Good morning. Welcome to your new day. The New York Times is reporting that as part of a russian government effort to help his father win the election, you they are fueling new information about the Trump Campaigns tie to russia. The lawyer for President Trumps son says he has done nothing wrong. We now know former Trump Campaign team members have lied, changed their stories or not being forthcoming about contacts with russia. All this as congressional investigators plan to talk to Trump Campaign officials this week. We are also tracking breaking news. A military plane has crashed in rural mississippi. Sixteen souls were on board. All were lost. Federal investigators trying to figure out what brought the plane there on the scene right now. We have it all covered. Jason carroll, live at the white house. Reporter good morning to you, chris. This is something that the white house simply wishes would go away. The white house having to deal with what seems like daily reports about this meeting donald trump jr. Took in june of 2016. The most recent report shedding new light on what he knew before that meeting took place. Another potential bombshell report from the New York Times. Alleging that donald trump received an email that the russian government was frying to help his fathers campaign. Before the june 2016 meeting with Jared Kushner and a russian lawyer thought to have compromising information about Hillary Clinton. Three unnamed sources tell the times that the email sent by rob goldstone, the man that coordinated the meeting, indicated the russian government was the source of the potential damaging information. Six weeks later, trump junior slammed the Clinton Campaign for suggesting that the russians were involved in an effort to help then candidate trump. That goes to show you their exact moral compass. They will say anything to be able to win this. This is time and time again. Noting, don juniors takeaway was that someone had information potentially helpful to the campaign and it was coming from someone he knew. Don junior had no knowledge as to what specific information, if any, would be discussed. There was no information taken and no followup. The president s campaign did not col lelude in any way. They are already expressing interest in speaking with trump junior. He tweeted monday he would be happy to pass on what i know. This is the first time we have seen clear evidence of senior members of the Trump Campaign meeting with russians to obtain information that would hurt the campaign of Hillary Clinton. They are choosing to reiterate an earlier statement when asked about the new report noting the president was not aware of and did not attend the meeting. To date, at least seven current or former members of team trump are now under question for what they did or did not say about their meetings with russian officials. You see some notable names right there. A source tells cnn an Intel Committee should be beginning to interview some of these members of team trump. Lets discuss with our panel. We have cnn political analyst, david gregory, congressional reporter for the washington post, karon diversion and Jason Carroll teed it up nicely there. This is a situation referring to the donald junior meeting they wish would go away. Isnt that part of the problem, wanting to not legitimize the investigation keeps getting in the way of recognizing facts like what this meeting represents, even if donald junior did nothing wrong . That should be the assumption at this point. It shows this investigation was very needed because russia was making attempts to infiltrate. I think thats an essential point. We know from the conclusion of our intelligence agencies there was an effort by the russians to interfere in the election. No evidence it swayed the election. That effort was there. Now, you see in this episode the probing, the probing of people close to the president to try to draw them into their orbit, the whole defense that there was no collusion. That they were a willing participant. Whatever happened in the meeting, there are lots of questions. Particularly when don junior said it was clear she had no meaningful information. What if she had. Why take the meeting in the first place . The fact that he does is significant. Once you know it is a Russian National that wants a meeting. If you have a clue, you recognize when you are the son of the candidate or a top adviser, like the Campaign Manager or another Senior Adviser, hoist president s soninlaw, you have to step back from this . Why . Because grownups will tell you the russians play a long game. They are going to attempt fill trait. We know from the historical record that putin hated Hillary Clinton and wanted to interfere. The stunning incomepetence and naivete and the fact they took so unseriously the idea of russian interference is a huge issue. Lets look at it from their point of view. If you look at it from don juniors point of view, he had had good experiences in russia. The Miss Universe pageant is where he met the person that was the intermediary. To them, i have heard some of the president s supporters yesterday on other channels describe this as a keystone cops moments. This is them being wildly naive. They dont know all this background about russia and how pernicious it would be. Of course, you are going to take a research meeting. Whats your take . This has been an excuse raised at several junctures. How much is naivete a valid excuse . This is not a legal context but a political one. You have to wonder does that explanation exhaust itself when it is time after time after time that you are seeing this pattern happen. If it is naivete, that doesnt explain why it was kept such a big secret yesterday, they said, or the day before, this is a pattern of several times the team has tried to obfiscate. You have this all happening with the president where to date he has not been willing to say russia was trying to interfere in the elections. Examples seem to suggest that there was evidence to people close to him that they were privy to that suggests he played a role. It is an execution but one that does not exist in a vacuum. The context in which it exists suggests that maybe it is not the best one. Allison tees up the right point. That is the starting point for the defense here. I mean that in a col logloquial sense. We had no reason to expect this was before july and in june. Even if donald junior should have known you dont sit down with russians who say they have Bad Information about your opponent, nothing came from it anyway. The woman lawyer had nothing. I did nothing afterwards. There was no followup. Nothing matters. Do you buy that defense . I cant buy that specially in the context of what we witnessed over the last year including the sessions testimony where he forgot his meetings. Clear, inappropriate conversations. It is not only a single meeting where some met with the russians, it is a series of meetings with dozens of people, at least several people over time where they obfiscate. When you put those together, you say, when the president set a tone, the people in the candidacy adopted that tone. One other quick comment about the tip of the iceberg. You think about the year or two this will take when you are talking about dozens of people in the microscope and millions of documents, including emails, phone messages, financial documents. You start to say, are you sure this is the only time in hundreds of interviews that somebody did Something Like this. Im going to say thats a stretch. David, lets look at the seven Trump Associates who we know did not disclose their meetings with russians until they had to, basically, until their hand was forced by the press. You have michael flynn, Jeff Sessions and Jerry Kushner and Paul Manafort and carter page and j. D. Horton. They all have bad memories, i guess, or they didnt think that this rose to the level of disclosure. When you are a candidate running for the presidency, among your advisers is somebody who is beginning to tutor you on foreign affairs. When it was president george w. Bush as governor of texas, it was Condoleezza Rice who knew a thing or two about the soviet union and russia. In in context, who are his Foreign Policy advisers . He has general flynn and his relationships with russia. Hoist Campaign Manager, Paul Manafort, who has these ties to ukraine. Look at the short history. What are they doing other than trying to annex portions of it . They have infiltrated their election system and their critical infrastructure. There is a template of what the russians do and people close to trump who knew what the russians were up to. The son, president , is blase about taking some information with a Russian National who might have information about his opponent. That goes beyond naivete. Its either stunning arrogance to think you are unvulnerable to that kind of penetration from the russians or something worse. If the argument was, there was no collusion and nothing to see here, why are all these facts starting to stack up of at least irresponsibility. Look, it may be that the biggest offense here by the trump folks was arrogance and the unwillingness to believe that they could be so vulnerable. Now, the president , who says to Vladmir Putin, well, you say you didnt do this. I guess we should move there. That is dereliction of duty and a failure to protect the president. Even if you take all that off the board, donald junior did nothing wrong. None of the seven people did anything wrong. The president knew nothing about any of this. It is a mistake to think thats what the analysis is. Then, it still shows that what really matters here in a large way to our democracy is what the russians were trying to do. They clearly were trying to do something based on this reporting. It still matters. Thank you very much. Coming up in the next hour, the white house has a very different take on the significance of these developments. We have the Deputy Assistant to the president , sebastian gorka, coming on to be tested. We are also following some breaking news, at least 16 People Killed after a u. S. Military plane crashed in the mississippi. The fbi is at the scene. They are trying to figure out what went so tragically wrong. What have you learned. Barbara starr live at the pentagon. A short time ago, the marine corps issuing a statement saying all 16 souls lost on board this aircraft were military members. They are working now to try and reach, of course, the next of kin to notify them and then after that their names will be made public. We are also learning that it was faa, air traffic control, that contacted the marine corps late yesterday when military aircraft disappeared from radar over mississippi where you see the video there, tragically it crashed into a field. In the immediate aftermath, the weather looks good. We have no information that the pilot made any distress call or there was any indication the plane was in trouble. All of this under investigation. Of course t wit was a marine co kc130 out of cherrycraft, north carolina. It is a work horse, it conducts refuelling, a tanker, fills other planes with gas midair. It can carry cargo and troops. It has a relatively good reliability factor. Not a lot of crashes over the years. All under investigation to try and find out what happened. Chris . Thank you very much, barbara. We are going to stay on that story. Let us know what you learn. Also, breaking news. Federal agents and police are investigating an explosion outside an air force recruiter in bigsby, oklahoma. Someone threw a backpack at the center and it blew up. The good news, no injuries. Up next, the ranking democrat on the house Intel Committee says the latest reports about don trump junior are a very Serious Development in the russia probes. That congressman, adam schiff, joins us next. When well arrive. Im micah with safelite. Customer thanks for coming, its right over here. Tech giving you a few more minutes for what matters most. Take care. Kids singing safelite® repair, safelite® replace. About to see progressives new home quote explorer. Where you can compare multiple quote options online and choose whats right for you. Woah. Flo and jamie here to see hqx. Flo and jamie request entry. Slovakia. 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Joining us now is democratic congressman, adam schiff of california, the Ranking Member of the house intelligence committee. Good to have you on set. Thank you for being here, congressman. The faks cts, as known, if t, mean what to you . Here is what is really significant to me. That email reportedly says the russian government is trying to help elect your father. They have damaging information on Hillary Clinton. We know that that is actually true at this time. The russians had already hacked the dnc. They already did have damaging information with Hillary Clinton. We would learn later that they would use that in a deliberate effort to help trump get elected. So the contents of that email are quite accurate. This also, if it is true, puts the lie to the whole idea we have no idea whether the russians are trying to help us. We have no idea whether this came from the russians. If that email and description is accurate, it means that among the very first people, if not the first people of the public who would learn that the russians would help elect donald trump were the trump family themselves fwlchlt a themselves. In terms of priority and big deal factor, where does this go . It is a big deal that you see the potential evidence of the inner circle of the Trump Campaign having direct contact with the russians, promising them damaging information about Hillary Clinton. Here they are talking about a form of sanctions, the magninski act that places sanctions on russian individuals to highlight human rights, something putin wanted to get rid of. We dont know what is said about the Trump Campaigns willingness if he is elected to do away with this bill. What we do know is the very next month, the russians start dumping damaging information about Hillary Clinton. So did the russians make a decision to do that directly through wikileaks and give it to donald junior . A decision the russians made for whatever reason. There is a lot we dont know about this meeting that we have to find out fwlchlt a. Congressman, two things, one, evidentiary. Will you have an ability to get this email assuming it exists . Absolutely. We need to bring in everyone that was present and anyone that had a role in setting up that meeting. This email must exist if the reporting is accurate. It must be in the possession of the sender or the receiver or some other third party that received it. You intend to subpoena that type of information . We always fry to get thtry t fairly. Forget about what came out of the meeting and whether it was good information or bad and whether this lawyer was legit or not, accepting the meeting on behalf of donald junior, what does that mean to you . The administration has tried to put this off by saying this is no big deal. This isnt just any offer by any party. This is an offer by the russian government to help interfere in an American Election against one of the president ial candidates. That is not the same as getting a call from your friend in this state or that state who thinks they have found something or whatnot or a research firm. This is a hostile foreign power offering to intervene to help elect someone president of the United States, hard to imagine something more serious than that. Now, a big part of the defense is, but the lawyer had nothing. So we have been hearing about this lawyer. She keeps getting tattooed by being called a russian lawyer. There is nothing wrong with being a russian ethnic. It is whether or not you are connected to the kremlin and trying to do something nefarious. We heard from her the first time this morning. Here is an excerpt of this lawyer from russia who met with donald junior. Here is what she has to say about that meeting. I never knew who else would be attending. I knew that mr. Donald trump junior was willing to meet with me. I could recognize the young gentlemen for probably the first 710 minutes. Then, he stood up and left the room. It was mr. Jared kushner and he never came back, by the way. The other in