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Members of the trump campaign, don junior, jared kushner, paul manafort and a number of russians, individuals with ties to the kremlin, the white house confirmed that president trump helped to write that initial misleading statement from trump junior about his meeting with that russian lawyer, a meeting kept hidden for a year. when asked about it, white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said this. take a listen. >> the statement that don junior issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weighed in, as any father would,alempirically, it mention all the deta...

>> david, even if it doesn't enter the legal realm, just the fact that it does impact the president's credibility in the white house. >> no doubt. team trump took a credibility hit today in the face of jay sekulow, and it came from the white house podium. sarah huckabee sanders went out today and basically conceded that the trump team and his lawyer didn't have the truth in the initial telling of this. remember when sarah huckabee sanders first spoke about this, she didn't know. she didn't know if the president weighed in, she would find out and get back to us. today, she says he weighed in, "...

Think? >> i think the president has a problem here. i think the statement was misleading at the very best. that's the best way to describe it. i think there are questions now that will being raised about whether what the president knew and when he knew it to use an old phrase. and did the president lie to his lawyer? i mean, this is a big question that we need to have answered, which is jay sekulow is out there saying the president did not touch this in any way, shape or form. he was not -- was not out there. and dealing with this. and now we learn that he so-called weighed in, or whatever tha...

>> the statement that don junior issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weighed in, as any father would based on the limited information that he had. this is all discussion frapg fr of no consequence. he certainly did not dictate, but he offered suggestions like any father would do. like i said, the statement that was issued was true. >> to say donald trump, jr.'s statement was true is not true. if i said "jaws" is a movie about going to the beach on the fourth of july weekend, i guess that is in the movie somewhere, but is that an accurate statement of what the ...

Gate-keeping function in the oval office. so if you can hire a person like this, or have a connection to them, it's better than having a lobbyist. >> there's also a credibility question. we were talking to glenn thrush about this, your colleague earlier, with all of the denials coming from the podium in the white house. this is -- sarah huckabee sanders at the briefing yesterday talking about the whole "washington post" story about don junior's statement. let's play a little bit of that. >> the statement that don junior issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weig...