what are all these different topped & loaded meals? it s an american favorite on top of an american favorite, alice. it s like abe lincoln on top of george washington. yonder. get your favorites on top of your favorites. only at applebee s. so far, the trump family is standing by donald trump jr. his father, the president, praised his son for being transparent about the russian lawyer meeting. that meeting just landed trump junior on the cover of time magazine, and not in a good way.
that was to be discussed and what was on offer. you know, the trumps are great negotiators. they have spent their life buying and selling objects of great value, and so he was actually in this meeting prepared to receive what might be offered and i think hoping, obviously, that it was something really big. donald trump, you know, is a family man above all. what do you think it s been like for him to see his son, don junior, at the center of this latest russian development? well, let s put it this way. donald trump s office in trump tower is decorated with all the magazine covers that have ever featured his face. i don t think this is going to be a cover that gets put up on the wall anywhere in trump tower. he s got to be very pained about all of this, and, you know, he is, like all fathers, very concerned for his son and very much concerned about the image
and he presented it as a benign situation, a run of the mill standard practice. if that was the situation, i do not believe the republican chairman of the judiciary committee, senator chuck grassley, as well as other republican leaders on capitol hill, would be wanting to hear from donald trump jr. next week before the judiciary committee. the reality here is that republicans, democrats, and indeed the president s own director nominee to lead the fbi said that is simply not standard practice, and in fact, the trump campaign should have alerted federal authorities when they received that letter that e-mail saying that someone from the russian government, a russian lawyer,mented wanted ta meeting last june to help the trump campaign and spread dirt on hillary clinton s campaign. so the president presented it as standard practice but that is not the situation. and he said the press is making too much out of this. that s really beside the point. it is the fact that investigators on capit