Kurtz: ‘Optics’ Only Russian Media at Trump-Lavrov Meeting Are ‘Absolutely Awful’

‘I cannot figure out who thinks it made sense to bar the American media and let the Russian photographers in’

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KURTZ: "The optics are absolutely awful. I cannot figure out who thinks it made sense to bar the American media and let the Russian photographers in. It would be one thing if they just barred all press, I would not agree with it, but that would be an effort to play down the meeting with the two Russian officials a day after the firing of James Comey. But to then let the Russians in and then all of American newspapers and television networks have to run pictures taken by Russian photographers just kind of symbolizes how whatever you think of the decision to fire James Comey, there's obviously great debate about that, the White House's handling of all of the optics involved in this has really been shaky, and the interview we just saw the excerpt from with Lester Holt also feels that because you now have the President saying something very different than his own spokesmen have been saying over the last two days."

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