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And opa gangnam style its held the top spot oun tooub for almost five years. Now with almost 3 billion views. Another pop song has stolen the crown from gangnam style. Can you guess which video is now the most watched of all time . But first opa gangnam style the nightline 5. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Donald trump jr. , the first son, embroiled in controversy tonight over a meeting he took with a russian lawyer during his fathers president ial campaign. Don jr. Has fervently denied any connection or collusion between the Trump Campaign and the russian government. But do his newly released emails suggest otherwise . Heres abcs david wright. Reporter tonight the president s eldest son put himself at the center of the story thats become a National Political obsession. Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion by trump associates. Donald trump jr. Released a series of emails from june of last year. The sender dangles the prospect of juicy secrets, official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. Also cautioning this is obviously very highlevel and Sensitive Information but is part of russia and its governments support for mr. Trump. The president s son told fox news tonight i cant help what someone sends me. You know . I read it. I responded accordingly. And if there was Something Interesting there, i think its pretty common. Reporter the emails reveal don jr. Leapt at the offer. If its what you say, i love it. Especially for later in the summer. He forwarded the chain under the heading russia clinton private and confidential to Jared Kushner and then Campaign Chair Paul Manafort and set up a meeting. Until today trump jr. Claimed kushner and manafort were unaware what the meeting was about. But the emails show they were told what he knew going in. In retrospect i probably would have done things a little differently. Again, this is before the russiamania. This is before they were building it up in the press. For me this was opposition research. They had something. Maybe concrete evidence to all the stories id been hearing about that were probably underreported for years, not just during the campaign. So i think i wanted to hear it out. But really it went nowhere. Reporter trump jr. Insists he did not tell his father about the emails. Having just secured the nomination, candidate trump was in reading, california that day. Wouldnt it be nice if we actually got along with russia . Wouldnt that be good . Is that a bad thing . Reporter whooping up the crowd by praising Vladimir Putin and trashtalking the last remaining opponent between him and the white house. I think hillary is very weak. I think shes pathetic. She should be in jail for what she did with those emails. Reporter trump jr. Says hes releasing the emails now because he has nothing to hide. In order to be totally transparent. But the New York Times points out he did so only after they told him they were getting ready to publish the emails themselves. The meeting ultimately took place the week after that email exchange began. June 9th, 2016 at trump tower. Trump jr. , kushner, and manafort all there. They met with this woman, an attorney named natalia veselnitskaya, allegedly well connected with the kremlin, a familiar figure in washington lobbying against russian sanctions, seen here at a congressional hearing last june, days after that meeting with don jr. Tonight in moscow she denied she ever had any damaging or Sensitive Information about Hillary Clinton and claimed the meeting was not for that purpose. She says kushner left after just a couple of minutes and man afort spent the whole time on his phone. Her denial squares with don jr. s account. The woman, he writes, was not a Government Official and as we have said she had no information to provide and wanted to talk about adoption policy and the magnitsky act. If what youre trying to do is essentially a russian intelligence operation to assist an american political campaign, the last thing you do is send an obviously visible attributable russian representative into the headquarters of that campaign. Reporter so the president s critics are already seizing on this and saying aha. But dan abrams, is this the smoking gun . Well, its not going to be the smoking gun for the larger investigation that Robert Mueller is doing. But the question of is this criminal with regard to donald trump jr. , theres a strong argument to be made that this is a technical violation of Campaign Finance law. Reporter Campaign Finance law prohibits political campaigns from accepting anything of value from a foreign entity. And political dirt could be seen as valuable. I dont believe that agreeing to the meeting per se is a violation. Assuming that there was something of value that was passed to the campaign, then there could be a financial penalty. Reporter the cast of characters in this Russian Election saga is already more complicated than a tolstoy novel. And today joining the generals and the komisars and the privileges princes some unusual new characters. The beauty pageant world. Zblvg t of course the big man on campus, donald trump. Reporter and the russian pop music scene. That first email to don jr. Came from a british tabloid journalist and record executive, rob goldstone, who namedropped some powerful russian contacts. His client, emin agalarov, a russian popgalarov, a top russi real estate mogul. Hi, everybody. Welcome to moscow. Reporter aras cosponsored the Miss Universe pageant in moscow with trump sr. Vladimir putin gave aras russias medal of honor. And both father and son spent time with trump at the pageant. Trump even did a cameo in one of emins music videos. Come on. Whats wrong with you . Emin agalarovs lawyer told abc news they understood the meeting was to discuss sanctions, not hillary or her campaign. Reporter todays emails at the very least call into question all those denials from team trump. Are there any ties between mr. Trump, you or your campaign and putin and his regime . No, there are not. Its absurd. Theres no basis to it. Did anyone involved in the Trump Campaign have any contact with russians . Absolutely not. And i discussed that with the president elect just last night. I have nothing to do with russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. Reporter donald trump jr. , among his fathers most vociferous defenders, has steadfastly dismissed suggestions that the Trump Campaign had anything to do with russian meddling. Its disgusting. Its so phony i cant think of bigger lies. But that exactly goes to show you what the dnc and what the clinton camp will do. They will lie and do anything to win. Reporter he said that just two weeks after holding that meeting in trump tower. The president himself tonight promoted his sons appearance on fox news, tweeting, he is a great person who loves our country. I am told behind closed doors here at the white house the president is furious, that he has been fuming at his aides, frustrated that the russia story simply wont go away. Reporter today on capitol hill these emails are sending shock waves through these hallways. Democrats ive talked with say no question, this is a game changer. Donald trump jr. Was openly salivating about the prospect of getting damaging information from the russians. It is certainly evidence of collusi collusion. Reporter Hillary Clintons former running mate took an especially sharp view. This is moving into perjury, false statements, and even potentially treason. At least one republican ive talked with is coming to the defense of the administration. Its way too early to reach conclusions based on these emails. Youre offered assistance from a Foreign Government in your campaign the only answer is no. So im not going to condemn the guy in the email but this is something, the most problematic thing ive seen thus far. There is one thing both sides of the aisle here seem to agree on. They want to hear from donald trump jr. Here on capitol hill and soon. So the optics are important here, not just for political purposes but also legally. In the big scheme of the law its pretty minor. It would mean fines. The Bigger Picture issue for them is does this become a critical piece in the bigger puzzle that Robert Mueller is potentially putting together . Reporter lawyers say there could be some jeopardy for Jared Kushner, who had previously not disclosed the meeting with the russian lawyer. Trump jr. Told fox tonight that in the end that meeting in trump tower turned up nothing of value. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. It was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. Reporter but trumps critics and his inquiz tors are unlikely to let him forget this. They now have a lot more questions. Im david wright for nightline in new york. Next, the inspirational story. A young woman who grew up surrounded by drug use and Mental Illness now living her dream life. And later opa gangnam style gangnam style is no longer the most watched Youtube Video of all time. So what took its place . Gangnam style op, op, op, gangnam style hey, sexy lady when you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the unpredictability of a flare may weigh on your mind. Thinking about what to avoid, where to go, and how to work around your uc. Thats how i thought it had to be. 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Whats the dream . White walls. A lot of painting. Painting everything. Reporter but whats so remarkable about this young woman isnt where she landed but the road she took to get here. Life is pretty good for you guys right now. It is, yeah. How do you explain it . I dont know. A lot of perseverance. A lot of prayer. Reporter and an equal measure of grit. Mckayla sanderson was born dirt poor in rural alabama. She and her twin the youngest of seven. Her mother she says a drug abuser and the victim of Mental Illness. Not always Running Water food on the table. Reporter mckayla is one of six people profiled in my new book be the one wounded souls who found hope within. For my moms drug use it was mostly sleeping pills or prescription pills. Reporter there was that one night when her mothers exhausting struggle with depression, bipolar disorder and epilepsy, hit rock bottom. I was 11 years old. For some reason i hid the gun from her and she kept asking where it was, was waking me up in the middle of the night. And she kept pushing, kept pu pushing. So eventually i told her where it was and fell back asleep. Then i woke up to the gun clocking. So i ran in there and immediately felt like forever, trying to talk her out of doing this. She moved the gun around from her heart to her head. It was just kind of i dont know. Just kind of gaming me. Im not sure. She eventually put it to her stomach and did pull the trigger while i was in the room. Reporter her mother survived, but mckayla and her twin sister were placed in foster care. By her senior year in high school shed been to nine different schools. Bruised but not broken she graduated top of her High School Class while holding down a fulltime job. How many hours a week did you work . It was up to like 36 hours a week. My schedule really looked like school, then coming home applying for scholarships, and then working. I was very much determined to get to college. How did you do all that . Just a lot of hard work. A lot of determination. Where does that come from, do you think . For me there was no choice not to do it that way. Any one thing that happened that had it happened to somebody else it would have broken. Anything break you, break your faith . Never broke my faith. Reporter faith is something mckayla and i share. My own childhood challenges shaped me as well. My late mom Clarice Pitts had her first child at 17, me before she finished high school. I didnt learn learn to read until i was 12, spoke way stutter until i was 20. Still i only wish i had the tenacity of mckayla and the others in be the one. Tell me that story about you and your classmates having to run home that day when the explosions how old were you . When that started i was about 10. Reporter orrian pepe ezebuka was 10 years old when his country the congo was ravaged by war. He saw classmates murdered, relatives raped and tortured. His father had an idea, sell one of his cows and send his boy in search of a better life outside of congo. You and your friends walked from congo to south africa . Yes, yes. We walked. How long did it take you . It took about 2 1 2 years, actually. You survived wild animals, drug dealers, sex traffickers, starvation. Howd you do it . It wasnt by my own power. I believe there is a higher power that protected us. Reporter in be the one i ask each one one central question. Where did you go . Where did you hide when the world hurt too much . In a dark room. You know, crying, maybe before bed. I guess it was my safe place. No one could see me crying if everyone else was asleep. So. Just do it really quietly so nobody would hear me. Reporter and she kept going. Graduated college in three years. Her masters degree in one. With all shes overcome, life had another heartbreak. Shes been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Did you ever think, dang it, ive been through so much in my life . Yeah. But i was probably in that place for a couple of days and then realized there is ms walk. And i was like im going to raise some money and get a Team Together and fight for a cure. The average person would have been angry, would have at the very least felt sorry for themselves. Mmhmm. Maybe. Didnt have time to do that. Reporter there is an african proverb that sums up mckayla sandersons grit. When you pray, move your feet. No telling where you might end up. As a storyteller, as a reporter, im always looking for metaphors. So whats the metaphor of this place, do you think . For you guys, for you. I think its authenticity. I just keep thinking home. I think it will be feel like home for us. It will be, you know, what a home feels like. Safe. And next, theres a new opa in town. The pop song that just overhook gangnam style to become the most watched Youtube Video of all time. 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