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And never do a brief-out. when you do diplomacy in the dark, you don't have accountability. daylight is good for diplomacy because we can hold both sides accountable and understand what the strategy is. >> ambassador, what did you make the attempted cleanup effort on the part of pompeo, that nagging matter of those two hours with just interpreters present? >> again, he just restated policy. and in a way i felt like he was reminding the president of what our policy is, that they released a press statement reaffirming that we're not going to recognize crimea as if that was on the cards, you know...

>> again, he just restated policy. and in a way i felt like he was reminding the president of what our policy is, that they released a press statement reaffirming that we're not going to recognize crimea as if that was on the cards, you know, in the mix, was striking to me. but there's a lot we don't know. two hours is a long time. the things we do know are disturbing. you know, this swap of interrogation that was proposed, that was disturbing. and thankfully they've parked that, they cleaned that up. it took three or four days. but i want to underscore one part they didn't clean up. we were a...