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Be a one-on-one without note takers? >> if write asked that question, i would look for a different way of doing it. >> that is how they learned and that is how the director of national intelligence learned, surprise, russian president vladimir putin is coming to washington. soon. and that's how we learned that 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 house, there was an effort by the democrats in that committee to actually subpoena tes...

Thing that was said after a certain amount of time has passed. >> is it normal to just have an interpreter present, in your experience from your time doing this? would you normally have a note taker? were there any times where it was just you and the u.s. official and another foreign leader? >> yes, there are times when you are the only one there, but nothing in my experience comparable to a bilateral meeting between two heads of state of two great powers, two nuclear powers. these things sometimes happen in receptions, short meetings, but certainly, in my experience and to my knowledge, this ...

General, what questions are you asking today? >> well, that was the other thing i had last night. you know, when you see an announcement like that, whenever you have an engagement where two people sit down, two heads of state -- and i've been in those kinds of meetings before. the note taker gets the message out very quickly. you become very trant. it is usually classified. there's a lot of "here's what we agreed upon," "here's what we're going to do," "let's get it out to the people who need to know this." i just got to believe russia got it out first, as they have done so many other times be...

That only they can understand so that they can interpret the phrase or paragraph. occasionally, the middle east translator told me, the principal or president will ask the translator to serve as a note taker, also, in a one-on-one meeting. afterwards they would ask the translator to put together some notes or even if it is not verbatim, but a kind of read-out based on what happened. then again they would be the right and privilege -- i don't use it in a legal term -- but privilege of whoever was speaking to share that with whomever. >> do we even know if that happened? we know somebody was tak...

Topic with putin, what else did he promise or guarantee? how was it said? the whole helsinki summit was an example of how not to conduct diplomacy with an adversary. i'm all for engaging with adversaries. just not in that fact. >> shepard: sure. past presidents have spoken with putin. when you have a meeting like that, there's a secretary of state, a note taker. president trump could have had that if that's what he wanted. he didn't want that. obviously russians didn't want it. would it be normal for the russians to have a recording of that conversation? >> it's possible. i'm not sure the secu...