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This meeting. >> well, there would actually be a danger if the president went on the record publicly saying what was discussed and then it turned out that isn't what was discussed or it was opposite or different than what was actually discussed and it turned out the russians have a recording, say, of actually what was discussed. >> absolutely. i mean, you worry about the president being compromised by russia, something that jim clapper and john brennan and other intelligence officials suspect actually happened. well, the reality is that if it's happened in the past, it's probably getting worse...

Administration lay the groundwork for it before the meeting. you would have a meeting with putin where your advisers were with you and where you went through different parts of the world and saw what agreements you could reach, et cetera, et cetera. i don't think that would work, but he didn't do that. for me talking to people in aspen, the 45-minute press conference, as aaron said, was horrifying, but the two hour-plus one-on-one meeting with no note taker is really nuts. i mean putin has now been exploiting that already, telling people agreements with made and so forth. literally people at t...

Was simply unbelievable and in this case it doesn't seem like our president cares, he wants to be friends with putin for reasons that we are all still trying to figure out. >> clinton said it was very alarming that the white house allowed president trump to meet one-on-one with russian president putin, she said she met with putin several times while secretary with president obama, she said she's alarmed that the white house has allowed putin to dictate to the world what was said in this private one-on-one meeting. >> you can have one-on-ones as they are called with friendly leaders and that ha...

I'm done. >> this kind of discourse, guys, this is not the first time this kind of thing has happened. chris, your thought first on this and if the genie is out of the bottle. are we going to go back to civil discourse in this country? >> i certainly hope so. i don't think that's helpful. we really should keep our eye on the ball this week. that was a disgraceful performance in helsinki. i think it could be a game changer. it was dangerous for the country, dangerous for trump. i was talking to ronald reagan's chief of staff this morning. these kind of closed-door meetings between donald trump ...

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. today in the congress in the intelligence committee there was an effort by the democrats in that committee to actually subpoena testimony from the woman you see spot shadows here. she was the translator. the only other american in the room during that trump/putin meeting this week. of course, she was busy translating. she had a job to do. a hard job. she was translating. she wasn't keeping an official record...