Other comments
- Two leaders acknowledged the challenge of cyber threats and interference in the democratic process in the US and other countries
- Trump pressed Putin on Russian involvement in the election. Putin denied Russia was involved in interfering
- Two men agreed to work on agreements about non-interference
- Russian/US representatives will work on solving the Ukrainian crisis
- Trump took note of actions taken by Congress including additional sanctions voted on in Senate
- Trump/Putin focuse on how to move forward
- Not clear the two countries will ever come to a resolution on the question of election interference
- Will ask Russia to do more on No Korea
- Experience with China has been uneven. They took action, then paused on No Korea
- It is a peaceful pressure campaign against No Korea if that fails there aren't too many good option left
- THAAD missile system did not come up in meeting
- We're asking No. Korea to be prepared to come to the table with understanding that we want to help you cease and roll back your nuclear program
- Trump/ Putin was very constructive. Two leaders connected very quickly. They had positive chemistry
- Spent a lengthy period talking about Syria
- At one point, the US First Lady interrupted the meeting to try and get the leaders to conclude the meeting (that's probably a first)
