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Allegations, many of which were unsubstantiated but that james comey interviewed donald trump on saying the russians appeared to have this information, a lot of it untrue. but glenn simpson had be asked to appear before the senate judiciary committee wednesday. they expected to hear from two other significant witnesses, paul manafort and donald trump jr., but simpson says no. the reason why he says this request is a partisan request, his attorney says they asked for him to appear as a pretext to...

Development here as the committee tries to move forward with its investigation. and still, brianna, no word back from donald trump jr. or paul manafort if they will attend as well in that wednesday hearing. theyre undergoing, what we understand, some pretty active discussions behind the scenes ahead of that wednesday testimony, and they, too, have been threatened by subpoenas from senator chuck grassley. it looks like at least one witness wont appear. well see what the committee does next, brian...

Times" directly, his lawyers echoed in the stories, which is that they think that -- that mueller and his prosecutors looking into trumps finances is out of bounds. and that theyre trying to draw a line around that and say, this is the pretext. if he starts to go into this area i consider that a step over the line and that will be the argument for why he fires mueller if he fires mueller. that to me is the clearest signal over two days from all of these sources that we are headed for a giant fig...

Unimportant meeting because i never heard about it. sounded like a very unimportant meeting. >> new jersey and california and the primaries and you give a speech about hillary clintons corrupt dealings and that comes just three hours after -- >> okay. so it was so unimportant that there was a translator and his son in law was in there, his top advisor, also his campaign manager, ceo of his campaign. that was an unimportant meeting? >> the pretext was that the russians had information that could ...

Supporting donald trump. he is the closest to him, ideologic ideologically, really of anyone, any major figure in the republican party, in terms of his views on immigration and trade and the trump world view. and the fact that the president would turn on him so publicly and really, kind of viciously, is, i think, a clear signal to everyone in the republican party, who was out there defending donald trump, whether its paul ryan, whether its mitch mcconnell, whether its john cornyn, all of them ha...

Top adviser, also his campaign manager, the ceo of his campaign. that was an unimportant meeting, patrick? >> the pretext of the entire meeting were that the russians apparently had information that could hurt hillary clinton. weve got some goods that we can come and bring you to talk about to hurt your opponent. this is when donald trump is ramping up before the convention, organizing his general election campaign. he doesnt have much of staff. so much so that one of his sons and his son-in-law...

But the president spent some time with the voter integrity commission that he convenes pd. what are you hearing about that? >> im hearing there is a lot of opposition. they are off to a slow start as you saw, they were trying to get data from the states, and they were rebuffed. and the commission there was real differences of opinion and the difference and severity. they believe this is a pretext, credit legislative bases, and it will be a tough slide for them the whole way. >> a big thank you t...

There is nothing there. >> so she is saying she had no information to provide. do you remember that shes suggesting that you were pressing her a little bit for information? >> i image i did. i was pressing because the pretext of the meeting was i have information about your opponent. it was dnc donors may have done something in russia and didnt pay taxes. i was like what does this have to do with anything? >> good question, donald trump jr. knew why he was meeting with someone advertised in writ...

Bit like the russia story was falling by the wayside as health care took center stage even though the president tweeted about health care -- tweeted about russia yesterday. now were learning the seven or eight people fwhorp thwho were meeting including don junior, we have identified, nbc, another person, one of those people. >> that brings the total of seven according to nbc that was in that meeting with donald trump jr. and the russian lawyer. and this is significant for a couple reasons. one, ...

In july, right before the democratic convention, the first batch of e-mails was released. they released them right before the democratic convention. >> matt miller and malcolm nans, your expertise very valuable. i appreciate it. up next the lawyer in the center of the meeting, this is all thanks to some very original reporting in the atlantic and the author joins me next. there is nothing there. >> so she is saying she had no information to provide. do you remember that shes suggesting that ...