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Trying to protect their own interests and obfuscating. there was -- it was unclear exactly how this statement got produced, but what did get produced was not the real story was the story real story was they had been presented with an offer of damaging information about hillary clinton that was supposedly part of the russian governments efforts to help donald trump. what cape out after that frantic meeting on air force one was this was the meeting about adoptions. so what we saw in that 48-hour p...

She may be aware of, but also remember during the -- her time in the white house, she was involved with that initial misleading statement that was put out to the press when donald trump jr.s meeting in trump tower with russians was first revealed, they initially suggested it was a meeting about adoptions. were understand she was involved in drafting that statement. those are questions that members want her to answer but, again, will she answer those questions or invoke executive privilege, we ju...

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If you take the trump tower meeting, is it smart to take a trump tower meeting with russians or any meeting with russians, probably not, not a good idea. >> ed: but its not collusion? >> theres no evidence. we have interviewed most of the people that were in that meeting at trump tower, and all of them had have said the same thing, a short meeting, no more than 20 minutes long, they talked about russian adoptions, they left and have anything. what we never got to the bottom of, which i think is ...

Break the story of that trump tower meeting. the president was flying home on air force one headed back to washington from a summit of world leaders in germany where he just so happened to have had his first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin. according to the "times," the president huddled in the planes front cabin with hope hicks who obviously was texting furiously with don junior trying to get their stories straight. it was reportedly the president himself who obviously supervised the w...

And to investigators but not to the press. if youre a president and want to lie to the press, theres no law against that. why would mueller be interested in this? >> right, lying to the press is sort of common practice in washington, unfortunately. the -- but the -- its been interesting how much mueller has focused a lot of his questioning of various witnesses on this statement. you raise a good point. what would be illegal about it. it may not be illegal to put out a false statement to "the new...

Because remember, theres no allegation that trump knew about this meeting when it was happening, but there is a question about how he characterized it later. he wrote a statement saying it was all about adoptions, which it plainly was not. and we think, we believe, weve reported that this was part of the obstruction of justice inquiry that mueller is conducting. so the fact that bannon thought this meeting was treasonous i think could loom significant as this investigation moves forward. >> the ...

First claimed that meeting was about russian adoptions. a story that didnt last long, he admitted he had been promised dirt on hillary clintons campaign and had learneded russian government, wand his father to win the presidency. paul manafort who was then the campaign chairman also attended that meeting. donald trump jr. says he spoke with white house aid hope hicks when news of the meeting first broke. tonight a lot of people in the white house, are probably looking over their shoulders and wo...