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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run ....
Their cases, directly connected to the kremlin. and there s a lot of debate on capitol hill about this right now, particularly between the leaders of the republican and the democratic congressional committees congressional campaign committees, that is, about to what extent wican thei candidates use information that they know is stolen, maybe stolen by a foreign government, as part of their campaigns, even if it is in the public domain. that s something that will continue to be debated on capitol hill as we get closer to the midterm elections. joyce, last question to you. we re dealing with somebody who can t seem to get his story straight. at least that s one thing that we re dealing with here. i want to play a little tape from last night, the president heading out to ohio for this rally, ahead of the special election on tuesday. let s take a listen to what the president had to say. we have got to stop it. we ve got to stop meddling. we ve got to stop everybody from attacking us. ....