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Posted on: September 25, 2019 at 09:33:45 CT

Thanks McCabe for discussion how calls with foreign leaders are documented.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1909/19/nday.05.html

These are matters of national business and very often national security. So the purpose of these calls is to discuss policy matters, very important national security issues, things of that nature. 

So, there's a whole host of folks who need to know what's happening in those conversations. So we can take that as guidance, understand which direction to move, which way policies are leaning. The folks on the National Security Council need to understand what happens in these calls so they can create and direct policy initiatives for the president that are consistent with the way he is representing our national interests. 

So at the call at the time of the call, you could have note takers present. You could have translators present. You could have other aides and staffers to the president who are present in the room for the call. And then typically, in former administrations, those calls are memorialized in a memo and distributed to a small group of folks.