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Be a one-on-one without note takers? >> if write asked that question, i would look for a different way of doing it. >> that is how they learned and that is how the director of national intelligence learned, surprise, russian president vladimir putin is coming to washington. soon. and thats how we learned that 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. ...

Thing that was said after a certain amount of time has passed. >> is it normal to just have an interpreter present, in your experience from your time doing this? would you normally have a note taker? were there any times where it was just you and the u.s. official and another foreign leader? >> yes, there are times when you are the only one there, but nothing in my experience comparable to a bilateral meeting between two heads of state of two great powers, two nuclear powers. these things someti...

General, what questions are you asking today? >> well, that was the other thing i had last night. you know, when you see an announcement like that, whenever you have an engagement where two people sit down, two heads of state -- and ive been in those kinds of meetings before. the note taker gets the message out very quickly. you become very trant. it is usually classified. theres a lot of "heres what we agreed upon," "heres what were going to do," "lets get it out to the people who need to know ...

That only they can understand so that they can interpret the phrase or paragraph. occasionally, the middle east translator told me, the principal or president will ask the translator to serve as a note taker, also, in a one-on-one meeting. afterwards they would ask the translator to put together some notes or even if it is not verbatim, but a kind of read-out based on what happened. then again they would be the right and privilege -- i dont use it in a legal term -- but privilege of whoever was ...

Topic with putin, what else did he promise or guarantee? how was it said? the whole helsinki summit was an example of how not to conduct diplomacy with an adversary. im all for engaging with adversaries. just not in that fact. >> shepard: sure. past presidents have spoken with putin. when you have a meeting like that, theres a secretary of state, a note taker. president trump could have had that if thats what he wanted. he didnt want that. obviously russians didnt want it. would it be normal for...

Type of arms control. that will certainly be there. whats going to be fascinating is these two are going to be meeting one-on-one for 45 minutes. sergei lavrov the foreign minister of russia says we will send in an interpreter. even though vladimir putin understands russian he wants to make sure everything is relayed perfectly back in english. steve: apparently not will be a note tarik which is unusual. now we are hearing the meeting one-on-one face to face no note taker, could be 90 minutes. pu...

Steve: well, we could hear what the president of the united states had to say. they immediately turned off the camera and took the microphones out. they will be having a 90 minute face to face. abby: if only they could keep those mikes on. steve: there wont be a note taker we are told. there will be a translator in there. we did hear what the president of the united states did have to say. couldnt hear mr. putin because we miked putin and not the translator. the president said some of the things...

I was there when we had the edward snowden problem. he took snowden in. the president asked him to be extradited from the united states, and he refused to go hold a meeting with vladimir putin. >> what a different approach. they couldnt be more polar opposite. chris, i want to get to this putin one on one specifically. here it is. >> i just think its a mistake for him to roll into that meeting with putin one on one. i attended six meetings with putin when i was in the government with president o...

He saw him in germany last year. he was with him in vietnam at a summit there last fall. neither time depress him on i was there in hanoi when he told us putin said he didnt do it, and trump said and he believes himself he didnt do it only to later suggest he would side with his own intelligence agencies over the russian president but theres going to be, as the weekend goes on, further calls for this summit not to happen but the white house wants it to. >> that statement from the sarah sanders c...

Doesnt know well and then read it out to the press to say oh, we agreed, for instance, that america is going to leave sir in return for something that is ambiguous. so i think its a big mistake and i hope its shorter than one hour. >> joining me now, republican congressman from florida francis rooney. thank you for joining me. i want to get your reaction to what you just heard there from ambassador mcfaul who talking about that meeting says its a mistake for the president to go in with no record...