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Jeremy would agree i'm sure, they'll get up and do their job every day, but it has to be puzzling to them and has to make them wonder what impact they're actually having with the intelligence they're generating. >> isn't one of the problems that there was a one-on-one meeting, which is not unprecedented but is very unusual in this context, brief meetings, obama one on one telling putin, back off, we know you're meddling, completely appropriate. but this was two hours, with no note-takers, only translators, and a big dust-up at house intelligence, by the way, adam schiff and devin nunes, schiff...

>> congressman, on the right of the screen that i am showing right now, we have a live protest in time square. we are showing you pictures of a protest that is underway in d.c. we just saw senator blumenthal addressing a crowd. these protests are going on around the country. have you had a chance to research what the legality is, policy makers, they are not official note takers. not like mcfall going into the meeting with president obama. can they be compelled to testify? what are the legal hurdles. >> it is largely unprecedented. but let's be clear on. this i would hope that we wouldn't have ...

Meetings with secretary kerry or his staff and you have professional note takers. it is not verbatim. it is to help them provide the words in the other language if the right context. so it is shorthand and often they use abreefb yabreviations y they know. i think it would be highly unlikely for anybody in the intel community to talk to any of the translators. >> it may be the best thing they have, to be honest. >> who knows? but this will come up. right? potentially in this press briefing ahead. quick break. quick break. stand by. so much has happened since the last time we saw sarah sanders. ...

And we couldn't accept that a double negative that a should instead of a shouldn't or a shouldn't instead of a should is going to make this go away because that's not the case. >> can we go back to what happened to this meeting even though there are calls for interpreter whose job it is to parse national security issues sand things that may or may not be classified. the russian military said they were ready to implement international security agreements. we don't even know what that is. i mean, do we have any idea? >> we have no idea, chris. and that's a really important point. president trump...

All the reasons we have stated. there's no agenda and just this unpredictability of this american president. whenever those tv cameras are around and the microphones are on you don't know what to expect. but for helsinki's part, this is city that has brokered these kinds of meetings before, a country part of the european union but not part of nato. so it walks a fine line. >> affording itself some neutrality. kal perry talking about what might happen when the microphones are on. something else unprecedented about this meeting between president putin and president trump is there will be no micr...