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With the russians. don jr. admitting the purpose of that meeting was not about adoptions, but to get political dirt on hillary clinton. and then theres this. a fox news commentator has filed a lawsuit against the network. rod wheeler he was deliberately misquoted by a fox news reporter filing a story on the murder of seth rich. the report was reviewed by none other than president trump and concocted by fox news and a wealthy supporter of his, to divert attention away from the white houses allege...

Discussions about setting up this meeting could leak out and they could be proven to be wrong, or saying the word "adoptions" would trigger questions about the magnitsky act? >> i dont think there was a lot of concern about what words would trigger what. it was, you know, remember that the attorneys for jared kushner are the people who first find this information. theyre trying to respond to congressional committees request for information. and so a couple of weeks before the g-20 summit, where ...

The u.s. ambassador in russia, we adopted a set of sanctions, a human rights sanctions against human rights violators in russia. its call the magnitsky act, and in response, putin not only put americans on a sanctions list, but then he went further. and he banned adoptions by american citizens. so when you hear adoptions, you should think this is a discussion about sanctions. >> all right. well, former ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you very much. really appreciate your time tonight. >> sure, ...

Been talking about how to handle the inquiries about the meeting and decided to be as fully transparent as possible. but the president overruled them. he dictated a statement misleading at best. some would argue it left a lot of important information out. and overruled his advisors on behalf of his son and new an example of the president taking full control over the russia, his own strategist and in so exposing himself to danger. thats according to a number of advise toerts president that my col...

Two war horses decided to invest substantially in resources, a time their competitors and so far it is paying off when it comes at eye balls looking at their stuff. >> agreed. we are talking about "the washington post" is out tonight at this moment with breaking story right now, revealing president trump himself who craft knead misleading statement to donald trump junior released earlier this month and the campaign with the russians last year was about adoptions. the phil, this suggests the pres...

Asymmetrical that they are taking this response to our sanctions. having said that, vladimir putin does play this way when theres a tit-for-tat, he doubles down and increases the punishment. when the magnitsky act passed in 2012, i was ambassador at the time. he said informally that he would respond in kind and sanction some u.s. officials as well for, quote, unquote, human rights violations. he did that. then he went one step forward, banned adoptions for american parents. thats what i think se...

An unknown, in the past, when russia has retaliated against sanctions either from the u.s. or from the eu, it hasnt always been in this kind of mirror form. you know, well expel the same number of zmro mats that you expelled. theyve done what they called an asymmetrical retaliation, you remember in 2012, after the magnitsky act, russians two weeks later banned american adoptions of russian children. so, you see the retaliation is not always in an expected form. we know what form they would take ...

>> thanks, melissa. bill browder testified that the russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya, the one who is at the 2016 trump tower meeting was part of this broad effort to get the magnitsky act repealed and these are sanctions that were leveled after this russian whistleblower was murdered because he had exposed the corruption of vladimir putins government. >> two-way russian agent or official, a conversation about adoptions is a conversation about what? >> nobody was hung by adoption, they were t...

I always found that interesting because, you know, he ended that years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting because that was a part of the conversation that don had. >> does the president not know adoption is a code word for russian sanctions and the magnitsky act or what? >> i dont know what the president knows or he doesnt know. but i guarantee you that vladimir putin wasnt talking about adoptions. he was talking about repealing this piece of legisla...

Said can you help us withdraw this act if your father gets elected president. >> cnn has not confirmed his claim. president trump said his previously undisclosed hour long conversation with vladimir putin earlier this month was also about russian adoptions. >> for putin, this is his single largest priority, to get rid of these sanctions. >> he is set to appear before the senate judiciary committee thursday. today they heard from the fbis top counter intelligence official about the extent foreign...