Trump did so after a
meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also attended by
then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned of Trump’s
actions when a White House adviser and a senior State Department
official sought information from the interpreter beyond a readout shared
by Tillerson.
The constraints that Trump
imposed are part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his
communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even
high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what
he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
Jesse talks about the latest reporting from the New York Times and the Washington Post which reveals that not only has Donald Trump gone to great lengths to keep secret (even from the United States Intelligence community) the content of his private conversations with Vladimir Putin, but that in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey, the FBI opened a counter intelligence probe into Donald Trump to determine whether or not he was a witting/unwitting Russian intel asset.
Jesse talks about the latest reporting from the New York Times and the Washington Post which reveals that not only has Donald Trump gone to great lengths to keep secret (even from the United States Intelligence community) the content of his private conversations with Vladimir Putin, but that in the aftermath of the firing of James Comey, the FBI opened a counter intelligence probe into Donald Trump to determine whether or not he was a witting/unwitting Russian intel asset.
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