--- title: Trump and Putin Are Expected to Discuss Election Meddling description: Mike Pence said he expects President Trump to discuss touchy subjects with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet this summer canonical: https://time.com/5324501/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-meet/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-06-28T01:59:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T20:42:33.612Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump and Putin Are Expected To Discuss Election Meddling og:description: The two leaders will hold a summit in mid-July og:url: https://time.com/5324501/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-meet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a6e7e3ccdf5fa69/6989341e096a940a416a2c80/gettyimages-872712942.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2637 og:image:height: 1483 og:image:alt: VIETNAM-APEC-SUMMIT og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump and Putin Are Expected To Discuss Election Meddling twitter:description: The two leaders will hold a summit in mid-July twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a6e7e3ccdf5fa69/6989341e096a940a416a2c80/gettyimages-872712942.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mike Pence Says He Expects President Trump and Vladimir Putin to Discuss Election Meddling > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they make their way to take the "family photo" during the APEC leaders' summit in Danang on Nov. 11, 2017. Jorge Silva—AFP/Getty Images by [Bloomberg](https://time.com/author/bloomberg/) ## Bloomberg Contributor Jun 28, 2018 1:59 AM UTC Vice President Mike Pence said he expects President Donald Trump to discuss Russian meddling in U.S. elections, the Kremlin’s military incursions into Ukraine and Syria and other touchy subjects when he meets this summer with Vladimir Putin. “There are a broad range of issues the president’s going to talk about that need to be addressed,” Pence said in an interview with Bloomberg News aboard Air Force Two on Wednesday. They include the “economic relationship with the United States and Russia and countries of the world.” Asked whether those issues would include concerns over Russian interference in U.S. elections, Pence said, “I think there will be a lot of stuff that comes up.” Pressed again, he said, “He’s discussed that with President Putin before. I would anticipate that he will discuss that with him again.” The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Moscow attempted to influence the 2016 election that Trump won. The president has shown reluctance to accept that Russia played any role in the election and has forcefully rejected assertions that the Kremlin helped him win. His campaign is under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for contacts with Russian figures and potential collusion with the Kremlin’s election activities. Mueller has indicted a St. Petersburg “troll farm” with connections to the Russian government for running a covert social media campaign to influence the election. Trump has said he’s confronted Putin about Russia’s involvement in the election in previous meetings and the Russian leader has denied any meddling. However, the president has enacted new sanctions Congress ordered against Russia to punish the country for its election activities and hasn’t lifted sanctions put in place by his predecessor, Barack Obama. The president startled other Western leaders earlier this month when he said Russia should be re-admitted to the Group of Seven on the eve of its annual summit in Quebec. The country was expelled from the group of industrialized democracies after its aggression toward Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea. Pence declined in the interview to share his own view on whether Russia should be allowed back into the G-7\. “Any opinion I have I’d share with the president,” Pence said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5324501/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-meet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5324501/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-meet/"},"headline":"Mike Pence Says He Expects President Trump and Vladimir Putin to Discuss Election Meddling","datePublished":"2018-06-28T01:59:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T20:42:33.612Z","description":"Vice President Mike Pence says they'll discuss touchy issues like Ukraine and Syria","url":"https://time.com/5324501/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-meet/","keywords":["Foreign Policy","Bloomberg","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a6e7e3ccdf5fa69/6989341e096a940a416a2c80/gettyimages-872712942.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bloomberg","jobTitle":"Contributor","url":"https://time.com/author/bloomberg/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a6e7e3ccdf5fa69/6989341e096a940a416a2c80/gettyimages-872712942.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"VIETNAM-APEC-SUMMIT","caption":"VIETNAM-APEC-SUMMIT","creditText":"Jorge Silva—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5324501/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-summit-meet/","name":"Mike Pence Says He Expects President Trump and Vladimir Putin to Discuss Election Meddling"}}]}] ```