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This meeting. >> right. so according to the president, he has a conversation about adoption. and almost immediately afterwards, he helps craft a grossly misleading statement about that don junior meeting claiming it was primarily about adoption. it does make one wonder exactly what they discussed and whether putin played a role in influencing the meeting. joining me now, the chief white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush. so it now seems confirmed, jill, two of his lawyers which seems to happen regularly, someone says something on behalf of the president and is later undercut, that he di...

Craft a bill that resolves whatever problems they perceive there to be with the current law and move forward with that. they don't want to do that so they are going with what is essentially a high wire act. they're basically saying, let's pass this skinny thing that no one thinks is good policy, politics or policy, and then let's hope that we go to conference, agree on something and then pass that. but there's not any reason to believe that in washington that sort of ultimatum-like procedure is going to actually be effective and that's why this is so dangerous. i mean, i think that, you know, ...

Group of advisers essentially helped craft a statement for the president's son that we heard earlier. according to people familiar with the discussions. they reportedly debated how transparent to be. the president reportedly signed offer on that statement. that then had to be classified as we mentioned on sunday and addressed for three straight days after that, shifting from adoption to other explanations. what does this show us about the inner workings of the white house when it comes to crisis management and addressing these issues? >> well, i think if you're up on capitol hill again, a lawm...

Listen, we as the senate did our job. we passed a bill. they know in reconciliation the gulf is so wide that it will be impossible to bridge and that this bill is going to likely fail there. if it fails there, that's a huge problem for us in 2018. it could be better off in the long term in that maybe republicans and democrats will come together and craft a bill to fix obamacare that is long lasting and actually has a meaningful impact that lower to cost of care and increases the quality of care. >> i want to bring my panel back in. sara, one of the striking developments this week, and there we...

Investigation for continuity, wolf. >> the new special counsel investigating russia involvement in the u.s. presidential election and related matters, robert mueller, who spent 12 years as fbi director, i want to get white house reaction. jim acosta is our senior white house correspondent, what do they say there at the latest development? >> nothing yet, wolf. we should report that sean spicer is not even in his office right now. it is possible that top officials are huddling behind closed doors to sort of craft a response to this news that bob mueller, former fbi director is a special prosecu...