The White House on Thursday declared that a “vast government-wide effort” was underway to stop foreign powers meddling in upcoming midterm elections in the US, reassuring voters and rebutting recent criticism. The most senior figures in America’s intelligence and national security agencies made a succession of speeches from the White House press briefing podium accusing Russia of continuing to pursue a “pervasive” campaign to "weaken and divide the United States”. Ahead of November's midterms, they warned that American democracy was in the “crosshairs” of foreign adversaries and that on-going action was needed to protect the country’s “free and fair” elections. And they said that while current Russian interference was not as sizable as that seen before the 2016 presidential election, it was only "one keyboard click away” from escalating. The comments came alongside a letter from John Bolton, … [Read more...] about White House declares ‘vast government-wide effort’ underway to stop US election meddling
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Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to visit Washington and ‘looking forward’ to it, says White House
Donald Trump has invited Vladimir Putin to Washington for a summit in the autumn amid a fierce backlash over his friendly stance towards Russia. Mr Trump instructed John Bolton, his national security adviser, to make the invitation just days after the two leaders met in Helsinki, where they spent two hours alone with just interpreters. The US president has faced widespread criticism after declining to publicly condemn Mr Putin over Russian interference in the 2016 US election when they appeared at a press conference in Helsinki. Mr Trump said he was "looking forward" to the second meeting and they would discuss issues including nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, Israel, and North Korea. It came amid growing opposition to Mr Trump's approach to Russia from the US intelligence community. Dan Coats, Mr Trump's own Director of National Intelligence, said he still did not know what happened in the one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, and wished Mr Trump had not pursued it. Mr Coats, … [Read more...] about Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to visit Washington and ‘looking forward’ to it, says White House
White House says talks underway for Vladimir Putin to visit Washington in the fall
Gregory Korte USA TODAY Published 8:10 p.m. UTC Jul 19, 2018 WASHINGTON – The White House said discussions are underway for Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington this fall, as a follow-up to the highly controversial summit in Helsinki this week. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that the meeting was intended to continue "an ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council staffs." She said President Donald Trump had asked his national security adviser, John Bolton, to extend the invitation. Earlier Thursday, Trump said he looked forward to a second meeting "so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more." … [Read more...] about White House says talks underway for Vladimir Putin to visit Washington in the fall
White House urged to give full account of Trump’s private talks with Putin
The White House was under growing pressure on Thursday to provide a full account of Donald Trump’s private talks earlier this week with Vladimir Putin, as Russian officials spoke of “important verbal agreements” made. As some Democrats went as far as to push for the US translator in the room during Monday’s summit in Helsinki to give an account to Congress, Putin on Thursday hailed the meeting as a “success”. In the aftermath of the outcry from Democrats and some Republicans around Trump’s remarks, in which he sided with Putin rather than US intelligence over Russian interference in US elections, attention shifted to what was said in the private talks. This was heightened after comments on Wednesday by Russia’s ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, who told reporters in Moscow the two leaders had reached “important verbal agreements”, including preservation of the New Start and INF arms control agreements. Antonov, who called … [Read more...] about White House urged to give full account of Trump’s private talks with Putin
Trump-Putin summit ‘is on’ says White House
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