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>> we have, you know, meeting with putin, right, in which -- the point is this has real world consequences, what to think of the presidents meeting with putin which only the secretary of state was there. no note taker, maybe the secretary of state -- the president tweets out this thing about what was setting up a joint -- a cybersecurity thing with them, so ludicrous, everyone laughed at it. we can laugh at it, but step back and think about it. the president of the united states, first meeting, ...

To have a meeting like that with putin and have a basic disagreement over who said what to whom about key issues like this is extraordinary not to have a note taker or any kind of record. >> well, you have the secretary of state, the president of the united states, and the secretary of state was undercut by the president. >> there is, of course, a -- a translator or who can reconstruct in some sense what was said from their notes. i think it was a constructive meeting. they made progress on syri...

President had this controversial meeting with vladimir putin, mixed signals, no note taker, no news conference afterward, a briefing by three cabinet secretaries that were then countermandered about backing off of that joint cybertask force. after seeing the television reactions, certainly on "meet the press" from lindsey graham and others, john mccain. so the other world leaders are now looking at it as one of our colleagues in australia said so memorably as the g-19. >> yeah, another construct...

Election, putin will say, no, i didnt, let me hand this off to my team. >> theres a reason there were only two americans in that room, the secretary of state and the president of the united states, so thinly stashed. >> you would never have a meeting like that without a note taker. meetings like that cannot happen. >> well, he didnt want to have a clear record of what happened and he succeeded. just ahead, were going to bring in nbcs keir simmons who sat down with a lawyer about the heart of thi...

The state of u.s. relations with russia. do you view russia as a partner? do you view them as an ally? do you view them as an adversary? >> i would want to have a further conversations with members of the secretary of state and national security council, but i think we saw that there were places of shared interest that we can work together, specifically things like the syrian cease fire, that we both can agree on in order to move forward in some places. i dont think thats going to be the case on...

Of shared interest that we can work together, like the syrian cease fire. that we both can agree on that in order to move forward in some places. i dont think that will be the case on everything. theres certainly certain instances where we can work together with russian to make every part of the world a little bit safer. >> does the president trust president putin? >> i havent asked him that question. >> would you ask him question? >> yeah. >> i have two questions. we know there was no note take...

Gotten. well find that out eventually. beyond that, you know, going into a session where you know that theres a russian connection with the possibility of getting help from somebody that is or is not in a direct or indirect way representing the russian government that would help your campaign, this gets sticky really fast is. >> yeah, im sure now he wishes he had taken notes and had a note taker there. glad he didnt. one or the other. >> the head of the campaign was in the room. the son-in-law o...

>> h.r. mcmaster, when you are speaking about national security issues with the president of russia. >> and all the issues they had to cover were the national security issues whether its the hacking of the election or syria or nato or north korea. everything was a national security issue. there was nothing else on the agenda that was meaningful? >> exactly, and every president, most certainly our national security advisers in the obama era were in the room. i cant remember when that did not happ...

Hell pull off the tough negotiations with other heads of state by standing tough in americas interests. tou time will tell. >> an informal talk could happen. that was something that the president wanteded to have this formal meeting with vladimir putin, however. h.r. mcmaster telling us nothing was telegraphed prior and we dont know what type of briefings happened with donald trump prior to the meeting with vladimir putin. >> no note taker. >> usually there is an nsf official in a meeting like t...

Successful propaganda warfare against you. >> mike mcfaul, something happened that was interesting. melania trump who was playing a different role sat next to him at the dinner. at one point, first lady melania trump came in to see if she could put an end to the meeting. it didnt work. the group went on for another hour. what happened there? what was that all about? >> i have no idea. like i said, when i worked at the white house and then as ambassador, i participated in many bilateral meetings,...