In 1.5 hour phone call, Trump doesn't ask Putin to stop interfering with U.S. elections

[View in browser]( [Image](  MAY 3, 2019 President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin [spoke Friday and both agreed "there was no collusion"]( between Moscow and Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, [White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said](. The conversation was by telephone, and lasted over an hour. While speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, President Trump was [asked repeatedly](, including by NBC's Kristen Welker, whether he raised the issue of election interference or warned the Russian president against interfering in future U.S. elections.  “We didn’t discuss that,” Trump said eventually.   Sanders said the Mueller report was discussed “very, very briefly.” [Image]( “[Putin] actually [sort of smiled]( when he said something to the effect that it started off as a mountain and it ended up being a mouse,” [said Trump]( of how Putin described the Russia probe. 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