Updated On: 21 July, 2018 08:55 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
The US Prez has ordered officials to invite Russian President, White House says

Donald Trump (left) with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Helsinki. Pic/AP
US President Donald Trump, under fire over his Helsinki summit with Vladimir Putin, doubled down yesterday by saying he looks forward to meeting the Russian leader again — with talks already underway for a visit to Washington in the fall.
Trump has come in for bipartisan criticism for what many saw as his unsettling embrace of the Russian strongman this week — and his seeming disavowal of his own intelligence agencies and their assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 election.