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That -- its not criminal. the big question is, yobviously number one, political ramifications, if there are any now beyond the real legal question. >> and some ways it will be up to republicans to decide what the political ramifications of that, of this are going forward and weve seen some republicans come out today and essentially say its much ado about nothing, and also, what about clinton? the clinton campaign? and in ukraine. more senior republicans, lindsey graham, john mccain, more interes...

About damaging information for hillary clinton. do you know of any evidence that suggests thats not true? >> i dont, and the explanation that it was about russian adoptions, can you imagine youre running for the highest office in the land, time is your most precious resource, and youre taking time out of your day to meet with russian adoptions, and then when youre confronted about it, you give multiple shifting explanations? its just contact with russia denying that the contacts exist and only w...

Adoptions. so it sounds kind of innocent, adoptions, children, et cetera. it is highly political. and it is highly personable with vladamir putin. so even the mere fact that she wanted to talk about that is quite, i would argue, a political issue. so its not -- i dont think its as simple as it seems. >> steve, a political issue to the kremlin? >> absolutely. jill is right, the magnitsky act was a big deal. this is exactly the kind of thing that gets vladamir putin going. he sees this as unilater...

>> the initial explanation or defense from donalds son, this was a meeting just about adoptions, this was nothing more, not important, nothing to see here. however, its not just about adoptions. even though thats what they talked about, its political and loaded and important to vladimir putin. >> right. because, remember, the whole reason for a lot of this, at least with this lawyer was that she was working on -- working for clients who were under sanctions and working to try to get rid of an ac...

Twice about it. what we has said publicly, you know, he did end up meeting with this woman, that she made some, you know, statements that made no sense and then they somehow started talking about russian adoptions which really are a proxy for sanctions against russia over human rights violations, but he said he was not the right person. because of the presence of this e-mail, and mr. goldstone was not clear on how he knew this, he appeared to be relaying information that he had heard from other ...

I think its very important to point out this fact, because so many of these -- so many of the folks on the other side of the aisle are trying to make it sound like this russia news was already out there. they get this information that someone wants to sit down and talk to them, theres absolutely nothing there. >> jason, why did donald trump jr. initially say that this was a meeting about adoptions from russia when clearly it seems like it wasnt? >> don jr.s first answer he spoke to the substance...

To be able to get away with the explanation that he just had a meeting about adoptions? clearly the times had reporting that the meeting existed. you saw him update his account -- >> in the world of public relations, when you give an explanation, its usually best if that explanation is accurate so you dont have to give repeated, then, amendments. >> yeah. because it just destroys your credibility with each new version of events. so now he puts the e-mails out, as you noted, because the new york ...

Received on a daily basis, they sat down with the person. immediately realized a few minutes in that they were making no sense and moved on to a policy topic that wasnt at all germane to the campaign. it was 20 minutes, they were done, that was the end of it. and so later if don jr. was asked the question about russian interference, well, of course he hadnt sat down with some official representative or someone whose information they then went and acted on. i think its very important to point out...

Looking at his phone. he was reading something. he never took any active part in the conversation. that was mr. manafort. >> they had the impression it appears that they were going to be told some information that you had about the dnc. how did they get that information? >> it is quite possible that maybe they were looking for such information. they wanted it so badly. >> she puts people at the meeting. she puts nothing on herself in terms of having any bad information or having any connection t...

Integrity who are aghast, a, at the way trump has been soft on russia and b, at these indications that something incredibly untoward was going on with russia. and i mean, what this also shows this meeting is for the first time it gives an indication of what collusion would have looked like that we know the russiian side was interested in what don 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 projecti...