When I wrote the post below, trying to make sense of what happened in the Trump-Putin meeting, I didn’t have the transcript of the gaggle with McMaster, Cohn and Mnuchin. What I was going on were press accounts that they declined to address Lavrov’s and Putin’s comments. So I knew in general they declined but I didn’t have the details. The White House just released the transcript and I am publishing (after the jump) the portion on the meeting.
I’ve highlighted a few passages I found noteworthy in bold.
Q General McMaster, Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov walked out of that bilat …read more
Source: TPM
