WATCH: U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman says the Trump-Putin meeting "isn’t a summit" #MTP #IfItsSunday@jonhuntsman: "You don't know what's going to come out of this meeting" with Putin pic.twitter.com/OrS2vEMqA7
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) July 15, 2018
As part of the "low expectations" that Pres Trump says he has for the Putin summit, US officials are admonishing reporters not to call it a "summit." US Amb to Russia Jon Huntsman told @MeetThePress "it isn't a summit. It's a meeting."
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) July 15, 2018
Heading to Helsinki, Finland – looking forward to meeting with President Putin tomorrow. Unfortunately, no matter how well I do at the Summit, if I was given the great city of Moscow as retribution for all of the sins and evils committed by Russia…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 15, 2018
Trump says it never occurred to him to challenge Putin on election hacking and the indictment of 12 Russian spies during Helsinki talks. https://t.co/BRp7t1jyV2
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) July 15, 2018
VIDEO: More than 2,000 people protest in Helsinki denouncing attacks on human rights, press freedom and dissent as the city prepares to host an historic US-Russia summit where Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are to meet pic.twitter.com/3TpqCIOKjO
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2018
Look, who is coming out if the blimp! #Helsinki protest ahead of #Trump #Putin summit pic.twitter.com/r0WW8p7b5b
— Bernd Thomas Riegert (@RiegertBernd) July 15, 2018
Pres. Trump and Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin will meet Monday at Finnish presidential palace in Helsinki that overlooks the Baltic Sea — the same venue where two of their predecessors met in 1990. https://t.co/TqBvEuLSGn pic.twitter.com/D871SFX9ia
— ABC News (@ABC) July 14, 2018
Ahead of the Trump-Putin meeting here, Finland’s largest newspaper has put up ads around Helsinki which are less than complimentary about the visiting leaders. The sign in Russian says: “Putin is trying again to bring the media to heel.” pic.twitter.com/Oy89XnP2WJ
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) July 15, 2018
Trump and Putin are unlikely to strike a grand bargain, but the EU and NATO are counting the ways the summit could go wrong https://t.co/vHZgMBAS4i via @BW pic.twitter.com/iVFKTqSWTl
— Bloomberg Politics (@bpolitics) July 15, 2018
Kremlin hopes Helsinki summit may pave way for Trump Moscow visit https://t.co/Pj5ed3v1z3 pic.twitter.com/Nc8XOKn3Sz
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 13, 2018
Trump once wondered if Putin might 'become my new best friend?' Ahead of their first summit the world is asking a similar question https://t.co/wjkGc9gcER pic.twitter.com/OqQ2DmdFm0
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2018
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