Knew about the email chain more than three weeks ago. Hours from now a former Trump Campaign advisor will be in the hot seat before he testifies behind closed doors before the House Intelligence Committee as lawmakers get ready to request for documents from Jared Kushner and trump junior. Lets begin with jeff zeleny. Reporter good morning, pamela. President trump, as you said, has wrapped up his whirlwind 30hour tour of paris. Five or six hours of that were spent oneonone with the new french president , Emmanuel Macron, during a meeting at the palace over dinner last night at the eiffel tower, and today during the parade. This was a new moment, new test of the relationship of the two leaders here. Despite all of the respite from the russia investigation, thats exactly whats awaiting President Trump when he returns back to the United States this afternoon. New questions about who knew what and when about the meeting between Trump Campaign associates and a russian lawyer and the emails that proved donald trump jr. Thought hed be getting dirt on Hillary Clinton from the kremlin. A source familiar with the process tells cnn that Jared Kushner and his legal team discovered the emails in midjune. A person close to kushner says they discussed whether or not to immediately go public. That source adding that kushner told his lawyers he planned a sitdown with the president to discuss the june 2016 meeting. An interaction the New York Times reports took place. All this raise doubt about the president s insistence that he only learned about the emails in the past few days. The president , by the way, never saw an email, did not see the email until it was seen today. It was such a nothing. There was nothing to tell. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. Reporter yahoo news also reporting that sources tell them that two members of President Trumps personal legal team were informed about the emails three weeks ago, despite this knowledge, the president s son only publicly acknowledged a meeting with the russian lawyer after he was approached by the New York Times last weekend leaving the white house scrambling to craft a response and further drawing the president s closest aides into a crisis deepening by the day. We feel it is very important that we have all the appropriate information so we can ask the right questions. Reporter the top democrat on the senate Intelligence Committee tells cnn the panel will request additional documents from both trump junior and kushner. It seems strange to me those meetings were at least conveniently forgotten at least by mr. Kushner. Reporter and republicans and democrats leading the Senate Judiciary committee confirm they will request trump juniors testimony. Were sending a letter to request his presence. Reporter the president appearing to support that idea in a conversation with reporters aboard air force one flying to paris. Before issuing this staunch defense of his eldest son. As far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. Most people would have taken that meeting. Its called opposition research. Reporter so now the question here is, President Trump defending his son obviously. But that is awaiting him. I do have to tell you, pamela, i was struck by a moment this morning earlier today here in paris at the bastille day parade which President Trump was here which coincides with the 100th anniversary of the u. S. Troops arriving here in france. Take a look at this long handshake. This is quite a moment here. President trump, Emmanuel Macron not wanting to let go here as they are enjoying this moment after the parade. This is really the longest that President Trump has spent with any world leader. Of course, president macron is new on the stage, elected only about two months or so ago. They have many, many differences on climate change, trade, immigration. But clearly by inviting President Trump here, he wanted to try and forge a veelgsship and perhaps also remind President Trump of the hazards perhaps of some isolationist policies, giving a bit of a History Lesson today of how the u. S. Has plied suayed such a vi role in other parts of the world. Seeing that video reminds you of another awkward handshake between President Trump and macron. Jeff zeleny, thank you very much for the latest from paris. As Lawmakers Press trump junior to testify, one big question theyll be looking at is whether there was a phone call between don junior and e n eminingemin ing agalarov. Don junior responded, rob, could we speak now . Goldstone writes let me track him down in moscow. What number should he call . Don junior replies he can call his cell. Goldstone says hes on stage in moscow but should be off in 20 minutes. That was 3 40 p. M. On june 6th. Nearly an hour later don junior replies, rob, thanks for the help. 24 hours later goldstone sent another letter saying emin asked that i schedule a meeting with you and the russian government attorney. I believe you are aware of the meeting. Ing a agalarovs lawyer i really cant speak to what Rob Goldstone was thinking. But ill tell you again that that call didnt happen. I dont know if there was someone else who spoke to donald trump jr. About this prospective meeting, but it wasnt my client. Again, i dont know where mr. Goldstone got his information from but it is just categorically incorrect. The agalarovs attorney tells cnn emin and don junior did speak on the phone a few months prior to this meeting. Lets discuss. A cnn political analyst and White House Correspondent for politico joins us. Page pate, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. Great to have you all on. So much to discuss. The big question this morning, who knew what and when. A source telling cnn kushner and his legal team discovered the emails in midjune and there was a discussion about whether to go public. Yahoo news also reports members of trumps legal team were informed about these emails three weeks ago. But the president said he didnt learn about the emails until just the past few days. Steve, how crucial is this timeline and why will it matter to investigators . The timeline i think is critical, pamela, because were trying to piece together what appears to be a very complicates russian operation, collection operation. Weve already seen the influence piece, the multipronged media attacks, the hacking into the dnc servers and other servers as well. This is the latest piece that falls into place, the sort of human part of this operation where you have people who are probably connected to the russian government indirectly reaching out to members of the trump team. When that happened, what happens as a result of those meetings is all going to be really important from the counterintelligence and also i think from the legal part of the ongoing investigation. Putting it all together is going to be challenging but of course critical. You can bet that the investigators on capitol hill, as well as part of the special probe will be looking at all of this. In light of this, tara, this is this peculiar moment from the campaign trail. This happened june of last year, four days after the email promising dirt on clinton, and two days before the meeting took place. Lets listen. I am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and were going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. I think youre going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. So, knowing what we know now, that certainly raises questions about when President Trump knew about this meeting. Precisely. It actually really draws him even closer to the controversy, the fact that his son was involved, his soninlaw spoke with russian agents. And now you are hearing him hinting at the possibility of having even more information than whats already known about the clintons. Obviously this speech never happened. Perhaps there was some strategizing or perhaps they never really did get the information that they thought they were going to get. But at the end of the day it seems to appear that the president , from this promise is closer to the information than his lawyers would like him to be or hes even suggested in the past. All right. Page, senator jelets listen to. So is this meeting for you the smoking gun . This is absolutely, absolutely. I mean the defense is that we didnt actually get anything good out of this meeting. Thats been the defense. Thats not the question. The question is whether you were aware of an ongoing russian effort, which this email lays out, whether you were meeting to obtain information, which they admit that they were, and so this is definitely the type of collaboration that other events made us think might exist but we hadnt seen it laid out so crisply. Page, is he right . Pamela, i think it is certainly a critical piece of evidence, though i dont think i would go so far as to call it a smoking gun. The meeting itself was not a crime. But what it does do, it allows prosecutors to see the intent of the Trump Campaign at this point. They were obviously very interested in working with people who represented the russian government to find out information about Hillary Clinton. That shows an intent to try to do whatever is necessary to get that information. So it is important to show that. It is also critically important because now we have all these inconsistent statements about what led up to the meeting, what was said in the meeting, and perhaps who was even in the meeting. So in that situation it can also become very important to prosecutors if later people who were there, who talked about it, Say Something inconsistent. So it is important, but maybe not the smoking gun. Tara, on that note, have you some reporting about how Jared Kushner wants a more aggressive communication message when it comes to this meeting. Tell us what youve learned. Ive learned that Jared Kushner has really been putting a lot of pressure on the communications and press shop to have a more forceful response for the revelations of the meeting. The issue theyre having right now is theyre fearful about going on the record and trying to fight back against these stories. Jared has suggested they try to change chirons on cable news. Getting a lawyer could cause me close to 100,000. So there is really a conflict between the staff and those closely tied to this russia investigation. A lot of these people are saying less is baltimore, i dont want to know, and yet kushner seems to really want them because he sees the entire russia investigation affecting the president , therefore it should be the priority of the communications and press shop to defend him. Its interesting, too. Our evan perez reported last night that some of the white house aides and the president crafted the initial statement which could make them witnesses in this ongoing russia probe. It sort of drags them into it. Steve, trump was asked on air force one, would you invite putin to the white house . He replied, i would say yes, yeah, at the right time. I dont think this is the right time but the answer is yes, i would. Your thoughts. You know, this is what the russians look for. This is what putin is all about. Whenever you get want to try to get to the bottom of russia motivation, oftentimes it is nothing more than returning to great power status, to be treated as the soviet union used to be, to have a seat at the table. When you do things like get into the oval office, get into the white house, it allows putin and the russians to say, yeah, were back, were as important. When in reality when you look at the size of their economy and their relative geopolitical part, it is not as big as other countries. But thats what they play for so it doesnt surprise me putin would want to do that. It is important to keep that in perspective. I think the u. S. Economy is ten times the size of russias, and yet here we are talking about it every day. And now the president is open, it seems, down the road to inviting Vladimir Putin to the white house. Very interesting. Steve hall, page pate, tara, stick around. We have much more to talk about. Thank you all so much. Serious concerns, multiple undecideds and a couple of senators who are flatout nos. Thats the battle facing Senate Republicans in their own party and their latest attempt to repeal and replace obamacare. President trump acknowledging the challenge on his trip to paris telling reporters aboard air force one, the only thing more difficult than peace between israels and palestinians is health care. This morning the president is turning to social media to underscore the emergency. Stating, among other things, that he is at his desk with pen in hand ready to sign this bill into law, and that republicans, his words, must come through as they have promised. But will the new bill even make it to the senate floor for debate . Were on capitol hill tracking all of these developments. Whats the late s . Reporter i think a lot of Senate Republicans would agree with President Trump this week that Health Care Reform is very, very difficult. The revised bill that was released yesterday drawing a mixed reaction at best. Keep in mind that Mitch Mcconnell wants to try to have a vote on this bill some time next week. But already we have two Senate Republicans who have come out to say that they are opposed to the motion to proceed. That means that they dont even want to bring up the bill for a debate on the senate floor. Those two senators of course are rand paul and Susan Collins, no the to mention the many others who are still undecided on how they would vote for this bill. Now that means that one more no Senate Republican could mean that this bill could be tanked even before it comes up for debate. I have to note that all of these reservations are remaining within the conference despite the fact that Mitch Mcconnell agreed to make a number of changes to the original bill that was released last month. I just want to walk through a couple of the key changes that were made. First is the fact that Insurance Companies could offer cheaper and skimpier plans. That of course was an amendment that was offered by senator ted cruz. It was unclear even until the last minute if that would make it in. It is now in the bill. Hsas, or Health Savings accounts, those could now go towards paying for premiums. Thats Something Else that conservatives wanted. An extra 45 billion would now go towards opioid funding. And now the important part this bill would keep the very steep cuts to medicaid that a lot of moderates had issues about. That is going to be the key issue and the key debate to watch in the coming days for members like dean heller, shelly moorecapito, rob portman. They need to win over some of those senators. Thats what all of the discussions will be all about in the next coming days. You will be tracking all of it, m. J. Lee. Just moments from now, House Minority leader nancy pelosi is set to speak on the russia investigation. 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And get 3 off your first order any moment now on capitol hill, top House Democrat nancy pelosi will be speaking out. Shes expected to call out House Republican leaders for what she calls their, quote, failure to investigate trump and his administration when it comes to possible collusion with russia. Pelosi now calling for an outside independent commission to look into the disruption of the u. S. Election. We will monitor that and bring you the very latest. Back with me now to discuss, tara palmieri. Lynn sweet from the washingtwa sun times. Lynn, first to you. Pelosi came out yesterday calling trump juniors meeting cold, hard evidence the trump family and his campaign colluded. What more can we expect to hear today . Well probably hear her reinforce her call for independent counsel saying you need outside sources to look at connecting the dots to what happened. Special counsel bob mueller is looking for crimes. He has a different mission. He might not care about knowing the details of the story. If he concludes that there was no crime, for example, in the meeting, he might not he might move