Schiff: Trump’s 2nd Meeting with Putin ‘All the More Risky’ Because He Goes ‘Off-Script’

‘We now know the meeting was about anything but adoptions’

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SCHIFF: "Well, this would be a bad practice with any president not to have others present to interpret what Mr. Putin says or to take notes on what our own president says. It’s all the more risky with this president, because he does talk off-script, because he doesn’t have the discipline to carry the message with someone who is, you know, quite a skillful negotiator and counterpart of Putin. So we don’t know what the president may have conceded in that conversation. We don’t know what the president may have revealed about what he would like to take place. We don’t know what he may have said in that meeting that contradicts of what was said in the earlier meeting. And -- and that is, you know, obviously deeply concerning in terms of our national security. We have gained no insights about the meeting with Putin, we -- in terms of the national security establishment of the United States, we have gained very little. I think Putin has gained great insights. So it -- it is all the more concerning that it took place the way it did. And we had to learn about it the way we did."

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