Trump: No meeting with Putin, no doctoring of tape
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(9 Nov 2018) US President Donald Trump said he had no plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Paris this weekend for the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day. Trump's national security adviser John Bolton had at one point said that Trump and Putin, who will also be in Paris for the events, would be meeting during the trip. But as he left the White House on Friday, Trump said their next formal sit-down will instead be happening at a G-20 gathering of world leaders later this month in Buenos Aires. Still, he kept open the door to a more casual pull-aside at a Sunday lunch in Paris with fellow world leaders. On allegations that the White House released a doctored video of an altercation between a CNN reporter and a White House staffer at Trump's post-election news conference, the president insisted the video was not altered and called the reporter who asked the question "dishonest". Trump said the video distributed by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was simply a "close-up" and "was not doctored." A frame-by-frame comparison with an Associated Press video of the same incident from the news conference shows that the video tweeted by Sanders appears to speed up CNN reporter Jim Acosta's arm movement when he makes contact with a White House intern who was trying to take away Acosta's microphone. The speed-up appears to make the gesture more threatening. Regarding the hospitalization of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trump said he wished her well and hoped "she serves as the Supreme Court for many, many years", despite admitting the Justice was not on his side. The president was also asked about the mass shooting in California on Wednesday night that resulted in the deaths of 13 people. Trump again called the situation "a mental health problem," and said his administration continues to look at laws to address mental health. Responding to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Thursday on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, or DACA, Trump said he hoped the legal battle over an Obama-era programme shielding young immigrants from deportation went to the Supreme Court. The three-judge panel on Thursday decided to keep in place an injunction blocking Trump's decision to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, or DACA. Lawsuits by California and others challenging Trump's decision will continue in federal court while the injunction remains in place. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5699d33c2fd21448b84c6bc24d3f40c0
