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My impression from the press conference is this is thin on substance. i ll admit, i wasn t expecting there to be a lot of substance and a meeting to demonstrate you can have a meeting. coming out of the meeting, putin gave a 15-minute stand up one on one interview to russian state television and in it, he goes down without notes. this is really impressive, the entire content of this one on one with trump and so he talks about a number of actually pretty significant thingsdiscus talked about a deal in southern syria that would be about pushing iranian forces out and this is preagreed with the ig ra israelis but in exchange assad would take the country and putin said he has 90% of the country. they talked about ukraine and putin described something as a very interesting offer. we don t actually know of what the offer consisted but it s very interesting to me that they discussed ukraine and putin and here is the kicker, they talked ....
State tv. and had goes down without notes. this is really impressive. the entire content of the one on one that he had with trump. he talks about a number of actually significant things they discussed. none of which came out informant presser. they talk about a deal in southern syria. which would possibly be about pushing iran forces out. this has been preagreed with israel and exchange assad was going to retake the country. putin noted he has 90% of the country. they talk about ukraine. and putin described a very interesting offer. we don t know of what the offer consistented. it s interesting to me they discussed you crane. and there s an interesting offer. and talked about sanctions without talking about sanctions. when asked whether putin asked for sanctions relief, putin of course as a matter of russian pride and negotiating tactic knowing that trump could never hand over sanctions relief. he simple will says no. ....
Meddling. even with those indictments by his own justice department. he said we re going to talk about our mutual friend, xi jin ping. we re talking about a summit prepared unlike any other between soviet or russia leaders, not going into with any preagreed upon topics. he said this is a loose meeting, it might be the easiest meeting compared to those talked with our allies. if he wants it to be easy, no ....
Such a big fan of mike flynn after all which that was at least for me at least one surprise. a thing that jim comey has said that is that in that briefing of which you were present in which it was decided that jim comey would present to the president the information that was in the so-called dossier, that the reaction according to comey from the president s team afterwards was essentially trying to figure out how to, i don t know, spin is the right word or just to deal with this not from a national security standpoint or a standpoint of what to do about russia and, you know, their interference in the election, but what message would benefit them the most. is that your recollection? yes, it is. what happened was that we had originally jim and i were going to we had already preagreed. i say we, john brennan, director of nsa and jim and myself to go through the formal briefing an i ....
The right word or just to deal with this not from a national security standpoint or a standpoint of what to do about russia and, you know, their interference in the election, but what message would benefit them the most. is that your recollection? yes, it is. what happened was that we had originally jim and i were going to we had already preagreed. i say we, john brennan, director of nsa and jim and myself to go through the formal briefing an i would lead the discussion and then would hand off to each of the other participants in our group to embellish or expand or amplify the particular talking points i went through and the reason we wanted to do it this way we would be talking to a lot of other people besides the president-elect. we had a battery of briefings to ....