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>> reporter: good morning. >> tell us more about this e-mail that seems to have made it explicit to don junior that there was this russian lawyer who was claiming to have compromising information about hillary clinton. >> in the course of setting up this meeting with don juniors intermediary, rob goldstone, an acquaintance of his, made clear whether it was his knowledge or it was funneled through several other people. he made clear that he was trying to offer potentially compromising information...

President trumps son released an e-mail chain showing him making plans to meet with a russian attorney. that lawyer tells nbc news she did not have any compromising information. >> we primarily discussed a program to resume the adoption of russian children. russia stopped adoptions by americans after the magnitsky act of 2012. joining us now to talk about this is one of the sponsors of the magnitsky act, jim mcgovern. thank you very much. don jr. in this meeting.

The nothing burger story? the hillary campaign collects dirt on bernie sanders. is that unusual? >> then why wouldnt donald trump jr. say that on saturday, number one? >> ask him. >> and it is not appropriate to do that with a foreign government. and if these meetings were standard practice, why wouldnt don share that information? why wouldnt jared kushner share that information? and as far as weve got jeff sessions, weve got mike flynn, none of whom shared information about meetings they had. w...

Maggies meeting "before arranging a meeting with a lawyer he believed would offer compromising information about hillary clinton, donald trump jr. was informed in an e-mail the material was part of a russian effort to aid his fathers presidency. mr. goldstones message as described to "the new york times" by the three people indicates that the russian government was the source of the potentially damaging information. it does not elaborate on the wider effort by moscow to help the trump campaign. ...

Trying to influence the campaign. there was a lot of talks about planks at the rnc being changed to help vladimir putin. also the context around not only these meetings with russians but all the other meetings with russians. weve talked about it before. everybody lied. on their disclosure forms, everybody lied in the trump administration about this meeting, about other meetings. >> the trump story is inconsistent and the russian story is very consistent. in july of last year, everything they wer...

In terms of or ethically in terms of analyzing don juniors decision to accept this solicitation and offer for the meeting and go. >> one reason that don junior has hired a lawyer and that he and his lawyer are going to have some follow-up conversations with bob muller and his team, it doesnt matter whether you actually act on an illegal meeting. the state of mind is part of any crime. the intent matters. when you are talking about conspiracy or collusion, the state of mind is most of what we are...

The most serious risk to the country, i think, is that the russians possess compromising information, what they call kompramot. the russians know about this meeting. they were behind organizing the meeting. if there were other meetings the russians know about, if there were other interactions with the trump campaign the russians are aware of, thats something 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 b...

With russians, with no supervision. it was a terrible exercise in judgment and of course this is -- you know, were seeing in live real time now a russian active measures intelligence operation where they were either going to get access to donald jr. or as the case turned out to be have compromising information on him where today that were discussing that he was interested in receiving negative information about secretary clinton from a foreign government. and so, you know, i have a lot of questi...

Before the meeting took place. another potential bombshell report from "the new york times" alleging that donald trump jr. received an e-mail informing him that the russian government was trying to help his fathers campaign. before his june, 2016, meeting with the presidents son-in-law jared kushner, former campaign chairman paul manafort and a russian lawyer fought to have compromising information . . . three unnamed sources tell the times that the e-mail sent by rob gold stone, awe miceic publ...

They have after a year, i understand the desperation. guess what? we have an incredible team of guests and correspondents with us to cover all the late-breaking details on this story that keeps on coming. straight to nbcs kristen welker at the white house. what new details are you learning about the meeting specifically and whats the white house saying about it? >> reporter: a lot of new details which donald trump jr. is pushing back against this morning, steph. "the new york times" revealing ne...