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Senator, that this thing, the collusion part of it, is closer to being made? or not really been made? >> well, neil, we keep getting thrown these curveballs. obviously couldnt have predicted the firing of jim comey. we then have the attorney general. now we have this meeting that donald trump jr. said at first was about russian adoptions, now were up to eight people, one of whom at least has a colorful past in terms of potentially money laundering. what were starting to do now is talk to the peo...

Welcome back. more on the story in a few moments ago, developments on the russia story unfolding. cnn learned special council robert muellers staff in contact with the eighth person at that meeting donald trump jr. held with the russians. part of an investigation werther team trump improperly colluded with the russian government. to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. at the white house yesterday press secretary sean spicer insisted the big focus of that meeting was a u.s. law restrictin...

Five days there was an eighth person in the room and now we know it is your client. why didnt he come forward imimmediai immediately? >> everyone else in the room knew who he was. hes a private individual who had a very tangential role in this meeting and didnt want to thrust himself into the media spotlight which of course was ultimately inevitable. >> okay. so thats your reason there. i want to play more. let me play a little bit more of the detail. heres senator warner. >> this individual who...

Through to them. the assumption is someone in the united states was helping. the question is was it someone on the trump campaign or someone associated with the trump campaign. so nobody is going to say russia because theyre not going to know where it is coming from. all they know is they read a news story they think is true. >> to me it doesnt look good if the people involved arent coming forward and saying, yeah, this happened, there was this meeting, eight people were there. it is like every ...

Conversation was in the meeting. now, clearly that didnt happen, anderson, and when i asked -- >> right, because he knew the initial statement was basically saying, this was about adoptions. >> right. if you look through the timeline, the initial statement was this was only about adoptions. the next day a statement came out and said actually i took this meeting, you know, because it was about incriminating information with the russians donating to the dnc. we werent sure what it was but b about ...

>> go ahead mike. i want to bring julia back in. >> no, i was just saying going back to sean spicer thing. so eight people cleared in or somebody gives notice to let this group of people, russians, u.s. people working with russians into trump tower, let them up, just going back to sean spicers statement that this was about adoptions. does anybody really believe that the okay for this meeting would have been given and paul manafort would have been there and jared kushner would have been there if ...

How well does he know the trumps? >> i dont think he knows them at all. he did attend that meet anything las vegas with many other peoples. i dont believe he had any other contact with any trump other than those two occasions. >> okay. when senator warner raises a question about whether hed be there to talk about adoptions, among the eight people, right, your client, donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, you have said that your client went in thinking that perhaps he was going to be tr...

Yes i just think the evidence piles up and i dont see the case for him being allowed to keep his security clearance. >> appreciate your time. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> bring in the panel. david, again, how big of a problem is it for the white house to have smaun spicer come out and say just sort of ignoring all the facts that have been revealed over the last week. and saying that was about adoptions? >> is it possible, anderson. they have adopted a theory that if we just lie and put...

Each other! clearly it wasnt. the point, it wasnt initially disclosed, both the meeting and nature of the meeting. we come to find out, i havent sat in a meeting with eight people in quite some time. this takes organization, time, investment. three of the top officials in the trump campaign there. its hard to believe that this was just a, well, we figured out, it was kind of about adoptions then nothing. they have to have a better xlangs than that. >> definitely a concern at the white house, jar...

Talk about russian adoptions. >> pretty irresponsible comment by senator warner. first of all, what mr. cav latte did back 20 years ago was absolutely unequivocally legal. there was never any allegation of him engaged in any criminal activity. >> he was not charged. >> and did absolutely nothing wrong. the focal point of that report was about the banks onboarding of client accounts, a compliance issue. he has never been implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. to say he has a colorful is quite u...