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To trust them with that is no stretch at all. it is traditionally what is done. t struck tallbet was the note taker. he went in because he and hillary clinton were long-time friends. he took notes that clinton had with the russians and the notes would then be religiously shared with others and then they would go into a master file for a variety of reasons. so you can have a kpartive purposes. now if you dont know what your president is saying or thinking, you have no sense of continuity about ho...

Article, it handicaps the u.s. government, the experts, advisers, and cabinet officers who are there to serve the president, and it certainly gives putin much more scope to manipulate trump. he also said, this defies historical standards and is outrageous. so sam, this really underscores what you had said earlier. >> it does. another aspect of this is we learn from "the new york times" reporting that part of the reason the president didnt want to bring a note taker into his meeting or didnt want...

Sam, you first. what could be a reasonable explanation for the presidents approach? why wouldnt he want documentation or the proper witnesses, if anything, to protect him? >> fred, the only explanation here is he has something to hide. every decision that the president made going into the meeting in helsinki and his failure to disclose what happened in previous meetings with president putin really lead us all to assume that theres something he doesnt want getting out. in the first instance, note...

And what john bolton then said was, well, according to president putin, president trump did bring up election interference. president putin is our source for what happened in that meeting? >> right, alisyn, its mind-boggling that were getting a readout of a two hour meeting between president trump and one of our main adversaries who his own intelligence community said directed an attack on our election and democracy. were getting that readout from president putin. its mind-boggling the director ...

In russia. maybe staff up the campaign with people who are going to be favorable to russia. maybe start conversations about lifting sanctions. all of these behaviors, if you see them through the lens of paul manafort, are pay back to the russians. >> and, eugene, all those things happened. it really requires some extraordinary magical thinking to say like all these things are unrelated. everything jennifer just named happened. we know based on the white houses own read out of the first pull asid...

This meeting. >> well, there would actually be a danger if the president went on the record publicly saying what was discussed and then it turned out that isnt what was discussed or it was opposite or different than what was actually discussed and it turned out the russians have a recording, say, of actually what was discussed. >> absolutely. i mean, you worry about the president being compromised by russia, something that jim clapper and john brennan and other intelligence officials suspect act...

Administration lay the groundwork for it before the meeting. you would have a meeting with putin where your advisers were with you and where you went through different parts of the world and saw what agreements you could reach, et cetera, et cetera. i dont think that would work, but he didnt do that. for me talking to people in aspen, the 45-minute press conference, as aaron said, was horrifying, but the two hour-plus one-on-one meeting with no note taker is really nuts. i mean putin has now bee...

Was simply unbelievable and in this case it doesnt seem like our president cares, he wants to be friends with putin for reasons that we are all still trying to figure out. >> clinton said it was very alarming that the white house allowed president trump to meet one-on-one with russian president putin, she said she met with putin several times while secretary with president obama, she said shes alarmed that the white house has allowed putin to dictate to the world what was said in this private on...

Im done. >> this kind of discourse, guys, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. chris, your thought first on this and if the genie is out of the bottle. are we going to go back to civil discourse in this country? >> i certainly hope so. i dont think thats helpful. we really should keep our eye on the ball this week. that was a disgraceful performance in helsinki. i think it could be a game changer. it was dangerous for the country, dangerous for trump. i was talking to rona...

The dni does not believe the next conversation between trump and putin should take place without a note taker in the room. which is what happened between trump and putin earlier this week. today in the congress in the intelligence committee there was an effort by the democrats in that committee to actually subpoena testimony from the woman you see spot shadows here. she was the translator. the only other american in the room during that trump/putin meeting this week. of course, she was busy tran...