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>> reporter: i plan to. a russian pop star, donald trump jr. released his own e-mails saying he was told the meeting was to pass on damaging intelligence about hillary clinton. information to pass on to the trump administration? >> talk to my lawyer. >> reporter: i talked to him. he said you wouldn't comment. >> so i won't comment. >> wouldn't it be nice if we got along with russia? wouldn't that be nice. >> reporter: it was one of trump's consistent campaign themes. the criticism of nato and hints of ending sanctions, russia's preferred candidate. trump's failure to deliver, investigations in...

Meeting with the russians at trump tower. that memo tried to downplay the significance of the me -- meeting and failed to mention that they would give damaging information about hillary clinton. sources tell cnn the president drafted a memo along with top aide stephen miller explaining the reasoning behind the firing but thel letter was never sent. mueller's team has that letter and revealed it was russia related. >> when i decided to do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: white house lawyer ty cobb wouldn't comment directly ...

Possesses. >> reporter: sources tell cnn the special counsel is particularly interested in hicks' role drafting the initial and misleading statement from donald trump jr. about his meeting with a russian lawyer at trump tower. that statement, drafted on board air force one with input from the president, tried to downplay the significance of the meeting, and failed to mention a promise the russian lawyer would bring damaging information about hillary clinton. hicks was also in bedminster, new jersey, days before the president fired fbi director james comey. sources tell cnn the president drafte...

Wanted to have a meeting with the trump campaign, and vladimir putin. now, this person from west virginia was not identified in the e-mail, but dearborn was passing along information they wanted to set up this meeting between putin and the campaign. now, dearborn, i'm told, was, appeared skeptical of having such a meeting in the e-mail, but we really don't know what happened afterwards, because dearborn did not return our request for comment and white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, i asked about this, she she they wouldn't comment on potentially lyriced documents. investigators...

Did appear skeptical. and it's unclear if he ever acted on the request. what is notable about this e-mail is it was sent in june, 2016, around the same time of that trump tower meeting involving paul manafort and russians who had promised damaging information on hillary clinton. it's unclear if this latest e-mail had any connection to that meeting but intelligence experts are saying this fits a pattern of russians trying to gather human intelligence from the campaign and another attempt by them to gain an entry point into the campaign. now, rick deer born who wrote the e-mail and is now the pr...