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Addition to, as brian rightly points out contradicting what the -- said this morning, the e-mails that his son sent add received directly contradict this story. >> forgetting the whole rest of the week in which it became clear it wasnt just about adoptions. >> et the second or third statement, there was a couple follow-ones. he was specific about what the, quote/unquote incriminating details were. he said in the statement it had to do with russia funneling money for democrats, so clearly somethi...

Connections with veselnitskaya, analysts say what putin really wants, what the russians at that trump junior meeting was angling toward was to get the american law magnitsky act killed. how angry is putin still at the magnitsky act? >> every indication is hes still very angry that he would still like it rolled back. >> reporter: putin was so angry at the magnitsky act he banned adoptions of russian orphans by americans. the 2012 american law was named after a whistle blower named sergey magnitsk...

You wouldnt be discussing adoption, you would be discussing the whole context of lifting the magnitsky act. >> thats exactly right. the issues are intertwined in the russian mind. and a meeting about adoption in our parlance is about magnitsky. at the center of this, hes spent the last few years really pitching in washington and around the world, frankly. for moscow, this meeting was never about adoptions, or even the magnitsky act for that matter. it was about getting documentary evidence that ...

Theyre trying to convince republican senators to say no to this bill. rand paul says no, susan collins says no, they need one other republican to say no to this bill. to basically to kill the bill. turning now to the president, the white house, several stories have come from team trump. hat tip to our friends at "meet the press" for this time line. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person in my camp does. >> story number two, a meeting did happen, but it was ju...

Even a lower level person who has worked on campaigns who does not tell you that they get training from the legal team that if you get a request for a meeting that is even remotely like what was requested in the e-mail that we have now all seen to donald trump jr., you say, huh-uh. were not going to do this. you should report it to the fbi, and again, this is not me talking, this is the presidents own nominee to be the director of the fbi said in public under oath last week. >> just to add to da...

That they met to get information on hillary clinton. trump says thats nothing out of the ordinary. warning that most politicians would have gone to the meeting to get info on the opponent. thats politics. thats trump talking. sean spicer still claims the meeting was about adoptions. lets watch. >> its quite often for people who are given information during the heat of the campaign to ask what that is. thats simply what he did. the president has made it clear through his tweets, and there was not...

That is all. >> and the fact he said he would love it is not an admission that he wants to be part of this? >> no. he would love to entertain this possibility of information. >> renato, is that all it is? im going to retain the information and frankly it happens all the time in politics, thats what his dad said. >> i think all of these conclusions are a little premature. what we know now e-mail setting up a meeting. we dont know what happened in the meeting, we dont know if there were further me...

Between don junior and the russians. rheingold being writes the prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and in their meeting, offer to provide the trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. this is obviously very high level sensitive information, but is part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. don junior responds if its what you say, i love it, especially...

>> will. >> eric: was it soliciting something of value with the kremlins effort to tip the election to donald trump. >> the opposition research is not a thing of value. theres never been a case that says opposition research is a thing of value. >> thats an interesting argument being made. getting opposition research from the course perspective by having monetary value like insider trading. that will not stop democrats from raising the question. what was he trying to gain. if he did gain anything...

>> thank you, jake. >> lets begin with donald trump jr.s meeting with that russian lawyer. you heard president trumps lawyer, jay sekulow a moment ago, maintaining there was nothing illegal about the meeting. i know special counsel robert mueller is overseeing the criminal investigation. >> we dont really know what happened at the meeting. what we do know is that donald trump jr. did not tell the truth a variety of times. at first he said this meeting was only about russia. immigration policies ...