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Everyone, family and campaign officials alike, you cant be taking these meetings. but he didnt, he went in there. >> fred, mika, heres what i do know, the storys not going anywhere so i hope youll both come back with me soon. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> you are looking live at a news conference held by nancy pelosi and other house democrats on keeping the trump administration accountable. you can see maxine waters there right next to nancy pelosi. were keeping an e...

Hope you didnt think you could chill on this friday because we have got more exclusive nbc reporting. a person believed to have ties to russian intelligence was also at that controversial meeting with the former russian lawyer and donald trump jr. all right. listen up, heres exactly what we know. the additional individual in that meeting is a russian-american lobbyist and a former soviet counterintelligence officer. he is suspected by some u.s. officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelli...

That. and, look, he should have known better. the trump campaign should have known better. they should have known that the russians are always trying to get close to people in power and looked on this meeting from the very first meeting, over the very first contact really suspiciously. youve got to be really careful about russians bearing gifts. theyre not really on your side. >> fred. >> well, theres this sentence in the e-mail from mr. goldstone about russian government assistance to the trump...

For a layperson like me, i know nothing. >> well, let me first say its great to be here. i dont think that don junior should have taken this meeting. i think this was a rookie mistake. but im listening to these reports this morning about this alleged former soviet counterintelligence officer. i like to point out that this was an american citizen that there had been reports before of russian intelligence officers trying to meet with the trump campaign that turned out to be false. and we dont know...

Forward? especially if it was this grand big nothing burger. >> this is an american citizen. we dont know that don junior knew that he had emigrated from russia, that he had dual american/russian citizenship. an american citizen was participating in this meeting. why would he report that? >> why not give full transparency? listen, this thing is drip, drip, dripping in hopes of getting this story to get out of the news cycle. why not come forward to say heres whos in the meeting, boom? >> well, i...

Since last saturday when this meeting was characterized by the white house about russian adoptions? why not simply say this was nothing, heres exactly who was in the room and it amounted to nothing? why is it that were put in a position where we have to dig, dig, dig? >> well, you know, youll have to ask them that. i mean, from what ive seen this meeting was misrepresented to don junior as opposition research against hillary clinton. basically he was lied to by goldstone to get this russian lawy...