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See this as potentially perilous for the president. on the same side youve got the president who has been a little all over for the place when it comes to michael cohen and the issues related to the trump tower meeting in 2016 where a russian lawyer and other russian associates went to trump tower to have a meeting with trump, jr. and other top campaign officials. and we now know that was an offer of dirt on hillary clinton that did not materialize as best we know. and lart we saw how the presid...

The state-run hospital about their daughter, but they never saw her again. chile was living under the military dictatorship of agusto pinoch pinochet, and her and her family feared 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 incomplete and inconsistent with what i was to...

Interesting. >> all right. so that planned speech set for that monday would fall right after the scheduled trump tower meeting, but the speech never happened. team trump has changed their narrative on the meeting multiple times. first they said the meeting was just about adoptions, and president trump dictated the initial misleading response to the story, saying the meeting was just on adoption. then e-mails between donald trump jr. and rob goldstone show dirt on clinton was offered, and trump j...

>> >> now the rest of the russians include, a lobbyist and former soviet counterintelligence offers and a representative for a russian pop star working with rob gold stone plus a translators. its unchlorif anything came of the meeting. both sides said nothing did process but either way it was secret. the public didnt find out until a year later. thats when "the new york times" published the bombshell report about the original e-mails between gold stone and trump junior. it was the first concrete...

Of adoptions like these including that of travis tolliver who was also raised in america and didnt meet his biological mother until he was 41 years old. >> i was wanted, you know. i wasnt given up willingly like i thought for all these years. so that makes my heart feel wonderful. >> reporter: in 2015, chilean authorities named a special prosecutor to begin investigating a list of these so-called irregular adoptions, a list reported to include nearly 600 families. this man heads an organization ...

Danger. >> with the politics at the time and adoption not being regulated until years after i was adopted, and everyone looking at the social worker who processed my adoption, there are a lot of things -- elements of it that were just incomplete and inconsistent with what i was told. >> reporter: chilean government officials today say there were so many questionable adoptions back then that authorities now have a name for babies like this. they are called children of silence. babies who were tak...

Many cases without their consent or knowledge, and given to adoptive parents. those children are now in their 30s and 40s and are asking questions about their origins and about a secret that was kept from them for four decades. cnn has documented several cases of adoptions like these, including that of travis tolliv tolliver, who was also raised by american adoptive parents and didnt meet his biological mother until he was 41 years old. >> i was wanted. i wasnt given up willingly like i thought ...

Implicated. >> erica, the trump team has changed its story a lot. it was about adoptions. to we didnt get anything from this meeting. don jr. saying, you know, it was a waste of 20 minutes. it was a shame. but then, still, the big mystery would be the intent, how do investigators go about that? >> sure. of course an investigator cant climb inside someones head and figure out what they were thinking at the time so they would look to all these things that were discussing, what someone knew, when t...

Repeatedly his father didnt learn of the meeting until well after the election. >> did you tell your father anything about this? >> no. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i mean, i wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through this stuff. it was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >> reporter: the president also insists he was in the dark. >> did you know at the time that they had the meeting? >> no, i didnt know anything about the meeting. >>...

Unfortunate terms? we dont know that either. one of the strong possibilities here is that there was a conversation about some form of future collaboration, and then we hear this incredibly awkward conversation where he says, russia, if youre listening, heres the favor you can do for me. come in and deliver hillarys e-mail. at the time it felt strange and awkward. now with everything weve learned in the past few days, perhaps thats the truth of what went on in that meeting in trump tower. that th...