We are relying on China and Russia to tell us what Trump and Tillerson discussed with their leaders

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A recent tweet from the Associated Press indicates it learned of a meeting between Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian President Vladimir Putin not from Tillerson's team but from Putin's. What's more, after allowing US journalists to accompany him to the Osobnyak Guest House in Moscow for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Tillerson ditched reporters before meeting Putin at the Kremlin. Throughout the day, Russia drove US media coverage by pushing out a steady stream of information (or disinformation) that the State Department was slow to match.


We are relying on China and Russia to tell us what Trump and Tillerson discussed with their leaders