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That trip the president and his aides were crafting a response to all of this. in "the new york times" piece that had come out at the time. now that statement about donald trump jr.s meeting was in the eyes of some people in the presidents orbit extremely problematic. that included marc carallo, a spokesperson for the legal team. this statement about donald jr.s meeting largely directed by the president, with the curb mer. wolff goes on to say jared kushner and trump said it was a firing more th...

And after that meeting did not communicate this with his father. so today, brianna, we are learning that he did instead communicate with hope hicks earlier this year when those initial reports first came out about this meeting, but not any direct communication with his father. according to his testimony thats still ongoing right now, brianna. >> all right. lets find out if that really makes a legal difference. manu, stand by for us. i want to analyze this and bring in gloria borger and jennifer ...

Phrased his request. the reservation request seems to apply to all communications as a response to the meeting. remember the "new york times" first reported the initial response to media inkwur is about the trump junior meeting was crafted by the white houses closest aides, reporting being involved in crafting a response may have exposed those white house aides to special counsel scrutiny. usually its a legal matter like this, and it would be handled by attorneys given that it is a russia invest...

Meeting, would that investigation impact the scrambling? >> you may remember the "new york times" first reported that the initial response to media inquiries about donald trump jr.s meeting was crafted by some of the presidents closest white house aides who were traveling back with him from europe. sara murray reported last week that being involved in crafting a response may have exposed those white house aides to special counsel scrutiny. as you know, a legal matter like this is handled by atto...

That would mean the white house kept the president in the dark. do you see that with this white house happening? >> listen, there have been instances in the past where this question has arisen and theres been a real effort to insulate, as jeff was saying, the legal issues and the russia investigation from the rest of whats going on in the white house. the problem for them now is that with this new timetable emerging and learning that jared kushners aides and others were sort of knew about this w...

But whats coming out today i believe is that that may not be the case. and if this the true, that would be extremely disturbing. >> and your letter with senator leahy to the fbi, you havent publicly revealed that before. >> no. >> what about tonights breaking news makes you feel that you should publicly reveal that youve asked for this investigation? >> well, because its tied very closely to this breaking news. you know, ive been in our -- our office has been in contact with the fbi on this. and...

And if this the true, that would be extremely disturbing. >> and your letter with senator leahy to the fbi, you havent publicly revealed that before. >> no. >> what about tonights breaking news makes you feel that you should publicly reveal that youve asked for this investigation? >> well, because its tied very closely to this breaking news. you know, ive been in our -- our office has been in contact with the fbi on this. and they said they were crafting a response to us. it sounded to us that s...

I dont know what the status is. >> she would print out the e-mails and give his answers in written form so he would not e-mail back. ive heard her as a possible interest of some of the hill committees in term oz of their investigation. >> and obviously anybody on that plane as "the new york times" broke, i think it was maggy haberman, when they were turning i think from europe, when they were crafting a response from donald trump, jr., later claiming it was donald trumps lawyers doing that. it s...

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