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 capitol hill and indeed at the justice department are now looking at