It appears is that there was great concern about the legality of what the President was doing and people apparently understood that and took the action of trying to cloister the records of that conversation as much as they could.
James Clapper discusses concerns about the legality of the President's actions and the implications of cloistering records.
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I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.
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I think the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.
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