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by russian fighter pilots forcing down an american drone. >> john: welcome back as "america reports" rolls into hour two. get set to roll again, sandra. >> sandra: a breaking news two hours, john, and following through on that. the latest move by an american rival, and just like the spy balloon, critics are calling on the president to act. >> response can't we do nothing. our adversaries are going to be on the march as long as we let them. >> direct test of the biden administration to try to see what the limits are and it's a message of their displeasure, and a test to see if we'll r...

>> we spend a lot of time talking about russia at those meetings. they are not there. i think it would be a good thing if russia was there. so we could speak directly. >> shannon: quick reaction from you both. >> i do think dialogue is good but you cannot forget about crimea and you cannot forget what the russians did in the state of georgia, taking over roughly 25% of that country. until russia makes it right on both of those coming or going to have hard-line people including myself will find a very hard to do business with mr. putin. >> we have to normalize relations with russia. the whole w...

Meeting between trump jr. and the russian lawyer? >> reporter: set up by a representative of a russian pop star. donald trump jr. released his own e-mails showing he has been told the meeting was to pass on damaging intelligence about clinton. did the russian authorities did your family, information pass on. >> talk to my lawyer. >> he said you wouldn't comment. >> wouldn't it be nice if we got along with russia? wouldn't that be nice? >> reporter: it was that promise to transform u.s. -- russian relations that a consistent cam tan theme. his criticism of nato. and hints at ending sanctions ma...

>> reporter: i plan to. a russian pop star, donald trump jr. released his own e-mails saying he was told the meeting was to pass on damaging intelligence about hillary clinton. information to pass on to the trump administration? >> talk to my lawyer. >> reporter: i talked to him. he said you wouldn't comment. >> so i won't comment. >> wouldn't it be nice if we got along with russia? wouldn't that be nice. >> reporter: it was one of trump's consistent campaign themes. the criticism of nato and hints of ending sanctions, russia's preferred candidate. trump's failure to deliver, investigations in...

President, somehow the president is allowed to dictate a completely false statement like that? there's some piece that's missing. >> at that point, my understanding is that jared kushner already was aware of the e-mail chain. >> of the full story. >> of the full story that said this is for dirt on hillary clinton. >> at that point he had been presented with -- >> would he have told the president, there was this e-mail and the president still said let's go ahead and say it was about russian adoptions which, as we all know, russian adoptions, it's ending sanctions. >> so there are two things. on...