CNN learns about Lavrov's meeting tomorrow with 45 from Russian spox, not WH

[Tanuki]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/09/politics/donald-trump-sergei-lavrov-meeting/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

"President Donald Trump is planning to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday in Washington, an encounter that is sure to draw significant scrutiny amid several ongoing controversies involving Trump and Russia.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told CNN on Monday that the two plan to meet. The White House has not yet confirmed the meeting to CNN, and the State Department announced in a written statement Sunday that Lavrov will travel to Washington this week for meetings with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "discuss a broad range of regional and bilateral issues."

Lavrov's last official visit to Washington in May 2017 was notable because Trump reportedly shared highly classified information in the Oval Office with the foreign minister and then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.".....(more)

[spanone]

1. I suspect only Russian media will be allowed in.

[MrsCoffee]

2. Again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/trump-russia-meeting-american-reporters-blocked.html

Trump Bars U.S. Press, but Not Russia’s, at Meeting With Russian Officials

[Botany]

4. Trump is an active Russian Agent.

You can not be for America and for Trump at the same time.

And as we "speak" right now Republicans in the House, the Senate, the DoJ, and
the White House are working to protect him.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. discuss a broad range of regional and bilateral issues

means an exit strategy and sanctuary in Russia.

Maybe Donnie thinks he can be one of Poot Poot's oligarchs.

[Iliyah]

5. Marching orders from Putin to be personally

given to shithole . . .

What say you Republicans.

[gratuitous]

6. Oh, it was notable for more than just Trump sharing highly classified information

The tell is CNN's use of the word "reportedly." Why can't CNN say Trump blabbed to Lavrov without that heavy-lifting adverb? Because no American press was allowed into that Oval Office meeting. That's kind of a story right there, isn't it?