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Magnitsky sanctions against many of his colleagues, their ability to move their money around the world. >> right. that was what prompted them cut ing off the adoptions, presumably that had to be part of the conversation. hard to believe that putin wouldnt have brought that up in the context of that conversation, agree. >> sally yates tweeted today about his attack "the new york times" about his own attorney general over his recusing from russia. and sally yates tweeted that potus attack on russi...

People who were there that it was about an hour. >> yeah. i mean, look, he was adamant in that time frame, which is consistent with what white house officials said yesterday about this second get together. he was clearly not defining it in his mind as an actual meeting. he told a very long and elaborate story about sitting next to prime minister abes wife of japan. she doesnt speak english. she got up to see his own wife who was sitting next to putin and they started talking. this is interesting...

Of russian adoptions came up while he was talking to putin at the newer meeting. the topic of russian adoptions as you recall was the -- supposedly part of the subject of this meeting that the presidents son, don junior, had with the russian lawyer on june 9th, 2016, one that was ultimately billed as, you know, ostensibly about dirt on hillary clinton. it was a little surprising that that came up. i have no reason to think its other than a coincidence. but the russian adoptions has to do with sa...

Adoptions, if they did talk about adoptions, which means they were talking about sanctions, whats the danger of him doing that, which he now admits to, without a u.s. translator, without a u.s. note taker, without any presumably any u.s. government planning for that conversation, and with no readout about what actually happens in that one-on-one? >> well, this would be a bad practice with any president not to have others present to interpret what mr. putin says or to take notes on what our own p...

People have upheld certain set of ideals, and theyre going against them, especially when it comes to russia. i mean, donald trumps position and posture towards russia is just so not republican traditionally. >> no. and i think orrin hatchs comment that you played reflects the views of many republicans, professionally in washington, d.c., which is they just dont really pay attention to what donald trump tell us the press. and of course, this is a problem for president trump because when hes tryin...

Which led to the russians cutting off adoptions to this country. >> it concerns our allies and at times it is even reckless. he is confrogt someone in vladimir putin who is a sharp capable former kgb agent with all the skills and tools that implies. donald trump is the fourth u.s. president vladimir putin has sized up and dealt with. and donald trump frankly as our president is he in some ways learning on the job. >> i think that he went over and had a conversation of up to an hours length and r...

Direct response to the magnit magnitsky, and they are linked in his head and i cant imagine president putin bringing up adoptions without talking about sanctions. my guess is he talked about sanctions more broadly. the need for president trump to show leadership and get the relationship back on track, by lifting sanctions, thats been an objective of president putin ever since donald trump was elected. theres no doubt in my mind that was the way that conversation came up. >> matt youve articulate...

Let alone the consequences of what hell do today. >> making him a defense attorneys nightmare and a prosecutors dream. i want to share more of what he said when he was specifically talking about his conversation with vladimir putin. >> it was not a long conversation, but it was, you know, could be 15 minutes. just talked about things. i actually talked about russian adoption with him, which is interesting because that was a part of the conversation that don had in that meeting. >> okay. ewing my...

With vladimir putin at the g20, and we didnt know about it until now. we dont know anything about the character of the conversation other than what he said about it. if he gave them anything else that was super top-secret, nobody else in the u.s. government knows how to clean up after it now. joining us now is congressman adam schiff, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. thank you for being with us tonight. i know theres a lot going on. >> its a pleasure to be with you. im glad ...

Adoption. when i think adoption, i think magnitsky law. if thats what theyre talking about, are you concerned what that conversation revolved around was repealing or rolling back the magnitsky act? >> absolutely. what other topic could there be? it sanctioned human rights abusers in russia, including those responsible for the wrongful death. president putin then signed into law the law which banned adoptions from american citizens. >> theres no way unless lifting sanctions are on the table. eith...