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Statement, meaning at one point the president told the country the trump tower meeting was about adoptions yet today hes tweeting to the world that it was to get dirt on his opponent, and that theres nothing wrong with that and theres nothing to hide. so why the changing sortories fm trumps story? here is what that same lawyer, jay sekulow, said about it today. >> i had bad information at that time. i made a mistake in my statement. i talked about that before. that happens when you have cases li...

Robbery on tape where donald trump jr. has essentially thrown the bag of money to donald trump jr. hes thrown him the bag of money. what defense is left for don jr. whose statement was dictated, written by his father, turns out to have been completely false, tried to say adoption was the reason for the meeting when everyone knows that means magnitsky act which still leads back to russia. what legal defense is left for donald trump jr.? >> thats right. theres a glaring inconsistency between what ...

Was about russian adoptions. instead this morning he wrote, quote, 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. what does this latest tweet mean for the investigation? joining me now jennifer reuben of the washington post, msnbc contributor jonathan capeheart and danny savalos, matthew miller and dana millbank of the washington post and joining by phone ellie mistow of above the law.com. give us y...

These tweets could cause significant legal implications, as glenn just said. and also it bears repeating how much the stories have changed in the last 13 months. this was supposed to be about adoptions, and then the story shifted. it shifted again. finally, the white houses hand was forced when "the new york times" and others discovered emails from don jr. which he said he would welcome this damaging information about hillary clinton from the russians. and this has come to the period, a per pres...

Year, you know, first it was about adoptions. then, you know, it was definitely about adoptions, but donald trump didnt author the statement saying that, and then yes he did, and then he said, it wasnt about adoptions and then, you know, theyre just feeding us these crumbs and saying no, its something different. it leaves us all to wonder, the next thing is i didnt know about it, and were left to wonder, you know, youre a micromanager. your chairman -- campaign chairman, son-in-law and son were ...

He is insisting vehemently he knew nothing about it. why make that argument? we dont know. heres what we do know, and you spoke to some of this. when "the new york times" first learned of the trump tower meeting and pressed the trump white house for a response, the president dictated a false statement that said the meeting was focused on the adoptions of russian children by americans. after we learned that statement wasnt through the president made the argument that, hey, its not a crime to lie ...

The way it contradicts what the president and his team said about a meeting that took place in 2016. caitlyn huey-burns joins me now, political report for real clear politics, and eugene scott, political reporter for the "washington post." caitlyn, you know exactly what happened back in 2016. the president and his teams reaction to that meeting, what they have said since. how much has this up-ended that narrative, that story? >> just fundamentally, it has. remember, going back to when we -- when...

Enthusiasm on their side which could give them han advantaan a the house and give them an advantage in the senate. i think when you think about this time line and the totality, we know the president dictated this statement. jay came out and said the president did not. we found out that is a lie. we found out the president admitteded it is about opposition research. they maintained it is merely about adoptions. so what i wonder now, when did the president find out this meeting was about oppositio...

Trump jr. who put this meeting into place? >> what is so interesting, you see the dad taking the fall for the son in these types of, you know, familiar escapades. yes. because obviously you cant overstate the importance of this admission. thats what it is. its an admission that everything that they have been saying previously about this meeting that i was about russian adoptions, which by the way just code language for, you know, russian sanctions to begin with. it is a toning down of everything...