Trump invites Putin to visit Washington, White House says

THE LEAD STORY - TRUMP-PUTIN SUMMIT, PART 2: President Trump has extended an invitation to Vladimir Putin to visit Washington in the fall, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday, as the administration continued to battle critics of the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki ... “In Helsinki, @POTUS agreed to ongoing working level dialogue between the two security council staffs. President Trump asked @Ambjohnbolton to invite President Putin to Washington in the fall and those discussions are already underway,” Sanders tweeted. Earlier Thursday, Trump called the summit “a great success” and said he looked “forward to our second meeting.”