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Trump jr. said the adoption issue was not a campaign issue, there was no follow-up, but then it does raise questions, why senior members of the trump team, including the campaign manager and jared kushner were meeting with the russian nationals just after trump clinched the nomination. during the campaign, trump said there were no connections to russia. this is another connection between his campaign and russia. >> has there been any new reaction coming from the administration? >> this morning, ...

Donald trump jr. enthat says essentially why he met with this lawyer at the meeting. she formed a group purporting to seek the removal of that adoption ban. its important to note why this program was ended. the russians put it in place as retaliation for american law that mr. trump mentions, known as the magnisky act, which imposed sanctions on russian officials, russian ologargs. she has sought the repealing of that act. trump jr. says the adoption issue is not a campaign issue, there was no fo...

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Despite travel problems from volcanic ash in the atmosphere, u.s. officials are still scheduled to travel to moscow this weekend to discuss the future of u.s.-russian adoptions. the decision came to suspend adoptions after a tennessee mom sent a adopted russian son back to moscow by himself. u.s. officials appeared optimistic the adoption issue can be resolved and said there are still adoption cases that are moving forward. its a painstaking process made more complicated for families wanting to ...

Starts to wear on the credibility and don junior is flip-flopping statements. lets all remember in july 17 when the statement came out he claimed it was all about abortion meeting a year earlier. we now know thats entirely false. did the president play a role in that statement or not is yet to be determined, but its clear now that donald trump jr. when that statement was issued was perpetrating a falsehood and why lie about the meeting a year earlier if that year earlier meeting was not nefariou...

Adoption conversation, remember, had a lot to do with the sanctions themselves. so that might be a little bit of an out for trump, that in fact discussing the adoption issue was in fact talking about sanctions, because remember, putins government put a ban on american adoptions of russian kids as a way to get the sanctions lifted. so the two things are a little bit related. the stuff with kislyak was just -- a lot of that stuff was reported in realtime, by the way, not by the american press. we ...

During that meeting. >> real fast. don junior went on "hannity" and said it was such a shame that they didnt get the dirt that they were looking for. also said this was everything when it wasnt. there was more to come. john, ill give you the last word here. >> well, first of all, why in the world would anyone believe the account of what happened in that meeting from people who initially declined to disclose the meeting in the first place or believed the russians account for that matter, thats fi...

And around donald trump junior 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 ...

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Stunning to watch. no, none of it frightens me. none of this scares me. especially this. brian: interesting. just about female prosecutor originally in moscow. she evidently claims to have won 300 cases. she is very nationalistic like many claim they are. came here to address this adoption issue through the the act shelved all adoptions from russia which would hurt a lot of families, to prove she is authentically on that issue. the next day she was at the news seem seeing a documentary that that...