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>> manafort who wrote to a go-between, if he needs private briefings, we can accommodate a. spokesman for manafort confirmed to nbc news the authenticity and said they had been turned over to a congressional committee. but as the paper notices. >> isnt that something james baker did when he was running a campaign for britiezhnev, if he wants a briefing on what were doing in western iowa. >> its a tradition, bob straus withining johnsons campaign in 19 skating, he had ho chi minh on the phone all...

>> "the washington post" also reports mueller also asked for any e-mail or document the white house holds that relates to manafort according to who sources briefed on the requests. the paper also reports less than two weeks before trump accepted the presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings to a russian who is closely aligned with the kremlin. manafort wrote to a go between, quote, if he needs private briefings, we can accommodate. a spokesman for manafort confi...

Build this structure in moscow with sater often encouraging his boy hood friend and his ally back in trump tower, michael cohen, to encourage a meeting with vladimir putin. at one point suggesting they could get this deal done and they could get, they could help elect donald trump as president of the united states. >> so sater, you have sater here making all these claims, were going to get this done and got to get you in touch with the russian administration here. is there any indication, is the...

Not even close. >> joining us live for more on this from beijing, china, janice. janice, its nice to talk to you this morning. ambassador haley, as you just heard, she has also personally thanked china for their role in the resolution, and chinas foreign minister said yesterday that he has urged pyongyang not to violate those terms. what are the odds here that china is going to follow through? >> well, china will follow through to the extent that it wants to or that it can, and there are a few t...

Transparent approach. kushners team talked about sharing everything, including the contents of the e-mails with main stream news organization. hicks reportedly spoke to trump jr. about the strategy of transparency believing the complete story would eventually emerge. president trump apparently intervened. he directed the statement say that the meeting was unimportant. he wanted to it say that the meeting was initiated by the russian lawyer and was primarily about her pet issue. the president dic...

This whole narrative, general kelly is here to clean up shop, tighten up the ship, 90 minutes later this puppy gets dropped. >> reporter: yet another russia headline roiling this administration, steph. let me just give you the top line here. "the washington post" reporting overnight that it was president trump who personally dictated the statement from his eldest son, donald trump jr., about that controversial russian meeting. heres what the post reports. "the president directed that trump jr.s ...

Team said the president had no involvement in drafting that statement. >> i wasnt involved in the statement drafting at all. nor was the president. im assuming that was between mr. donald trump jr., between don junior and his lawyer. im sure his lawyer was involved thats how you do it. you know that. to put this on the president i think is absolutely incorrect. >> absolutely incorrect. the presidents private attorney says, well, the "washington post" i noted reports today that in fact the presid...

The dnc. this was a consultant of the dnc, did not work for the clinton campaign. staffers denying knowing this person that served as a go-between between kiev. and we had the presidents son who, the high-ranking officials on the trump campaign who were in direct contact with this person purporting to be from the russian government. you didnt see those kind of high-level contacts in the case of the ukrainian opo being shepherded back and forth. but but see information be used, weaponized success...

Russian lawyer with the kremlin because she promised damaging information on hillary clinton. what we have here that warner said that i thought was so interesting, i believe its remarkable that this meeting, one, was not reported beforehand, two, this is again the first time the public has seen clear evidence by at least an attempt by the trump campaign to obtain information -- this is kind of the underlying premise thats been raised under this whole investigation. bill? >> and the meeting is se...

Edited, and let me give you an extra little note that you just got in from our folks here, which is a confirmation from rob goldstone that he was the go between, this was on behalf tho roberts of nbc and msnbc. that he was the go-between for his client, who was a family, real estate family, very close to the trumps, as well. that he actually represented the pop star whose father is a russian real estate mogul, and confirming that he set up the meeting. he was the go-between. and apparently, he w...