CNN's Brian Stelter, Carl Bernstein, Samantha Vinograd, and Jonathan Chait discuss the president's upcoming summit with Vladimir Putin in Finland. Stelter says that we may never know what happens during the Helsinki summit because both President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have proven over and over that they can't be trusted.





BRIAN STELTER: Even the small lies confirm that Trump can not be trusted. Merely repeating what he says or taking his word for it makes a bad situation worse.



Obviously all presidents spin, but Trump's deceptions are different both in volume and degree. That is what is different.







That is one of the reasons why covering this European trip is so challenging. Typically, the truth comes out. But it might not this time. Not when Trump and Putin meet privately.



Both nature and the media abhor a vacuum, so the void is going to be filled up, by Trump partisans who say this proves he is a strong leader improving the U.S.-Russia relationship.



Trump opponents will speculate he is really a Russia agent having a meeting with his handler, betraying America. The divide is that stark. So with that in mind, how in the world should the press corps cover this Helsinki meeting?





