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Dumb founded for a cybersecurity working group. speaking of the hill, its buzzing again today. congress back in town with a white house wakeup call a warning shot from the president hinting they should think about canceling august recess. easier said than done. with more in the gop backing away from the health care plan. our team is here and ready to go. we have to tell you about donald trump jr. tweeting about all of this related to russia. obviously, the first person on the campaign to take ...

Donald trump jr. he also tweeted today a denial of inconsistency. he said, no inconsistent in statements. meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions in response to further cues. i simp think provided more details. okay. maybe. >> maybe. >> of course, the whole thrust of the reason why we cared about this was the big question mark about whether they talked politics and the answer was, yes, not what he initially said. >> gets us to the bigger point. right. just imagine if at the very beginni...

United states for its sanctions policy. so its about u.s. sanctions on russia. and this is one more sign of why its worrisome for the white house to have an investigation going on. because when you have investigations, you learn about meetings, you learn about conversations that you didnt know about before. this gets very close to president trump with his son. and it gets very close to the appearance of collusion with russia in trying to affect our election. >> and we understand that both intell...

Then it moved into the conversation about russian adoptions. he said it lasted 20 or 30 minutes and was ultimately of no value to them, so they ended it, and nothing further occurred. donald trump jr. also says his father was not aware of the meeting at the time, and the presidents outside legal team says he had no knowledge of the meeting or those events. yasmin. >> certainly some major developments there. thanks to kelly odonnell for that report. senate republicans are expected to press forw...

Now, obviously, as it evolves, it becomes a little concernsing, but i dont think at the time they knew that it was a lawyer from russia that had an issue regarding foreign adoptions. >> all right. jennifer, weigh in. >> i find it hard to believe, but he can correct me if im wrong, that matt would provide legal advice to a campaign right now to go ahead and meet with a foreign national who is promising bad information about their opponent. but i want to also add one thing. it seems curious. this....

>> senator jack reed, thanks for joining us. good to have you on the program. get republican perspective on us a this. a republican from mississippi, senior armed services committee as well. thanks for joining us, senator. >> thank you. glad to be with you. >> what kinds of concerns if any does this meeting that donald trump jr. had with this russian lawyer raise for you? >> i do not think the american people are going to be horrified by this, and i agree with donald trump jr. he was told that...

>> the highlights are a couple different things. you have don junior, the presidents oldest son, meeting with this russian lawyer at the request of an intermediary. she invited jared kushner and paul manafort to join, june 9, a pivotal moment. he had security the primary but facing a del got slog going into the convention. they were very focused on that. what donald said this meeting was strictly to talk about russian adoptions. the story changed. there was also a discussion initially about oppo...

Inconsistency in these statements. meeting ended up primarily about adoptions and response to further qs or questions, i simply provided more detail. donald trump there, donald trump jr. issuing several statements. the presidents top counselor, kellyanne conway was on "new day" this morning to explain further. >> don jr. has stated he didnt know the name of the person with whom he was meeting. he agreed to the meeting based on a contact from the miss universe pageant to get into the meeting. it ...

Magnitsky act that goes to this issue of adoptions. according to donald trump jr she lured them into the meeting with the pretext of i have dirt on hillary clinton. but didnt come up with hillary clinton. >> but the lower work tells me everything. the wish went for the hook because the fish wanted to hook. if they were willing to grab dirt for the russians and collude with them, it certain lin indicates they were one to do it repeatedly. theres a pattern here. how can you say -- i dont quite get...

Didnt do anything wrong. >> just to set the scene here, hallie. this has to do with a meeting that took place two weeks after then candidate trump clinched the nomination. and it was his son, don jr., jared kushner, his son-in-law, paul manafort campaign manager at the time who met with the russian lawyer with suspected links to the kremlin. now, as you point out what has become so notable is the fact that don jr.s reasons for having this meeting have shifted over time. first, he said that he me...