At 8 a.m. on Monday, Ian Bremmer, the president of global consulting firm Eurasia Group, did something unexpected in his weekly briefing for clients, foreign dignitaries and friends: He broke major news.

Bremmer is a renowned political scientist and not a reporter. Thats evident in Bremmers Monday dispatch, the first 700 words of which featured analysis of the recent G-20 summit before dropping a scoop that any news organization wouldve been quick to promote.

He revealed that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for roughly an hour during a July 7 dinner of world leaders in addition to having a widely covered two-hour meeting earlier that day.

In an interview with HuffPost, Bremmer said he first learned details of the Trump-Putin meeting last week and began writing his weekly report on Saturday. Yet it would still be three days, and after an appearance on Charlie Rose, before the news spread widely.

Bremer said he has enormous respect for journalists, but doesnt see it as his role to be first with a scoop.

Im not in the news breaking business, he said. What I do both the Eurasia Group and as a political scientist is to help people better understand the world, and I dont think a breaking news headline is necessarily the best way to do that.

The big news break that Trump and Putin had an undisclosed meeting isnt as troubling as how the situation unfolded, Bremmer said.

He said G-20 attendees found it specifically unnerving that Trump would walk over and sit down alone, at length, with Putin and that the pair demonstrated a collegial body language that departs from the presidents comparatively colder behavior with traditional U.S. allies.

The fact that the conversation occurred with only a Russian translator present raises concerns about Trumps lack of foreign policy experience, Bremmer said. The details of the exchange otherwise remain a mystery.