The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Or attempt to do either a thing of value from a Foreign National. So arguably, a meeting sought to receive something of value from a Foreign National as a contribution would violate that statute. And then second, title 18, section 371, which is the conspiracy to defraud, the possibility is that the prosecutors could look at this meeting and the events surrounding it and say this was a conspiracy to deprive the federal Election Commission of an honest and fair election. And that violates that title 18 statute. So there are two statutes to answer jays, you know, Rhetorical Question that could apply. But i wanted to add one thing, which is, this is, in fact, poppy, the first, you know, Public Statement by the president about this meeting, as shimon indicates. But my recollection is that in the production of information from the white house to the Special Counsel back in july, they did send a letter
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indicating that their initial statement about this meeting on air force one was incorrect. so i think they tried to correct it back then. this just is a more public assertion of that which was corrected to mueller previously. and april, david irvin brought this up and points to the july 13th quote, unquote, correction from the white house on this one. what s your read? the bottom line is, there s a lot of back and forth as to a correction, did this happen, did this not happen? what happened this way or who put input, who didn t? the bottom line, this is not a cliffhanger in a soap opera. this is real. and, you know, the press it all basically surrounds the president and his tweet this weekend. and i m going back to something that i saw this weekend from ben rhodes of the obama administration s national security council. he said that this is not something that happens all of the time in politics. he said, it s immoral, unpatriotic and part of the broader issue that it could be ill