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About the house. what will happen in the senate is a different story because they have the filibuster over there. we can get it resolved in the house. no reason why we shouldnt and then because its -- you may have more democrats agreeable in the senate. >> heather: i want to ask you while we have time left some of the breaking news, the 2500 pages that have come down, documents of the trump tower meeting. what are your thoughts on that? it is just not developing. >> don junior testified before t...

Russians were up to. the first is the light side. you have the lawyer vest veselnitskaya ka with. and magnitsky which is shorthand for the adoption issue. thats the light side. the dark side is that the russian government knew these people were getting into a high level meeting with a lot of senior trump people were present and using the people as cut outs to see whether or not the trump campaign in the person of donald trump junior and everybody else in the room as part of the team were interes...

This whole baby adoption thing or the adoption issue has to do with the sanctions piece of it. that was clearly the quit proquo going into the meeting. im not surprised to see theres a fallout. goldstone is working for the russians, they are his clients and hes following up with the trump people. all sorts of ideas about social media. we find out social media played a significant role in this election. the pieces are starting to fall into place. as the picture that we pretty much knew we had to ...

If thats not collusion its pretty close. but there is two possible variations as to what the russians were up to. the first is the light side. you have the lawyer veselnitskaya, kaveladze, guys like that who say heres an opportunity to get in at the high level and talk about sanctions associated with magnitsky, which is shorthand for -- you know, for the adoption issue. thats the light side. the darker side is that the russian government knew these people were going to get into a very high-level...

Avenue. he was in the room for all the national security decisions, someone the president talked to frequently. >> what are you hearing about this, sima? you have hope hicks in the spotlight now? >> shes been around the president long before he was a candidate. she was around trump tower, the hotels golf courses, she was in the company. she was like family. shes very loyal and trusted. shes been at his side when so many of these key decisions -- whether its comey firing or the speculation for th...

Walk into trump tower and get a meeting with don jr. or jared kushner or anybody. what i still dont understand besides the pattern of lying then remembering, to this day, glenn, the president still wont say a negative thing or broech a negative thing about russia or about vladimir putin and thats been consistent from day one, hell go after anybody for anything. hell go after the pope, hell go after republican members of congress. he will go after gold star families, the one person he does no go ...

Any russian officials to discuss any kind of coordinating campaign efforts. i know youre shaking your head, so i want to first say -- >> lets take a separate piece by piece. discuss any of the following. e-mails? >> repeat the question again about e-mails. >> since the 2016 campaign, have you discussed with any russian-connected official anything about e-mails? >> discuss with them? i dont recall having done any such thing. >> have you discussed with them russian interference in our elections? >...

Did not amount to collusion and the trump campaign. an attorney for the russian billionaire who pushed for the meeting between a russian lawyer provided cnn with e-mails and documents to make that argument and the new information is intended to contrast with that initial e-mail pitching the meeting to trump jr. which as you know promised damaging information on hillary clinton. the e-mail between the russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya and publicist rob gold stone the morning of the meetinged a...

Russians but taking meetings when the subject of the e-mail was clinton, russia, private confidential we got dirt on hillary clinton and don jr. saying great can we hold it until the end of the summer recognizing the political timing. >> congressman -- >> yeah. >> go ahead. >> pamelas reporting is interesting because signifying that there was knowledge among the trump team that this was going to be about about the act and not about dirt on hillary clinton does that change your perception at all,...

Back in public under oath in a hearing of the judiciary committee. he left nothing to dispel my impression that that june 9 meeting signaled to the russians, were open for business. were ready to deal. and he went to that meeting because he was promised in effect, dirt on hillary clinton. the word was incriminating. and his response was, love it. >> apparently his father loved it, too, because he went out and started bragging with the dirt on his opponent who looked at that moment like she would...