insisting his encounters with the russian leader have have been, as he described it, successful. that's exactly what concerns democrats who also say the president's meetings with putin are successful but for the russians. wolf? >> yeah, these are really disturbing developments, indeed. jim acosta, thank you very much. let's dig deeper now. the new trump/russia reporting, what it could mean for the president. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is here. along with our crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. the fact the president, jim, took possession of the interpret interpreter's notes, that's pretty extraordinary, isn't it? >> listen, i asked a former senior u.s. intelligence official whether, in his experience, he had ever seen this with a u.s. official at any level of government. at the top levels, middle levels, low levels. in his recollection, someone who worked decades in intelligence, he couldn't think of a single one. now, that by itself is not damning. a president could have reason to keep the contents of a meeting with a foreign leader secret, but the question here becomes then the pattern. right? because this hamburg meeting, he