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    Trump invites Putin to Washington, rejects his request to interrogate former Ambassador Michael McFaul

    by Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times Jul 20, 2018 6 minutes

    WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unexpectedly invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit Washington this fall, the White House announced Thursday, just after he belatedly rejected Putin's unprecedented request to interrogate a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow and other Americans.

    The announcement of the invitation came just three days after Trump's much-criticized summit with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, and as Trump's director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, was describing in an interview televised live on the major cable news networks the "undeniable" threat of Russian cyberattacks and his fear of a "cyber 9/11."

    Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said "discussions are underway" with Russia about a summit in Washington. The political risks of a visit from Putin, amid a special counsel's investigation of his government's interference in the 2016 election and just ahead of elections for Congress, were underscored by Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii: "Late October would

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