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Secretary of state tillerson on friday said sanctions had come up in the conversation. then you have the president tweeting yesterday that sanctions were not discussed in the conversation. then this afternoon sarah huckabee sanders contradicted the president saying sanctions did come up. >> you know, it's -- it would be funny if it weren't about our own country, anderson. you know, the president, i don't know what to say, i'm not a doctor, but he doesn't behave as an adult, let alone as a president. and this kind of loose back and forth about what happened in a meeting, there were no note take...

An adult, let alone as a president. and this kind of loose back and forth about what happened in a meeting, there were no note takers, just tillerson and the russian foreign minister and two translators. and so here we had a meeting between two world leaders, an extremely important meeting, and even the american side can't agree what happened. >> you know, one of the things you said recently in a column really has stuck in my mind. and it sort of relates to this because i think people now on different sides of the aisle or different parts of the country, you know, have different truths. and on...

Meeting, and that's why the u.s. team, everyone should have agreed to bring in more staff, note takers. i know mike mcfaul when he was part of the administration as ambassador or as senior director for russia, he himself would be in a meeting like that to provide a readout to the press afterwards. we now only have the four principals that were in this meeting with two translators. the translators are obviously not going to share their notes. so we're left with a question. who's telling the truth? do we believe the u.s. administration, president trump's version of the story, or president putin'...

Events. we have to make sure they don't happen again. >> julianne, the russian foreign minister basically stakes out this dramatic ground. this was headline breaking this afternoon with some pushback as we've noted but saying, oh, yeah, and trump took putin at his word. take a listen. >> translator: president trump has said that he has heard clear declarations from mr. putin that russian leadership and russian government has not interfered in the elections, and he accepts the things that mr. putin has said. >> what's going on there? >> well, this doesn't surprise me at all that we have two con...

>> you've got it. and it is not unusual to get two different readings of a meeting, lavrov and his customary charlieing way, that was quite at odds with what secretary of state tillerson said. that's why there are note takers. they sit on the side of the room and they take notes. apparently president trump didn't want anyone else in the room. i guess he looks at every note taker and thinks of that person as being a leaker. but there are reasons you have note takers. >> there was a moment i want to play jumped out at me. take a listen. >> thank you. >> that's putin leaning over and saying to p...