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Foundation. back in july, citing deliberations reported it was actually donald trump, himself, who dictated the misleading statement that don jr. used about the russian lawyer was about adoptions, yesterday, don jr. told the house intelligence committee he spoke to white house adviser hope hicks the day the story broke and that she acted as an intermediary to the president. don jr. says he didnt speak to his father until the next day. as we mentioned is refusing to tell lawmakers about the subst...

Chairman paul manafort and that russian lawyer. don jr. had been told in an e-mail from an associate that the lawyer wanted to provide the campaign with dirt on hillary clinton as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. don jr.s response? "if its what you say, i love it." >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. for me, this was opposition research. >> reporter: opposition research is the norm. but whats under scrutiny is whether the trump campai...

Who is investigating this russian issue on the house side, said, hes answering all of our questions. they didnt see a need to call donald trump jr. back. >> don junior did say that he spoke to hope hicks when confronted with the news reports of the trump tower meeting with russia, right? >> yeah, thats right. >> sources are telling us that in fact, thats what he did testify today, he changed text messages with hope hicks, once he was confronted that this news was about to break about this trump ...

More fully. >> again, they are referring us to the attorneys. reporters and members of congress are sort of chasing their tails here trying to figure out what exactly happened on this phone call. richard blumenthal, a senator from connecticut said recently, this is the reason donald trump jr. needs to be subpoenaed, so he is forced to answer the question. >> im looking at the blumenthal statement where he calls it a disingener disingeneralious claim. when the story first broke, that was july 8, ...

Statement for the media. as we reported previously, white house aides and the president himself worked on air force one to prepare that initial misleading statement, which initially said the 2016 trump tower meeting was about adoptions. neither trump junior or the president were speaking to lawyers, but lawyers were present, and we note trump tower meeting and the white house response is now under scrutiny by special counsel mueller. >> we are learning about a whistle blowers claims that during ...

President trump was involved in some of those discussions about that initial response on air force one, jake, but this is another reason why investigators do want to speak with hope hicks about what we shows about how the -- how this trump tower meeting and the initial response, yak. >> manu raju on capitol hill. lets bring back my kpanl right now. the initial statement that came from donald trump jr. that was written apparently with the help of hope hicks and the president was not true. it was ...

Now we know that there was e-mail traffic showing that the russians offered to bring damaging information on hillary clinton, and that that offer was welcomed by donald trump jr. theres an e-mail that shows that. when the first -- when the meeting was first exposed, the first explanation said, well, we werent talking about that. we were just talking about adoptions. now, as hes questioned under oath here, hes telling a different story, but still maintaining that he never spoke to his father dire...

Force one. the trump administration wanted to us believe this was all about adoptions. that this had very little if anything to do about the 2016 election. well, weve seep learned that is not the case. weve since learned including the documentary evidence and e-mails that donald trump jr. ails if thats what you say this meeting is about, i love it. so it will be interesting to here how don trumps explanation evolves over the course of today when hes again on the road to testify before the house ...

Saying is hes saying this to a former business colleague, this idea that there could be perhaps some financial enrichment for michael flynn. what do you think about this revelation? >> so this is important in a lot of areas that immplacate criminl laws. first, he lied. he said he didnt speak to kislyak about sanctions when he did speak to qukislyak about sanctions. the meeting in trump tower about adoptions was about sanctions. heres another example where they are talking about sanctions. now, t...

Misleading statement he dictated on the sons behalf where he said this was a meeting about russian adoptions. really it wasnt that. it could go more to the obstruction of justice question. >> the idea that somebody on the trump side maybe even the president was trying to redirect peoples attention from what this meeting was intended to? >> because there appears to be a pattern of covering up meetings and ties with russians. >> right. the idea it was about adoptions would have related to the magn...