Yesterday, less than 24 hours after he fired FBI director James Comey, who was investigating Russian meddling in the presidential election, President Donald Trump held a meeting with Russian government officials and barred any American news outlets from attending.

During Trump's meeting with Sergey Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S., and Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, American press outlets weren't granted access to the event, while Russia's official news agency, TASS, was invited to join and photograph the talks. Instead of being part of the conversation, U.S. reporters were sent to an unannounced meeting for Trump, this time with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who most notably served under President Richard Nixon.

Security experts brought up the problems with allowing Russian photographers into the White House, especially given the accusations that Russian officials interfered in the U.S. presidential election and colluded with the Trump campaign, not to mention the fact that the Trump administration has reportedly been lax on security protocols in the past. (Back in February, for instance, there were concerns from the public and security officials alike over the fact that Trump's team looked at documents with potentially sensitive information with camera phone flashlights at his Mar-a-Lago resort in plain view of civilians.) Colin Kahl, former national security adviser to vice president Joe Biden, tweeted to ask whether it was a "good idea" to allow Russian photographers into the White House with their equipment, given all of the previous controversy and lack of concern for security protocols.

There's also reports that suggest Trump officials were under the impression that there would be no photographs released to the public by either government. On Thursday morning, CNN's senior White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, tweeted that a White House official had told him that the Russians had lied about releasing photographs after the images were published on the Russian foreign minister's public Flickr page, and the Russia Embassy in the U.S. tweeted a photo from the meeting.

In terms of the content of the meeting itself, the White House released an official statement claiming that the officials discussed ongoing conflict in Syria, Ukraine, and the Middle East at large. "President Donald J. Trump met today with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of Russia, following on the visit of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Moscow last month," it read. "President Trump emphasized the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria, in particular, underscoring the need for Russia to rein in the Assad regime, Iran, and Iranian proxies. The President raised Ukraine, and expressed his Administration’s commitment to remain engaged in resolving the conflict and stressed Russia’s responsibility to fully implement the Minsk agreements. He also raised the possibility of broader cooperation on resolving conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. The President further emphasized his desire to build a better relationship between the United States and Russia."

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