is this much ado about nothing or suspect? i don t know if it s much ado about anything because we don t know what they talked about, but after all of interest that everyone had in their official meeting, the fact that that one went on much longer than expected, the idea that there was now this second meeting that they didn t tell anybody about, i mean, it s certainly interesting and it comko comes all these other questions about the u.s. and russia and previously undisclosed meetings between the president s son and people who may or may not have ties to the russian government. so it s just another thing when they probably didn t need one. and the president in particular saying come on, there is nothing to hide here, this was a g-20 dinner. everyone knew about it. yes, en kn rk, everyone knew ab dinner, butsitting down for so
after it was revealed the president had a second previously undisclosed discussion with russian president vladimir putin. this happened july 7 at a dinner for world leaders at the g-20 in germany. the white house only going public after they were asked about this discussion. they are also acknowledging only witness to this one-on-one chat was russia s translator. the u.s. translator at the continuer only spoke japanese. i should say the whole room noticed that this was happening, but it was not disclosed this separate almost hour long chat. in certainly no record of what was discussed in the conversation which is raising big questions about what was in that topic. why the meeting was never disclosed. president trump responding to coverage of the revelation with a fiery series of tweets. our reporting begins with sara murray at the white house. reporter: good morning. another meeting between president trump and vladimir
long. first lady melania trump was seated next to putin at the dinner. the white house says near the dinner s end, the president of the united states got up there his seat elsewhere, went over to his wife and that s when he began speaking with putin in full view of the other world leaders. and it concludes that the insinuation that the white house is trying to hide a second meeting is false, absurd. it is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president s duties to interact with world leaders. president trump has demonstrated american leadership by representing our interests and values on the world stage. not a lot of shared interest and values though between the krund and ru united states and russia. zach wolf is joining us to discuss. this came to light because a guy who runs you group ian bremer
putin coming to light yesterday. this one was after they held their formal bilateral meeting at the g-20. later there was a dinner for world leaders and their spouses. a senior white house official says that president trump and president putin spoke for nearly an hour and trump is already chafing at the coverage. he took to twitter calling the coverage sick and saying the fake news is becoming more and more dishonest. even a dinner arranged for top 20 leaders is made to look sinister. very clear that even as other big priorities are playing out here in washington even as president trump is struggling to move forward with his domestic agenda, the russia cloud looms large over the white house. back to you. the white house offering its perspective the chat. officials acknowledge it lasted almost an hour, even though the white house statement calls it brief. we re told it was 55 minutes
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