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Weve seen nearly 80% decline in the number of international adoptions happening in the u.s. we believe that part of the reason for that is a bias against enter country adoption by career people in the department of state. >> laura: and, chuck, particularly annoying is the fact that international human rice advocates claim that enter-country adoption is bad for kids often times. people who want to help the kids, and i think they do, put up legal barriers for actual adoption w russia you have the ...

Adopt them, legally adopt them. you know them, these are some od the kids and the villages that i have had the great privilege of getting to know over the years. some of these kids still have their families others are living with extended families, very little opportunities. there is a way to do it. your reaction to that? >> there is a way, laura, to dor this. we have implemented the hague l convention on intercountry adoption 10 years ago. it created a new process of checks andnd balances and o...

Adoptions happening in the u.s. we believe that part of the reason for that is a bias against intercouncil country adoption -- intercountry adoption by career people in the department of state. >> laura: chuck, particularly annoying is the fact that international human rights advocates claim that intercountry adoption is bad for kids offtimes, i mean, so people who want -- oftentimes, i mean so people who want to help the kids -- and i think they do -- put up natural barriers for adoption in rus...

As essentially like what you would expect that a boarding school. i will stick to, there are some of them like boarding schools. i suggest that a lot of the folks that are worried about that spend more time in central america. i have. we should make adoption easier for american couples who want to adopt these kids who are true candidates for adoption because our policies dont allow that. lets put our hearts out there for the kids in the right way. take care of them the right way. open your heart...

Unbelievably irresponsible not to report to the fbi or to other law enforcement officials that a foreign agent has come to you and made an offer like that. >> but to kens point, the text messages do seem to back up the assertion that nothing came of this meeting. does that matter? in and of itself it may not matter but remember how -- had the trump tower meeting didnt matter either until we found out more about it. lets not forget that in that incident, we had people who said with a bunch of rus...

Or inaccurate? >> i know you want to get me in back and forth with you on this. >> we just want to know if it was accurate. >> you role is to engage me in a conversation about matters dealing the outside counsel and im not going to doday. >> you said something from the podium. was it accurate or not? >> i think you know im an honest person who works hard to provide you with accurate information at all times. at, but im not goio do engage on matters that deal with outside counsel. >> yesterday sh...

>> fair disclosure here, i asked jay sekulow several times to comem leaving him messages, ie-mails. i would rather spe to him than about him. but he said multiple times that trump had nothing to do with it. sarah sanders echoed that. its easy for her to knock things aside and say i have to refer you to this person or that person or i dont know, ill get back to you. she didnt on this. she he dictate it but maybe he had some other involvement. then the letter in january comes out, jay sekulow says...

Dictated it. does that sound like a series of mistakes, or lies? >> what is the key issue in this investigation? it is collusion. what is the biggest piece of evidence in the investigation that there was collusion, if not having russians visit the trump tower to talk about so-called adoptions, which means sanctions? i mean, i dont know, i didnt just fall off the turnip truck. it was, i am sure, at the time an effort to try to remove the president from this meeting. in fact he ends up dictating i...

Its wrong. they did stand for the anthem in their game. but the way of twisting the truth and leaving behind ill feeling is the strategy of the president across the board here. we see him attacking sessions again. we see him obfuscating on this letter. sarah sanders said one thing and the lawyers said another thing. >> shepard: had the lawyers said something that wasnt true to the manafort investigation, that would be a crime, wouldnt it? >> yes. >> shepard: if the lawyers said instead, presiden...

My bad. >> shepard: continuing coverage now of news items at the white house briefing today. once more, sarah sanders refused to correct the record on her statement that contradicted the. her report that president trump did not dictate a statement on the trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer and others. the presidents legal team revealed in a secret memo which fox news has confirmed that president trump did in fact dictate that statem that is the legal version. the legal version sent to the ...