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Office of the presidency. so how could others who follow in his footsteps or follow his example, rather. you say how can there be tape recordings. well, the president -- not only do they learn by example, but they don't hold the office in the same regard. how can the president not respect the office enough to know that having an unsecure phone is not about an inconvenience. there's national security implications with that. he does not comprehend the scope -- >> the need for that, that protection, how do you convince anybody else? >> exactly. that's the fundamental problem that we see in this w...

Yesterday by dan coates, saying he's not in a position to comment about that meets. he also said it to andrea mitchell during the aspen forum. what do you make of that? has it become an issue since our top intelligence officials are saying they don't know what happened in that meeting? >> this is what you get when you don't have note takers in the room, when it is a one-on-one, you know, meeting between trump and putin with a translator. republicans blocked an effort by democrats to actually interview the interpreter who was at that meeting to try to get her readout. so it is pretty worrying w...

>> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. >> why not? >> that is amazing. i mean, this is the problem, right? it was only donald trump and vladimir putin in that room with their translators. that was by design, because trump didn't want there to be any note-takers, didn't want there to be any paper trail or official governmental record of what was discussed, what was agreed to, what trump said, what putin said. now you have u.s. government officials not sure what happened in that meeting. there's yet to be a public briefing by the administrati...

Meddling a priority. how do you explain the disconnect between what you are saying, his advisers, and what the president has said about this issue? >> i'm not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened in helsinki. >> why not? >> that is amazing. i mean, this is the problem, right? it was only donald trump and vladimir putin in that room with their translators. that was by design, because trump didn't want there to be any note-takers, didn't want there to be any paper trail or official governmental record of what was discussed, what was agreed to, what trump said, wha...

The bureau is biased against the administration. and second of state mike pompeo faced scathing questioning from members of the senate foreign relations committee yesterday over president trump's meeting in helsinki last week with russian president vladimir putin. the lawmakers demanded answers from the president's top diplomat who defended the president's foreign policy. nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more on the fireworks on capitol hill from yesterday. >> reporter: the secretary of state taking fire from democrats and the republican chairman about that two-hou...