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W. when paul manafort and jared kushner realized it wasnt going anywhere. they left. then the meeting ended. this act. an opponent of vladimir putin. when it became clear that he was going to be a thorn in putins side, the accusation was that putin had him killed and poisoned. so because of the act, it was a sanction against 44 russian officials. because of the 44 russian officials were hampered, vladimir putins response was no more adoptions of russian children to american families. so thats wh...

Published by the new york times that during the election season in june of 2016, not long after president trump then a candidate secured the nomination, his son donald trump junior held a meeting at trump tower where according to trump junior he had been asked to meet with a russian lawyer and he did so and included in that meeting paul manafort at the time the chairman of the campaign and his brother-in-law jared kushner who is now a senior adviser to president trump and a big figure here at th...

Presidents own lawyer has said repeated times. he went on television saying the meeting was about russian adoptions. the reason it matters is this. as they talk about this investigation, as the investigators look into whether there was in collusion between the trump campaign and russia, we still dont know that yet but we are investigating that. they will look at this meeting. was there a coverup of any kind. was he trying to obstruct justice in any way. important to keep that in mind. but for th...

brought a translator with her. ike kaveladze was brought for charges of money laundering, though never actually charged. >> its amazing to me that they say this meeting was about russian adoptions. >> reporter: new this morning, reuters reports that the russian lawyer who met with donald trump last year, 2016, has offered to testify before congress, citing hysteria over the encounter. meanwhile, democratic senator diane feinstein has told cnn that special counsel robert mueller has given the ...

Account of what happened and that he had to square his account with it or look like he was lying. i just would note on this question of adoptions, the reason that then emerged after the initial dishing dirt on hillary clinton, its not about adoptions. its about opposing whats called the magnitsky act, an attempt to hold the regime of vladimir putin accountable for the death of an anti-corruption crusader named magnitsky. this has been a key thorn in putins side. this woman was coming even on the...

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Was about adoption p but saying the magnitsky act is about adoptions, its actual factually true, but its just scratching the surface. in 20008 sergey magnitsky was a lawyer representing a man once the biggest foreign investigator in russia. alleged organized criminals had colluded with russian interior officials out of $230 million in taxes after illegally seizing subsidiaries of browsers companies. this is what happened next. they retaliated by going after magnitsky, charging him with fraud a...

And he said absolutely not, and certainly not anything on policy. on saturday the statement we got from him was that there was such a meeting, but it was about adoptions and it sort of seeped into this issue of an act which is something that the kremlin wants repealed. and sunday we have a story that it was because there was an offer of damaging information about hillary clinton, and then a we have the tweet today. yes, theres a number of statements, and they really have kept changing. >> all th...

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Were no such meetings, again, probably more important questions to get to, but basic terms of credibility, why do we listen now when they tell us, now they tell us nothing bad happened at these meetings? >> also doesnt help the first response we got from the administration on this was actually not a complete version of what happened. they said the meeting was just about russian adoptions. then, okay, maybe it was about more than that. then a whole question whether the president knew this was goi...