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Security analyst, samantha venegrad. sam, i know you have been involved in presidential meetings before, including with president putin. what should president trump have done after that? which steps should he have taken? >> ana, i didn't take notes during presidential meetings, because i liked looking at my own handwriting. past presidents wanted to have note takers present because notetakers are an important first step towards conducting a safe meeting. they are human witnesses to what is and isn't discussed in a meeting and can corroborate different accounts of what happened and what was act...

Notetakers in regard to that discussion. they want to share those notes and conversation with other policymakers within the administration. they also want to share them with our allies so they know what the president is talking to putin about. in this instance, to have a situation where the president not only meets one on one gu also takes the notes of an interpreter so there is no record with regards to that conversation raises a number of serious questions that i don't think in any way can be justified for being destroyed. >> just one important note on the new york times reporting about the ...

The summitt with putin is sk scheduled in the conclusion of this meeting in a argentina and the last one was in helsinki and should they meet one -on-one without the advisers and without professional notetakers and should the president give him the riot act about what just happened in ukraine? >> well, he needs to underscore how serious the situation is in the ukraine and crimea area, and how it can escalate, and how the united states is not going to tolerate this russian aggression in these waters. so, again, i don't know whether donald trump has the gump shun to do that and the intestinal fo...

Do every day that i worked in the united states senate in the 1990s. he was just doing his job. i disagreed with him on almost every policy question, but he appeared to be a serious republican senator trying to do his job. he wasn't one of the first people reporters would go to when there was breaking news in the senate, but he is one of those people now. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. >> vladimir putin coming to the white house? >> did i hear you right? >> yeah, yeah. >> o...

That's going to be special. >> were you aware of that? >> i think based on my reaction i wasn't aware of that. >> would you recommend there not be a one-on-one without note takers? >> if i were asked that question, i would, yeah, look for a different way of doing it. >> the dan coats who i watched at work every day in the united states senate is not someone who could easily abide a donald trump in the presidency. and so based on the process of elimination you have just seen and based on the content of the op ed piece which delivers specific praise to only one person by name, and that person is...