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Ethics, but that does not rise to the level of a legal privilege. of course, an employment contract with the state department could override that, depending on whatever the policies are of the state department. again, the interpreters internal code of ethics doesnt rise to the level of a legal protection like a legal privilege you might have with a doctor or with a lawyer. so it really depends on the state departments relationship with its employees, those interpreters, whether theyre independen...

Trump and putin. but the prospect of subpoenaing or getting at the interpreters or their notes raises very concerning legal issues. even though we may want to know what happened in that particular meeting, we want to be careful as a public policy issue that we dont make a practice of subpoenaing interpreters or their notes or else any criminal defendant who has an interp debt to speak to their -- interpreter to speak to their attorney or a situation with confidential or privileged communications...

-- congressional folks who want to subpoena this information are faced with some real challenges. i dont genesenvy the situation may have no legal or ethical way to properly get at these notes or what the interpreters interpreted. >> could the president be in any legal trouble if he, in fact, destroyed any of his notes from the meetings? >> that again is a very gray legal area, as are many things in this presidency. but it really comes down to if he even destroyed the notes in the first place. h...

Democrat law makers will say that border crossings are down, theyre not up. well guess what? dont fall into that trap. thats irrelevant. its a red herring. when 1800 adults and children cross canned illegally into the u.s. on monday alone including two groups of more than 300 just in el paso, we have a full blown border crisis. smugglers get rich. cartels infiltrate the caravans and hard working americans get stuck with the tab. education costs, health care costs, housing, and court appointed in...

Democrat lawmakers will invariably say that border crossings are down. they are not up. well, guess what. dont fall into that trap. thats irrelevant. its a red herring. when 1800 adults and children cross illegally into the u.s. on monday alone, including two groups of more than 300 just in el paso, we have a full-blown border crisis. smugglers get rich. cartels infiltrate the caravans. hardworking americans get stuck with the tab. education costs, health care costs, housing, and court-appointed...

Leaders and their interpreters were in the room. so democrats are considering subpoenaing the interpreter or interpreters notes or taking other steps to get that information. they will look into the trumps family finances particularly the efforts to build a trump tower in moscow. a deal that could have netted hundreds of millions of dollars. the president told "the new york times" in 2017 that investigating his and his familys personal finances would cross a red line for the mueller investigatio...

Across the table, then they talk. the only other person in the conversation? putins translator. and then there were the big wtfs. where the president did something we have never seen before. after meeting with putin in november 2017, our president took the word of an inimical power over the word of his own intel agencies about election interference. he told reporters then, every time he sees me, he says, i didnt do that and i really believe that when he tells me that, he means it. he was admonis...

Potentially putting those documents at risk of falling into the hands of the russian trolls? >> my sense from reporting, wolf, is that the documents that were shared with the defense were not highly classified. the sorts of documents that would threaten american national security. but they are sensitive. its a demonstration that defense counsel here cant be trusted to not share those important documents, those sensitive documents with russian disinformation efforts. i expect that robert mueller ...

Interpreters notes. that night they met again at this dinner. trump signals to putin from across the table, then they talk. the only other person in the conversation? putins translator. and then there were the big wtfs. where the president did something we have never seen before. after meeting with putin in november 2017, our president took the word of an enimical power over the word of his own intel agencies about election interference. he told reporters then, every time he sees me, he says, i ...

One say we should be worried about the immigrants. they told us who our immigrants are. >> it is from all of the threats facing national security threats they didnt talk about any threat coming from mexico along the border with the united states. the financial times is reporting on another undisclosed meeting that the president had recently with putin. the only other person was putin was there. there were no american note takers, no american interpreters. what does that say to you? >> it is a co...