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

Jared kushner. mark warner raised some ear ious concerns about this eighth individual earlier today. take a listen. >> its very disturbing to me that its taken us this long for this kind of information to come out. so, this individual who at least had a colorful past, if not a potentially criminal, it is very strange to me that this meeting that was supposed to be originally -- was related as three or four people about russian adoptions, i doubt if this individual who had a history of setting up...

Have given and paul manafort would have been there and jared kushner could have been there if it was advertised as a meeting about russian adoptions. it is hard to fathom that scenario. >> what we do know and it is very clear, were not sure whether the people there violated the law, but there was a huge amount of dishonesty in an attempt to hide the meeting from the public. one of the curious things in the last hours has been the fact that donald trump jr.s lawyer, the word is out that he and do...

Who we cant name we dont know the name who was there on behalf of the agalarov. corroborated what has been out there about what occurred in the meeting. pleasant tris exchanged that the russian lawyer discussed the information she allegedly had about russian shadow nating to the dnc ask clinton before moving onto the topic of adoptions. that too, that also flies in the face of what spicer said today. this was only about adoption and no reason to believe it was anything else. >> donald trump jr. ...

Dolls in this meeting are going to become important, because what happened in that meeting is going to be critical to giving context for everything that came after. i think it is important to not make this as a mutually exclusive thing between dirt on hillary and adoptions. remember that adoptions is a euphemism -- >> right, it is not adoptions, it is sanctions. >> exactly. this is sanctions, this was a foreign policy discussion. >> it is a quid pro quo. >> thank you. >> it is like i give you th...

Is as de minimis as the trump administration plays. the connection between the magnitsky act and adoption, once the magnitsky act was passed, the russians retaliated by banning adoptions so there is some connection to those two issues. >> they changed their minds so many times in the don junior meetings, we played a clip where he talked about this made in america week and this anti-regulatory push and he said there are farmers who have had their farms taken away. we have gotten their farms back....

Revelations coming out about his sons meeting with the russians, the translator, the lobbyist and now a representative of thing on lark. an oligarch who wanted his own person in the meeting. this was no way this was about adoptions pl this oligarch wanted his person there because he wanted credit to delivering the dirt to donald trump. this is part of establishing a debt owed to the oligarch. and then the oligarch gets to claim credit with putin. so very much consistent with russian trade craft....

Adoptions -- no, this is a russian lawyer who is prominent, who has worked on issues favorable to the russian government, who was going there to roll back sanctions. the magnitsky act has been frustrating for the russian government, they want this overturned. thats what this is about. she wanted to get support for rolling back sanctions. >> steve rattner, i mean, im glad the topics to russia because it actually remind eknee, sean spicer yesterday and i know youll remember, what we used to hear f...

Guarantee you, and saying, id take this meeting not because shes coming to talk about adoptions but because she may have information about clinton and shes got the stamp of approval from people who have kremlin connections. pretty simple. >> youre not somebody who is in the 200 riches people and building all of these buildings in moscow unless you have the approval of the kremlin. >> absolutely. look, the reason that this e-mail was even listened to, im sure donald trump jr. gets plenty of e-mai...

Than donald junior having been there. >> chris cillizza, is it politics? >> what it is really is trying to spin an unspinable situation and creating an alternative-fact reality. theres not a debate that in the e-mail exchange that donald trump junir. released. even if you -- it is very clear that unless he didnt read the e-mails, which his responses suggest he did. he knew the nature of this meeting and thats why he was going. to ses pont he was disappointed there wasnt more there. remember, wel...