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Thought he should offer a fairly full and complete statement acknowledging what happened in that meeting and what happened is the president overruled them. he took matters into his own hands. almost acting as his familys own lawyer strategist publicist and decided to offer a statement that was misleading at best. and did not include the complete information which as we now know is that this meeting was set up under the premise of sharing damaging information about hillary clinton from the russia...

>> i agree that it was the fatherly role. he was trying to be helpful. again, were still talking about this because we havent got the facts out. this is what day five or six of this story. this is not helpful. >> barry, i want to play donald trump himself on this because theres this idea we hear about staffing and what does the coander chief think is important. there was an odd exchange where he went wac to the adoption issue. this post report puts it in daft light. take a listen. >> its very in...

Of the sanctions which led putin to retaliate by suspending u.s. adoptions of russian children. it was this adoption issue merely a cover for the sanctions that trump jr. claims was the focus of his 2016 meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnitska veselnitskaya. >> when they mentioned it was about adoptions, it had nothing to do with adoptions. they went to donald trump jr. and said, can you help us draft this act if your father becomes president? >> reporter: president trump said his previo...

As far as his sflangs while he was there, they were only talking about this russian orphanage and this adoption issue which he had no interest in at the time. it may have been an attempt by russian agents or russian government to seek influence. i dont think that it is evidence certainly doesnt indicate that it was, but lets say for the sake of the conversation that they were trying to do that, the ralt is that it didnt go anywhere. and now here we are. we had our meeting with mr. kushner today....

Clear signal. at the end they have established that these guys are willing, hayden said, pausing, how do i put this -- they did not reject a relationship. so congressman, you can see how maybe through ignorance or innocence or knavety mr. pr kushner could have got caught up in something bigger than him. >> mr. hayden said in that scenario is true. and mr. kushner said he regrets the meeting took place and took place under the auspices he thought it was. but the reality is again if something had ...

A relationship. so congressman, you can see how maybe through ignorance or innocence or knavety mr. pr kushner could have got caught up in something bigger than him. >> mr. hayden said in that scenario is true. and mr. kushner said he regrets the meeting took place and took place under the auspices he thought it was. but the reality is again if something had come from this meeting or materials had been passed or subsequent meetings requested and if they followed up in any way wed be talking abou...

2016 meeting, he says he was bored or it wasnt of interest to him. what if they had come with the goods, they had come with substantial russian government support, either dirt on hillary clinton, would he have stuck around? would he have played ball? i think he has to answer that question. >> can i stop you right there? isnt that a worse scenario than the meeting actually being about adoption and -- isnt that a worse fact for him to say i was only there for dirt on hillary from russia. when i fo...

Pass a blind eye to what might be right in front of your face? no, i can see it, and i see they had a meeting at trump tower where they were promised one big swath of information about hillary clinton colluding with the russians and it was a bait and switch. they never had the information and basically, these russians wanted to get in to pitch the reduction of sanctions against russia and they wanted to talk about the adoption issue, too. we all know that all they cared about was a political iss...

He end that had years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him which is interesting. that was a part of the conversation that don had in his meeting. >> well, the news of trumps meeting with putin has now deepened divisions between he the president and his national security team of one said, diplomats and intelligence officials were dumbfounded by the presidents approach. mcmasters warned that putin is not to be trusted and advised the president against holding an official bila...

Joining us. you just heard president trump and his description of this second meeting that happened at this dinner that actually followed cocktails and an opera performance of the g20, what did you make of this? >> the mere fact of the meeting is not a scandal. people are saying that he talked to president putin. the substance of the conversation is more important and it seems like president trump can draw the connection between the adoption issue, which -- in the magnitsky act which is a law th...