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Of the misleading story put out by the white house and donald trump junior claiming the meeting was about adoptions. those interviewed say the russians did not deliver the promised dirt. the focus of discussion began to infuriate jared kushner. after a few minutes of this labored presentation, jared kushner appeared agitated by this and said i have no idea what youre talking about. don junior testified the meeting lasted 20 to 30 minutes and at the conclusion he apologized for what he believed w...

He doesnt know when and if the president learned of the e-mail. when it comes to president trumps involvement about the meeting, trump jr. seemed to suggest he was involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. in the initial july statement, trump jr. told "the new york times" the meeting with lawyer veselnitskaya was about russian adoptions. he didnt mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting at a british publicist named rob goldstone said that the person might have...

What are you seeing? >> were still going through all these at this point. so far its clear this is the most complete picture we have of this meeting to date. the presidents son, donald trump junior began his testimony by saying i did not collude with any foreign government and do not know of anyone who did. he also said the president did not know about the june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer. the big issue here is that meeting and the subsequent explanations of it. initially he told "the new...

Hope hicks. that response said the meeting was mostly about russian adoptions. but trump jr. later released his own e-mails that showed that he was hoping to get damaging information on hillary clinton. theyres the exchange from the transcripts. quoting here. question, to the best of your knowledge, did the president provide any edits to the statement in trump jr. he may have commented through hope hicks. trump jr. i believe some may have been but this was through people, mostly council. donald ...

Meeting and the subsequent explanations of it initially. the presidents son told "the new york times" the meeting was mostly about russian adoptions. never mentioning the fact that he agreed to the meeting after being told the person had information that might hurt clintons campaign. some called trump jr.s initial statement misleading and not long after "the washington post" reported that president trump actually dictated it on air force one. the committee asked that "the washington post" report...

Every man test is they had one position, the position is different now, why did it change? when did it change? those are the questions. and they raise -- certainly, they raise questions about the presidents willingness to be up front about this along the way, when all this money was paid in 2017. we are now halfway through 2018. >> kellio connell, ben pop kin. david parent hold. we have new leely released testimony on the 2016 meeting at trump tower. joining me, kennedy lanian. a lot of inform...

But what donald trump and his staff did afterwards to offer essentially a misdirection to the news media to stay was about russian adoptions and not fully describe what it was. why did they do that and does that fit into a pattern of obstructiontion t obstruction of justice. >> we have rob gold stone whos a british public la cyst who set the meeting up. he said this is a bad idea, we shouldnt do it and i gave the reason being that im a music public la cyst and i dont know much about politics. wh...

Showed don junior being asked about his july 8th statement, the one in which he claimed the meeting was solely about russian adoptions. when asked if his father had helped draft that statement. he said, i dont know. i never spoke to my father about it. remember, "the post" had reported that president, quote, personally dictated that statement. don junior is later asked if the president provided any edits or input for that statement. he relies, quote, he may have comments through hope hicks. reme...

And brings had brother-in-law and campaign manager, that is collusion. that could arguably be called collusion, whether its criminal, thats for robert mueller to decide. really, whats happening in that meeting is the russians are putting out another and series of feelers we keep hearing about and what the message that comes back in the trump campaign, were going to play ball but the dirt youre giving us -- its not good enough. don jr. calls it a waste of time. the message that comes back is, wha...

Meeting in 2016, what vomit did you have in the communication strategy, including the release of donald trump jr.s e-mails. how significant do you think the trump teams response is? >> i think its critical. i think that theres been a lot of surmise, the president helped shape that statement in a way that quite consciously obscured the truth,s what happened. to remind the viewer, this is the event at which afterwards, the trump team tried to say the meeting was about adoptions. if theres an obfus...