Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. The issue of adoption, did that come up . Like i said, that was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. Thats not the premise that got them in the room. Then it was essentially a bait and switch to talk about that 6789 everybody has basically said that in. The already. There is this another intere interesting thing over the weekend. Hope hicks boarded Air Force One and flew to the president s rally in ohio and back. You may recall, hope hicks resigned from the white house one day before a Congressional Committee that she had told white lies on behalf of donald trump. She is now living here in manhattan and she too has come under scrutiny for crafting that
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Offered damaging information on Hillary Clinton, he wrote no details or supporting information was required. Later, emails between don junior and the man who organized the meeting said it was supposed to damaging email on Hillary Clinton. Quote, if its what you say, i love it. To get out ahead of that story, don junior changed his line again. The information they suggested they had about Hillary Clinton i thought was political Opposition Research. Just after this we heard this from trumps lawyer. The Statement Released was donald trump jr. And his lawyers. The president was not involve in the that. The president was not involved in the drafting of that statement. It came from his son. July 31, trump himself personally dictated the statement. Then hater this year it was revealed trumps own lawyers admitted in a momentumo to Robert Mueller that yes, the president himself did dictate the trump tower statement but added there was no collusion. This weekend, the president s same lawyer jay
he spent a lot of time the last few weeks with his lawyers talking through the trump tower meeting. you have seen mikkel cohen and his attorney making accusations publicly that maybe president trump knew about that meeting beforehand. it s all feeding this anxiety that the president feels and a real genuine fear that something would happen to his son. not because he thinks don junior did anything wrong, but because he could have naively walked into some serious trouble. joyce, things that happen in plain sight don t often have the gravity in realtime. twitter as a medium is all but entirely lacking in gravity. it s instantly available. it s ubiquitous. do you think what we saw in plain sight from the president s cell phone on sunday had a weight of a legal matter? it does. it will have ultimate weight here. i think twitter may end up being this president s undoing. many of the worst hits he has taken and that his presidency have taken have been own goals often from twitter or his o