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Want you to meet this russian attorney, it does certainly raise questions about did he make the assumption or did he have knowledge that this russian attorney had some sort of backing of the russian government or connection to, which is what "the new york times" has reported. cnn has not independently verified that she is connected. >> and if thats in an e-mail, donald trumps account may be irrelevant -- >> donald trump jr. >> donald trump jr.s account may be irrelevant because well see in the e...

They met with the russians or they dont disclose it when they are required to. jared kushner has amended his forms and hes disclosed meetings. three times. donald trump, jr. originally said this was a meeting about adoption then later he says she offered some negative information on hillary clinton. then when we talk, it ended up being about adoption. >> bret: kind of a ruse. >> pretext. he was willing to meet with her and i agree this kind of stuff happens in campaigns. people call up and say i...

Hasnt seen that suggests don jr. knew this potential evidence that actually wasnt ever brought to the meeting because it didnt exist, it was just a pretext, but nonetheless, this was sourced from the russian government. im not as quick to cast guilt or start charging people with certainly crimes but not even political malfeasance based on the evidence that we have as we sit here tonight. >> okay. let me just say -- i dont know if we have the statement ready for you, but now theres a third respon...

They came over and wanted to set up a meeting. it was under the pretext of dirt on hillary. she didnt have it. and they said all right, later. it was a democratic firm connected to the russian dossier. that could be a set up. we dont even know that. jared and paul manafort did volunteer this contact. when they were asked about it, it was volunteered. i will tell you some other things, you know what else is a more sketchy? hillary accepting and soliciting a million dollar check from saudi tycoons...

Committee to help hillary clinton. trump jr. said this woman didnt bring any evidence, saying her statements were "vague, ambiguous, and made no sense." he said he quickly realized that she was using hillary clinton as a pretext to talk about u.s. policy. now the attorney, natalia vas n vaselntskyaya, formed a group searching for removal of adopted russian children to the u.s. put in place years ago in retall indication -- retaliation for an act that imposed sanctions over russian officials thou...

Name of the person with whom he was meeting. he agreed to the meeting based on a contact from the miss universe pageant. they get into the meeting and it quickly turns into a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statements, that the comments this woman is making about any type of information on hillary clinton were vague. they were meaningless. others exited the meeting very quickly. the meeting itself was very brief. there was no information given. there was no action taken. there was...

They all seem to forget that they met with the russians or they dont disclose it when they are required to. jared kushner has amended his forms and hes disclosed meetings. three times. donald trump, jr. originally said this was a meeting about adoption then later he says she offered some negative information on hillary clinton. then when we talk, it ended up being about adoption. >> bret: kind of a ruse. >> pretext. he was willing to meet with her and i agree this kind of stuff happens in campai...

Going. obviously there is more smoke. or the presidents personal lawyer denying the president had any knowledge of this meeting, but there is frustration among some allies of the president that they went out there on a sunday morning and said the president didnt do anything wrong, this is just about adoption and then yesterday afternoon, donald trump, jr., putting out the second statement saying the pretext of the meeting was that they were talking about dirt on hillary clinton. there are questi...

Foreign national, even if nothing of value came up from this. weve heard don junior actually say that he thought that the meeting would include obtaining dirt on hillary clinton. and he knew the meeting was with a foreign national. so i think we need to really look at this closely. >> so, matt, shes saying that he was involved in this conspiracy to defraud or commit an offense against the united states. your response? >> i disagree with that analysis. as a former u.s. attorney, we did conspiraci...

House. >> good morning, alisyn. news of a potential meeting, this meeting between donald trump, junior and a russian national as first reported by "the new york times" raising new questions now about trump associates, the trump campaign and its link to russian officials going to the heart of the question behind those federal investigations, whether or not there was collusion, also a focus this morning on the changing explanation that donald trump, junior, gave about why that meeting took place i...