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Happening and why. We do want to begin with the explosive news about President Trump and russia. It involves donald trump junior. Breaking in the last 30 minutes, the New York Times reporting that donald trump junior met with a russian laier after being promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. This directly contradicts what don junior told msnbc news that this meeting happened in 2016. He was asked to attend by an acquaintance and was not told the name of the person i would be meeting, ...

Would benefit both the russians and trump. trump makes some money and the russians gets to hide some money in the united states. so this is not just a matter of a relationship between the trumps and russia that started in the presidential campaign. this goes long, way back. and patterns matter when youre doing investigations. >> joyce, when patterns matter, as the governor suggests there, as brian says, there is no hard evidence that provides some type of definitive connection. so how high of a ...

Repeated nondisclosure of those contacts. third, brian mentioned perjury traps. michael flynn was fired by the president of the united states for lying to the vice president of the united states about contacts with russians. then the president of the united states fired the fbi director who was investigating all this. sometimes youve got to just look at the things that are sitting right in front of you and say, wow. that is remarkable, unusual, alarming. and thats what were looking at. >> govern...

Bed with the russians. did he call preet bharara and say hey, we were approached by this, in which case you should be investigating, and if its false, there is another crime going on that you need to investigate. ill be very interested to see whether don trump followed up by calling law enforcement. if he didnt, and if there are no other contemporaneous versions of what happened in this meeting, then perhaps that high bar will be met in this case. too early to judge. >> brian, from the official ...

Oh, it was about the campaign -- but it didnt make any sense because she was saying things about hillary clinton and the russians and then we talked about adoptions. it doesnt -- it is not a very sensible sequence of statements by donald trump jr. >> brian, when it comes to jared kushner and his relevance with being taken into this meeting by don junior in this statement, he says he asked jared and paul to attend but told them nothing of substance. how does this already hurt his role inside the ...

I have a great deal of respect for the congresswoman but i think shes wrong. there is no fire. i mean you can say theres smoke, but these are a series of perjury traps that are being set up by democrats to try and go after trump administration officials because theres no underlying crime. theres no evidence that theres collusion between the russians and the trump campaign. not one piece of evidence has been produced. it is a fishing -- i do agree with president trump, there is a fishing expediti...

Let our special counsel do its job. the intelligence committees have been woefully irresponsible in the work that they should have been doing. thank god for "the new york times" and what they continue to unfold about this president, his allies, and what appears to be collusion. and im comfortable that its going to come out. >> congresswoman, thank you very much, congresswoman maxine waters. >> youre welcome. back to my panel to talk about this. brian, your reaction to the congresswoman there. ...

Place in trump tower in june of 2016 with a russian attorney, someone that don junior was told to meet with because of an acquaintance i knew from the 2013 miss universe pageant with an individual who might have information that was helpful to the campaign. information, or dirt, against hillary clinton. joining me now, richard painter. he was president george w. bushs chief white house ethics lawyer from 2005 to 2007. paul butler back with us, an msnbc political analyst and federal prosecutor, p...

They took the meeting and it turned out to be a bait and switch where they wanted to pitch on relaxing russia sanctions in consideration for allowing russian adoptions. it appeared that one of the stories indicates that kushner walked out of the meeting, manafort walked out of meeting early. and they probably all walk out saying, wow, we really got fooled. they tried to fool us on that. when you look at the big picture, does this prove collusion between the trump campaign and the russians? no. i...

Was, well, we discussed adoption, it was somebody that i didnt know what they were -- who the person was, somebody asked me to have a meeting, i had a meeting. now hes saying that he had a meeting on the explicit understanding that he was going to get damaging information about hillary clinton from the russians. you also have a statement from jared kushner who said that donald trump jr. had asked him to attend the meeting. now, if you were were donald trump jr. and you think this is an insignifi...