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Here we are today. >> okay. scott, i want you to weigh in. i want to play what kelly and conway told us about the meeting earlier and watch your response. >> the meeting itself was very brief. there was no information given, no action taken, no follow-up. this was standard operating procedure for the campaign. let's focus on what did not happen in that meeting. no information provided that was meaningful. no action taken. nothing. >> so campaigns try to get dirt on other campaigns all the tile. it's called po research. as a pollster that was part of her job. isn't this a bigger sticking point ...

That was part of kellyanne conway's job. isn't this a bigger sticking point that kellyanne conway was doing with a fornt entity? >> i think to kevin's point earlier, don, this campaign at the time this meeting happened wasn't robustly staffed. in fact, the campaign was always much smaller than some of the other campaigns that both kevin and i worked on together. so some of the vetting procedures and some of the things that would have normally been in place may not have been in place at the time. i'm looking at this through the lens of a crisis communications specialist. and i want to offer fri...

It's time that republicans stop thinking narrowly and start thinking broadly about defending the american democracy and the integrity of our elections. this is the most important issue facing us. and you know, don, i think of our previous republican nominees. i think of mitt romney who called russia our biggest geopolitical foe and got laughed at. i think what would it have taken for his campaign manager for his son tad romney to go into a meeting with a russian without vetting that russian and who that was and without mitt knowing or john mccain who knows that vladimir putin is a kgb thug. th...

Cnn political commentators ana navarro, kevin maddon and bakari sellers. good evening to all of you. ana, e-mails? >> yeah? >> we're talking. >> the plot thickens, doesn't it? >> it does. >> you know, and it's really telling and now you understand why his story changed three times. yesterday when i or was it this morning when i read his statement where he was admitting he had met with this russian lawyer for the purpose of receiving information against hillary clinton, i thought, my god, this kid was dropped on his head as a child. could he possibly be admitting this. and now you understand it...

Geopolitical foe and got laughed at. i think what would it have taken for his campaign manager for his son tad romney to go into a meeting with a russian without vetting that russian and who that was and without mitt knowing or john mccain who knows that vladimir putin is a kgb thug. this is happening because the trumps think they are above the law. rules don't apply to them. >> that's a very good question, kevin madden, the appropriate person to answer that. what do you make of that, kevin? >> well. >> by the way, you were the. >> big problems here. >> explain your role with the romney campai...