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Zero. how many people were indicted when barack obama was president of the united states? zero. how many people pled guilty to a crime? zero. the fact is, anybody can come on tv and tout the president and tout his ethics and tout his morals and everything else. but hes had four individuals, four individuals, two of which have actually already pled guilty. one of which was his national security adviser. they have pled guilty to crimes. and the national security adviser has pled guilty to a crime ...

Meeting occur? it happened because of adoptions. thats bs, don. we know why it happened. it happened because they thought that they could get information from the russians. >> ive got to get ben in. go ahead, ben. >> yeah, look, and i want to say this, because i think that this is, you know, what bakari just said there, i think sums up the election a year ago perfectly. there are a lot of people that feel like that there was special treatment that was given to people that worked for barack obama...

Banned it from getting visas, and as you said, it is sort of a conflict or surprise to some. >> for some it is a surprise. this is been a crucial part in multiple times in the past year. remember, moscow retaliated against this act by banning or limiting americans options for russian officials, which ended up coming up later, it was part of the questions about what donald trump, jr., was meeting russians about. we have seen the issues of russian adoptions come up over and over, and when you have...

There is no evidence of a learning curve. you put your finger on the key points which is that trump reechted this line about adoption saying putin wanted to talk to him about adoptions. its such a naive thing to say. to keep repeating the russian just want to talk about adoptions as youve made clear on this show, adoptions is code for the mag knits ski act which is a way of saying u.s. sanctions against human rights abuses in russia. at some point you have to ask yourself the troubling question,...

For another session to answer questions from the members themselves. remember, wolf, this is just staff members. they typically have steph-level investigations, interviews, they talk to these witnesses for hours. this has been happening since 1:00 a.m. this morning. donald trump jr. has been behind closed doors. this is the third committee he has met with on capitol hill. he did meet with the house intelligence committee members last week. and he also met with the senate judiciary committee staf...

Conversation? >> the russian lawyer that was a partn of this meeting has alrey testified in front of you, and she seemed to testify that all donald jr. cared about was he wanted clinton dirt, and when she couldnt provide it, he was disinterest disinterested. did you corroborate that account? >> what we got was from five different people in that w room. the stories match up pretty consistently, that, yes, donald trumpp jr. was not particularly interested in adoptions, he was not interested in the...

Bryan, when he was asked about that misleading statement that his father crafted about the june 2016 trump tower meeting that he talked about this with hope hicks had, not with his father. and then when it turned to questions about his father when it was about russian adoptions when it wasnt, he then sieltti attorney/client privilege. so, he didnt answer any questions bouts his exchanges with his father about that mesleading statement and its increasingly looking like the most important part of ...

There are possible explanations of that. but it does expand that the meeting was all about russian adoptions and contradicting what we have heard from the participants, including donald trump jr. take a listen to how he explained that meeting. >> there was nothing there to follow-up. in the end there was probably bait and switch about what it was supposed to be about. you know, there is nothing there. >> reporter: one more topic we know from this e-mail that was raised the possibility of putting...

Of course, to keep their stories straight. >> which you are supposed to do, obviously. let me ask you, just turning the page, new cnn exclusive on this reporting, new emails show there was a follow up to this now infamous trump tower meeting that don junior attended first said about russian adoptions downplaying the meeting. here he was some time ago. >> it wasnt really follow up because nothing to follow up. in the end there was probably some bait and switch what it was supposed to be about. so...

Social media director, suggesting and encouraging that trump should have a site on russian facebook. in fact, we are told that that subject, the idea came out of this trump tower meeting. so again raising the question or giving evidence at least of following the meet ing and further evidence that the subject discussed inside that meeting not confined to the issue of russian adoptions. congressional investigators have the e-mails and we know rob goldstone is going to be appearing before the senat...