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>> we have, you know, meeting with putin, right, in which -- the point is this has real world consequences, what to think of the president's meeting with putin which only the secretary of state was there. no note taker, maybe the secretary of state -- the president tweets out this thing about what was setting up a joint -- a cybersecurity thing with them, so ludicrous, everyone laughed at it. we can laugh at it, but step back and think about it. the president of the united states, first meeting, long meeting with the president of russia, and his main -- main takeaways is let's work with them o...

To have a meeting like that with putin and have a basic disagreement over who said what to whom about key issues like this is extraordinary not to have a note taker or any kind of record. >> well, you have the secretary of state, the president of the united states, and the secretary of state was undercut by the president. >> there is, of course, a -- a translator or who can reconstruct in some sense what was said from their notes. i think it was a constructive meeting. they made progress on syria. a lot of the concerns that people had that they might swing for the fences and trump might be tak...

President had this controversial meeting with vladimir putin, mixed signals, no note taker, no news conference afterward, a briefing by three cabinet secretaries that were then countermandered about backing off of that joint cybertask force. after seeing the television reactions, certainly on "meet the press" from lindsey graham and others, john mccain. so the other world leaders are now looking at it as one of our colleagues in australia said so memorably as the g-19. >> yeah, another construct is to say we fit the g-0 as in there is really nobody trying to lead the orchestra. and that's very...

Election, putin will say, no, i didn't, let me hand this off to my team. >> there's a reason there were only two americans in that room, the secretary of state and the president of the united states, so thinly stashed. >> you would never have a meeting like that without a note taker. meetings like that cannot happen. >> well, he didn't want to have a clear record of what happened and he succeeded. just ahead, we're going to bring in nbc's keir simmons who sat down with a lawyer about the heart of this situation surrounding donald jr. >> we'll be right back.

The state of u.s. relations with russia. do you view russia as a partner? do you view them as an ally? do you view them as an adversary? >> i would want to have a further conversations with members of the secretary of state and national security council, but i think we saw that there were places of shared interest that we can work together, specifically things like the syrian cease fire, that we both can agree on in order to move forward in some places. i don't think that's going to be the case on everything, but there are certainly certain instances where we can work together with russia to m...