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From that and see what else might happen. yeah, the more they shift, the more you have to ask what are they actually really meaning at any juncture, and at what point do you have the full truth. now theyre taking a line of well, everybody does it. its really not a big deal. >> who is sort of in control? who is the captain of the ship here when it comes to the messaging? was involved with the president? >> were told the president actually approved of that message that he signed off on it, the mes...

Flight back from air force one, over the course of the weekend, that some -- a group of white house advisers to the president gathered on air force one, trying to help craft the statement that donald trump would initially put out, something that were told the president was aware of, that statement had to be amended multiple times to help better clarify, misleading initially saying the conversation was almost exclusively about russian adoptions, ignoring the fact that donald trump jr. received an...

You had different floors. >> well, don juniors office is on a floor below that of the president. we dont know where the meeting was of course. >> yes. but what im saying is people came and went, but there would be no reason absolutely more hillary clinton or bernie sanders or donald trump to know who their campaign staffers were meeting, even if it is family unless something really, really significant happened. and what we know from this meeting is that nothing happened, that there was a bait an...

There was certainly in those e-mails that weve seen so far no discussions about the meeting being about adoptions. i mean, in many ways you feel like this could be the tip of the iceberg. this is one set of e-mails. were there previous discussions that we dont have those e-mails? were there a subsequent discussions about any of this? i think from the white houses point of view and donald trump jr.s point of view he wants this to sort of be put to an end with that interview that he had last night...

But the case. the saturday statement that didnt disclose the purpose of the meeting from donald trump jr. was now reviewed. weve learned from the "the new york times" by the president himself. they had to change that drastically by sunday. the message sunday was jared kushner and paul manafort had no idea about this meeting. that was not the case. they were forwarded this e-mail with all of the information about the meeting. thats a low bar for transparency is it not? >> it is a low bar and that...

Serious. >> i know that youve said in the past day this story has gone from a quote, nothing burger to red meat for the mueller investigation. i like the metaphor. what do you mean? >> we go from no meeting to a meeting about adoptions to now we know for a fact based on these e-mails that the meeting was set up specifically with regard to providing information that would be incriminating to toward hillary clinton and helpful to the trump campaign. robbie is familiar with how this works. ive been...

Event and claim they have dirt on your opponent, theyre usually a whack job. >> i tame um branbrage in anna notion that theyre nothing but patriots. >> they lied for six months! >> feelings arent facts. >> he said there had never been any contact with russia and we now know thats a lie. >> i can tell you without a doubt, without equivocation, all the trump kids, total patriots, love their father. beyond that -- >> as recently as saturday, donald trump jr. was trying to tell us that this was a me...

Russian government wanted to hand over incriminating information, he said his argument was that, look, we didnt even know what this was. we cant vouch for this e-mail. are you telling me when someone says i have incriminating information about your opponent youre going to hang up the phone? it was all puffery for this woman to get into the door and talk about adoptions. he stood by his client and said he didnt break the law. >> take a listen to donald trump jr. describing that e-mail from gold s...

It will be him against hillary clinton so, what, if anything, all of the above -- you want to try to take it down and see if theres any merit to it. i think he found out this wasnt someone that had any information but in fact, it was to talk about an important topic. adoptions of russian children. that was obviously not what the purpose was. >> jesse: dana, do you see anything nefarious about this alleged meeting and email conversation? it looks like on the surface, it could be another one of th...

"the new york times," the emails say what they say. this is one of those moments we have to stop and think all we really having a debate in this country in washington about the propriety of the son of a presidential candidate, a leading presidential candidate, meeting with representatives who he thought more of a hostile foreign power for the purposes of winning the election? we have to have a debate about whether thats proper or not? thats an incredible moment in our history that we are having ...