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Attacking the dnc emails. this is the only super power that can annihilate ours in a few minutes. we need to have good relations with them. howie: donald trump, jr. said adoptions came up. there is almost an automatic resumption of bad faith. they were discussing something so terrible, there was no u.s. translator there. the president doesnt get the benefit of the doubt. we have sanctions and their retaliation against that. the media havent done a good job presenting their overall picture with r...

This is the only super power that can annihilate ours in a few minutes. we need to have good relations with them. howie: donald trump, jr. said adoptions came up. there is almost an automatic resumption of bad faith. they were discussing something so terrible, there was no u.s. translator there. the president doesnt get the benefit of the doubt. we have sanctions and their retaliation against that. the media havent done a good job presenting their overall picture with russia. you have seen an in...

Story of the week. remember, the week began with news that donald trump had a quote, unquote, secret meeting at the hamburg g20 summit with vladimir putin where they talked about, quote, unquote, adoptions, which is code words for sanctions. then shortly thereafter, trump ended u.s. aid to the moderate syrian rebels, which is a key demand that the russians have been making for a long time. were every single day learning more about this meeting that occurred in 2016 between donald trump jr. and t...

In that conversation? >> well, so the deal that theyre trying to do here is putin -- so after the magnitsky act was passed, putin tried to come up with the most vicious thing he could do and so what he did was he banned the adoption of russian orphans by american families. and these were not healthy orphans. the russians didnt allow healthy ones to be adopted just the sick ones with hiv, downs syndrome, et cetera. so he basically -- these kids were being brought to america and nursed back to hea...

Investigation. why do we keep hearing so much about russian adoptions? remember initially donald trump jr. said he met with the russian lawyer mainly to talk about russian adoptions? and then even president trump said he discussed adoptions with russian president vladimir putin at the g20 summit. my next guest american businessman bill browder says the conversation about russian adoptions is really about sanctions. now, years ago he made a lot of money as a hedge fund manager and the top foreign...

Trump. we know from their bilateral meeting earlier in the day that they had agreed on a cyber unit to be able to jointly defend signer security in russia and the united states, which is a disastrous idea. did putin try in private to peddle more ideas of that sort? did he ask president trump to repeal the magnitsky act? when people speak about adoptions, what they mean is repeal of the magnitsky act, because the adoption ban by russia was a tit for tat, although it wasnt a symmetric response but...

May be misleading testimony, the underlying meeting itself, even if they did discuss policy and in the potential trump administration, is that problematic too? >> i think taken in isolation, if this had been, you know, a number of romney campaign meeting with the russian ambassador and assuming he didnt lie about it afterwards, it could be perfectly proper. but you have to take it in a larger context. remember, this is not even necessarily the biggest news story of the week. remember, the week b...

Russian guards at the age of 37. 7 1/2 years ago. i have made it my lifes mission since then to go after the people who killed him to make sure they face justice. thats where we ended up with the magnitsky act which is an act of congress that was passed in 2012 which imposes visa sanctions and asset freezes on the people who killed sergei and the people who do similar types of things in russia. putin is very afraid his money and hes got lots of it will be eventually seized under the magnitsky ac...

I mean, if youre russia, theres been nothing -- nothing that this president has done to make them feel that 2018 is going to be any different. i think any pardon will make them feel not only that theyre forgiven, but theyre emboldened at this stage. >> all right. i had more questions, but not enough time. well have you all back. thanks. a programming note, anthony scaramucci the presidents new communications director will be joining jake tapper tomorrow as a guest on "cnns state of the union."...

Sanctions. >> its a conversation about easing up on crooks coming out of russia so that they can spend their money freely an not worry about it being frozen. nobody -- the russians do not care about the orphans or adoptions. we do, but they dont. they care about their ill gotten gains. their corruption. the money they killed people for. >> how risky was it for president trump to have that conversation with putin, with not even a translator to witness the discussion? >> i think its very risky for...