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Correspondent at politico and steve is the pulitzer prize—winning journalist and chief diplomatic correspondent at the new york times. stephen, you have been covering this week's international diplomacy from your base in brussels. tell us, are you the only journalist less —— left in the city? -- left in the city? part of the problem _ -- left in the city? part of the problem is _ -- left in the city? part of the problem is that - -- left in the city? part of i the problem is that covid-19 the problem is that covid—i9 has made it very hard to travel and if you want to go bouncing around...

Things is actually in the men and women who are preparing and briefing the bosses and those are the people that you need to get a hold of. i like that. the greyer people in the room are the least important. if the ones outside that know what's going to happen first. yes, and sometimes they'll even tell you. so talking about telling people, naomi, you speak to people who have their own agenda all the time. there is a lot of spin around this stuff. you hear phrases like a robust exchange of views or they had a frank discussion, how do you cut through that when you went there? how do you get to t...

Always takes place away from the eyes of the press. so, steve and give me the nuts and bolts of yourjob to the new york times. how do you find out what's happened when you are stuck on the other side of the door? you often find out by not sitting around at the summit itself but sitting around and phoning people and a great advantage of the mobile phone is it's revolutionised the diplomatic reporting. in the old days, you could not reach people and now you can reach them even when they're in actual meeting. so that's a big help. you are looking for interlocutors and you're looking for the peopl...