Fiona Hill

Teams of people were brought together.

And, you know, people were practicing this.

We had all these, you know, different people there.

And I said, look, Henry Kissinger's an academic and a former professor.

And, you know, I happened to, you know, I've got to watch him in action.

He's going to like...

You know, five seconds in, if we're lucky we get that far, ask us a question and just throw off our entire presentation.

What is it that we want to convey?

And that's exactly what happened.

And then, you know, people aren't really prepared what they wanted to convey.

And, you know, they prepared, you know, a nice sort of fulsome, you know, PowerPoint-like approach.

We never even got there.

And so God knows what, you know, he took away from it at the end of it.

And that's, you know, think about Putin.

He's going to be kind of impatient.

We see the televised things where he, you know, kind of sits at a table a bit like, you know, people won't necessarily see us here.

And he puts his hands on the table and he looks across at the person and he says, so tell me, you know.

What's the main things I need to know?

And of course, the person's mind probably goes blank, you know, with the kind of the thought of like, oh God, what's the main thing?

And they go and they start, well, Vladimir Vladimirovich.