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Dirt on hillary. >> and youre also learning about the reaction that was received after donald trump jr. received -- released those private e-mails in which it was expecting to get so-called dirt on hillary clinton? >> thats right. donald trump jr. forced to release this because a major publication was publishing them and this followed the initial explanation. this was all about adoptions. when it did release those e-mails, it showed in advance of this trump tower meeting in june 2016, in fact, h...

Cooperating. the president is cooperating, according to his attorney. so what i think the white house wants is a quick resolution to any type of investigation which will exonerate him and his team to further prove that there is no collusion or cooperation between the -- >> look, i think it would help congressional investigators if he were more forth coming. heres what we know that he said yesterday. he said he consulted hope hicks, now director of communications, to deal with that. he does not s...

The day after the news broke about the june meeting. what do we know about that conversation? >> well, we know very little about it in terms of what donald trump jr.s saying because hes invoking attorney/client privilege, hes not willing to talk about it. we know the statement that was to "the new york times" came from the president and it said that the meeting was about adoptions and not about a campaign issue, didnt mention sanctions, and of course we now know from testimony of the russian law...

Good morning everyone welcome to "early start." . >> good morning. its thursday december 7. 1:00 in california. up first, eight grueling hours of testimony from donald trump jr., but its what the presidents son refusing to tell house members that is whats getting all the attention. the main focus of wednesdays close the door session, a june 2016 meeting at trump tower between don jr. and a russian lawyer designed to get dirt on hillary clinton. >> house spregters pressed him about his fathers kn...

Remember, they said it was about adoptions, adopting little russian babies, yet it wasnt. >> right, they had to change that story after that statement a couple more times, when new reporting came out. theyve always been in this sort of reactive posture of saying one thing and thinking it puts out the fire and not understanding that there are a lot of reporters in washington digging and talking to people who are doing this investigation and, you know, learning things as we go that basically expos...

Saying that because attorneys were in the room, there was no reason for him to disclose his information because it was covered by attorney/client privilege. thats something democrats balked at. now at the same time he was asked about the response that initially was misleading with the trump tower meeting when the -- donald trump said it was mainly about russian adoptions. it turns out the white house was involved. at least to some extent. donald trump jr. said he texted with hope hicks who is no...

Why were they coordinating? >> potentially. again, this is not a completed investigation but certainly the topic of sanctions have come up with flynns contacts with the russians. when you talk about the subject was adoptions, adoptions for the russians means sanctions because its because of what we did that a different act. the response from the republican leader of the committee, tray gowdy was, i am not interfering with muellers probe, and we cant do criminal prosecutions in congress so im not...

Now, we are learning that donald trump jr. did have a meeting with his father after the reports were published, but, he did not tell the committee yesterday what he and his father were talking about. in fact, he cited attorney/client privilege saying that because attorneys were in the room, there was no reason for him to disclose the information. thats something that democrats balked at. at the same time he was asked about the response that initially was misleading with the trump tower meeting w...

Saying he communicated with hope hicks, not the president, about the trump tower meeting response. >> yeah, thats right. initially right afterwards, we are told that donald trump jr. said today that he texted with hope hicks, the now communications director, about that initial response to the story that was coming out in the "new york times," and as i mentioned, that was misleading at first about saying it was mostly about russian adoptions, not mentioning the fact that russians had promised -- ...

Same time its not manufactured or something out there to delay. thats usually somewhat of a kind of a trite way to analyze it. because the reality is the lawyer has duty eye, duty to the client and to protect the client, zealously protect the client. and if he believes in good faith this was joint, meaning they were discussing the defense or the joint defense, then he has to assert it. >> okay. so protecting his client. lets also remember when the news broke about this whole trump tower meaning,...