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There was no follow-up. now, i know this is going to be hard for some of you to believe, but that statement proved itself to be false almost immediately. joining us now nbc intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian. what's the latest on this investigation? what have you heard? where are we going and how fast are we going there? >> mike, to speak to your specific point on this statement and the meeting, my colleagues on the nbc news investigative unit dug out the fact that the mueller team is very interested in the president's role in crafting this statement from his son about th...

Came to talk about sanctions levied against the russians. but there is no program of adoption. so donald trump himself was involved, according to the "washington post," in dictating that statement that his -- that was put out on his son's behalf, and the special counsel is very interested in why he would want to disguise the actual purpose of that meeting, mike. >> to be clear, this was the statement that was drafted on air force one, was it not? >> that's right. on the way back from germany, the president was returning from a g-20 meeting, and his advisers had said, look, let's get everything...

Lawyer, not a government lawyer but a russian lawyer. it was a short meeting. it was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast. >> now, they don't teach that course at harvard law school, but that's called the he is a good boy defense. that's now the latest that's under investigation which fbi special counsel robert mueller. three sources familiar with the matter telling nbc news that the team is looking into the role president trump played in crafting the response to the reporting of a meeting between donald trump jr. and russian officials at trump tower. the initial response from tru...