Calls, other countries can monitor them and they can actually be used as leverage or, you know, as compramat. the second reason is that it prevents our own executive agencies from doing their job if they don't know what the president is saying to other people what his motives are, they can't design our military policy, our diplomatic policy. but i will also add that there is a democratic problem here, which is that we are built on a pillar of accountability. that's why we have things like the presidential records act and call logs. when the american voter does not know what the president is do...