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Thought he should offer a fairly full and complete statement acknowledging what happened in that meeting and what happened is the president overruled them. he took matters into his own hands. almost acting as his family's own lawyer strategist publicist and decided to offer a statement that was misleading at best. and did not include the complete information which as we now know is that this meeting was set up under the premise of sharing damaging information about hillary clinton from the russian government which was trying to help trump's campaign. >> just to be clear, this was an -- at the ...

>> i agree that it was the fatherly role. he was trying to be helpful. again, we're still talking about this because we haven't got the facts out. this is what day five or six of this story. this is not helpful. >> barry, i want to play donald trump himself on this because there's this idea we hear about staffing and what does the coander chief think is important. there was an odd exchange where he went wac to the adoption issue. this post report puts it in daft light. take a listen. >> it's very interesting. we talked about adoption. >> you did? >> russian adoption. yeah. i always found that ...

Of the sanctions which led putin to retaliate by suspending u.s. adoptions of russian children. it was this adoption issue merely a cover for the sanctions that trump jr. claims was the focus of his 2016 meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnitska veselnitskaya. >> when they mentioned it was about adoptions, it had nothing to do with adoptions. they went to donald trump jr. and said, can you help us draft this act if your father becomes president? >> reporter: president trump said his previously undisclosed hour-long conversation with vladimir putin at a g20 dinner earlier this month was a...

As far as his sflangs while he was there, they were only talking about this russian orphanage and this adoption issue which he had no interest in at the time. it may have been an attempt by russian agents or russian government to seek influence. i don't think that it is evidence certainly doesn't indicate that it was, but let's say for the sake of the conversation that they were trying to do that, the ralt is that it didn't go anywhere. and now here we are. we had our meeting with mr. kushner today. that seems to be kind of where we are. >> all of this will be looked over and poured over and e...

Clear signal. at the end they have established that these guys are willing, hayden said, pausing, how do i put this -- they did not reject a relationship. so congressman, you can see how maybe through ignorance or innocence or knavety mr. pr kushner could have got caught up in something bigger than him. >> mr. hayden said in that scenario is true. and mr. kushner said he regrets the meeting took place and took place under the auspices he thought it was. but the reality is again if something had come from this meeting or materials had been passed or subsequent meetings requested and if they fol...