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Information, talking about why the addition of that information was an asset to us. >> i want to get to the shut down, when you read the articles over the week. there was an investigation opened to find out if donald trump was working with russia, and he took the interpreters notes during that meeting with vladimir putin, as a lawmaker and a former cia officer, what is your reaction? >> my reaction to all of this is because it is very concerning. it is concerning to me that members of the fbi wo...

His conversations with, in fact, russian president vladimir putin. including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes his own interpreter had and instructing them not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials. that is according to current and former u.s. officials. the meeting happened in germany in 2017. a second hour long meeting happened during that same summit but only putins interpreter was present. in helsinkhelsinki, the preside putin met for two ho...

Cover this kind of situation. >> i want you to stay with me as we bring in also david gergen who has worked in four white houses and so thank you, david. im so glad that you could be part of the conversation tonight with this extraordinary reporting. were talking about what the washington post is reporting about the presidents efforts to really conceal his interactions with the russian president. in fact, even confiscating notes from one of his interpreters. have you ever heard or experianed suc...

That congressional members have been actually looking for. they have been actually looking to possibly bring them to testify in front of congress, which, obviously, might violate t impartial role that interpreters played in the diplomacy. with the readout, this is unprecedented presidency, of course. but with president trump and his meetings with russian president vladimir putin. ive been critical about his meeting with him in helsinki and not basically seeding ground on whether russia played a ...

Interpreters to secrecy and making sure there is no written record of at least one private meeting with putin according to u.s. officials. another report from the new york times that claims the fbi was so concerned after president trump fired fbi director james comey that they launched a counterintelligence investigation into the president himself. they were working to find out if trump was actually knowingly unbelievably working to benefit the russian government. this extraordinary moment last ...

Interpreters, that was july of 2019. "the post" reports that several officials were never able to get a reliable read-out of the helsinki summit. on november 11th of last year, they reportedly had what was described as a good talk at the paris world world war 1 summit. lets bring frederik pleitgen how this report is being received there in russia. hello, fred. >> reporter: hi, victor. the russians really waking up to this report right now. ive sort of been skimming through russian media earlier ...

The press detailing what was said. but there are some people wanting more information and apparently that information is not available. the big meeting held in helsinki, and of course president trump is saying look, they talked about israel and other topics. of course the main topic was the topic of election meddling. and the interesting thing that came out of that meeting is that after the two had met, and it was unclear what was being said at that meeting because it was a one-on-one meeting on...

What about private meetings? could that also be considered a threat? >> well, i have to agree with professor english because i do believe presidents have the latitude obviously to keep certain things secret. when i had interpreters i had be very careful about what i discussed in front of that interpreter. however, if you are doing -- what is your motive for hiding this? and if its just to hide leaks, thats what got the secretary of state in trouble, trying to hide things that could be accessed. ...

The notes of the meeting from his interpreter. during the same trip, the president met with putin during a hamburg banquet. in november, 2017, president trump and vladimir putin met briefly at the asia pacific cooperation summit in vietnam. then the helsinki summit for two hours behind closed doors, just the two presidents there with their interpreters in july of 2018. "the post" reports that several official were never able to get reliable readout of that meeting. on november 11th, 2018, they r...

That the president has been having these meetings with putin. and hes been taking notes from interpreters, not legislate oth -- letting other people in the room. no detail of his face-to-face meetings with putin. if there is no reason to be concerned if there is nothing untoward, if putin doesnt have anything on him, why are his interactions with russia so clouded. why always these actions he takes that raise more questions? if you know that people are interested in whether you have a relationsh...