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Joining us, cnn political analyst brian caran. cnn political analyst david drucker. and cnn legal analyst paul cowan. president trump's lawyers initially claimed, as we played, that he had nothing to do with that trump tower statement from don junior and now we have this letter. why is it critical? >> it first demonstrates that mr. trump was obviously lying to his lawyers if the lawyers are now being honest, about what went down, because everything said that the president knew nothing about what don junior had said in the trump tower meeting. don junior himself testified before congress that h...

Than just the presidency of donald j. trump. this inquiry and the precedents set herein will also impact the office of the president of the united states of america in perpetuity, ensuring the office remains above the shifting winds of political gamesmanship is of critical importance. i hear you laughing already, brian. >> he's already stained the presidency. of course it's going to affect it in perpetuity. as far as collusion goes, i'm not the legal guy, i don't know from collusion. i only know i saw donald j. trump, the candidate, standing up in a room full of people on national television, ...

To accuse the special counsel or people associated with him of trying to leak this to damage the president. we saw the president complain about this earlier today on twitter. i think if we get to the end of the line here and the special counsel issues a report and some of these revelations are a part of it, we've long since raked this over the coals and it's old news and doesn't have the same punch as whatever the special counsel's report is going to say at that time. >> you're saying this actually benefits the president? >> i'm saying it could benefit the president. i would speculate, but i f...