Trump's Meeting With Putin
Officials from the two countries had differing accounts of what happened in the more than two-hour meeting.
by Krishnadev Calamur
Jul 07, 2017
4 minutes
Updated at 2:40 p.m. ET
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met Friday for the first time in the U.S. leader’s young presidency, an encounter that was marked by differing accounts of the issues discussed, some common ground, and areas of disagreement.
The meeting, which was held in Hamburg, Germany, on the sidelines of the G20 summit, was scheduled to last 35 minutes, but went on for more than two hours. Rex Tillerson, the U.S. secretary of state who attended the meeting along with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, said Melania Trump, the first lady, entered the room after an hour
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