Senior Produced – NBC’s Early Today: Trump & Putin’s Helsinki Summit

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are on course to meet one-on-one for the first time in Finland, choosing Helsinki as the site of their historic summit. Mr. Trump walks into the meeting with years of political baggage, having spent day after day denying Moscow’s involvement in the attack on the 2016 presidential election.

While in the backdrop: President Trump’s latest comments bashing British Prime Minister Theresa May and questioning NATO’s existence, as allies fret over Putin’s aim to break up the international alliance.

NBC’s Early TODAY leads off with a special report on the morning’s breaking events – with our White House correspondent on the ground in Helsinki.