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Say about this controversy after the sort of the statement after statement that changed the story a little bit on donald trump jr. s meeting with this russian lawyer. He basically said my son is a high quality individual, hes been transparent and open. Hes come out and given the whole story. But there are a lot of questions that still remain and in the white house i think theyre very well aware these are not questions that are going to go away and theyre not questions that theyre prepared to take. Theres a lot of legal jeopardy around this meeting. Theres a question of whether the president himself knew about it. Of course we heard donald trump jr. Say in the interview last night that he had not discussed it with his father. But that is going to really hamstring their ability to get ahead of this story. I think there are a lot of questions about what more the president can say without getting a little too close to what is really one of the more damaging revelations of the last few week ....
Is coming out and basically saying the president and many people around the president, perhaps michael cohen included, lied. and oftentimes we hear time and time again from folks associated with this white house and inside this white house one thing, and then the truth comes out later and it s not the same thing we heard from the white house. i think we need to call a thing a thing. we do not know at this point, don. what we do know is michael cohen was in trouble for some other stuff and he s doing everything he can to save his skin right now. perhaps we ll get the truth through michael cohen s desperate attempts to save himself. don, can i just to simone s point, i do think it is important that we know at least two things related to that trump tower meeting that the trump campaign and trump more broadly didn t tell the truth about. number one, they did not tell the truth about the nature of the meeting. remember, it was just an adoption meeting. it comes out later that dirt had b ....
Then the truth comes out later and it s not the same thing we heard from the white house. i think we need to call a thing a thing. we do not know at this point, don. what we do know is michael cohen was in trouble for some other stuff and he s doing everything he can to save his skin right now. perhaps we ll get the truth through michael cohen s desperate attempts to save himself. don, can i just to simone s point, i do think it is important that we know at least two things related to that trump tower meeting that the trump campaign and trump more broadly didn t tell the truth about. number one, they did not tell the truth about the nature of the meeting. remember, it was just an adoption meeting. supposed to be adoption. it comes out later that dirt had been promised, not delivered apparently, but had been promised. the other thing is, remember that we were told by donald trump s lawyers that donald trump had no knowledge of and nothing to do with the statement from donald tru ....
so briefly, what is your response to trump officials saying it had nothing to do with the russian government, it was just an adoption meeting, more or less. i think some of the e-mail chains that were released suggest there were links to the russian government and this is how the russian government operates. they wouldn t send officials from the embassy necessarily, or someone with an official government title. they would send someone who knows someone well at the top levels of the russian government, which is exactly what she said. she said she knew the prosecutor general of russia very well. and so there you re be given the information that that person has linked to the kremlin. and you believe they have that information. thank you. appreciate your guide through some of the complex material. tonight, the west wing in ....