The meeting in Hamburg happened several months after The Washington Post and other news organizations revealed details about what Trump had told senior Russian officials during a meeting with Russian officials in the Oval Office. “President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past,” Tillerson said. Tillerson’s account is at odds with the only detail that other administration officials were able to get from the interpreter, officials said. “We were frustrated because we didn’t get a readout,” a former senior administration official said. Hill, national security adviser John Bolton and other U.S. officials took part in a preliminary meeting that included Trump, Putin and other senior Russian officials.

Source: Washington Post January 12, 2019 23:15 UTC