Article snippet: The White House has confirmed that President Donald Trump held a previously undisclosed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this month. "There was a couples-only social dinner at the G-20," Michael Anton, a senior national security official in the Trump administration, told a small group of reporters today, a White House official told ABC News. "Toward the end, the president spoke to Putin at the dinner." Anton did not reveal the length or content of the meeting, according to the White House official. Anton did not immediately return ABC News' request for comment. A White House official disputed the characterization of the meeting as hidden in reports as “false, malicious and absurd.” And despite reports saying it lasted an hour, the official said that Trump and Putin only spoke “briefly.” The official confirmed that Putin's translator was used during the exchange. "During the course of the dinner, all the leaders circulated throughout the room and spoke with one another freely," the official said in part in an extensive statement. "over two hours, in which they discussed in part Russian interference in the U.S. election -- which the Putin denied. Before the sit-down, the two leaders also had a casual run-in in the morning, where they exchanged a handshake. Link to the full article to read more