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Euphimism "facts develop." thats a nice way of saying their story has shifted several times on this meeting from adoptions to now finally the president admitting this morning the whole design was to get dirt on his opponent and to solicit that information from a foreign source, something thats patently illegal. >> one of the questions, as we look at some of the video here of one of the presidents rallies, he was in ohio, as you know, yesterday. very key special election, one of the first -- excu...

Information at that point. over time you have facts develop. thats what investigations do. >> reporter: not helpful to the president and his team is that issue of his lawyer previously giving bad information publicly. that was a denial that the president was involved in the explanation statement for what that meeting was originally about. it was something he dictated on air force i with other colleagues there to say that the meeting at trump tower in 2016 was about the ban on russian adoptions. ...

>> the number jr. called. >> he claimed that it was about adoptions. but everyone still seems to somehow believe because they said it so often that nothing really came of it, nothing useful was produced. we dont know that. maybe they established an open lie so that on october 7 i think it was when the "access hollywood" tape came out 32 minutes laert the russians dumped or wikileaks leaked all the podesta e-mail conveniently. so who knows what happened in that meeting. >> bob mueller knows. and ...

Tr review the changing narrative on this famous sit-down meeting. first, dont forget the initial line was, there was no meeting, right? remember, it took place back in june of 2016. not a peep about this. and then take a look at this from donald trump jr. so don jr., this is nine months after it happened, quoting him, did i meet with people that were russian? im sure, im sure i did, but none that were set up. and certainly none that i was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form. that...

House intelligence committee report that came out about a month and a half ago about a blocked number that donald trump jr. called before and after that meeting. obviously, bob mueller can access who that blocked number was. there will be documents, there will be calendar, other people who were in the meeting with donald trump. there are other ways to corroborate this. i should think if donald trump was briefed on this well know about it and it will be in the bob mueller report. i just think its...

In russia. maybe staff up the campaign with people who are going to be favorable to russia. maybe start conversations about lifting sanctions. all of these behaviors, if you see them through the lens of paul manafort, are pay back to the russians. >> and, eugene, all those things happened. it really requires some extraordinary magical thinking to say like all these things are unrelated. everything jennifer just named happened. we know based on the white houses own read out of the first pull asid...

Adoptions. then it was trump didnt know about the meeting. now it appears weve gotten to the point he knew about but no crime was committed. i think that that in and of itself, the sort of path of this defense by trumps team is telling, but i also think we cant look at this meeting in isolation. it is very significant, if true, that he knew about the meeting. that doesnt mean that a crime begins and ends there. you have to look at everything that came before it and everything that came after it....

1970s and 1980s without their consent and knowledge and given to adoptive parents. and those children are in the 30s and 40s and asking about the origins and the secret that was kept from them for four decades. cnn has documented several adoptions like these, and including travis oliver who was also raised by american parents, but he did not meet his biological parents until he was 41 years old. >> i was wanted. i was not given up willingly like i thought for so many years. so that maches my hea...

Husband and other members of the family asked the employees of the state run hospital about her daughter, but they never found her again, and chile was under the military dictatorship, and she and her a family feared that asking too many questions would put them in danger. >> with the politics at the time and adoption not being regulated until years after i was adopted, and even looking at the social worker who processed my adoption, there are a lot of things, elements of it that were just incom...

Questionable documents back then authorities now have a name for babies like alisa. theyre called children of silence, babies taken away from their biological parents in the 70s and 80s, in many cases without their consent or knowledge and given to their adoptive parents. those children are now in their 30s and 40s and asking about secrets that were kept from them for four decades. adoptions like these including travis toliver who didnt meet his biological mother until he was 41 years old. >> ...