president is allowed to have private conversations with foreign leaders or congress which says we have oversight responsibility here? it s a really fascinating clash of the separation of powers here and what their duties are because certainly the head of state function for the president is definitely really a core function for the president. so they are on strong ground really saying that hands off it s diplomat to diplomat. however, what s different here is president trump disregards all the normal safe guards. he doesn t have usually his staff in there with him. there is this allegation that he remove the interpreter s notes so there is a complete no witness no safe guards situation. so naturally the oversight people are very worried about that. this is a highly unusual situation. so the question arises how can we do any oversight without