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Of shared interest that we can work together, like the syrian cease fire. that we both can agree on that in order to move forward in some places. i don't think that will be the case on everything. there's certainly certain instances where we can work together with russian to make every part of the world a little bit safer. >> does the president trust president putin? >> i haven't asked him that question. >> would you ask him question? >> yeah. >> i have two questions. we know there was no note taker in the meeting. did you make an audio reporting of the meeting? >> not that i'm aware of. i hav...

Gotten. we'll find that out eventually. beyond that, you know, going into a session where you know that there's a russian connection with the possibility of getting help from somebody that is or is not in a direct or indirect way representing the russian government that would help your campaign, this gets sticky really fast is. >> yeah, i'm sure now he wishes he had taken notes and had a note taker there. glad he didn't. one or the other. >> the head of the campaign was in the room. the son-in-law of the president of the united states was in the room. >> shepard: donald trump didn't know. happ...

>> h.r. mcmaster, when you are speaking about national security issues with the president of russia. >> and all the issues they had to cover were the national security issues whether it's the hacking of the election or syria or nato or north korea. everything was a national security issue. there was nothing else on the agenda that was meaningful? >> exactly, and every president, most certainly our national security advisers in the obama era were in the room. i can't remember when that did not happen. and secondly, they did not have a note-taker. that was important for a couple of reasons. one,...

He'll pull off the tough negotiations with other heads of state by standing tough in america's interests. tou time will tell. >> an informal talk could happen. that was something that the president wanteded to have this formal meeting with vladimir putin, however. h.r. mcmaster telling us nothing was telegraphed prior and we don't know what type of briefings happened with donald trump prior to the meeting with vladimir putin. >> no note taker. >> usually there is an nsf official in a meeting like this taking notes and the russians now control the fair of it narr this and we haven't contradicte...

Successful propaganda warfare against you. >> mike mcfaul, something happened that was interesting. melania trump who was playing a different role sat next to him at the dinner. at one point, first lady melania trump came in to see if she could put an end to the meeting. it didn't work. the group went on for another hour. what happened there? what was that all about? >> i have no idea. like i said, when i worked at the white house and then as ambassador, i participated in many bilateral meetings, both with putin and medvedev. i don't recall something like that happening. >> and in your meeting...