Coconclusic Collusion News Today

Suggests to me that theyre all aware of the significance of this development as well. >> even the president of the united states putting out a statement to say, the vice president is working every day on an agenda. the vice president is not aware of the meeting. hes not focused on the particular meeting, specifically stories at the time of the campaign. >> there is nothing in there pushing back on the notion that there may have been some collusion or potential collusion between trump campaign of...

They were -- they call her a crown prosecutor, which, of course, doesnt even exist. so, this woman was using everything she could to get into the trump -- to see a trump member. >> how do you know that? >> well, obviously, she was saying that they had got clinton information, they got all this stuff, and what she was trying to do was push sanctions against an oligarch. i know what she said. she was interviewed this morning. we know her account of the story plus we know that jared stayed for five...

Seen this far. >> weve been covering the story since the very beginning. the senate and house intelligence committees have been digging on this question for weeks, months now. fbi, now the special counsel. that collusion question, and its still a question, has been based purely on the fact that meetings took place. a number of meetings, a frequency that caught the notice, we have reported, of the sbenls community and law enforcement, particularly the fact that it was with so many russians, both ...

To this story, without getting into an official white house response to some of the questions earlier? did you speak with him about this story? >> i think that the president is, i would say, frustrated with the process of the fact that this continues to be an issue, and he would love for us to be focused on things like justin mentioned, the economy, on health care, on tax reform, on infrastructure, and thats the place that his mind is, and thats what hed like to be discussing. >> thank you, sara...

It was mr. jared kushner, and he never came back, by the way. and the other one who was at the same meeting was always looking at his phone. he was reading something. he never took any active part in the conversation. that was mr. manafort. >> they had the impression, it appears, that they were going to be told some information that you had about the dnc. how did they get that impression? >> reporter: its quite possible that maybe they were looking for such information. they wanted it so badly. ...

Huckabee sanders is saying. the other thing i would just note. i think it lingers as a question. why could she, from the podium yesterday, definitively say that theres no collusion, but then when today, she said, i stand by that but you have to ask all those questions to outside counsel. why was she able to take that question yesterd and not ae to take it today? the only thing that changed is this huge fact pattern that we have it in black and white in donald trump jr.s e-mail that he did accept...

Will have access to, and we, at this point, dont have access to. so, you know, we have an important part of the story today, but its only part of the story, and i think thats important to keep in mind as, you know, people go make dramatic conclusions about what is or is not a crime. >> carl, to that idea, that we only have part of the story, which is obviously very accurate and important to keep in mind, it is interesting in the e-mail chain that we do have that theres no real surprise voiced by...

Questions to the attorney. >> we know thats nothing to applaud because "the new york times" was going to release these e-mails, but yes, the other thing i thought was interesting that sarah huckabee sanders did in the brief, anderson, was this commitment to saying that theres no distance between the vice president and the president. she was asked about that, because the vice president has issued a statement saying, you know -- >> yeah, i have the statement here. let me read it out. this is from ...

Definition of willingness of collusion is. i dont think there is one. you know -- >> im not asking for a legal definition. im just saying, doesnt it seem that hes open to the idea of colluding with the russian government? >> no, i dont think that at all. sounds to me if anything they were naive in trying to get information about hillary clinton. >> naive -- okay, from the russian government. >> well, from this woman who claims that she was from the russian government. i have no idea if she is. >...

They did have knowledge that there was a russian influenced campaign. so what i think these e-mails do is they shift what we describe in sort of the political terms of collusion to the open more avenues for potential investigation regarding cooperation with either intelligence gathering activities that the russian government may have been involved in, potential issues with respect to interpretation of the campaign finance laws, and whether or not the russian government was providing other things...