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It was interesting because that was a part of a conversation that don had in a meeting and most other people call up and say, by the way, we have information on your opponent. i was just with a lot of people, they say who are you taking a meeting with? >> um, i just dont know really where to start right there. i think all the people that were in the meeting, mike schmidt, should be asked whether they told donald trump they would have taken meeting with russian intelligence officers and with two ...

What this adoption issue is. the adoption is the red herring. what happened is the united states passed sanctions not against russia as a country, as an economy, but against a specific series of russian oligarchs and officials around putin who were accused of human rights abuses and corruption. those guys who are really the russian power elite, they want to be able to send their money a abro abroad, they want to be able to send their daughters and sons to boarding schools in england and their mi...

That before. >> evelyn -- so, matt, what could that mean? >> what is also unusual you have all these attorneys advocating on behalf of their client when those clients interests differ from somebody else. as you saw just a minute ago with trumps attorney distinguishing the father from the son. that i dont know what donald trump jr. is talking about. but i know donald trump himself was not in that meeting. theyre not on the same page. >> the fallout from this is the policy implications. when it co...

Reapplied through -- the state department says no, but the doj, loretta lynch, says he is. why would the state department allow natalia veselnitskaya and when the state department said no? also know about this meeting to make there is indication that the state department even knew this meeting was going to happe happen. >> kat: eric, i want to ask you. do you think this lawyer is dangerous or just a lawyer? >> eric: kat, after she left this meeting, she went to d.c. she was lobbying people in d....

Talking about babies and so on. its tied to the magnitsky act which penalizes russians accused of committing crimes, human rights abuses. this is all tied to big picture issues. so, one, the cut out, this is the way russians do this kind of thing. the way russian intelligence operates when its dealing with foreigners and cultivating sources. two, even if both issues were consequential, the idea of incriminating evidence against hillary clinton but also the adoption issue is one that russia is pu...

Ukrainian government was giving information about one of his campaign managers. >> it was a little different. nobody was meeting with any senior people of the clinton campaign. >> the lull wouldnt be any different. is there anything wrong with the meeting that took place here. its not illegal. >> what about ethical? >> youre in the middle of a campaign. so opzisposition research is ve common. >> yeah, but not from russians. >> yeah, but, you look at the context. its a meeting that ends up where ...

The meeting went exactly the way trump junior and others say it did, but the point was to probe to find out, would they be interested, and that this is exactly how russia would do this. they would do it through an oligar oligarch, through a family friend. what are your sources saying today? >> the cut-out model is the way russia operates. if theyre going to offer you something like this, theyll not send someone in a kgb uniform. many of the meetings weve been reporting on that have taken place b...

It to the proper authorities. i would never do anything to endanger this country. we fought so hard during this campaign. the rest of our family, the efforts we put into it. we would do anything for this country. we are never going to put that in jeopardy. ever. >> sean: all the emails that exist on this case, you dont think theres anyas other ones? >> donald jr.,: we have scoured it thoroughly, just to be sure. there isnt anything else there. >> sean: there was no follow-up, with any of them? >...

It to the proper authorities. i would never do anything to endanger this country. we fought so hard during this campaign. the rest of our family, the efforts we put into it. we would do anything for this country. we are never going to put that in jeopardy. ever. >> sean: all the emails that exist on this case, you dont think theres any other one? >> donald jr.,: we have scoured it thoroughly, just to be sure. there isnt anything else there. >> sean: there was no follow-up, with any of them? >> d...

Now. this has been going on for several months. when you look to see what actually takes place, a meeting takes place, nothing happens as a result of this 15 or 20-minute meeting. and at the end of the day there is no illegality. so, people could be, you know, they want to create a media hysteria on, this but the reality, im trying to look at it as a lawyer and say okay, what statute of law has been violated? brian: he is the legal expert. the question i gave to him yesterday stands today. you h...