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Christine and phil. >> thank you, phil. boris pointed out they have tried to twist themselves into a knot trying to explain that trump tower meeting. lets take a quick look at the timeline. the new york times reports on the meeting. don junior with the statement claiming it is about russian adoption. one day later, the presidents son was promised dirt on hillary clinton. >> two days after that, don junior releases the exchange with rob golstone. discussing dirt on clinton. the president denies k...

That false coverup statement. that kind of a statement, if its found to be an intentional, can be part of a larger obstruction or conspiracy case, the statement dictated on the plane. and the fish rots from the head. clearly, it had to have some involvement by president trump. and thats the key problem here. if we cant believe president trump that this was a meeting about russian adoptions, then why do we believe him now when he says he didnt know about it, as he declared in his tweet? theres be...

Could present major legal issues for donald trump jr. and jared kushner. >> adoptions were discussed and other things too. >> he looks incredible as does the president. >> he supplied numbers so manafort could save hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. >> when you have a person on the stand with an immunity deal, obviously you attack them. the real question is what are we going to hear from rick gates? >> this is new day. >> good morning, welcome to your "new day." it is 8:00 here in the ea...

Adoptions. the presidents lawyer jay sekulow denies the president had any involvement. august 1st, sarah sanders admits he weighed in on the statement but flat out said he did not dictate it. donald jr. tells the senate judiciary committee that his father had nothing to do with crafting the response. that clearly was not true. the presidents lawyers told robert mueller in a letter that the president dictated a statement himself and late last month cnn reported that michael cohen is willing to te...

Thats what investigations do. >> all right. joining us now to discuss all of this, cnns chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, our legal analyst and defense lawyer, ross garber, and cnns chief political analyst gloria borger. it sounds like this is a pretty incriminating series of events. >> sure, it is, because the president effectively came out and said this was not a meeting about russian adoptions. this was a meeting about getting dirt on hillary clinton. we know that the stateme...

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Deal back in may. instead, the white house had already established a photo lid, which essentially means were not expecting to see the president any longer today by the time they sent out and alerted the press that the president signed this executive order today. typically, the reporters would come in, there would be camera coverage, and an opportunity for reporters to ask questions. now, today those questions likely would have been about the presidents tweet over the weekend saying that that mee...

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Tweet the president posted. fake news reporting, complete fabrication that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald had in trump tower. this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal, done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. i did not know about it. how significant is this tweet from the president after a long, long time of suggesting that whole meeting was about adoptions. >> i think politically quite significant, just the fact that theres been a l...