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That trip the president and his aides were crafting a response to all of this. in "the new york times" piece that had come out at the time. now that statement about donald trump jr.'s meeting was in the eyes of some people in the president's orbit extremely problematic. that included marc carallo, a spokesperson for the legal team. this statement about donald jr.'s meeting largely directed by the president, with the curb mer. wolff goes on to say jared kushner and trump said it was a firing more than of carallo stepping away of all of his own accord. why is this significant? these excerpts, wh...

And after that meeting did not communicate this with his father. so today, brianna, we are learning that he did instead communicate with hope hicks earlier this year when those initial reports first came out about this meeting, but not any direct communication with his father. according to his testimony that's still ongoing right now, brianna. >> all right. let's find out if that really makes a legal difference. manu, stand by for us. i want to analyze this and bring in gloria borger and jennifer todd professor at lamont law school and michael zelden, former assistant to robert mueller at the ...

Phrased his request. the reservation request seems to apply to all communications as a response to the meeting. remember the "new york times" first reported the initial response to media inkwur is about the trump junior meeting was crafted by the white house's closest aides, reporting being involved in crafting a response may have exposed those white house aides to special counsel scrutiny. usually it's a legal matter like this, and it would be handled by attorneys given that it is a russia investigation, but if they were communications people or other senior white house aides, they could get ...

Meeting, would that investigation impact the scrambling? >> you may remember the "new york times" first reported that the initial response to media inquiries about donald trump jr.'s meeting was crafted by some of the president's closest white house aides who were traveling back with him from europe. sara murray reported last week that being involved in crafting a response may have exposed those white house aides to special counsel scrutiny. as you know, a legal matter like this is handled by attorneys, especially given the fact that it was about this russia investigation, jake. >> dacna bash,...

That would mean the white house kept the president in the dark. do you see that with this white house happening? >> listen, there have been instances in the past where this question has arisen and there's been a real effort to insulate, as jeff was saying, the legal issues and the russia investigation from the rest of what's going on in the white house. the problem for them now is that with this new timetable emerging and learning that jared kushner's aides and others were sort of knew about this weeks ago and were crafting a response, that sort of chinese wall is showing signs of coming down....