That statement read, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. President trumps lawyers admit that the president did dictate that misleading statement. But they did say this. I do want to be clear that the president was not involved in making a statement or issuinging a statement. It came from donald trump jr. Thats what we know. Why the changing stories, why did the president say that he had nothing to do with meeting with the russian lawyers when he did. I said that in my statement, i have talked about that before, that happens when you have cases like this. I think its very important to point out, that in a situation like this, you have over time facts develop. Thats what investigations do. Cnn White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez is in new jersey where the president is spending
his summer break. Why is the legal team bringing up that meeting this weekend . Skb reporter because that meeting at trump tower in 2016 could present legal issues for the p
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. When a meeting of that nature, would it constitute a violation of the law . You have to look at what laws, rules, Regulation Statutes are violated here. When did you learn that the Denial Wasnt True . Well, let me tell you two things on that. I was on the case a couple of weeks, and there was a lot of Information Gathering and as Rudy Giuliani said, i had Bad Information at that point. In a situation like this, you have over time, facts develop. Thats what investigations do. Lets start with nbcs white house correspondent, Kelly Odonnell who was covering the president in new jersey first. Before we g to to to the rest o great panel this sunday. What are you hearing right now . The president is certainly going after the Special Counsel today, isnt he . Reporter well, good to be with you, richard, and the president is really hitting a number of his major frequent targets, the Special Counsel, the medi
real threat to our national security. so the president s relationship with russia, what kind of evidence, sir, would you need to see to consider it a threat to national security? well, i think you d need to know why he wrote that note to for his son for the trump tower meeting to claim it was about adoptions when it clearly wasn t about adoptions. it was about dirt on hillary clinton. why did he do that? he knew russia was offering information, that russia wanted to help. he knew and didn t disclose to the american public at the time and far after that he was negotiating with having a trump tower in moscow. and that had he offered to give putin immensely expensive, i think the entire top floor, he was going to give that 0 to putin. there are other indices that trump had contacts with putin. he said he talked about him and then denied but you can t hardly trust what he says. all of his actions with putin
his summer break. why is the legal team bringing up that meeting this weekend? skb reporter: because that meeting at trump tower in 2016 could present legal issues for the president and his son and son-in-law jared kushner. i think that trump is concerned about the source of and that concern is part of the reason that the president has had these agitated aggressive acts against robert mueller recently. part of that tweet that you mentioned dismissed these reports, but he essentially made clear that the nature of that meeting in trump tower was not what the administration initially signaled back when we heard from donald trump junior suggesting that it was about adoptions. look, we have heard president donald trump going from saying that to the best of his knowledge, no one on his
year, you know, first it was about adoptions. then, you know, it was definitely about adoptions, but donald trump didn t author the statement saying that, and then yes he did, and then he said, it wasn t about adoptions and then, you know, they re just feeding us these crumbs and saying no, it s something different. it leaves us all to wonder, the next thing is i didn t know about it, and we re left to wonder, you know, you re a micromanager. your chairman campaign chairman, son-in-law and son were in the room. did you not know about it? that s the next big question, and when someone comes out and says, i didn t know about it you wonder doth he protest too much? the question has been whether it is a defense here, the president is coming after, again, false news, calling it more than those who may have opinions. those who need to correct themselves, but going in the space of using very, very strong