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The claims of potentially helpful nfs information were a pretext for the meeting. her comments and concerns were better addressed if and when he held public office. the meeting lasted approximately 20 to 30 minutes. my acquaintance acknowledged -- apologized for taking up our time, that was the end of it, and there was no further contact or follow-up from any kind my father knew nothing of these meetings or these events. i want to talk more about this with elise labott. his historic meet iing --...

The commission, what it compromises for voters? >> i do. actually, shes got a lot of company, she mentioned from secretary of state and other election officials all of the away cross the country. theres danger in providing the information and danger on what the commission is going do with it. you mentioned a fishing expedition. the co-chair of the commission, secretary kobach has been known to tell big fish tales over time and whats expected out of this is that hes looking for information to con...

Have the trump family, now don junior, admitting to be willing to take a meeting with someone, if the pretext is to get dirt on the opponent, oppo research, about the fact that russia is funding the dnc or somehow providing some type of help and assistance to hillary clinton, where three months before, actually russia hacked into podestas e-mail, also hacking the dnc. >> no, i agree, it does not look good. but if i was working on a campaign and somebody said, hey, i have damaging information abo...

We start with this bombshell breaking news report that the "new york times" is writing about breaking in the last hour saying that donald trump jr. met with a russian lawyer in june of 2016 after being promised damaging information on hillary clinton. so trump junior just released a statement responding to that story, saying, in part, quote, the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the dnc and supporting ms. clinton. were statements were vague, ...

Thats something he may take support from. that was really a compromise that she was able to hammer out. the reality is that the united states really, i use the word outlier. but does feel for the first time, at a g20, something like an outlier. not sort of leading from the center at all that was where angela merkel was at this g20. >> all right. nic robertson, david hohde, steve hall, thank you. coming up, as russias role in the u.s. election takes center stage overseas, the presidents voter f...

Creative in our diplomacy. >> so nikki haley there for the u.s. saying that all the countries need to stand together and to take a unilateral approach. russia seemingly has a different stance. whats behind that? >> well, i think russias stance is that they want to stand together with the rest of the international community, but with a view to getting the north koreans into a process of diplomacy and negotiation. the russian foreign minister spoke about this issue just yesterday as saying he does...

That is a plan that china has floated in the past. in the joint document they took a couple further steps. they raised objections to the presence of essentially of u.s. forces in south korea and argued that this latest missile launch and the nuclear weapons program of north korea should not be used as a pretext for deploying more weapon systems to south korea. both moscow and beijing oppose the recent deployment of u.s. antimissile system known as thaad. they see the deployment as a threat to th...

Have updated options for president trump for a rapid military response to north korean provocations. a likelihood that had russias foreign minister issuing a blunt warning. >> translator: the russia and china, it is absolutely clear that any attempts to justify the military solution using the security council resolution as a pretext are not acceptable. >> reporter: meanwhile, south korea showing its own graphic video simulating a response to a north korean attack which experts believe is a stron...

Exactly what defense secretary james mattis recently said would not be allowed. >> is it the policy of the trump administration to deny north korea the capability of building an icbm that can hit the american homeland with a nuclear weapon on top? is that the policy? >> yes, it is, senator grant. >> reporter: u.s. commanders have updated options for president trump for a rapid military response to north korean provocations. a likelihood that had russias foreign minister issuing a blunt warning. ...

Pretty unlikely to dominate the conversation. you already have vladamir putin declaring it to be total nonsense in public. whether or not that was true. so this seems pretty unlikely that hell do an about face in a meeting with president trump. that would be relitigating the past because there are two pressing issues that exist. thats handling both syria and now all of a sudden top of that list north korea. russias pressuring the united states and north korea today to sort of cool down all of th...