these are under US sanctions right now Byron do you expect do you expect the
president President Trump to bring up those sanctions with Vladimir Putin well
I would certainly expect it to come from Putin who they're obsessed with US
sanctions and getting relief from US sanctions I think one of the things that
is missed in some of the popular conversation about President Trump
because he's been accused of you know going easy on on Putin and refusing to
criticize Putin is that actually the Trump administration has been quite hard
on Russia perhaps much harder than previous ones in arming Ukraine in in
increasing sanctions not just general sanctions with sanctions on individual
wealthy Russians all sorts of things the president has actually done that are
quite negative from a Russian point of view well see what gets done today we
are waiting the two world leaders to emerge byron york thank you nearly five
o'clock in the afternoon in helsinki we are awaiting president Trump's joint
news conference with Vladimir Putin we'll bring that to you live when it
begins as our special split edition of America's newsroom rolls on right after
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president Trump meeting with russia's President Vladimir Putin right now in
Helsinki their joint news conference is set to begin at any moment now as we
await that welcome to a brand new hour of America's newsroom I'm Sandra Smith
good morning bill hey Sandra good morning i'm bill hemmer here in helsinki
we are live five o'clock in the afternoon we're across from Finland's
presidential palace a yellow building behind me that is where at the moment
Presidents Trump and Putin have been meeting and they've been meeting for
several hours just to let our viewers know in case you're just joining us
today we started this day four hours ago and Vladimir Putin arrived here in
Helsinki as you see the room where the press conference will begin we await on
that President Putin arrived on his plane today he was thirty minutes late
president Trump came in last night after stopping at his Golf Resort in Turnberry
Scotland and President Putin sometimes has shown up late often for world
leaders he who showed up late for the Pope and that was his style again today
so they got off to a later start than expected about 4550 minutes but they met
for two hours one-on-one just translators at that point and then at
the conclusion of that two-hour meeting they were bounced they brought in the
da's that you see with John Bolton and Mike Pompeo and a general Kelly in the
room there and that meeting is what is happening now that's phase 2 phase 3
will be the press conference we expect two questions aside that may go longer
it may not so we await that drama to find out what comes of it I want to
bring it at Henry right now with Mirren Helsinki and Daniel Hoffman former CIA
station chief here in Helsinki and also in Moscow and now a Fox News contributor
among many other things guys great to see you I think Dan we were talking
during the break is you're looking at the video and you're examining body
language Vladimir Putin ran the secret police in the Soviet Union after the
club so how do you characterize his person after the collapse Oh Boris
Yeltsin's in power this in the 1990s how do you
characterized the way he looks at security or the way of government should
surveil its people so we usually with Vladimir Putin we talk about his
formative experience as a KGB officer during the Soviet evil empire days but
he also was the director of the FSB which is Russia's internal security
police they're the ones responsible for oppressing their own population denying
them democracy and freedom and liberty all the things we hold near and dear and
then tracking the foreigners chief among them the United States officials in
Russia because we represent such a threat we are for Russia and for
Vladimir Putin the main enemy gladney productive Nick in Russian you don't
like him do you I think he likes me a lot less perhaps I
don't know it's it would be a good be good to chat about that with him the
president would call him bad hombre tuck Andrei I add you you've been to a lot of
these summits over the years of President Bush and President Obama
how would you characterize so far what you've seen is it normal as its standard
or is it not not really standard because I don't think anything with President
Trump is standard at any of these summits we saw that in Singapore you
know one minute there's a quick handshake with Kim jong-un then a few
minutes later to the press is scrambled and there's longer handshakes and more
pictures and then President Trump says to the press after a couple of hours of
meetings you know that it also went on maybe a little longer than expected get
ready we're gonna sign something and everybody's scrambling the wire services
are crossing pigs in the middle of the night something's being signed right and
so this is a president like no other and so I'm not surprised not just that Putin
showed up late maybe he was trying to make a statement as you suggest but also
that now once it gets started that's the key the substance of it this is going on
there are no rush they're taking their time there's a lot they want to discuss
I think the mainstream media back in the United States wants to say that the
focus should be meddling in the 2016 election but both these leaders in their
brief remarks when the cameras are in there made it clear they want to talk
about a whole bunch of other things you know Syria Iran so let's see what plays
out in one other style point we look at that live picture on the left as I
compare it to Singapore when I said President Trump said to the press corps
get ready we're gonna sign something what happened next
was there was a table brought in with the North Korean flags and the American
flags and a bunch of pens because they were literally gonna sign that agreement
with Kim jong-un in this case maybe no big deal but it's two podiums it's not a
table there are no pens there's no signing server but now of
course they can add a table later of course maybe a little sigh don't want to
over read it you know they're gonna spin it both ways as opposed to necessarily
signing something I said to you two days ago here in Helsinki I'm not sure what
comes out of this and I would not be surprised if nothing came out of it yes
is it still fair to another point look president Trump's been consistent about
a couple of these things one is he said in the campaign everybody's out to get
Russia they do do bad things but if we have a better relationship with them we
can get their help in Syria and with Iran and whatnot he's consistent on that
and he also said in the campaign something that has critics is they're
always sort of shook their head among other things was that he had more
stamina than Hillary Clinton and if he was elected he'd work harder than any
president you look at his schedule he worked pretty hard
June 12th 13th I believe it was in Singapore we dan and I both flew over
there 28 21 our flight each way this man is what 72 years old
71 almost 72 and bottom line is then he deals with the NATO summit and he's in
the UK for a couple of days he stops over in Scotland he's here now for a day
what's August could it be like this guys ready to leave his imprint on the world
stage Brett Kavanaugh was announced one week ago - yeah don't forget before it
again when Vladimir Putin gets back on that plane and flies back to Moscow how
does he declare a sense of accomplishment I don't want to use the
word victory but a sense of accomplishment here and else thank you
well I think he's been using his media and they're here today I've been
listening to them out front here just below he's using his media to get up get
the themes out already which is that President Trump needed to come to Russia
to solve the great problems of the world and that elevates Putin stature
geographically you're about as close as you can get to Russia here in Helsinki
right exactly I mean President Trump wasn't gonna go to Moscow for the first
summit but this is about as close as you can get and for Putin I think he wants
to demonstrate to his own people that he really matters he portrays himself as
the defender of Russia the besieged fortress essentially and you know he's
the guy in whom Russians can trust to defend their national interests those
are the key themes I think that he'll want to nominate it doesn't it also
suggests that the Russians want to get out there that President Trump the great
world leader is coming to the Russian President to settle these big issues
that I suppose reporters I mean that's what Vladimir Putin will say he'll say
look we're a resurgent country we're active in the Middle East we're the big
player in the Middle East North Korea or even in your backyard in Latin America
and in your cyberspace there's no secret theory there's a Kremlin return address
on just about every single thing they've done to us in cyberspace and purposely
so and that's Vladimir Putin's point he wants to show that he can go toe-to-toe
with his main enemy I think when you talk about the cyber war the Russians
have excelled at this and if you read the indictment on Friday that came out
by Bob Muller and adding 12 Russian Intel officers it is very specific but
the Russians have excelled in this for a reason that's how they can disrupt the
normal order of the world today right so here's an example of our multifaceted
relationship with Russia here in Helsinki last month chairman of Joint
Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford met with his Russian counterpart Valery
Gerasimov to deconflict Syria battlespace Grasim
of is the author of the hybrid war which the Russian military intelligence GRU is
deployed against Georgia and operated against us in cyberspace so we've got
concurrently Russia threatening our national interests and the two countries
coming together to try to solve some things where our interests coincide if
that's a microcosm of our big relationship right there
very interesting anecdote press conference yeah did they take two
aside Arthur are the reporters preordained how does that work typically
the American administration not who knows what the Russians will do because
Vladimir Putin doesn't take a lot of questions he doesn't have a free press
as Dan suggested he's putting out his propaganda message to the Russian folks
and and they're doing that so they're probably gonna ask pretty gentle
questions the American media it's gonna be a free-for-all because this is your
first and maybe only crack in your career at Vladimir Putin who doesn't
take a lot of questions as I say and everybody wants to know what happened in
the last election I don't think he's gonna give a lot of ground on that why
would he I mean he's gonna try to control the message as any leader would
I suspect though while Putin will want less questions a president Trump at
these recent events and talking very going and I think he might take more
questions and he's willing to fight on the meddling thing and say look I asked
him about it enough is enough let's move on to bigger subjects look let's also
think about what happened before Singapore where was the president he was
in Canada at the g7 what did he say to upset the applecart among other things
this maybe should be the g8 Russia should be back in the table instead of
the g7 oh and then at fast forward to NATO on the way here there's the fights
with Germany about the Russian pipeline all that but the broader thing that
people can't get lost on with the little fights here and there big picture is
these leaders in Germany and France Canada they're seeing that the American
president is dominating the world stage and yes as the Russians are suggesting
he's coming to them and President Xi of China who by the way President Trump
mentioned at the beginning of this meeting right away so it's basically the
US Russia and China they're running the show Germany France and others the UK
which is in turmoil over brexit see they're surrounding the president just
one more observation here at the initial pool spray three hours ago I believe
three and a half President Putin has a he's I don't want to use the word mellow
but he Demers a little bit and in the way he addresses the meeting the press
what is his style when you compare him coming off the the steps of that
airplane taking his coat off in Helsinki grant it's a hot day here today
but that play is to someone back home yeah he's you know the CIA producers
produces leadership analysis we've got analysts who look at Vladimir Putin and
use all source analysis so they can explain to president Trump here's what
makes him tick I've heard a lot of people describe him as a mafia boss as a
guy who wants to show everyone that he's the man in charge he's in control it's
kind of his attitude you know it probably works with his own people a lot
less effectively than it's gonna work with us got a quick story I remember
covering President Bush George W Bush and one of his aides told me after a
meeting with Putin that they were struck by one one thing among others which is
that President Bush had I think was at Camp David or somewhere and he had
Barney what one of his small dogs and he showed him off to Putin and Putin did
one of the you know like he's a little small dog and then pointed to his staff
like get my dog's my next thing you know as as this Bush staffer put it he was
basically yelling this wasn't the name of the dog for Thor get over here and
this dog that's like nine times the size of Bush's dog shows up every little edge
that Putin thinks he cannot saying he succeeded but my dogs bigger than yours
he tried gentlemen really great to talk to say okay we'll talk to you next time
you're Daniel Edwards thank you nice to see you back to Sandra now in New York
the the bilat continues updates when we get a mirror's we're at that press
conference Andra sure thing bill we're counting down to that joint news
conference any moment now we should see President Trump and Vladimir Putin right
now we've got a live look inside of the briefing room this as Trump and Putin
continued their expanded bilateral talks we will take you back to Helsinki
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