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Meeting. it looks like that is not going to happen. mr. putin is a trained kgb agent. it absolutely suits him. there must be other americans in the room. think about what could possibly go wrong in a one-on-one hour there? >> first, i want to underscore how unusual it is. i attended six meetings with putin when i was in the government with president obama and other officials. there was always another official in the room, it was me. you at least want a note taker. if you don't have a record of it, mr. putin might jam president trump on issues he doesn't know well and read it out to the press t...

About russia. now he's walking into a room by himself with a guy who has years of experience at manipulation and he's unprepared. >> why is he doing that? >> he thinks he's smarter than everybody else. what does he not want a translator, note taker or his own national security adviser to hear? he's thinking, okay, i can do this by myself. i know arm's control, i know syria. >> i may have born yesterday but i still went shopping. come on. steve, here's this one on one, watch this. >> i have been concerned for sometime that the president's ad hoc style of going into meeting and winging it is ina...

But democrats as well. >> i think he should cancel it but not because of these indictments. he was ill prepared before the indictments came out today. that doesn't change the fact that trump has no preparation before he went to europe to get ready to talk about syria or arm's control or any of the other issues on the table. he went to nato, barely talked about russia. went to the u.k., barley talked about russia. now he's walking into a room by himself with a guy who has years of experience at manipulation and he's unprepared. >> why is he doing that? >> he thinks he's smarter than everybody e...

Witting victim, donald trump. >> we're getting word a letter was sent to the president just this morning by senior senate democrats, signed by minority leader chuck shchumer, and they're asking him not to go to the meeting alone, want somebody with him. your thoughts. who would he take, first of all? >> typically he would take the national security adviser, i stopped president obama on a lot of meetings with vladimir putin, there's typically a note taker, and one other person because you want one other account of what happened in that room so if the message comes out differently from the other...

Summit there last fall. neither times did he press him on it. in fact, i was there in hanoi when he told us putin said he didn't do it. he insisted he didn't do it. trump said, and he believes himself he didn't do it. only to later suggest, wait, no, he would side with his own intelligence agencies over the russian president, but there is going to be, as the weekend goes on, just further calls for this summit not to happen. >> yeah. >> but the white house wants it to. >> you know, that statement from sarah sanders came out as i was asking you. good job on that. evan, given the president this m...