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Will learn a lesson from this one? >> well, let's hope that he does. i think obviously when something like this happens when you make an error, you make a mistake, you make a misstatement, you know, hopefully you learn from that and try to be more careful next time. >> i want to turn to the russia investigation. we'll let you get a chance to get more read-in on the other stuff, but there was some other news that is pretty major when it comes to the investigation into the president perhaps obstructing justice, which we've learned is part of the probe that special counsel robert mueller is doing...

Donald jr. released the e-mail to sort of get out ahead of the story, that mueller's team didn't know about this meeting. the reporting now suggests how important is this meeting to their investigation? >> reporter: it is looming really large, chris. it is not clear whether mueller's team knew about the meeting. i did see some reporting to that effect. i don't think that question is fully answered. what we know now is they're heavily scrutinizing this meeting. as you know, nbc news reported a couple of days ago one of the things they're looking at is why president trump crafted this highly-mis...

>> reporter: it is looming really large, chris. it is not clear whether mueller's team knew about the meeting. i did see some reporting to that effect. i don't think that question is fully answered. what we know now is they're heavily scrutinizing this meeting. as you know, nbc news reported a couple of days ago one of the things they're looking at is why president trump crafted this highly-misleading statement on his son's behave, suggesting the meeting was just about russian adoptions and it was kind of short and nothing to see here. this was before the e-mails were released. in fact, it was...

Investigation. it is not -- it is the dual purpose of mueller kind of enlisting schneiderman can help them both. schneiderman is focused on the money laundering, he wants to know if manafort laundered money in new york real estate. mueller wants to know whether it was indebted to russian interests. in that sense partnering with schneiderman who can investigate the money laundering in depth, he can figure out where did the money come from, and in that sense he can help him with the russian investigation. >> there's one more report by someone who is a frequent guest on this program, the criminal...

Think that's what congress and mueller will be looking at now. >> all right. david, thank you for your time tonight. >> reporter: thank you. >> natasha, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. natasha, you have been closely tracking all of this russia news. would be big takeaway and from the nbc news story about manafort in the meeting, anyway you slice it manafort is at the center. >> yes. i think today with the news that mueller has enlisted the help of the new york attorney general eric schneiderman to help him investigate paul manafort's tax history, perhaps some financial crime...