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Running your company, in fact. thats strange. the other thing thats strange and i note is, that first donald trump jr. statement was misleading, but not a lie. nothing in it that is inaccurate. theres just a lot of things that are very carefully worded to make the best case. they talked primarily about adoptions. it wasnt a campaign issue. if donald trump did write that, or dictate that statement, its hard to square that with the, i didnt know anything about any of this stuff, because that state...

That said donald trump is naive about vladimir putin. he sees in putin a tough guy, a strong man the hubristic. and trump likes that. maybe he will get into office and learn what putin is about. what the russian policy is about. the cynicism and subterfuge ever russia. 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 repea...

Probe, is very interested in who is crafting this statement. >> i want to you stay with this. i also want to bring in our other specialists. phil mudd, your latest reaction to these developments because these twists and turns are dramatic. >> in some ways theyre not twists and turns. we have an administration that hates leaks. let me give you two kinds of leaks because youll hear a lot of confusion about this. one is a leak that reveals national security information, for example, operational inf...

And the russian lawyer. weve heard a little bit from outside counsel, what else do you think well hear from the administration on this? >> well have an on-camera briefing with sarah huckabee sanders, hallie. no doubt shell get a number of questions about this. heres what "the washington post" is reporting. they say that president trump personally drafted that initial statement from his eldest son, donald trump jr., which turn itted out to be misleading about the content of that controversial mee...

President did not want to describe the actual story of what happened. and he had not just a hand in it, but the most important hand in it. >> and we know that donald trump did, hilmself, use the adoption talking point in his "new york times" interview, when hes asked a question about melania sitting next to vladimir putin, he sort of spontaneously brings it up. so obviously he believed in that talking point. according to your reporting, did anyone in trumps inner circle maybe push back on this i...

And, jim, the trump administration, clearly unable to get a straight story here. >> it is a common problem over here at the white house, erin. this was a stunning admission from the white house today after the presidents outside counsel, as you said, denied the president was involved in the drafting of that misleading statement. sarah huckabee sanders said the president had indeed weighed in. sanders went on to say his statement was true and was not inaccurate. that of course as you said is fals...

Statements to the public with the intent to obstruct an investigation. so -- >> so you think that could be obstruction of justice in and of itself? >> i think there is already a prima fa sha cascia case. and the last thing is, interestingly, they keep bringing up this business of adoption. >> right. >> anybody who knows anything about this knows that adoption means magnitsky. >> the sanctions. >> the magnitsky act. the magnitsky act means sanctions, and sanctions is the reason russians collude. ...

Return for lowering the number that they need to go home. and the russians that will be fired, im glad you mentioned that, because thats the real people that will be hurt by this. those russians, by the way, are going to have a really hard time finding new jobs, having worked at the american embassy. but to be honest, i dont understand it, because i dont really understand president trumps policy towards russia in general. he talks nice to mr. putin, president putin, this is the result, maybe its...

It as really a brief and not consequential discussion about adoptions of russian children in the united states was issued. and thats issued in the afternoon that saturday. and our what we learned from our sources is that that statement was dictated from the president and the story, the statement itself goes to "the new york times" and then is published that afternoon while air force one is still in the air on the way back to andrews air force base. >> yeah. its a fascinating and eye-opening repo...

Of russian adoptions played a big role in the very next day when the president personally dictated a misleading statement about that with his -- about his sons meeting with that russian lawyer. that is incredible if true. welcome back to "morning joe." its tuesday, august 1st. joe has the morning off. with us we have mike barnicle, e leez jordan, sam stein, harold ford junior, steve schmidt, and phillip rucker who co-wrote "the big story in the post this morning. well start with the report that ...