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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. either the magnitsky sanctions or some of the others put in place including ones for what russia did when they invaded ukraine or what they did when they did in our elections. so those are intertwinled. >> if you could explain to the audience, lets s...

>> yeah. adoptions equal sanctions because its part of the -- it was his retaliation for legislation that was passed in the u.s. here is whats also really interesting. remember the initial press release, which was much wrang he would over that was put out by done junior after he took this meeting said all they did was talk about adoptions. so here is something interesting. >> yeah. >> you have a person that don junior met with that they say are not associated with the russian government, yet the...

Certainly in public anyway. and it adds a new complexion to that episode. >> and peter, more than that, im reading from your transcript, he says of comey, look at his testimony. his testimony is loaded up with lies, okay? so hes accusing comey of perjury. you and i have both noted that comey in terms of kind of his bearing and demeanor has been someone people have said could be muellers son in terms of washington veterans over the years. we established that he kind of updated his view of the sec...

Levin, the abilityability office looked into numerous bank accounts established by kaveladze on behalf of people in russia. levin said kaveladze set up 2,000 bank accounts for those accounts and then moved some $1.4 billion through those accounts. kaveladze was never charged, claimed the wrongdoing and claimed he knew all the people who set up the accounts. senator mark warner said kaveladzes involvement with that 2000 investigation is part of a colorful past that should raise suspicion about hi...

The lawyer who wanted to talk about adoptions knew that would not get her in the room. she said i have to promise them dirt. she comes in with lobbyist who have creditability with don junior because they know him from before and they say we have access with the son of the potentially incoming president of the united states and we want as many people in that room as possible. theres a chance that access will grow over time. this aint about adoptions but about power and dirt and looks simple to me...

>> he said i doubt this person was there talking about adoptions, he is referring to kavaladze. do you think hes right? >> well, i dont know. there are a lot of suspicious characters here, bob mueller can figure out who did what, when or where? the russians had at least three people there very interested in getting these sanctions lifted against russia. the rush goalgarks, very upset, theyre targeting them. the adoption issue was a very small piece of the whole debate over sanctions, it is clear...

Right? >> yes, but let me say this, the russian adoption program was very widely used as a congressional office. we had people adopting russian beans very routinely, most congressional offices did. i dont think we were unique in that. >> okay. thats missing the points here. the points is that russian adoptions were stopped by the russians in retaliation for the magnitsky act which put sanctions on russia, which vladimir putin desperately wants removed. if that is being discussed, adoptions, that...

Originally related as three or four people about russian adoptions. >> reporter: also this morning cnn has confirmed that russian lawyer who met with donald trump junior last year has offered to testify in front of the senate to clear up what she calls hysteria over the issue. senator dianne feinstein of california has told cnn that the special counsel rob buert muell has given the green light for two witnesses to testify in front of the senate judiciary committee, that would be donald trump jr....

Went on or nothing went. it sounds like hes accusing comey here. >> this is on his mind, hes fixated. you take it to the g-20 a few days ago. and he addresses the subject of this second meeting that we had vladimir putin. during or after this dinner with all the world leaders. he said the meeting lasted only 15 minutes. he brings up what putin wanted to talk about is adoptions. this gets into the meeting with donald trump jr. held in june of last year with these russians. they wanted to talk abo...

Should raise suspicion about his presence in the meeting. >> i doubt if this individual who had a history of setting up thousands of fake accounts in delaware was really there to talk about russian adoptions. >> he was never implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. to say he has a colorful past is quite unfair and dishonest. >> reporter: kaveladze has agreed to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller as parliament of his ongoing probe with the interference in the u.s. election. he speciali...