cia officer who once served in moscow. he is the director of intelligence and defense project at harvard s bellford center. thank you so much for being with us, rolf. the president obviously wouldn t allow us to cover it. he says that s the most important thing that the internationally broadcast press conference isn t the thing to focus on. put aside for a second what he said at the press conference. how interested or even concerned are you about what happened in that one-on-one meeting, given what we saw publicly happen? the problem with the president holding a two-hour one-on-one meeting in which all the substance is discussed and no one is the beneficiary of that discussion sits very difficult for any progress to actually be made in doing what the president says he wants to do, which is pursue relations across the board the russians. how does the u.s. intelligence community, state department, defense department, and everyone else involved, all the policy advisers, take notes from
very, very positive for both countries. we d have been happy to cover it if we knew what was discussed. we would have been happy to be in the room to watch what was happening. but of course, that didn t happen or even have a read-out or even have a recording or even have other people in the room with credibility who might be able to say what happened. with me now to discuss it is rolf mowatt-larssen, a former cia officer who once served in moscow. he is the director of intelligence and defense project at harvard s bellford center. thank you so much for being with us, rolf. the president obviously wouldn t allow us to cover it. he says that s the most important thing that the internationally broadcast press conference isn t the thing to focus on. put aside for a second what he said at the press conference. how interested or even concerned are you about what happened in that one-on-one meeting, given what we saw publicly happen? the problem with the president holding a two-hour one-o
that room a bit and after that michelle are we really saw everyone go on the offensive when he was asked about specific cases of dissenting voices tell us more about that. yes clearly the turn did change that he actually had almost an argument with a journalist from a public service broadcaster asking him about the specific case and added one actually started discussing that case not with that s something that would be unimaginable here and anywhere any member of the government who would refrain from commenting on any legal cases is this kind of a breach of the rule of law under the new with the with the cameras rolling right there but you know you this is kind of the most striking moment that you have a member of the turkish press association protesting for press freedom in turkey yes that was a changing moment that cost a lot of attention in that press conference isn t that unusual i mean the form of