President Trump last month (Associated Press)President Trump said Tuesday that he would meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “in the not too distant future” to discuss “the arms race, which is getting out of control.”The president made the comment to reporters at the White House as he confirmed that he’d congratulated Putin that morning in a phone call for the Russian’s “electoral victory.” Putin was reelected on Sunday with more than 77% of the vote against a weak field of opposition candidates. Trump said they discussed Ukraine, North Korea and Syria. But he did not mention Russian hacking and disinformation efforts in the 2016 U.S. election, nor the recent nerve-agent assassination attempt in Britain against a former Russian spy and his daughter, which the British and others have blamed on Russia.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2018 12:22 UTC