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That information so much. shes pulling herself out of it. she said i wanted to talk about adoptions and, of course, that means that highly charged political issue of getting rid of the sanctions. >> we have 20 seconds left. what would the russians have learned from this meeting? what would the take away be? >> most critically, i think the russians would have taken away the important fact, the critical fact that somebody in the trump campaign, not just anybody, but somebody very close to the cand...

Don jr., i dont even -- if i was guilty of having to know everything that was e-mailed to me, good lord. thats not possible. so, well find out. hell testify. well find out. >> carrie, in terms of don jr.s credibility, for his story to have shifted from, oh, this was a meeting about adoptions, to now, once "the new york times" apparently has the actual e-mails and contacts him, letting him know theyre going to release them, he then releases at least part of the e-mail chain. i dont know if theres...

Times," what the pitch to get the meeting was, although donald trump, jr. said no, it was about adoption. now it seems based on his comments and "the new york times" reporting, the initial pitch was dirt on hillary clinton. that gets you in the door. and then she changed the topic to sanctions and through the idea of adoptions. >> exactly. and you know, the thing that i keep thinking about is, all right, she was russian. even at that point in the campaign, russia was kind of an issue. i mean, we...

Trump junior called adoptions, in other words the sanctions under the magnitsky act. it wanted an end to those. we know the trump campaign was projecting its interests in getting damaging material on hillary clinton. each side was signaling to the other what it wanted and they went ahead. >> not only has it been, there was a denial or whatever the explanation was from donald trump jr. when the story broke in the times this weekend. there were two of them and then he tweeted about it and theres a...

Of a foreign national for something of value, it doesnt have to be money. could be information. thats an fec, federal election commission law violation. and there may be, and there have been already complaints filed by common cause and others with respect to that. interesting to me as well is that donald trump jr.s first statement was this was a meeting about adoptions. well, adoptions as we know and has been reported by "the new york times" is really just another word for sanctions. so if donal...

Which sparked vladimir putins anger and in return, the russians put an end to adoptions by americans. thats where that comes together. she was uncovering information. it appears, from the report thag is out there, that she was looking into or had some type of information that might lead you to think there were people who were not paying taxes who might have contributed to the dnc. so, i can see where the trump administration, i should say the trump campaign would be interested in anything that w...

If it were me, and i were thinking about not just the legal issue here but the pr issue, i would want to get the people who have offered to answer questions in front of investigators as soon as possible to show that, hey, we want to answer questions, we want to acknowledge this stuff thats out there, and we want to show transparency. the presidents statement today used the word transparency, so i think thats a good strategy to pursue. >> you know, brian, i mean, youre a professional spokesperson...

Rights. in retaliation for that law, russian president vladamir putin banned all u.s. adoptions of russian children. thats where natalia veselnitskaya enters the picture. she was working to have the magnitsky act overturned, meeting with anyone in the u.s. who might listen, perhaps thinking that could be donald trump, jr. natalia veselnitskaya was once married to a former russian deputy transportation minister, postings on her facebook page show she does have an interest in american politics. at...

Its as simple as it seems. >> steve, a political issue to the kremlin? >> absolutely. jill is right, the magnitzky act was a big deal. this is exactly the kind of thing that gets vladamir putin going. he sees this as unilateral meddling. >> thats why he canceled the adoptions, anger over the act. >> yes, exactly. but what makes this one a little bit different, if i understand the reporting correctly, is that the topic of having information on the opposition campaign, in this case hillary clinton...

>> why waste his timesome >> matt, do you think donald trump, jr. has any legal exposure here? >> i dont. and heres why. somebody mentioned the idea of a thing of value that was given here. this is what obviously happened is this russian lawyer used a ruse or a pretext to get this meeting, saying i had all this great dirt. gave worthless information. we would all agree on this panel that the russians did not fund the dnc and hillary clintons campaign. so she got the meeting and she talked about ...