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>> interesting. scott, cnn reported last week that the fbi as part of his counterintelligence probe and its investigation into russia's meddling has scrutinized some of donald trump jr.'s business dealings even before the latest meeting. do you think the president is reacting to how this russia probe is quickly growing now? >> absolutely. we talked about this before and for the last several months. these probes start out looking at one thing, and then other things pop up. this becomes somehow within the purview of these investigators. that can happen with the special counsel and also happen wi...

Jared kushner. and that has put him squarely in the crosshairs of investigators looking to see if anyone did anything illegal. ana? >> thank you, tom foreman. joining us now former federal prosecutor laura coats. now the cnn reporting that's new is the white house aides, not personal lawyers, but government employees were involved in issuing that first statement from donald jr. when the story first broke. they obviously left a few things off and were not accurate. do they just get dragged into bob mueller's special investigation? >> they did. this took place as part of a counterintelligence ...

Wittingly someone was engaged in that practice. this is telling you a very clear indication or whether or not this is not the only goal here to actually figure out that it actually happened. it's really the end game of figuring out what was the collusion in the counterintelligence probe. >> i need to get your response to this as well. this is just coming in. robert mueller expands a special counsel office, has brought in 13 lawyers onboard with more to be hired according to spokesman peter carr. >> that tells you even a wider dragnet. this is not where you have one or two people who can do the...

Is that he had intimations, this may lead to an explosive situation down the road. >> contemporaneous notes with president obama and only met with him twice, once or twice versus nine times, conversations with the current president. >> he brought to president trump, or incoming president trump an explosive document. if it were true was clearly going to lead to legal problems down the road to hearings and one thing and another. i think he was trying to protect himself and protect the record by doing this contemporaneous basis. >> michael, this is one of three occasions that comey -- he confirme...

I suspect that's what he'll keep doing tomorrow. >> go ahead, david. >> i disagree with that. james comey had a wonderful reputation before the politics of 2016. it got shredded a lot during that time. what i do think is more likely is that he had intimations, this may lead to an explosive situation down the road. nges. >> because he didn't feel the need to take contemporaneous notes with president obama, and only met with him twice -- one or twice, versus nine times, conversations with the current president. >> he brought to president trump, or incoming president trump an explosive document. ...