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Should he take steps for whatever reason. >> interesting. much more to come on that tomorrow. but on today right now, samantha, greg miller i had on from "the washington post" reporting about how the president has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal notes and information about his face to face meetings with vladimir putin from being public or going to his closest advisers. what would these photos look like? what would they contain? >> kate, i have planned, executed and memorialized presidential meetings and there's various steps that past presidents have taken. you plan a meeting manifest...

Trump has gone to extraordinary tlongs conceal details of his conversations with russian president vladimir putin. including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes, taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the lindquist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials. >> every step that the president has made going into these meetings with vladimir putin has been a misstep from the count counterintelligence perspective. not to take a note taker into the summit with pute anyone helsinki means that he didn't bring any human wit...

Security analyst, samantha venegrad. sam, i know you have been involved in presidential meetings before, including with president putin. what should president trump have done after that? which steps should he have taken? >> ana, i didn't take notes during presidential meetings, because i liked looking at my own handwriting. past presidents wanted to have note takers present because notetakers are an important first step towards conducting a safe meeting. they are human witnesses to what is and isn't discussed in a meeting and can corroborate different accounts of what happened and what was act...

With the russians and only have an interpreter there. but since then, the tradition has been one of sharing, of more transparency because we have such a complicated government with so many different sprawling relationships that really makes a difference that people are brought up to speed. after all, these are the people we trust with the utmost secrets of the government. to trust them with that is no stretch at all. it is traditionally what is done. head of brookings worked with president clinton on many occasions. he was the note taker. he and president clinton had been long-time colleagues ...

The sole note taker so that people in his administration would not know what he said between vladimir putin -- to vladimir putin and vice-versa. and by the way, show, if helsinki is any indication of what was said, we know publicly when he sold out the u.s., publicly when he blamed america for russian's sbooerns. interference. if that's what he said publicly, heaven knowles what he said privately because we'll never know because dent have proximate cause in with him and he took the notes. >> i think that helsinki moment is one we will all remember for a long time. take the notes away from the ...