an hypothesis : 100% of the oval office interactions with so called "press" are in reality scripted
why?
the real question that would have send the whole into a dead sand sinking pit would have been :
how did you feel about this :
there the whole "friendship"...
as such to create an assault to justify a support to get the whole package moving.
clever, typical CIA, and sadly the kremlin doesn't explain - or is aware of those shenigans constantly produced by the enemies of life earth and mankind...
sorry... at the end... what does matter?