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>> let's talk about your committee. 2,000 pages of transcripts were released. the chairman released it. the release of all these transcrip transcripts. based oen the testimony you've seen and you've gone through all of these transcripts, what's your best guess when the president learned about that controversial trump tower meeting in new york city in june of 2016. >> my best guess is that he learned about it from donald trump junior in a call that, right now, donald trump senior seems to have difficulty recalling. it's the call to the blocked number but one way or the other, my best guess is t...

That? they say no collusion. no collusion. can they modify and say we tried collusion? it's such a serious issue to have president's son really embarrassed in these transcripts. the leader of free world at a time when he's trying to denuclearize the nuclear peninsula, i understand why rudy giuliani wants to get this over with, but the fact of the matter is it seems like each time we find something new, three more things pop up. >> what do you think? >> i think that's right. things keep popping up. the white house has been attached to this narrative, this idea that there's nothing to see here. ...

Junior to ask his father to repeal be magninsky act. we were the ask of the russians in that meeting. they wanted the act repealed and some type of prosecution organized against me. i wasn't surprised to see my name there. i know how angry putin is about this thing. >> the par tticipants of that meeting say they mostly spoke about the issue of adoption. explain why people should be skeptical when they hear that. >> first of all, if you read the transcripts, which i did this afternoon, it's all about magninsky. it has almost nothing to do with adoptions. the only connection to adoptions is that...

Banned the adoption of russian orphans by american families. if you read the documents it has nothing to do with adoptions. it had to do with sanctions and something that putin is very upset about and he wants to repeal those sanctions. >> what else stood out to you from reading those transcripts? >> the main thing that stood out is how central i was and how central magninsky was to the whole conversation. it looked like it was bait and switch when i read it and they promised something which they didn't deliver. it was interesting to me to see how it all played it out from different perspectiv...

Their assertions and another republican said there's only one person that can determine whether or not slvladimimir put wants donald trump to win and that's vladmir putin. house republicans increasingly isolated in their view. >> good point. thank you very much. we're also gets a first look at transcripts of donald trump junior's interview and shedding new light on his meeting with a group of russians over at trump tower in new york during the 2017 presidential campaign. our chief national correspondent is working this part of the story for us. jim, first of all what do we know about these tra...