The source bodies captured at publish time for Marco Rubio and Sergey Lavrov sat down in Manila on Thursday. The two governments that were at the table will publish accounts of the same meeting that disagree on its length, its agenda, what was offered, and who asked for the conversation in the first place — and a reporter who asked about Iran targeting data got told "Nice hairstyle" — each with the quoted spans highlighted at their character offsets. This is the frozen record the audit was checked against.
