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Vice president mike pence was quick out with a statement saying he knew nothing about this, no contact with wikileaks, something he had also said during the campaign. don jr.s lawyers were very quick to respond to this. one response i have not gotten though, which i have asked for, is response from trumps lawyers so they have yet to weigh in on this. >> phil rucker, it was extraordinary this weekend to see, again, how far the president went out of his way to accommodate and show kindness to vlad...

And during dinner in manila last night, philippine president duterte serenaded trump with a traditional love song. so thats right up there on the top-ten list. the next day trump said the two have a great relationship and he laughed as duterte called the media spies for trying to ask questions. part of a remarkable weekend for the president that also saw him trolling the head of north korea via twitter. "why would kim jong-un insult me by calling me old whether i would never call him short and f...

How much of that is correlated in time, how much of that is causal? causal because of any back-channel communications between people like donald trump jr. and roger stone and others within the trump camp who may have been in touch with wikileaks throughout the campaign. >> shannon, how germane to the story is the fact i guess the way the math works out, it broke when the traveling white house was sleeping on the other side of the world? >> once again, the president on a foreign trip right as som...

Don junior a link to help him spread the contents of those stolen e-mails. trump junior did not respond, but then 15 minutes later, candidate donald trump posted this on twitter. "very little pickup by the dishonest media of incredible information provided by wikileaks. so dishonest. rigged system." donald trump jr. has now confirmed the existence of these conversations. he posted screenshots of his own of the messages on twitter writing, "here is the entire chain of messages with wikileaks with...

Certainly in public anyway. and it adds a new complexion to that episode. >> and peter, more than that, im reading from your transcript, he says of comey, look at his testimony. his testimony is loaded up with lies, okay? so hes accusing comey of perjury. you and i have both noted that comey in terms of kind of his bearing and demeanor has been someone people have said could be muellers son in terms of washington veterans over the years. we established that he kind of updated his view of the sec...

Became aware of it right before this came out. >> i think the point hes making, christine, is there is nothing here that weve seen so far factually unequivocally that ties the president to any of this. does he have a point? >> well, not necessarily. because if you look at how all of this started, clearly the trump white house knew something was happening, right, before the public knew, because they hired don junior a lawyer. >> okay. so they hired a lawyer two weeks before all of this came out, ...

Transcript, he says of comey, look at his testimony. his testimony is loaded up with lies, okay? so hes accusing comey of perjury. you and i have both noted that comey in terms of kind of his bearing and demeanor has been someone people have said could be muellers son in terms of washington veterans over the years. we established that he kind of updated his view of the second pull aside meeting with putin at the dinner but he also updated his view of the meeting trump tower, don junior a year ag...

It for the purpose of letting him know had he something on him in effect, bargaining the implication is for his job. now, you know, this is the first time weve heard him say that certainly in public anyway. and it adds a new complexion to that episode. >> and peter, more than that, im reading from your transcript, he says of comey, look at his testimony. his testimony is loaded up with lies, okay? so hes accusing comey of perjury. you and i have both noted that comey in terms of kind of his bear...