Trump says he'll talk 'about everything' with Putin in Helsinki

Russian President Vladimir Putin — (Image credit: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

President Trump said Friday he will raise the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki next month. "I'll talk to him about everything," the president told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to his golf club in New Jersey.

"We're going to talk about Ukraine; we're going to be talking about Syria. We'll be talking about elections ... we don't want anybody tampering with elections," Trump continued. "Perhaps the world can de-escalate. We might be talking about some things President Obama lost."

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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.