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cares. that itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. presidential nominee absents himself from the party platform process. interesting. but what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we couldn t make heads or tails of at the time was the trump campaign s one exception on the party platform. even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. one specific part of the republican party platform, and that was a thing about russia. there was a proposed plank for the republican party platform that said ukraine should get help from the united states up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions. and you know what, the trump campaign let everything else in the platform slide. even stuff that might theoretic ....
here. and the white house ought to explain why that wasn t followed here, but there is a good way to answer these questions and we will do our best to answer these questions but we will not lose sight of the russia investigation and we are going to keep focus on that. yes? has there been any uptick in attacks on your or your staffers computers or i.t. networks since this investigation has been going on? i m not aware of anything like that. thank withdrew veyou very much. thank you. okay. steve kornacki in new york. that is adam schiff. just finishing up u a press conference there on capitol hill. adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, of course, the house intelligence committee had been pursuing interference of the status of that committee s investigation now some quwhat i question. there s been all sorts of controversy about actions, about statements from the republican chairman, devin nunes, in that statement you just heard there, th ....
carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broad ....
much of the world. one thing has worried me over these months, these he two super power egos would get into a test of whose is big we are the world itself is the stakes. none of that today. none of it, let s pray, ever. that s hardball. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in president putin and i have been discussing thank you, thank you. russia says the american president he accepted a full denial of election interference. both sides have agreed to put it behind them. there was not a lot of relitigating of the past. what we know about everything that happened. vladimir putin met the donald trump behind closed doors. it is a forgery. the trump/russia for russia, the united states. it is an honor to be with you. the two leaders appeared chummy throughout the day. president trump even sharing a laugh with putin who has been accused of having journalists killed about, the american reporters covering their meeting. thank you. the ....
country have we had a president with these kinds of extensive business entanglements. or a president who refused to adequately distance himself from their holdings. president trump s businesses and his dealings violates the constitution s anticorruption provisions. known as the emoluments clauses. the lawsuit filed in maryland district court contends that the president s ownership harms the state and districts. the defendant has used his position as president to boost the patronage of his enterprises. foreign diplomats and other officials have made clear that the defendant position as president increases the likelihood they will frequent has properties and businesses. the press secretary dismissed the suit. it is not hard to conclude partisan politics may be one of the motivations. the suit was filed by two don t nourish a harmful story. if somebody calls you, accuses you of a crime, you have to respond. what you don t have to do is get into continuing exchanges with t ....