WASHINGTON (Dispatches) -- U.S. President Donald Trump Sunday named Russia, the EU and China as "foes," in an interview aired on the eve of his summit with Vladimir Putin.
"Well I think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe, what they do to us in trade," Trump said on CBS's "Face the Nation."
"Now, you wouldn't think of the European Union but they're a foe. Russia is a foe in certain respects. China is a foe economically, certainly they are a foe. But that doesn't mean they are bad. It doesn't mean anything. It means that they are competitive," he said in the interview with CBS Evening News's Jeff Glor, which was conducted on Saturday.
Trump also kept expectation low for his high-stakes summit with Putin, saying "nothing bad is going to come out of it, and maybe some good will come out."
The president also told CBS News in an interview that he "hadn't thought" about asking Putin to extradite the dozen Russian military intelligence officers indicted this past week in Washington on charges related to the hacking of Democratic targets in the 2016 U.S. election.
But after being given the idea by his interviewer, Trump said "certainly I'll be asking about it."
The United States has no extradition treaty with Moscow and can't compel Russia to hand over citizens. A provision in Russia's constitution prohibits extraditing its citizens to foreign countries.
The president taped the interview at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland on Saturday, the day before he was set to leave for Helsinki for the summit. CBS released excerpts on Sunday.
Trump said he was approaching the Putin meeting "with low expectations... I'm not going with high expectations."
Trump declined to discuss his goals for the summit - "I'll let you know after the meeting," he said - but said he believes such get-togethers are beneficial in and of themselves.
Assessing the Putin meeting, Trump said: "Nothing bad is going to come out of it, and maybe some good will come out."
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said the U.S. will not look for "deliverables" from Monday's summit with Russia, stressing that talks will be "unstructured".
Interviewed on ABC'S "This Week," Bolton said the summit will start with a "direct one-on-one conversation" between Trump and Putin and what happens from there "will be determined by the two parties."
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas warned Trump against making any unilateral deals with Russia that come with a cost for the United States' Western allies.
Trump, who meets Putin in Finland on Monday, this week accused Germany of being a "captive" of Russia due to its energy reliance, before a NATO summit where he pressed allies to more than double defense spending.
On Thursday, Trump described Putin as a "competitor" rather than an "enemy" and said he expected they would get on well when they hold their first summit in Helsinki. Trump also said the meeting with Putin may be the easiest on his Europe trip.
Maas welcomed the meeting, at which the U.S. president has said he will raise the issue of nuclear weapons reduction.
"We have always said that we need dialogue with Russia. That's why it's good if Washington and Moscow talk to each other," Maas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "It would be a step forward if this meeting also provided impetus for nuclear disarmament."
But Maas added: "He who offends his partners, risks losing in the end. Unilateral deals at the expense of one's own partners also harm the U.S. in the end."
A private meeting with Putin, without aides, has concerned some U.S. and European officials, who fear the Russian president may take advantage of the situation to continue to try and drive a wedge between the United States and its NATO allies.