Former diplomat and Obama White House staffer Brett Bruen told USA Today: “We’re entering a dangerous territory of telephone games, where Trump is going to have private chats with foreign leaders, and they’re going to tell their teams one thing, and Trump is going to tell our national security team another.”

The problem isn't that Donald Trump is talking to foreign leaders. The problem is that he's having private chats without coordinating with the State Department.

The State Department has been shut out of Donald Trump's calls with world leaders, raising concerns about confusion over U.S. foreign policy.

The State Department is said to have been shut out of Donald Trump's calls with world leaders, raising concerns over U.S. foreign policy.

President-elect Donald Trump recently claimed that he had a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin in which he asked Putin to not further escalate his war in Ukraine. However, the Kremlin denied that such a call had ever taken place,