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>> 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 i'm worried about what has been promised in those one-on-one meetings. >> the pride of montana who's now in california by way of moscow, ambassador michael mcfaul. always a pleasure, ambassador. thank you for coming on. and coming up for us, th...

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 i'm worried about what has been promised in those one-on-one meetings. >> the pride of montana who's now in california by way of moscow, ambassador michael mcf...

Them already have, that should tell the president something, but what this entire exercise does is undermine the president's one defense that he goes back to over and over again which is, i've been tougher on russia than anybody else. any other administration, i've 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 hasn't removed them. if they are now moving to remove them against this one very central actor, that un...

His job is to advance our national interests. and to do that, you have to let the rest of your team know what you're 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 we're 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 the interpreter, cursory notes as the person was translating different sentences and trying to reme...

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 interpreter's job is to interpret the conversation. i know both that work for the president. they job is not to take notes to hand off to somebody else...