10 things you need to know today: July 8, 2017

Trump and Putin hold first in-person meeting, U.S. isolated in G-20 climate negotiations, and more

President Trump at G-20
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1. Trump and Putin hold first in-person meeting

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for more than two hours Friday at the G-20 summit in Germany, their first face-to-face meeting. Trump reportedly pressed the question of the Kremlin's interference in the 2016 election, but Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Trump accepted Putin's assurances of Russian innocence. U.S. officials have already disputed that characterization. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Putin's denial was a "substantial hindrance" to U.S.-Russian relations going forward, but overall Trump and Putin had "positive chemistry," sharing a joke at the media's expense. Trump on Saturday called the meeting "tremendous."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.