Read the article. They're connected. From the WP:
What happened? If you watch the videos, it’s pretty clear. At some point in the middle of that question, there’s a switch between the feed from the reporters and the feed from the translator. In the White House version of the video, you can hear the question being asked very faintly under the woman who is translating saying “president.” You can hear the same audio in The Post’s feed, starting at about a minute in. We did not edit the question out. This is the feed we were provided.
In this version of the news conference posted by Fox News, you can hear something different. In this, the question being asked more prominently with the translator muted and in the background. But more importantly in that video, you can hear the actual switch-over.
If you’re wearing headphones, you can notice how the latter part of the question is suddenly audible in the right earpiece. At first, the right channel is only the translator. Mid-question, the reporter is suddenly heard in both left and right as the translator feed drops out. Notice, too, that Putin then picks up his earpiece — through which he can hear the translations — and puts it in his right ear.
Our transcript and the White House’s were apparently based on the feed that runs only in the right channel. A White House official told CNN’s Abby Phillip that its transcript “did not have Mason’s audio turned up in time,” referring to Reuters reporter Jeff Mason, who asked the question.
This is not a conspiracy from the White House.
By the way, if you want to see the article without the nag screen blocker, search for some of the script in Google, and add "site:washingtonpost.com" without quotes, and then click on the result. They must have a deal with Google to let anyone coming from a Google search see the article without subscribing.
