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Of people that are looking and have him and his family in the coss hairs. that certainly does not help. if youre a lawyer working to defend a client and you see a client doing something like that, thats not something youre going to say, hey, i embrace that wholeheartedly. it clearly is a problem. >> i suspect the presidents lawyers dont him want him to sit down with an interview. theres a lot more were following including a republican congressman confirming now he met the russian woman now in ja...

Getting and you just got a front row seat. >> a very strong supporter of the president, even he suggests that if the russians are still engaged in election meddling in the 2018 mid-terms he doesnt want to see putin at the white house either. >> absolutely. and we still dont know exactly what transpired in the two hour meeting with president trump and president putin in helsinki. they want the interpreters, the only people in that room to come forward. the white house keeps saying what theyre aft...

In secret with our prime minister adversary, russia and putin, not have anybody else in the room except interpreters, and furthermore, then not come out and really brief the american people and the world as to what was discussed in that meeting. so now were getting different interpretations, putin, is describing what they agreed to, what they talked about at the same time, this president has really not presented any kind of summary as to what he discussed behind closed doors. that puts the unite...

The way many south africans live. today and the other course interpreters move in both worlds they understand both sides at lunch time they tell jokes and to pay tea and a traditional cordon pirate with innit. you want to show these foreigners that south africans eat a lot. we dont eat a lot we well theres no waste with us we even eat the intestines. even though many south africans speak more than one language its unusual to speak sixteen like booted us he learned from relatives friends and neig...

Its nine am and wrong spiritus working day is just beginning. to house work for south africas justice system for over thirty years. his job is particularly important interpreters a needed and about ninety percent of cases south africa has eleven official languages including english and afrikaans. just the. dude is getting ready for his first case of the day. and we will tell you jump into the shoes of the person who sees the things. and he also put yourself in the shoes of the person no answers ...

President over this topic. we dont know what happened. but having said that, why would you want to share that? why would you want to get to the details of that? when bill clinton met with boris yelts yeltsin, i dont remember people complaining about it then. thats why im asking. are we being fair? a lot of your colleagues are saying not only that, we want the interpreter that was in the room and question her. that is a very slippery slope, even in interpreters of the past are saying that is nuts...

Verbatim narrative and the memory of the interpreters. the interpreters have well trained memories. so when this document goes to the secretary of state and goes to the national archives at the bottom of it it will say this was prepared from interpreting notes and memory and is not a verbatim transcript of everything that was said. >> and the secretary of state has authority to share that memo with other members of the administration? >> no, not necessarily. the interpreters being located at the...

Administration? >> no, not necessarily. the interpreters being located at the state department and being civil servants under the secretary of state, they would turn the memo to the secretary for safekeeping. and if its a one-on-one, however, with a president and a foreign leader, it will then have to go to the white house. and normally the secretary of state can keep a copy, but most of these memoranda are classified top secret, no discs. that means other people that have a top secret clearance...

Intelligence, dan coats, openly criticized the decision to meet one on one. >> if he had asked me how that ought to be conducted, i would have suggested a different way but thats not my role. thats not my job, so it is what it is. >> reporter: coats says he has no idea what the leaders discussed, but one person who does? the presidents translator, marina gross. in congress, republican and democratic leaders are now debating whether to request her notes or compel her to testify. >> lets face it -...

Whoever it might be. if its a one-on-one and there are no note takers or anyone else in there, it is up to the interpreter to prepare some memorandum of conversation. we call it mem con. this memorandum is written on the basis of interpreting notes that have nothing to do with verbatim narrative and the memory of the interpreters. the interpreters have well trained memories. so when this document goes to the secretary of state and goes to the national archives at the bottom of it it will say thi...