Notes???? Tweety just said there are notes of the meeting.

[Cattledog]

The translator took notes?

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1. lordy i hope there are notes!

[Hekate]

2. GMTA. But the notes are all in Cyrillic.

[BigmanPigman]

3. If there are they need to be going to Congress.

Schumer called for the Nat Security Team to be questioned and briefed by Congress too. We need to know what they know from before and after the meeting.

[hlthe2b]

4. Translaters usually take minimalist notes to help with translating.. They may not be comprehensible

and surely are unlikely to be complete. All the more reason to get at least the American translater in pronto before Congress to give a full reading, or at least in front of some senior (trusted) security officials for debriefing.

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6. There was no American translator.

Donnie made sure there were no witnesses who could be effectively subpoenaed.

[hlthe2b]

7. I've seen it reported both ways. Initially that only one translator and later that there were two..

[hlthe2b]

8. Newsweek confirms: there were two translators:

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-putin-meet-helsinki-who-else-room-1025963
Trump and Putin Meet in Helsinki: Who Else Is in the Room?

Translators

Although not the most senior delegates, Trump and Putin’s translators are playing a key role at the summit. The two leaders were flanked by their interpreters in the short address to the press before the “personal discussion,” as Trump called it, began. Although Putin speaks near fluent English—good enough to correct interpreters sometimes, according to his spokesman Dmitrydmotr Peskov—the presence of interpreters is a matter of protocol. Putin addressed President Obama with the help of a translator even during informal discussions on the sidelines of the G20 summit in 2015. Although often addressing U.S. director Oliver Stone in English during the Showtime documentary about him, Putin kept his English translator near in many of the shots as a matter of course. --snip--

Trump, who has no known grasp of Russian, is being assisted by a U.S. government translator.

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9. Ah, good. Though my hunch is

that the translator was chosen for a convenient lack of long-term recall....

[handmade34]

5. more likely

the room is bugged... hmmm CIA or Russian operatives?

[kentuck]

10. Mark Warner suggested there might be an English translator that took notes of the meeting?

If so, the Senate Intelligence Committee may want to take a look at them.

It would be good to know what they discussed in private.