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Everyone, family and campaign officials alike, you can't be taking these meetings. but he didn't, he went in there. >> fred, mika, here's what i do know, the story's not going anywhere so i hope you'll both come back with me soon. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> good to be here. >> you are looking live at a news conference held by nancy pelosi and other house democrats on keeping the trump administration accountable. you can see maxine waters there right next to nancy pelosi. we're keeping an eye on it. we'll bring you anything newsworthy that comes up. we're going to take a break. next...

Hope you didn't think you could chill on this friday because we have got more exclusive nbc reporting. a person believed to have ties to russian intelligence was also at that controversial meeting with the former russian lawyer and donald trump jr. all right. listen up, here's exactly what we know. the additional individual in that meeting is a russian-american lobbyist and a former soviet counterintelligence officer. he is suspected by some u.s. officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence. the lobbyist denies any current ties to russian intel. i want to find out what this all mea...

That. and, look, he should have known better. the trump campaign should have known better. they should have known that the russians are always trying to get close to people in power and looked on this meeting from the very first meeting, over the very first contact really suspiciously. you've got to be really careful about russians bearing gifts. they're not really on your side. >> fred. >> well, there's this sentence in the e-mail from mr. goldstone about russian government assistance to the trump campaign and that seems to be the focus of this whole scandal, but why would a celebrity promote...

For a layperson like me, i know nothing. >> well, let me first say it's great to be here. i don't think that don junior should have taken this meeting. i think this was a rookie mistake. but i'm listening to these reports this morning about this alleged former soviet counterintelligence officer. i like to point out that this was an american citizen that there had been reports before of russian intelligence officers trying to meet with the trump campaign that turned out to be false. and we don't know who these officials are who say they are concerned this individual has ties to russian intellig...

Forward? especially if it was this grand big nothing burger. >> this is an american citizen. we don't know that don junior knew that he had emigrated from russia, that he had dual american/russian citizenship. an american citizen was participating in this meeting. why would he report that? >> why not give full transparency? listen, this thing is drip, drip, dripping in hopes of getting this story to get out of the news cycle. why not come forward to say here's who's in the meeting, boom? >> well, i mean, another question is why is msnbc not saying who this individual is? i wonder whether there...