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Concerned, this is all of it? >> trump jr., this is everything. this is everything. clearly not. >> kate, let me say this, what trey said is accurate, if you drank russian vodka, go ahead and report it and pull out everything you think is irrelevant, make sure everybody knows about it. i think thats a mistake this campaign has not done. >> you think this person -- this person is irrelevant? >> um, i think that a meeting about adoptions in the face of a campaign -- >> it was not about adoptions. ...

This was a meeting about orphans and then adoptions and then only once -- well, we have the e-mails, he learns from "the new york times," does he then release them? >> he did the right thing in releasing them. but -- >> well, it took three days and multiple stories. >> we still have those 33,000 from hillary. >> you cant -- >> wait. the bottom line here is, anderson, when we talk about collusion and all of this, i want somebody to come to me and say where in the lower cumberland county that vote...

Simon said that. i was in washington 24 years, in congress, on the foreign committee, we dealt with sanctions and russian adoptions. i never heard of this guy. further more, if the secret service was there, why not screen this guy out. >> if he is well known, is that important to the fact that he -- being well known or not, is that relevant to the fact he is linked to the russian government and this meeting was billed as being part of the russian government effort to help his campaign? >> what i...

President trump was involved in crafting that. >> youll remember that initial response also mentioned nothing about the fact that don junior was promised information from the russian government about hillary clinton. it mentioned only adoptions. >> right. so maggie haverman who is with the "new york times," as well as cnn, she was the pool reporter on the trip to france. shes coming back home from the trip. they had something like a 70-minute gaggle on the plane where they were able to ask presi...

People who were close financially to putin. in response russia imposed restrictions on american adoption of russian children. both the russians wiin that meeting have fought the act. donald trump jr. said the meeting was about adoptions. now to bill who will be testifying before the senate judiciary committee next week. he is the author of red notice. going to talk to you. we agreed to have this conversation before i knew that this lawyer had spoken to the wall street journal and was going to br...

Dont know. thats for other people to figure out. it is incredibly inappropriate on every possible level and when you know that they know that its inappropriate is that they never said anything about it. if it was not a big deal, they would have said something about it. if it was not a big deal, jared kushner would have put it on his forms when he was getting his clearance. if it was not a big deal, john junior would not have come up months after that and said, this is preposterous that you would...

Things that all of these people are lying about. especially jared kushner with his security clearance and having to fill out those forms. theres a reason why they wont tell everything. theres no way any pr or lawyer would tell don jr. to go on camera and say im telling you everything. and not -- either the lawyer didnt know or he was just really bad at giving advice because normally when you do that kind of mea culpa, you tell everything. theres been three things that have happened and theres pr...

So what, right? that seems like an innocuous issue, but its a lot more complicated han that. in 2012 president obama signed what was called the magnitsky act, a sanctions law that targeted specific russian officials for human rights abuses. in retaliation, vladimir putin halted all u.s. adoptions of russian or fans, which is how we get back to the issue of adoptions. here is how "the new york times" puts it. from the russian perspective, whether the younger mr. trump and his associates knew it a...

So they say much ado about nothing. they started to talk about adoptions and everybody left. come on. is there any likelihood after baiting they will like that, after them taking the idea that theres a test, that everybody would walk away from this and no one would ever speak of it again? >> no. i dont think so. i wouldnt put too much necessarily in the meeting. they may be saying the truth. i dont know that they are. that the meeting was not interesting itself. we have a sliver of information. ...

Defense against all these charges are look at my policies. i mean, how long did it take him to meet with vladimir putin? seven months. he met with the chinese leader in the first few weeks. stick with the tough policies on russia. steve: adrian, i will give you the final word. >> first of all when it comes to dnc, that is a conspiracy theory that is being pedaled by the trump administration to try to deflect from their own problems. this is the contractor that we were talking about. but, look, i...