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Just released is that the trump legal team is really not so focused on legality. in fact, that cited the wrong obstruction statute in that letter. they just got it wrong. it was an outdated statute. they are more focused point on impeachable offenses. if you draw then diagram of criminal offenses versus -- theyre focused on the pr aspect. >> let me start as matt as a journalist and then well get back to the law here. im sorry, youre the defense lawyer. it seems to me if they admit that they came...

Jared kushner, and by then-campaign manager paul manafort. this is the big guns in the campaign meeting with some russian lawyer about russian adoptions, which was the initial cover story, absolutely not. now for the first time the lawyers concede yes, there was a meeting, and yes, the president dictated the false claim about what really transpired in the meeting. so i think thats a big revelation by these lawyers. >> this letter that were just learning about is supposed to be a defense to obstr...

Presidents lawyers on at least five occasions we have been able to find said the president was involved in conversations. he might have had a bit in this but he was not central to the state. his lawyers tell the special counsel the president dictated. the white house lied. >> the white house lied clearly. this is part of why i think mueller is looking at this because we have continued to see lies when it came as to the contacts with russia. you have don jr. having contact with the russian lawyer...

The response here looking into that meeting and crafting of the statements when it was revealed that this meeting took place they say that this is a private matter and the letter goes onto say that special council resooeed all of the notes, communications indicating that the president dictated a short but accurate response to the new york times article. the significance of this meeting is that don jr. thought he was meeting with someone that was going to provide dirt about health care heal hilla...

Hard time covering this white house. you cant take anything thats said there, whether it be by the president or people that work for him at face value, you have to assume what youre being told is not necessarily the slow and accurate truth. for them to say the statement was brief but accurate, belies the fact it was highly misleading, it was about russian adoptions. the fact that the russians brought up the sanctions on russia that prompted the russians to pull back on sanctions by russian child...

Co-opportunity jeff sessions, to fire andrew mccabe. hes done numerous things beyond that interview if they wanted to look beyond that interview that suggests that he has been trying to obstruct justice with regard to the investigation into russias meddling in o election. >> this is all about the public perception. >> right. >> and lets remember, he makes the statement in may. what happened before this? general flynn? he makes a phone call and then he lies about it and then hes fired. we have a ...

Were supposed to talk about adoptions. there was misleading information about whether or not this was going to be about promised dirt on hillary clinton that robert mueller and his team is also investigating. and finally, this letter goes on to say that that meeting that donald trump jr. meeting and the statement that the president winded up crafting is a personal matter, and that the special counsel has really no right to investigate that. but i think whats really important here, also, is that ...

The story of the president here. it seems like his lawyers are talking about dictation from the president to his son. fill that in for us. >> so one of the things that mueller is looking at is a statement that the white house issued in the name of donald trump jr. when the "new york times" first broke the story about the famous trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer and the fact that donald trump jr. had been promised dirt on hillary clinton from the russian government and eagerly responded...

Meeting. it was really important. the official response from the white house, went that news of that meeting came out was to down-play it. say it was just about adoptions, that it wasnt about getting dirt on hillary clinton or about sanctions. what we now know from the presidents own attorneys, is that the president himself was involved in drafting that misleading statement. that the president himself knew what the truth was. this is one of the things weve been looking at. your thought on the ...

And how firing the fbi director relieved the pressure, the firing of michael flynn, the firing of sally yaets. her role. sessions recusal from the russian investigation, the president has beaten him up in public repeatedly for that. and crafting the statement about the trump tower meeting with the russians, another thing that happened a year later after on air force one the president hold picks, gave a false reason for why donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort met with the russians when...