Speaking of Trump's phone calls...

White House efforts to limit access to President Donald Trump's conversations with foreign leaders extended to phone calls with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, according to people familiar with the matter.

Those calls -- both with leaders who maintain controversial relationships with Trump -- were among the presidential conversations that aides took remarkable steps to keep from becoming public.

In the case of Trump's call with bin Salman, officials who ordinarily would have been given access to a rough transcript of the conversation never saw one, according to one of the sources. Instead, a transcript was never circulated at all.

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Typically, there would be several senior officials listening in to a call with an important foreign leader and then a transcript of the call would be circulated to those officials.

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The call — which the person said contained no especially sensitive national security secrets — came as the White House was confronting the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which US intelligence assessments said came at the hand of the Saudi government.

  CNN

Nothing suspicious there.

It's not clear if aides took the additional step of placing the Russian phone calls in the same highly secured electronic system that held a now-infamous phone call with Ukraine's president and which helped spark a whistleblower complaint made public this week, though officials confirmed calls aside from the Ukraine conversation were placed there.

I think Congressional oversight needs to see those calls.

Only Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and then-National Security Adviser John Bolton would be in the room for [calls that would typically include several senior officials], the former White House official said.

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The Washington Post reported Friday that Trump told two top Russian officials during a 2017 Oval Office meeting that he was unconcerned about the country's interference in the 2016 election, which led White House officials to tightly restrict access to Trump's comments.

"If true, the reports that President Trump may have told close associates of Putin that he didn't mind Russian interference in the US elections are extremely harmful to both our national security and the integrity of our elections," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement released Saturday. "It's one of the most disturbing things we've learned yet."

I don't know. The list of disturbing things in this administration is long.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.