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Sanctions legislation which putin finds probably the most personally offensive of anything thats come out of the west in the last ten years. >> reporter: the kremlin was so outraged it banned adoptions of russian children by americans. it has denied any association with veselnitskaya saying we dont know who that is and we cant monitor all meetings russian lawyers have both in russia and abroad. veselnitskaya got the meeting through rob goldstone, a music agent, who has been involved with trumps ...

Adoptions for 20 to 30-minute meeting for the most important people in donald trumps orbit. do you buy that? >> well, no. in a sense that donald trump jr.s story has changed in 24 hours, the only reason we believed that information wasnt past was because of donald trump jr.s statements. so the lines about the meetings bother me a lot less than the taking of the meetings. so the idea -- everyone talks about chess in politics. lets talk about poker. do you bling when youre playing the game? in thi...

Information, if you match that with what weve seen, the 5% were cleekting, you can start to get a picture of why this meeting starts to look more and more interesting. someone is not telling the truth and i suspect theyll figure it out. >> a.b., you hear that? thats the silence of people saying theres nothing to any of these questions that the investigators are looking at this more because this is exactly one of their major concerns. not that the trump campaign was seeking out, was working with ...

>> why would donald trump, jr., and paul manafort want to meet with the russian lawyer about russian adoption? >> i have no idea, you are going to have to talk to them. talking about issues of foreign policy, issues related to our place in the world, important to the american people like adoption, its not unusual. when you go through a campaign, you are not just talking to one particular group of people about adoptions in russia, you have policy teams talking about our place in asia, talking abo...

Donald trump jr. said it was about russian adoptions. that was a critical issue, an important issue. then he changed the story, it was sunday, putting out a statement saying it was a woman where the individuals connected to russia with information, damaging information that it was supporting hillary clinton. said that it was nonsense, ambiguous. now, we are hearing from donald trump jr., this morning, tweeting, several times, this is the latest one saying there is no inconsistency in statements....

Foreign national, even if nothing of value came up from this. weve heard don junior actually say that he thought that the meeting would include obtaining dirt on hillary clinton. and he knew the meeting was with a foreign national. so i think we need to really look at this closely. >> so, matt, shes saying that he was involved in this conspiracy to defraud or commit an offense against the united states. your response? >> i disagree with that analysis. as a former u.s. attorney, we did conspiraci...

Was said. when they say, when donald trump junior says this meeting was originally supposed tonight about adoption or ended up being about adoption. thats not really what the adoption issue is about. as you know. the adoption issue is about the fact that -- >> sanctions. >> yes. that the u.s. passed a law in 2012 saying they could sanction individual russians basically for human rights abuses. and putin in retaliation stopped the adoptions of americans of russian orphans. thats an american legis...

Met with anybody. russians? never. those were his first answers. then it was, yes, i met with one, but it was about adoption. and then it was, oh, she had dirt on hillary clinton. why so many different stories? >> i dont think it is a whole bunch of different stories. don junior has never sat with down with someone who is a representative of the russian government, presented themselves as im here from another government and trying to interfere in the elections. thats never been the case. don jun...

They would get, quote, dirt on hillary clinton? >> i think that was probably the premise for that meeting. but as donald, jr. says, the information that they got, they saw right away that it wasnt leading where they wanted to. he was there to talk more about adoptions and things like that. and then it broke away from that. and, so, you know, i dont want to fault them for what they did. i think i would have done probably the same thing, under the same circumstances. >> a lot of, including republi...

Have shown up saying if your father becomes president, can you remove the magnitsky what they were offering in return may have been whats stated, may have been something else. maybe they changed their mind. but i can assure you that she went in with a deal. what her deal was, we may never know. >> youre saying she just didnt go in and talk about russian adoption with some neigh something at the top of the meeting, she had something? >> she didnt go in to talk about russian adoptions at all, but ...