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Of justice be a bigger issue facing donald trump? >> obstruction of justice might be a lot easier to prove, based on what is publicly known, the firing of james comey, the failure to fire michael flynn. the drafting or the working on the drafting of that misleading account of the june 2016 meeting with his son, his son-in-law, his campaign manager, and the russians. but there is now some evidence directly linking donald trump to collusion. we know from the guilty plea of george papadopoulos he w...

Meeting. but im just pointing out that the rest of the pieces here of the story, of saying that this is evidence of the trump campaign colluding with the russian government, where if they were involved, packed into john podestas e-mail to obtain information. the additional pieces would be at that meeting, this russian lawyer would be providing that to help the campaign. this whole story line is missing important points. i dont want to take anything away from, you know, taking donald trump jr. at...

>> i think its -- this is up to viewers and voters to decide. do they trust this white house? i go back to why didnt they disclose these meetings? the interesting nugget is that jared kushner only disclosed recently this meeting. he has still not disclosed all his meetings with russian officials. its a problem for the white house in terms of credible and makes the mueller investigation critical. the president was attacking james comey again. i think the tweets are all distraction. but if he trie...

Of the dpan. that disproves what he said in march. our last question to you is this. should this now be part of the special counsels investigation? do you think its prudent at this point for robert mueller to look into this? >> you know, i would defer to mr. mueller on that one. if there is additional facts availab available, that might add a different angle, insight to that meeting. the fact that theres a theory -- and i believe that the russians meddled in the campaign. the russian government ...

Anyone is the fact that this is the first time that we know that someone within the trump campaign was willing to meet with a russian on the premise of accepting help from them. the significance? >> right. so, its important that this occurs before theres actually public reports of russian hacking. so that makes it hard to make the case this is the first sort of proof of attempt at collusion. it violates campaign finance laws to accept an in-kind donation from a foreign national. so, if he accept...

Representative, in this, is that we have facts straight from the source. two times in his second statement when he changed it markedly, donald trump jr. said i went into this meeting because i was told by this person that they would have information helpful to the campaign. does this then rise to any level of collusion to you, questions about collusion? does it give you any more pause? >> im not sure its evidence -- its not evidence of collusion because the person didnt actually have any type of...

More specific allegations well start shifting that language from the general term of collusion into more specific legal terminology, conspiracy, solicitation, violation of campaign finance laws. this talking point doesnt make much sense. >> one of the most significant parts of "the new york times" reporting on this is their sourcing. something that chris cuom. kept bringing up in that interview with kellyanne conway, five people tleerks of them advisers to the white house. two people with knowle...

Collusion. after that story in "the wall street journal" appeared, the story from white house allies started to appear. even if there was collusion, maybe small c, or there were discussions between russians and people associated with the campaign, its not illegal. explain to me the shifting argument and where that sits legally. >> yeah. so weve seen this shift over the past few weeks of high-profile surrogates and media changing the story from theres no evidence to collus oichlt. n to collusion ...

White house. how does that change things? >> it adds to the parade of people who have not disclosed meetings with the russians. i dont think theres evidence of collusion here yet. but flynn had meetings with the russians he didnt disclose. jeff sessions had meetings with the russians he didnt disclose. kushner, donald trump jr. and manafort. thats five. ""the wall street journal"" said a british operative tried to get hillary clintons e-mails. roger stone, carter page. stone warned about the pod...

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