Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Selfinflicted wound. We dont know the entire back story but our understanding is this was not a strategic legal tweet. This was not a Communications Shop messaging tweet. This was the president waking up and doing what we reported him doing in our story which was privately sort of brooding and then publicly feuding and roaring. And he sent this tweet out to refute a bit of our story but in doing so actually pushed his own narrative much further into a place that is not particularly helpful for him or his namesake son. That may be an understatement. Phil rucker, lets talk about dj t. J. To your knowledge and to the best of your reporting, has anything about don june,s case changed materially that has motivated the president s
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Offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. Later, emails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging email on Hillary Clinton. Quote, if its what you say, i love it. To get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton i thought was political Opposition Research. Just after this we heard this from trumps lawyer. The Statement Released was donald trump jr. And his lawyers. The president was not involve in the that. The president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. It came from his son. July 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. Then hater this year it was revealed trumps own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to Robert Mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. This weekend, the president s same lawyer jay
raised more questions than it answered. and then over the course of three days the story kept changing. and here we are now a year later and we re still trying to figure out where exactly the president is on this and where we ve ended up is the president saying, well, we tried to collusion with the russians, but it didn t work out. it didn t work out and we didn t actually pull off the collusion, and that is head scratchingly where we ve ended up after a year of reporting. and ashley you broke the dictation part of the story which was striking for all of us to read in realtime because we re still getting to know the president and his style, but here s this president taking his time and effort to dictate a meeting and the purpose of the meeting at trump tower. can you believe that we still have so many questions that this still generates this much news coverage almost a full two yeeshz later? i can and i can t.
answered. then over the course of three days the story kept changing. and here we are now a year later and we are still trying to figure out where exactly the president is on this. and where we have ended up is the president saying, we tried to collude with the russians but it didn t work out and we didn t actually pull off the collusion. and that is head scratchingly where we ended up a yoear after reporting. yashley, here s this presidet taking the time to dictate a meeting and the purpose of the meeting in trump tower. can you believe we still have so many questions? that this still generates so much news coverage a year later? i can and i can t. the way we understood the story