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Be useful to his father who is running for president. he has a meeting. and the suggestion end up with rescinding the ban on russian adoptions. but now the hug hue and cry, int him for treason and finance campaign donations. there is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government. if that were the case, everyone on a campaign who talks to a foreign national is committing a crime. for you geniuses out there, there can be no treason since we are not at war with rus...

Was specifically about, in black and white, a part of the russian governments effort to discredit clinton and help trump. so im not sure why we take anybody in this senior level of the trump administration at their word. thats why its so important that were going to get a chance to question these individuals. >> so michael, do you agree with congressman schiff particularly there could be very serious crimes here because even talking about adoptions, also means, you know -- its related to talking...

Part of official campaign business? the answer sort of has to be yes in order for there to be a lawful payment from the campaign of that attorney the fees. so, yes, lawful, if related to the campaign. >> all right. and this morning the top democrats on both the house and senate intelligence committees responding to the presidents lawyer this way. listen. >> if they went into that meeting and here they want something. they want information from the russians. the russians want something. they want...

>> the meeting at first was only about russia, immigration policies, then adoptions. then he said there were 3 or 4 people. now we know there are many more people. im not sure why we take anybody in the senior level of the trump administration at their word. thats why its important to question these individuals. reporter: very strong words from mark warner, the snore from virginia. now the implication is this is a serious matter that has to be managed very carefully. we are only at sunday and i ...

Seculo speaking this morning on television. >> you said this was a lawyer who was russian, this was a lawyer who was russian and what took place at that meeting, the discussions involved russian adoptions. it was quickly ended. it was in the middle of a campaign. >> so there you get the idea that theyre trying to say that it was a meeting to talk about an issue and it just so happened that the individuals were russian and not directly officially openly attached to the russian government. thats t...

Is that nobody is coming right out and saying what happened. for some reason they wont just explain what happened and who was there. right. initial reports were that donald trump jr. met with a russian lawyer at trump tower last year. then the next reports were that he met with a russian lord to get information that he was told explicitly originated with the russia government. then we got a statement from donald trump jr. saying yes, he did take a meeting at trump tower last year with this lawye...

Promised to give the campaign dirt on hillary clinton last year. we have lots to discuss with my guests. thanks so much for joining us as always. >> thank you, jake. >> lets begin with donald trump juniors meeting. you heard president trumps lawyer a moment ago. the president learned maintaining theres nothing illegal about the meeting. i know special counsel robert mueller is overseeing the criminal part. whats your response to theres nothing criminal here at this meeting last year? >> we dont ...

Be useful to his father who is running for president. he has a meeting. and the suggestion end up with rescinding the ban on russian adoptions. but now the hug hue and cry, int him for treason and finance campaign donations. there is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government. if that were the case, everyone on a campaign who talks to a foreign national is committing a crime. for you geniuses out there, there can be no treason since we are not at war with rus...

This was a lawyer who was russian. that was -- this was a lawyer who ended up being, was russian. and what took place at that meeting. its been well reported. youve reported this as well. the discussions involving the majinsky act and russian adoptions. it was quickly ended. it was in the middle of a campaign. >> so theres the explanation there. these, according to jay sekulow, were not people who were officially representing the russian government. thats what investigators want to dig into. the...

And a russian lawyer. it was specifically about adoptions. then, after he released his e-mails, we found out that donald trump jr.s intent about going to this meeting was to gather negative information about hillary clinton that was gathered by the russian government. last night, we find out that there was this russian lobbyist there, someone who senator chuck grassley has said has ties to russian intelligence, also calling him an intelligence operative. in his defense, the russian lobbyist has ...