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our nations greatest rivals, china, now warning it is getting seriously prepared for the house speaker to potentially visit. seriously prepared, they call it. shes going to the island of taiwan later this month. the communist nation which is historically claiming the island as its own territory has had this to say on the speakers possible visit. heres a quote. "if the u.s. side insists on making the visit, the chinese side will take firm and strong measures to safeguard our sovereignty...

Any conversations after that meeting as well. you said there werent any in that time frame but anything after? >> we have no reason to believe there were any after or before in this time frame. we are doing the same analysis. were trying to look back at information to determine whether there was any phone calls beutthis was a year ago and there is no recollection of any phone calls having taken place on this topic. >> the presidents nominee for fbi director said if a person offered information f...

>> i dont know any of a that. im saying a worst case scenario this was part of a quid pro quo. you give us the information, well settle this case, well do other things. well go easy on the sanctions. on the magnitsky act or on other sanctions. this is what we have to investigate. >> and youve written your letters? >> yes. theres a lot of suggestive things here, but we dont know these to be fact, but theyre highly suggestive and we have to investigate this. and weve written a whole series of very...

Did president trump know and when? because he told roiters yesterday he only learned a couple of days ago but today it sounds like hes leaving that window open. maybe it was mentioned at some point. whats your take? >> first of all you cant believe anything he says because hes a serial liar. his story will change once, its already changed twice. you had this email chain in which donald trump jr. and manafort and jared kushner all get these emails and participate in the chain, promising the russi...

Lawyers inform the presidents lawyers, marc kasowitz, the chief lawyer in the russia investigation, and alan gartin, the chief lawyer for the trump organization. so you have this question sitting at the table. did the top lawyers for the president have this explosive information and not inform their client? you could argue that they had -- some have argued, and i quote richard painter, former ethics lawyer for the bush white house, saying they had an ethical obligation to inform their client abo...

Yrv only been in politics for two years but ive had many people call up, oh, gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly, hillary. thats very standard in politics. >> that was president trump today in paris. once again defending his sons meeting with the russian lawyer in june of last year promising incriminating information on hillary clinton. lets bring back our correspondents and analysts. a very glib argument saying its just opposition research, happens in politics. thi...

>> shes the russian lawyer? >> the russian lawyer. -- and he doesnt, in fact, make a speech with dirt on hillary, but the wikileaks start coming out a week later. theres circumstantial evidence that he was told immediately about the fact that they expected shortly, a lot of dirt on hillary from the russian government, and he then said, im going to have a speech with a lot of information. >> and we should point out again his son did not tell his father about this at the time. yahoo news is report...

A few days after that on the 9th of june, they have the meeting. the material doesnt turn up. talks about repealing the act -- >> the russian lawyer. >> the russian lawyer. and he doesnt in fact make a speech with dirt on hillary but the wikileaks start coming out a week later. theres circumstantial evidence he was told immediately about the fact they expected shortly a lot of dirt from the russian government and he said im going to have a speech with a lot of information. >> and we should point...

President, he didnt know it, and they got no information at that point, and r that simply means that manafort and kushner and donald trump were probably involved in a crime. the worst case scenario, you have to look at more timeline. remember the lawyer they met with, miss veselnitskaya, i can never pronounce it -- had to delay the meeting for an hour because she was engaged in an american courtroom. what was she doing in an american courtroom? she was involved in the case where the justice depa...

Havent seen it yet. >> did your clients have any information, were they told by anyone that the russian government was in a campaign to aid the trump campaign or meddle in the u.s. election, and even if they werent aware of it, did they ever direct rob goldstone to say that in the e-mail to don junior? >> the answer to the first question is absolutely, unequivocally no. neither mr. aguilara nor his son had any understanding by the russian government to try to be involved in the u.s. campaign, th...