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"the washington post" is reporting this morning that president trump dictated his sons misleading initial statement about that meeting with a russian lawyer. the presidents own lawyer repeatedly denied that president trump had any involvement with that statement. so how are republicans reacting today? joining us now is republican congressman lee zelden of new york. >> great to be back with you. >> if "the washington post" is correct the president himself dictated that misleading statement that t...

President trump himself personally dictated the initial leading misstatement about his elder sons meeting with the russian lawyer. the statement was apparently worked out on air force i from the g 8 summit. at first the president said he only discussed russian adoptions with the lawyer. later his lawyer said he accepted the meeting because he was promised dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government. "washington post" tom hamburger helped break the story. tom, from your reporting, senior ...

Introductory meeting. i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the russian government, but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up. he added, i was asked to attend the meeting by an acquaintance but was not told the name of the person i would be meeting with beforehand. he knew exactly who he was meeting with. the person ...

He sees in putin a tough guy, a strong man. he tells me what to do and they do it. hes friends with a lot of rich russians. 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 of russia. there is no evidence of a learning curve. you put your finger on the key points which is that trump repeated this line about adoption saying putin wanted to talk to him about adoptions. its such a naive thing to say. to ...

To lay off. it was trying to get the fbi off the investigation and then asking the head of the stroegs get the filibuster off it again. what nixon tried once, trump, trumped him by doing twice. and then pursuing the russian investigation. thats what he told the russians why he did it. nitsch got the attorney general to resign and then got the special counsel investigating him fired. trump is still working on those two steps trying on get sessions to quit so he could get someone in there to do th...

You cant tell us who, but tell us how many, maybe? >> i can tell you, its multiple people from lots of different walks of life, joy, and these people have put themselves in the line, in a way, to tell the full story. i think its a fairly simple story. its that the president who believes that hes the best politician, hes the best advocate for himself. and now its becoming clear he thinks that he has the best sort of legal strategy, took this dilemma, as he viewed it, by the horns, and decided he ...

Press briefing. i want to go to my colleague kristen welker on the north lawn of the white house. kristen, sarah huckabee sanders facing a number of questions regarding this particular issue in the briefing. when she didnt provide satisfactory responses it seemed like the questions started coming on fast er. >> reporter: thats right. her bottom line statement to do a quick recap is that, yes, the president was, in fact, involved in helping to craft that initial statement from donald trump jr. ab...

Weighing in, as we learned today, square with what weve been told in the past about the formulation of that initial misleading statement? cnns jim acosta is looking into this evolving story line from the white house. >> reporter: yes, the white house said, the president was involved in the crafting of a misleading statement that initially obscured the true nature of his son, donald trump jr.s meeting with a russian lawyer during the campaign. >> there is no inaccuracy in the statement. the presi...

Your take on this new "washington post" story that donald trump dictated the talking points to his son, for the meeting that donald trump jr. had with several russian nationals. and what do you make of the fact that what he chose to use as the excuse was this issue of adoptions. he also brought it up in his "new york times" interview, spontaneously, when asked a question about melania sitting next to putin. he again brings up adoptions. what do you make of that? >> that means that the russians w...

President, somehow the president is allowed to dictate a completely false statement like that? theres some piece thats missing. >> at that point, my understanding is that jared kushner already was aware of the e-mail chain. >> of the full story. >> of the full story that said this is for dirt on hillary clinton. >> at that point he had been presented with -- >> would he have told the president, there was this e-mail and the president still said lets go ahead and say it was about russian adoption...