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Having another person there, note taker, if for no other reason, to carry out the decision. this is operating in a parallel yurps that makes it very difficult to know what happened. it is more than unusual. i think it is something very damaging to the way we do and should make policy. parallel universe. >> can i ask you about russia you talk about in the book. one of the great tragedies for dr. brzezinski, in then final years of his life geopolitically, what was happening in poland. you have the...

Reportedly met with russias president vladmir putin, according to the financial times. he was accompanied by millenial tru -- melania trump, his wife. the four of them sat at a table and were among the last to leave. the meeting has been characterized by aides as an informal conversation, andy. but what is -- whats the danger when you have the president of the united states meeting with the head of a country thats not a friendly ally, with no staff or no notetaker on hand. >> its not unusual for...

To correct me if im wrong. my understanding is there are brief sides and they tend to be staffed. this doesnt sound like that. >> it doesants sound like that at all. you might pass a leader in the hallway and say lelts have a quick tactical chat about something. and the french president, the british prime minister, you may not have an aid accompanies. when you chat with anned averse aerial relationship, you will typically have a note taker and a translator, your own not relying on the russian fr...

Soon as this situation is resolved. but the leaders huddled for several minutes at the end of an evening event with no translator or notetaker from the u.s. side to record what was said. >> susan, heres another thing. why is it that the translators never from the american side. if it is always to be one translator, always a translator for vladamir putin but never a translator for the american side? >> because president trump does not trust the intel community, he does not trust his own staff. th...

You, this is a tall order. but give me the 45-second version of what our viewers should worry about when they read reports that the president was after the notes of his conversations with putin. >> it makes no sense to me. i worked for president obama. i was oftentimes a note taker in those meetings. and you need those notes to tell everybody in the government what the policy is. and the fact that the president continues to hide what he says to putin suggests that that disconnect between trump a...

>> it makes no sense to me. i worked for president obama. i was oftentimes a note taker in those meetings. and you need those notes to tell everybody in the government what the policy is. and the fact that the president continues to hide what he says to putin suggests that that disconnect between trump and the trump administration on russia is real. and im worried about what has been promised in those one-on-one meetings. >> the pride of montana whos now in california by way of moscow, ambassado...

Read reports that the president was after the notes of his conversations with putin. >> it makes no sense to me. i worked for president obama. i was oftentimes a note taker in those meetings. and you need those notes to tell everybody in the government what the policy is. and the fact that the president continues to hide what he says to putin suggests that that disconnect between trump and the trump administration on russia is real. and im worried about what has been promised in those one-on-one...

Them already have, that should tell the president something, but what this entire exercise does is undermine the presidents one defense that he goes back to over and over again which is, ive been tougher on russia than anybody else. any other administration, ive been tougher. and the main thing that they have to point to on that is sanctions, is the main lever of power for this administration and previous administrations when it comes to russia, this administration has added sanctions and hasnt ...

His job is to advance our national interests. and to do that, you have to let the rest of your team know what youre saying so that when his secretary of defense meets with his counterpart, he knows what the two presidents said. i do not understand the logic, if were talking about advancing american national interests. >> what do you find distinctive about trump in regard to the post story that he wanted the notes for himself? what do you make of that? whatever the notes they were, whether from t...

Before becoming ambassador, so i was in a lot of those meetings. you have a couple of advisers, usually the national security adviser, usually the chief russia person, that was my job. and oftentimes your chief russia adviser takes the notes and records a memcom. a memorandum of communication that will be distributed to other senior members in the government so that they know what happened. and then you usually have an interpr interpreter. that interpreters job is to interpret the conversation. ...