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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 Couldnt 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 multipl...

Least, and his advisers knew the actual contents -- knew what that meeting was about and decided to use a different story, unless he simply didn't talk to donald trump jr., didn't talk to jared kushner, and invented a reason and imposed it on trump junior. does that make any sense? >> i would think that robert mueller would want to try to get to the bottom of it by talking to as many people as he could. but the fact that donald trump is out there, misleading the public, is what prosecutors refer to as consciousness of guilt effort. if you're out there telling a story that later turns out to be...

A key element in obstruction of justice is that a person acted corruptly. corruptly means bad purpose. so if we see president trump trying to hide the truth regarding his campaign's involvement with the russia campaign, then his efforts to end the investigation with james comey takes on some of that bad purpose, more evidence of that bad purpose. so i think this is a very significant story. >> and the implication -- i don't know if it strikes you the same way, the implication seems to me that donald trump, at least, and his advisers knew the actual contents -- knew what that meeting was about ...