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>> first, thanks for the opportunity. its going to depend on what the meeting is. and who is attending. if youre at, for example, the g-20, there will be a team of interpreters who are going to be interpreting simultaneously in the plenery sessions where all of the world leaders are present. there will be simultaneous interpretations at press conferences. as the principals or the participants speak, the interpreters are interpreting that at the same time, using a headset, listening to the origin...

Unprecedented. the senators requested that the white house permit congress to interview the interpreters who were present at those meetings. meanwhile the kremlin struck back at the "new york times" report that federal investigators looked at whether president trump was, in fact, a russian asset. bloomberg quotes top russian officials mock the claims that trump has been working on russias behalf. thats stupid top russian official. having the president of the united states be an agent of anothe...

Trying to normalize something that they cant actually pull away from far enough. so they go from no collusion to collusion, whats wrong with collusion. peter baker, youre covering the five times the president has met with vladimir putin and the issues of collusion or whether or not there was it. youre looking at why each of those meetings looks suspicious. what are you finding? >> this is exactly right. this is one of the reasons why this question continues to hover over the president. when he m...

Trump and his team are relevant to that particular issue. even on merits of this question of, okay, collusion or not, theres 16-plus contacts now directly within the campaign to the russianings. we know that. thats public. we also know from filings related to cohen that he spoke to trump about the russia/moscow tower deal during the election. we know the fbi opened a counterintelligence investigation to mr. trump. we know that a federal court has taken, accepted a plea in which -- and the depart...

Showing up. >> and, can now we know all of the ways in which donald trump has been carrying out putins agenda, and taking his interpreters notes, meeting with putin in private, not telling the intelligence agency what is going on. >> giulianis view that -- you saw chris cuomos face, she like what are you saying. he is saying that maybe someone colluded, but not my client. but that is not what the trump organization or campaign -- it

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They know it is causing pain and suffering for the economy. thanks, kristine. so, should house democrats suspect the interpreters who sat in on meetings between president trump and vladimir putin? one high-profile interpreter has a perspective that you might be surprised about. thats next. im ken jacobus and i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance ...

Inside these meetings to keep the official record of what happened? >> yes. thats been my experience. and thats something that does not fall normally on the interpreters shoulders. the interpreter is there to facilitate communication between the languages being used in the meeting. >> so all of this is background to the big money questions that i think the american people and the democrats would like to know here. the fact is in these meetings between president trump and vladimir putin, most of ...

Now if that subpoena were to go forward, it would be a significant hit to the trust that could be had in interpreters to do this kind of work. statesmen and those who are involved in these kinds of meetings would have to wonder, well, is my confidential discussion truly confidential? >> so your advice would be, dont do this. >> yes. i would say dont do this. it is not something that is going to be helpful in the long run. >> even if though -- and you know the conundrum here -- there is no record...

And i would hope we can get the information we need without subpoenas but of course the subpoena is always there as a tool that we can use and i like to tell people that it is absolutely our right according to the constitution with the checks and balances for us to investigate the executive branch. that has been done many times before in the history of the united states and we feel its something we should be doing and should let the american people know whats going on. >> but you know the white ...