Trump-Putin Meeting Raises Red Flags for National Security Experts
President Donald Trump's just-disclosed hourlong meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the G-20 summit — using a Kremlin translator, with no national security staff present — may have damaged U.S. interests, according to some national security experts.
With no other witness or note-taker of the sort normally present on the American side, there's no guarantee that Trump or Putin's words were translated correctly — or that Trump didn't give away more classified information, as he did when top Russian officials came to the White House in May.
Experts who spoke to NBC News also said the impromptu tete-a-tete in Germany, while not unprecedented, represented a break with protocol that other nations could not have helped but notice.
"In spending so much time with Putin he was not spending time with other leaders. Both regarding substance and symbolism, that's important," said Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia.
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Sources were able to get a picture from the meeting however.
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