NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Thursday broke the news to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats Daniel (Dan) Ray CoatsFBI chief says Russia is trying to interfere in election to undermine Biden The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - Trump, Biden renew push for Latino support Former Intel chief had 'deep suspicions' that Putin 'had something on Trump': book MORE that the White House has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington, D.C., for a second meeting this fall.

“We have some breaking news, the White House has announced on Twitter that Vladimir Putin is coming to the White House in the fall,” Mitchell said during an event with Coats at the Aspen Security Forum.

“Say that again?” Coats replied, before laughing.

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“Did I hear you right?” he jokingly asked, laughing. “OK, that’s gonna be special.”

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats informed on stage at Aspen Security Forum that the Trump administration has invited Vladimir Putin to the White House.



"Say that again," he responds. https://t.co/FZ5WmbwnUU pic.twitter.com/UJy822WH2f — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 19, 2018

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday that plans are underway for a second summit between Trump and Putin in Washington, D.C., this fall. The two leaders met privately on Monday in Finland.

Trump asked his national security adviser, John Bolton, to invite Putin for the second meeting. The president suggested that the leaders would meet for a second time in a tweet earlier Thursday.



"Based on my reaction, I wasn't aware of it," Coats acknowledged.

He said that officials will examine what the "potential intelligence risks" of the meeting may be and will pass them along to Trump.

"It is something we will just have to assess going forward," Coats said.

The Summit with Russia was a great success, except with the real enemy of the people, the Fake News Media. I look forward to our second meeting so that we can start implementing some of the many things discussed, including stopping terrorism, security for Israel, nuclear........ — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018

....proliferation, cyber attacks, trade, Ukraine, Middle East peace, North Korea and more. There are many answers, some easy and some hard, to these problems...but they can ALL be solved! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2018

- Morgan Chalfant contributed.