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Realized hillary clinton as a pretext to talk about u.s. policy. the attorney, natalia veselitskaya, formed a group who was purporting to seek the removal of an adoption ban on russian children to u.s. that was put in place years ago as retaliation for an american law passed in 2012. that law is known as the magnitsky act which imposed sanction over senior russian officials thought to have violated human rights. she also sought to repeal that legislation. this could be of interest to special cou...

Scheme that was arrested and died. >> connect the dots for me. she is someone that is trying to repeal the act, why would that mean that she would end up in trump tower having a meeting with don junior and why would she go there with the cover story, at the very least, that she had damaging information on the clintons? >>. >> i think this was a red herring. she didnt have any information, but she used it as a pretext, as you say, exactly to set up this meeting. once she was at the meeting, she s...

Have information helpful to the campaign. i was not told her name prior to the meeting. i asked jared kushner and paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance. we had a meeting in 2016. after pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated she had information that informatio informations connected to russia were supporting miss clinton. her statements made no sense. no details were provided or even offered. it became clear she had no meaningful information. she then changed subjects and be...

Campaign and russian officials, but the white house, this morning, putting out kellyanne conway, a trump top adviser to hit back and hit back hard. here is how she responded to our own chris cuomo moe. >> he stated he didnt know the name of the person he was meeting. he agreed to the meeting based on a contact to the miss universe pageant. get into the meeting and it turns into a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statements. the comments they are making about any type of information...

The meeting amounted to nothing -- again, amounted to nothing to the reckoning of donald jr. and his credibility is an issue -- therefore, the meeting doesnt matter. thats not true, i would submit, because it is about the solicitation by this attorney with connections. it is about his acceptance of that solicitation on the basis of potential negative information about hillary clinton. thats why its relevant to the investigation. not what fruit came out of the meeting. your take? >> right. and yo...

Now, obviously, as it evolves, it becomes a little concernsing, but i dont think at the time they knew that it was a lawyer from russia that had an issue regarding foreign adoptions. >> all right. jennifer, weigh in. >> i find it hard to believe, but he can correct me if im wrong, that matt would provide legal advice to a campaign right now to go ahead and meet with a foreign national who is promising bad information about their opponent. but i want to also add one thing. it seems curious. this....

With a jared kushner or the presidents son if it wasnt about the campaign in russia policy. obviously they were trying to influence one of the candidates, the leading candidate at that time on the republican ticket. >> the meeting -- he did not know the name of the person who was coming, he knew the person who set it up. somebody he knew from the miss universe pageant, he goes to the meeting, he says it was vague, ambiguous, very obvious there was no helpful information. and that the meeting qui...

Inconsistency in these statements. meeting ended up primarily about adoptions and response to further qs or questions, i simply provided more detail. donald trump there, donald trump jr. issuing several statements. the presidents top counselor, kellyanne conway was on "new day" this morning to explain further. >> don jr. has stated he didnt know the name of the person with whom he was meeting. he agreed to the meeting based on a contact from the miss universe pageant to get into the meeting. it ...

Magnitsky act that goes to this issue of adoptions. according to donald trump jr she lured them into the meeting with the pretext of i have dirt on hillary clinton. but didnt come up with hillary clinton. >> but the lower work tells me everything. the wish went for the hook because the fish wanted to hook. if they were willing to grab dirt for the russians and collude with them, it certain lin indicates they were one to do it repeatedly. theres a pattern here. how can you say -- i dont quite get...

After pleasantries were exchanged, the woman stated she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting ms. clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. no details or supporting information was provided or even offered. it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. she then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of russian children and mentioned the act. it became clear to me this was ...