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Washington from a summit of world leaders in germany where he just so happened to have had his first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. according to the "times," the president huddled in the planes front cabin with hope hicks who obviously was texting furiously with don junior trying to get their stories straight. it was reportedly the president himself who obviously supervised the writing of his sons statement to the times," a statement that concealed the real reason don junior took that...

Washington would be in jail. but there are legal theories under which. >> except jimmy carter. >> there are legal theories under which repeated lies by public officials to the public designed to op fuss indicate, designed to mislead investigators, congressional investigators, federal investigators, theres legal theories that could become part of a pattern of obstruction, particularly if theres a conspiracy. this could be construed as an overt act of the conspiracy. >> the "new york times" descri...

No good outcome and privately confiding he believes the meeting on air force one represented a likely obstruction of justice quit. malcolm? when people start to walk away, i think the special prosecutor, the special counsel starts to bring in people to talk. he walked away. why did he walk away? lets listen to him. corallo must be talking. >> corallo must be talking. look, he saw a crime in progress. and he didnt want to have any part of it even though he himself waet a lawyer. but more importan...

The russians helped trump get elected and in return trump helps to lift sanctions. his downpayment was getting a negative thing about russian out of the platform at the republican convention. but there was also a promissory note that after the election, if they won, they would work to get these sanctions lifted. which they immediately proceeded to do to fulfill their end of this corrupt and illegal quid pro quo that will send people to jail eventually. >> evan, the meeting at trump tower with do...

Pro quo that will send people to jail eventually. >> evan, the meeting at trump tower with donald trump jr. during the campaign and the russians and jared kushner and paul manafort was about sanctions. >> absolutely. so what they talk about is this adoption story. we were just meeting to talk about adoptions which, of course, is laughable, except when they say adoptions theyre talking about the magnitsky act and sanctions that come from that. but look, ill tell you this -- >> because within the ...

Our group have described this whole thing as the lastscopy of reservoir dogs an" when everyone is pointing guns at each other and everyone ends up dying. its a circular firing squad. people were shifting blame, trying to protect their own interests and obfuscating. there was -- it was unclear exactly how this statement got produced, but what did get produced was not the real story was the story real story was they had been presented with an offer of damaging information about hillary clinton tha...

When that information came out last year, the first thing the white house team decided to do was sit down and figure out a cover story. that almost immediately became inoperative. >> let me go back to ken. when i think about donald trump on the plane, president of the united states and that fabulous new air force one weve had the last couple presidents sitting on that plane fixing screw ups of his kids what, do they do, what did they say? weve got to come up with a story. and hope hicks is a sma...

Sort of common practice in washington, unfortunately. the -- but the -- its been interesting how much mueller has focused a lot of his questioning of various quitnewitnesses on t statement. you raise a good point. what would be illegal about it. it may not be illegal to put out a false statement to "the new york times" but it may sort of get to the intent, may get to the question of what the president himself was trying to obfuscate and what his team was trying to sort of create a false impressi...

What does russia have on the trump campaign? what does the trump campaign try to hide? why did president trump try to write a report which was false to say his son met with russians because of adoptions? they werent into adoptions. they were into the magnitsky law which was in sanctions. >> sanctions. against wealthy russians who are in cahoots with vladimir putin. >> and who probably have loaned money to donald trump. why has he not released his taxes? because it may show that. why did he not i...

Puzzled, you know, they acknowledge not being candid with a newspaper is perhaps not always best practice, that its not a crime and therefore not something the president would have legal exposure on, but the other is, you know, you would assume that mueller is trying to figure out intent. the question would be what is the intention in not making clear the full, you know, explanation for how this meeting came to be? the statement that was released in don jr.s name was pretty narrow. among the thi...