Network Take: No Surprises from the Trump and Putin Meeting

President Donald Trump immediately brought up the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election during his first face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, according to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, along with translators, were the only others in the room for the meeting on Friday. The discussion took far longer than the planned half hour, lasting two hours and 15 minutes.

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