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Scoop on how this is all viewed by the white house. lets get tat. at it. >> the presidents campaign did not collude in any way. >> donald trump jr. , compromising information about hillary clinton in an effort to help his fathers campaign. >> opposition research. youre always looking to get the upper hand. >> whats been revealed for the first time is potential real coordination between the kremlin and the trump campaign. >> rest assured, donald trump jr. will be someone we want to talk to. >> th...

Tonight about an e-mail donald trump received ahead of his june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer. what can you tell us about that? >> so, look, theres a lot that we -- theres stuff we know and there are many things we dont know. what we do know right now, this i was a very much a group effort at the "times" by a lot of reporters, that don jr. in the course of being approached about a meeting on the woman, the lawyer, the russian lawyer, with whom he met and these stories have been reported on ...

>> let me finish my answer. the second thing if it is something thats blackmailable, it goes both ways. if hillary clinton was subject to blackmail, you want to know that. so if, again, let me be clear, if that level is achieved, the information is actually what it is advertised to be, of course its going to be shared. otherwise its but one more piece of fluff in a number of events going on. you have to understand, i think you do, that during a campaign, theres thousands of things going on all t...

Fathers candidacy. this is according to three people with knowledge of the e-mail. maggie haberman of "the new york times" joins us now by phone. maggie, this is just breaking now. explain what you know and all the details you can. >> sure. i mean theres a lot that we know and theres also a lot that we dont know. what we know is what you just described. we know that before this meeting that has been the subject of stories over the last few days was arranged, that donald trump jr., who was ascend...

Russians possess compromising information that can influence this presidents conduct of american policy. the russians know about this meeting. they were behind organizing the meeting. if there are other meetings that the russians know about, if theres other interactions with the trump campaign, the russians are aware of, that is something that they can hold over the head of the president of the united states. the american people need to know that our president is acting on their behalf and not a...

Help -- trying to help them, trying to help donald trump. and keep in mind everything that came after that, all of trumps pro russia statements, pro-putin statements, came after they had been informed that the russian government was trying to help them. >> colonel, you supported president trump. they dont deny goldstones e-mail made it clear the information was gathered by the russian government. does that concern you? >> two things, im an operative, not an analyst. >> excuse me. >> mr. mueller ...

Sound. but in your mind, whether were going collusion or bordering on it, how do you view all this? >> i also go back to the source, which is this is coming from the white house. thats where theyre getting this information. so somebody, somebody in this administration thinks this is as much of a problem or wants to put this all on trumps shoulders -- >> donald trump. >> donald trump jr.s shoulders. i think in jep not only is it sort of an example of collusion, this shows that they were open to i...

To the ukrainian embassy to coordinate oppositional research and attack against our campaign. thats a story. thats not somebody meeting under false pretenses to talk about another issue. that is the democratic operatives meeting with representatives of another government, not people who say theyre from another country, people from another government. >> hillary clinton didnt win the election. >> does that mean crimes arent committed? this is what i find fascinating. >> if you want to make the ar...

Question as to whether or not it was possible that any american, let alone anybody connected to the trump campaign, might have been aware of, let alone involved with, let alone supportive of that russian attack. weve now got answers to those questions. and honestly, it is now therefore no longer a question of whether they did it. its just a question of whats going to happen now that we know that. now that they are admitting it. and let me add this. just within the last couple of minutes, and wer...

Kremlin-connected lawyer making it clear she was trying to help his fathers campaign by offering damaging information on hillary clinton. former cia operative edward mcmullen and former cia analyst colonel anthony shafer. evan, should donald trump jr. have reported this meeting instead of taken it? >> of course he should have. one thing thats fascinating not getting enough information he was informed via e-mail this offer of information, compromising information, allegedly, on hillary clinton, h...