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Act presidential. with the exception of the late great abraham lincoln i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. >> that's a walk back through contemporary history. let's bring in our starting panel. moderator of washington week on pbs, robert costa. senior white house correspondent for bloomberg, margaret tolive. and covering the president's working vacation in new jersey means the first-ever studio visit for "the washington post," phillip rucker. welcome to you all. phillip, we'll start with you. so it's very important apparently that the president, that we ...

Government computer hacking that led to the release of thousands of democratic national committee e-mails." at this point probably a good idea to bring in our starting panel as we start a new week. starting with the panelist katie tur who covered the donald trump campaign effort from the beginning. be michael schmidt back from "the new york times" and msnbc national contributor. you heard him questioning sarah huckabee sanders. phillip rucker "washington pos"" bureau chief and newly minted msnbc political analyst from his seat at the white house. welcome to you all. michael, i'll begin with yo...

>> the president was not -- did not draft the response. the response was -- came from donald trump junior. i'm sure in consultation with his lawyer. let me say this, the president -- i do want to be clear the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump junior. that's what i can toll you because that's what we know. >> the president didn't sign off off anything. he was coming back from the g20. the statement released on saturday was released by donald trump jr. i'm sure in consultation withes his lawyers. >> "the new yor...

Relates to north korea. >> but after meeting with china's president and talking about north korea, his approach seemed to change. >> first thing i brought up was north korea. said you got to help us with north korea because we can't allow it. it's no good for you. you have a tremendous power because of trade. is he then explains thousands of years of history with korea. not that easy. in other words, not as simple as people would think. >> he went on to write this on twitter this morning. "trade between china and north korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter. so much for china working with ...

Continued to support don junior's contention that his father didn't know the about that russian meeting in trump tower last june. they contend he only learned about it recently. but in the face of that, there's this is. donald trump speaking on june 7th, the very same day his son agreed to the russia meeting. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> trump did give a major speech on that monday foc...