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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 followed up in any way we'd be talking about something very, very different. but the reality is they did have this one meeting fairly short he...

2016 meeting, he says he was bored or it wasn't of interest to him. what if they had come with the goods, they had come with substantial russian government support, either dirt on hillary clinton, would he have stuck around? would he have played ball? i think he has to answer that question. >> can i stop you right there? isn't that a worse scenario than the meeting actually being about adoption and -- isn't that a worse fact for him to say i was only there for dirt on hillary from russia. when i found out it was about adoption i bailed. >> totally. i think a much better defense would have been...

Pass a blind eye to what might be right in front of your face? no, i can see it, and i see they had a meeting at trump tower where they were promised one big swath of information about hillary clinton colluding with the russians and it was a bait and switch. they never had the information and basically, these russians wanted to get in to pitch the reduction of sanctions against russia and they wanted to talk about the adoption issue, too. we all know that all they cared about was a political issue of getting rid of the russian sanctions, but they bait and switch the trump campaign saying we ha...

He end that had years ago. and i actually talked about russian adoption with him which is interesting. that was a part of the conversation that don had in his meeting. >> well, the news of trump's meeting with putin has now deepened divisions between he the president and his national security team of one said, diplomats and intelligence officials were dumbfounded by the president's approach. mcmasters warned that putin is not to be trusted and advised the president against holding an official bilateral meeting with putin. howard fineman, global editor and director. senator, what do you make of...

Joining us. you just heard president trump and his description of this second meeting that happened at this dinner that actually followed cocktails and an opera performance of the g20, what did you make of this? >> the mere fact of the meeting is not a scandal. people are saying that he talked to president putin. the substance of the conversation is more important and it seems like president trump can draw the connection between the adoption issue, which -- in the magnitsky act which is a law that was past several years ago that put sanctions on russian officials accused of human rights violat...