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Joining us, sarah westwood, white house correspondent for "the washington examiner." nice to see you. i want to listen to the president from yesterday's press conference in paris with emmanuel macron. he was asked about his son, this meeting, that e-mail setting up this meeting. this is how the president defended his son -- >> as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer. not a government lawyer but a russian lawyer. it was a meeting that went very, very quickly, very fast. i think from a practical standpoint, most people would have ta...

Work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law, and the impartial pursuit of justice, period, full stop. my loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law, and to the mission of the fbi, and no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any point during this process, and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> if the president asked you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first, i would try to talk him out of it. if that failed, i would resign. >> during a confirmation hearing ray was also questioned about russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election...

If it happens to be -- >> from the russian government? >> she didn't represent the russian government. she's a private citizen. i don't even know if they knew she was russian at the time. all they had was her name. >> oh, my. >> reporter: now, remember, the president and his allies initially said that meeting was all about russian adoptions. rudy giuliani just there said the meeting was really about getting bitter on hillary clinton. the russians didn't provide it so we weren't interested. that's a huge moving of the goal posts here. the other thing, to say that the trump campaign didn't know ...

The e-mail setting up the meeting and he doesn't know when the president and his team learned of the e-mail. when it comes to questions about president trump's involvement in a july 8, 2017, statement about the controversial meeting, trump junior seemed to suggest he was involved through former white house communications director hope hicks. the initial july statement trump jr. told the "new york times" the meeting with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya was primarily about russian adoption. he did not mention the fact that he agreed to the meeting after british publicist named rob goldstone...

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