In his first term, President Donald Trump met with Russia's Vladimir Putin six times but one moment stood out. It happened in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018 when Trump, standing next to him, suggested he believed Putin's denial that Russia interfered in the 2016 election over the findings of U.S. intelligence. At the time, Trump said U.S.-Russia relations had "never been worse" than before they met but that had "changed." Now, Trump is set to hold his first one-on-one meeting with Putin of his second term at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. The backdrop for Friday's highly-anticipated summit is a darker one, amid Russia's relentless onslaught on Ukraine and Putin presenting a frustrating obstacle to Trump's professed desire to end the war. The meeting will spotlight their

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