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A spokesman for manafort says its 100 false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the Trump Campaign or the Republican Party. When donald trump jr. Talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. The whole contact took how long . 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. And jared left after five or ten. Yes. Like she said and paul manafort. On his phone. The whole time. Like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. It does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. Nbcs reportin...

Deepening the rift with russia. the administration is not expelling any russian diplomatic personnel from the united states. nor did it tough the staff at russia's mane embassy in waekt. >> of the robert costa national political reporter. vivian salama, incoming nbc news national reporter. our white house reporter jonathan la mere. vivian, let me start with you. in august earlier this month, the president said this about the russian decision to cut that -- the 755 u.s. staff members in russia. let's listen. >> i want to thank him because we're trying to cut down on payroll. as far as i'm conce...

Similar answer moments later. despite the president's continued reluctance to single out russia as a threat to the united states, today more diplomatic shots were fired over the kremlin interference in the u.s. election. the state department is forcing russia to shut down the consulate in san francisco and scale back staff at annexes in washington and new york. the move? retaliation for vladimir putin's order last month to have the u.s. cut 755 diplomatic personnel from russia. but as "the new york times" reports tonight, quote, the state department's response seemed calculated to avoid deepen...