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Jeremy would agree im sure, theyll get up and do their job every day, but it has to be puzzling to them and has to make them wonder what impact theyre actually having with the intelligence theyre generating. >> isnt one of the problems that there was a one-on-one meeting, which is not unprecedented but is very unusual in this context, brief meetings, obama one on one telling putin, back off, we know youre meddling, completely appropriate. but this was two hours, with no note-takers, only transla...

>> congressman, on the right of the screen that i am showing right now, we have a live protest in time square. we are showing you pictures of a protest that is underway in d.c. we just saw senator blumenthal addressing a crowd. these protests are going on around the country. have you had a chance to research what the legality is, policy makers, they are not official note takers. not like mcfall going into the meeting with president obama. can they be compelled to testify? what are the legal hurd...

Meetings with secretary kerry or his staff and you have professional note takers. it is not verbatim. it is to help them provide the words in the other language if the right context. so it is shorthand and often they use abreefb yabreviations y they know. i think it would be highly unlikely for anybody in the intel community to talk to any of the translators. >> it may be the best thing they have, to be honest. >> who knows? but this will come up. right? potentially in this press briefing ahead....

And we couldnt accept that a double negative that a should instead of a shouldnt or a shouldnt instead of a should is going to make this go away because thats not the case. >> can we go back to what happened to this meeting even though there are calls for interpreter whose job it is to parse national security issues sand things that may or may not be classified. the russian military said they were ready to implement international security agreements. we dont even know what that is. i mean, do we...

All the reasons we have stated. theres no agenda and just this unpredictability of this american president. whenever those tv cameras are around and the microphones are on you dont know what to expect. but for helsinkis part, this is city that has brokered these kinds of meetings before, a country part of the european union but not part of nato. so it walks a fine line. >> affording itself some neutrality. kal perry talking about what might happen when the microphones are on. something else unpr...

What do you think? >> right. now theyve retweeted saying we agree. i mean, could not be more explicit. and putin also keeping president trump waiting here. president trump in helsinki and putin now has arrived. he was quite a bit late. i think -- 30 minutes late. that is not as long as putin has kept other leaders waiting. putin is now here in helsinki as well. were expecting very shortly were going to see movements where the two leaders will be moving to their joint meeting. whats so significan...

Russia in a different way. youre not caught like your predecessor, barack obama was. lets walk into the future together, try to cooperate on arms control and other issues. so i think thats probably the tone were going to see. >> were looking at pictures of meeting earlier in helsinki, finland, of vladimir putin and donald trump, and when they first met, gave brief opening statements. phil neely of nbc news noted that vladimir putin came prepared with a note pad and pen. donald trump not so for t...

President bush met with the pope by himself but thats a little different. >> indeed. but yes its not typical for diplomacy behavior to not have note takers. they will have interpreters the there. is there anything that causes alarm for you. something youre worried that could happen? a topic that could be addressed that president trump may not be able to dance toe to toe with putin on this? >> theyre very powerful and aggressive individuals i would want to make sure that putin couldnt manipulate ...

Very bad thing and, actually, donald trump would rub his shoulder and move on once vladimir putin says no, no, i have nothing to do, officially, with the hacking of the american democratic process. thats one of many, many worries. the summit will begin when the two of them sit down without note takers or advisers and just translaters there. donald trump said this would be the easiest part of his european tour after that meeting with nato allies after a meeting with britains prime minister, there...

As they say or do they not like each other. i would like to offer a different view on whether donald trump is -- i think he was really embarrassed by this double screen. hes been saying he doesnt trust american intelligence officers, he doesnt trust the doj, he doesnt trust robert mueller, so for him it is absolutely a possibility that this kind of indictment would only take him closer into the arms of vladimir putin. >> what is at risk if he goes down and sits down with vladimir putin and there...