weighed on the ongoing controversy in Russia on Thursday. Coats made news on Monday when he issued a statement shortly after Trump's controversial statements in Helsinki claiming that the DNI takes for granted that Moscow has been ingested in the elections. "1965" I was doing my job, "he told NBC Aspen Security Forum was questioned about his decision to support the work of US intelligence agencies

Shortly after accepting the post, he told the president that he would always bring him information "in as far as possible, unvarnished, without politicization, the best that our incredible intelligence agency can produce. "[19659002WhenweaskedhimabouttheTrumpdeclarationinHelsinkihesaid"Ineedtomakeacorrection"

" Of course, I would have liked to make a different statement, but I think that has been clarified. "

C According to oats, although it is possible that other actors are trying to ingest in the US elections, it is" undeniable that the Russians take the lead " Basically, it is they who are trying to undermine our fundamental values, to divide us with our allies.

"They are the ones who are trying to sow chaos in our electoral process – we have to denounce them, it is He said that the United States should also take steps to ensure that Russia can not interfere with the mid-term vote to be held in 2018.

One of the questions that attracted Trump from the top is what was said exactly in the private part, when he and Putin met only accompanied by his translators

Coats – who was appointed by Trump – said Thursday that he does not know not what was said at the meeting.

"I think time pbades, and the president has already mentioned some things I think we will learn more, but it is the prerogative of the president," added Coats.

For Further Details

Earlier in the day, Republicans of the US Intelligence Committee blocked a summons the US translator from the Helsinki summit to testify on the private part of the meeting.

The senior Democrat of the panel, Representative Adam Schiff, said Thursday that he wanted the translator, who works for the State Department, to go in camera, saying the Congress must " find what was said "during the two-hour meeting.

The California legislator said that he realized that it was an "extraordinary" step to badign the performer, but he added that he was equally extraordinary that the president meets only an opponent of the United States.

Senate Democrats urged the interpreter to determine whether Trump had agreements with Putin during the session.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, on Thursday questioned senior administration officials, including US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis, who were briefed on any military or military deal. security between Trump and Putin.

Not "appropriate"

Republicans have set a public hearing next week for Pompeo to testify at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The chairman of this group, Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, said he was opposed to continuing the translator's notes of Trump's meeting with Putin.

"That does not seem like the right place to go," Corker said.

In the House, the chairman of the California Devin Nunes Committee led the Republicans in a party line vote to table the motion. Nunes said that a panel hearing on China was not an appropriate venue. Voting was 11-6.

Russian politicians denounced suggestions that the translator be questioned.

The Russian ambbadador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, expressed hope Thursday that "verbal agreements between Putin and Trump will be fulfilled." Russian officials fear that the internal turmoil in the United States will hinder future cooperation on Syria or arms control discussed at the summit.

Russian authorities ignored Trump's extremely contradictory accounts of what he told Putin on Monday. They are however angry at the proposals of US lawmakers to question Trump's translator.

Konstantin Kosachev, head of the upper chamber of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Russian Parliament, said Thursday that the idea creates a dangerous precedent. idea of ​​diplomacy, "according to Russian news agencies.