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But it shows that the discussion there went beyond -- went far beyond the issue of adoptions. donald trump jr. was in that room. listen to what he said soon after the meeting was revealed. >> there wasnt any follow-up because there was nothing to follow up. in the end there was probably bait and switch about what it was supposed to be about. there is nothing there. >> reporter: well, and another thing they followed up about. this is the first time it has been reported. putting donald trump on vk...

>> you covered the russian investigation so closely, and when you piece all the news cnn is reporting together, what does it tell you about where the investigation stands and where it may turn and some of the investigative committees may turn? >> well, the story -- the tpheurblg story has fallen apart, right? this idea it was about adoptions, and you have e-mail traffic on either end that shows its not the case. in that instance, the president was involved in crafting that misleading explanation...

Adoptions and afterward, there was nothing to it. there was no follow up. no communications after that. we now know, from our reporting there were e-mails sent by rob goldstone to senior white house aide after this meeting to discuss the social media site as well as an e-mail that rob goldstone sent to a russian who attended the meeting about the dnc hack five days after that occurred, saying it was eerily weird. one course familiar with the matter down played the e-mail about the dnc hacks. loo...

Campaign officials and said he had direct contact with steve bannon and michael flynn. i wonder if i could just get your reaction to this? >> well, thats very interesting. and it fits a pattern. and the pattern is as this investigation is proceeding, all people around trump from the president on down to donald jr. to everybody else, michael flynn, have consistently lied. the president said the famous june meeting, he dictated that the meeting was only about adoptions. we know that wasnt true. th...

Issued a statement approved by donald trump that basically said the meeting was just about russian adoptions. he know they were intentionally lying to the american people when they did that. >> at yesterdays house intel hearing, donald trump junior said he never told his father about the june 2016 trump tower meeting. does that sound plausible to you. >> not at all. the reporting by the media say the president of the united states was very engaged in writing that statement denying anything impro...

Washington. what do you have? >> reporter: alisyn, john, the consistent story from trump world, once this meeting was exposed, is this was a one-off. there was no follow-up, and the discussion was purely about russian adoptions. this is evidence that they just dont stand up to the facts. the british publicist brokered this meeting between jared kushner and others and being promised dirt on hillary clinton. five days after the trump tower meeting, goldstein forwards a cnn story as the news was br...

Interactions mentioned. and importantly we know that rob goldstone, hes agreed to talk with congress, with both the house and senate intelligence panels, that could be as early as next week. so we have these emails a lot more information could be forthcoming when goldstone comes to the united states and goes before congress. >> jessica, thank you for the latest piece of this puzzle. lets talk to our guys here, ethics czar and watchdog group in washington. so gentlemen thanks for being with me on...

Comments at the top, and it was referencing that there was more to the conversation than russian adoptions. theres another series of e-mails where rob is talking about getting donald trump a page on the russian equivalent on facebook, its called vk, and he pitched it frequently and aggressively. it shows two days after the meeting there was back and forth between participants, and after that meeting there were references to other things talked about in that meeting besides russian adoptions, and...

White houses social media director, suggesting and encouraging trump should have a site on russian facebook. were told that subject, that idea came up coming out of this trump tower meeting. again, raising that question. or in fact giving evidence of follow up, following that meeting, and further evidence that the subject discussed -- the subjects discussed inside that meeting not confined to that issue of russian adoptions. congressional investigators, they have these e-mails and we know that g...

Breaking news on the russia investigation. previously undisclosed e-mails show some people in the room at the trump tower meeting last summer followed up afterwards. jim sciutto has the follow-up for us. jim, what are you learning about the e-mails? >> reporter: since the beginning when the trump tower meeting was revealed. you remember, the trump world explanation has been twofold, one, that the meeting was a one-off, there was no follow-up. and two, the meeting was exclusively confined to russ...