Democratic senator says Putin may outwit Trump at summit

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says he is worried about US President Donald Trump meeting one-on-one with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during their summit in Finland.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia says, “We know that Trump doesn’t do a lot of prep work for these meetings. He kind of goes in and wings it.”

Warner notes Putin’s KGB background and fears Putin could “take advantage” of Trump during Monday’s summit.

Warner says he would “feel much better if there were other Americans in the room making sure that we make the point that the first and top point of this agenda should be no further Russian interference in our elections.”

Warner tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Trump “has been completely reluctant to call out Putin as a bad actor.”

— AP