Asked whether Walker still deserved a senior adviser's role, Turnbull replied: "Certainly the young man involved needs to have a very hard look at himself and I'm sure he will be considering his future carefully.
The prime minister's adviser was replying to a request for help from his old colleague Derek Draper seeking material to post on a website Draper was considering setting up to air anonymous gossip about the Tories.
Gore's reply was noncommittal, but he pleased the group by suggesting that no matter who wins in November the victor should surround himself with advisers with experience in the private sector.
Mr. Obama's advisers replied that he was simply drawing attention to what they said were Mrs. Clinton's conflicting positions on war and peace.
"I'm the president's top military adviser," he replied.
When asked on Thursday about the possibility of Mr. O'Byrne coming back as the governor's most senior adviser, Mr. Paterson replied that it was a "fascinating idea" that he planned to discuss with Mr. O'Byrne.
Asked over lunch last Friday why there are so many rumors about a marital separation, Claude Guéant, the Élysée Palace's secretary general and Mr. Sarkozy's closest adviser, replied drily, "I do not know".
At the start of the session, Mr Wizner, who serves as Mr Snowden's legal adviser, replied that although freedom of expression protections are generally stronger in the US than in Russia, "if there's one person for whom that's not true, it's Ed Snowden".
"Can you just tell me what the biggest problem is?" A senior adviser, Brad Jupp, replied, "The answer to that is that every problem sucks".
Asked by the CNBC correspondent if that meant she had been lying when she said she was only an adviser, Mr. McHenry replied, "Sure".
When asked if the president was complaining, the adviser crisply replied that he was "very energized by the campaign".
