The White House at this hour is refusing to release any details of a G-20 summit dinner conversation that took place earlier this month between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Wednesday this was a social dinner and that was the nature of the evening. Reporters had pressed her about the topics the two leaders discussed.
Looking back at news coverage of the Trump-Putin meeting a day earlier when the encounter first became known in the United States, Sanders said it was "a little bit ridiculous" to describe the two presidents' chats as a private conversation when more than [two other] two dozen other national leaders and interpreters were sitting nearby and in plain view during a formal dinner in a large dining room.