that s adversarial to the united states and that the dni would not know about the content of that meeting. you know, i think that one of the things that we have toize here is vladimir putin went into this meeting with the private president to control the narrative regarding what comes out of the meeting. the president wanted to have a private meeting and here we are in a situation in which the u.s. national security apparatus, the intelligence community, defense department and others are learning about what happened in that meeting, not from the president but from russian officials and vladimir putin. and that s a really concerning situation. gentlemen, let me read you what one year ago an influential d.c. conservative wrote when president trump met putin briefly for the first time. quote, trump got to experience putin looking him in the eyes and lying to him, denying russian interference in the election. it should be a fire bell in the night warning about the value moscow plays on h