investigation into russia. in the 2016 election. this is 30 minutes. >> we are back at the table. representative gregory meeks sits on the foreign affairs committee and also is a district attorney special prosecutor in new york city. let me ask you, from the washington post, smoking gun or distraction, when donald trump junior set i love it to the process of scoring-the information but hillary clinton in june last year, did that constitute a smoking gun? >> is continuing mounting evidence that i think the special prosecutor will continue to look at and have conversation, who did in fact talk to? you like us to believe that he did not say think to his father but that has to be reviewed. that's why a special prosecutor will now have further evidence of which to look at to see whoho knew what and when, who is part of it what came out of it and is further mounting evidence and why i believe he needs to take his time and see what channels leave wear or nowhere. but you have to thoroughly w investigated. more things of concern. >> if donald trump junior, chair cushion, and paul manafor

individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting miss clinton. her statements were vague. and ambiguous, made no sense. no details or supporting information was provided or even ordinary. it quickly became clear she had no meaningful information. she then changed subjects and began discussing the adoption of russian children, and mentioned it. it became clear this was the true agenda all along and claims with potentially helpful information were a pretext for the meeting. i interrupted and advised her my father was a private citizen, and that her comments and concerns were better addressed if and when he held public office. the meeting lasted approximately 20 to 30 minutes. as it ended, my acquaintance apologized for taking up my time. that was the end of it and there was no further contact or follow-up of any kind. my father knew nothing of the meeting or these events. i want to bring in elise who is following this breaking news. help us just how significant this is. >> well, ana, it's significant because it's the first early indication that we

russia and europe's current military strategy. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. now, a look at how u.s. elections interacts with foreign issues. from washington journal, this is about 30 minutes. we welcome back larry noble for discussion on election law and the russian investigation. he is senior director and general campaign director. for those who are not familiar, what is the campaign legal center? guest: we are a nonpartisan organization that fights for democracy. we believe that every american citizen has a right to dissipate in our democracy -- two participate in our democracy. we work on voting rights and ethics law to make sure we are defending promoted people's ability to participate. host: how are you funded? guest: we are funded by foundations and private contributions. host: before we get to detail of donald trump jr.'s meeting last june, what are the rules pertaining to the presidential candidate for his senior officials having contact with some one, a representative from a foreign government during a campaign? guest: campaign finance rules are bas

. diplomatic staff out of russia as protest against new sanctions. ♪ first to afghanistan and another attack in the capital of kabul. security forces battling gunmen after a suicide bombing at the iraqi embassy. state group has claimed responsibility for the attack. 2 afghan guards were killed. from kabul, our correspondent has more. the interior ministry and couple in a statement said at least four attackers targeted the iraqi embassy. the first attacker in the explosions -- it is not clear whether he was on foot. they went into the first floor of the embassy, the interior of the embassy. special forces managed to take iraqi diplomats to a safe location. this is still an ongoing attack. they were four kilometers away. i can't tell you, a number of employees of various offices specialcuated by afghan .orces they were very cautious for a few hours, as i said. h has claimed responsibility for this attack. almost two weeks ago the iraqi held a press kabul conference hailing the recapture of mosul. iraqi flags were hanged on the embassy. there was a celebration. but the afghan ministry for an of

father irat, who helped bring the miss universe pageant to moscow. the crown prosecutor of russia met with irat this morning, and in that meeting afterred to provide the trump campaign with special documents that would incriminate hillary in dealings with russia that would be very useful to your father. it's part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. what do you think is the best way to handle this information? donald trump jr. responds the very same day, if it's what you later in the summer. could we do a call first thing next week? the trump tower meeting was eventually set up between donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and a russian lawyer who says she has no connection with the russian government. doesn't know why the trump administration thought she had information on clinton. >> it's possible they were looking for such information, they wanted it so badly. >> donald trump jr. says the lawyer did not have any relevant information. late this afternoon, president donald trump weighed in, issuing a brief establishment, calling his son a high quality perso

afghanistan. he took on assad. has a good plan regarding isil. when it comes to russia, i am dumbfounded. >> good morning. >> first of all, i have to say we all are, senator. this morning especially after, mika, a weekend of bizarre stories. >> wow! >> and then the defense. >> revelations. >> i get it. did i not say there's going to be a perry mason moment where they say i did it, i did it? that's what happened this weekend. >> welcome to "morning joe." big morning today. veteran columnist. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. mike. >> no, no, no, no. >> let's continue. let's continue. >> it may be summer. >> no, no. >> but there's no vacation from this. mike barnicle. >> senior political analyst mark halperin, harold ford jr., former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department's elise jordan. michael schmidt, columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius. new questions about the motives behind meetings between the president's son, donald jr., and changing explanations for those meetings. he was promised damaging information about hillary clinton be

. russia relationship is very important and has suffered and we need to make it better there's no question about it we need to cooperate on so many issues on nuclear weapons on syria on iran on energy on trade. do colon is still exist. ricos treated as one does not run oil co-equals and hind limb alito and then only on the portal three cool. and i knew a lot of seats and they could be seen on the island is controlled by the us government and some puerto ricans crave independence joe it was the almighty god you know it was. good at either way but i mean to sort out what i mean we're taking a game. still many do wish to join the us hundreds more leave every day. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger of the island is on the rise. i . now. donald trump's willingness to work with russia following positive talks at the g twenty is met with skepticism in washington. like the g. twenty in german chancellor comes under fire for underestimating the dangers posed by militant left wingers. four pm here in moscow this monday july tenth my name is you know welcome to our team inter

meeting with vladimir putin? does he really believe that russia hacked the election? answers tonight in a new interview. also, the latest on a white house under siege over the donald trump donald trump e-mail revelation, plus, republican lawmakers grappling with how to react. reporting for us tonight, cnn's jessica schneider. ryan nobel is on capitol hill. pamela brown with some new exclusive video. we begin at the white house and jessica schneider. so donald trump jr. addressing that meeting with reuters. >> the president saying he gnaw nothing about that june 26th meeting between his eldest son and that russian lawyer. the president really, this is the first time he's spoken out about this, saying he didn't know anything about it. of course, his lawyer and the deputy press secretary, this is the same message that they've been pushing for the past 24 to 48 hours. the president telling reuters this, saying, i didn't know until a couple of days ago, when i heard about this, i think many people would have had that meeting. of course, i think that's the exact same sentiment that his sob

presidency. this appears to be the week that the russia story has metastasized. the gap between the original story donald trump jr. told and what we have learned to be the truth grows by the day and with each new piece of evidence, the white house is forced to revise and extend its remarks. in one week we move from the white house and trump junior denying ever having met with russians through a series of concessions and evolving explanations offered only after reporters uncovered new facts to where we are now, that trump junior, jared kushner, paul manafo manafort, an interpreter, a lawyer and maybe others met at trump tower to discuss dirt on hillary clinton. was there more? was it collusion? treason as some democrats charge? simple opposition research as president trump has claimed? was it even illegal? to be sure, there are many unanswered questions, but here's what we know right now. the trump team was open to getting information from russians and willing to cover it up. >> as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. >> over the course of seven days, a head-snapping s

russia. >> they'll say anything to be able to win this. this is time and time again lie after lie. notice he won't say, well, i say this. we hear experts. his house cat at home once said this is what's happening with the russians. it's disgusting. it's so phony. >> that is a bit of moral outrage from someone who weeks beforehand met with a russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about hillary clinton. for months the trump team insisted falsely that there were no contacts. here's vice president pence in january. >> of course not. why would there be any contacts between the campaign? chris, this is all a distraction, and it's all a part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. >> here's president trump, one month later. >> i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge, no person that i deal with does. >> now, to the best of our knowledge, at least five former or current members of president trump's team have not only had some contact with the russians, they have lied, changed their stories or not b

>>> tonight -- >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. >> donald trump jr. gives up the game. >> there's no collusion between me and my campaign and the russians. >> the president's son releases a jaw-dropping e-mail showing attempted collusion with the russian government. >> this is time and time again, lie after lie. >> tonight, what did the president know and when did he know it? >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> what this revelation means for all three investigations. >> the e-mails, i think, made quite clear that the russian government had possession of damaging information. >> how the white house and republicans are reacting to a story they can no longer call fake news. >> this is a massive nothing burger. >> why this bombshell e-mail is already a factor in the trajectory of trump care in the senate. >> i love e-mails. you can't erase e-mails. when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. after a year of denials tonight we know the campaign of donald j.

cancel on the president. the russia's story has been p pesticides. the gap between what donald trump jr. , told and what we learned of the truth. in one week we moved from the white house to trump jr. denying having met with russians through a series of concessions involving explanations only after reporters uncovered new facts. trump jr. and manafort and the russians. is there more? >> was there collusion? aiding and abetting. simple researches that president trump was playing? was it illegal? to be sure, there are many unanswered questions. here is what we know right now. trump's team is opened to get information from russian and willing to cover them. >> as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. >> over the course of seven days a series of statements. story number one, there were no contacts with russians and the putin regime during the campaign. >> it is absurd and there is no base to it. >> i had nothing to do with russia to the best of my knowledge and no person that i deal with. >> saturday, the new york times report, there was a meeting on june 9th, 2016. s

words about, hillary clinton straight from the highest levels of the kremlin. he was told russia supported his dad. his response to all this? i love it. last night donald trump jr. went to the friendliest possible outleft, sean hannity, to defend himself. >> in retrospect, i would have done it differently. this was before the russia mania. before they were building up in the press. this was opposition research. they had maybe concrete evidence to the stories. they were probably underreported for years, not just during the campaign. so i think i wanted to hear it out. it went nowhere and it was apparent that wasn't what the meeting was actually about. >> today president trump told reuters he didn't have knowledge about the meeting until a few days ago but he didn't fault his son for doing so. >> i think many people would have held that meeting. and he tweeted on hannity, my son donald did a good job last night. he was open, transparent and innocent. this is the greatest witch hunt in the political history. sad. someone who disagrees with him about this witch hunt is the man he nom

was fired for in the president's words this russia thing. as you might expect, the latest developments in this russia thing were brought up multiple tiemts. so how did he do? >> i will never allow the fbi's work to be driven p by anything other than the facts, the law and the impartial pursuit of justice, period, full stop. my loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law, and to the mission of the fbi. and no one asked me for my kind of loyalty oath during any point of this process and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> if the president asked you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say? >> first i would try to talk him out of it, and if that failed, i would resign. >> i'm asking you as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch-hunt? >> i do not consider director mueller to be on a witch-hunt. >> let's get right to it. joining me now is my all star panel, my colleague peter alexander is over at the white house this afternoon where we are awaiting an off-camera briefing from sarah huckabee sanders. darren headache has capitol hill c

the one that pertains to what we have been discussing, russia and the question not just of his son but more broadly, of whether or not russia did try to help the trump campaign, the defense that the president offered to pat robertson was, again, denying that he tried -- that putin tried to help him. that it doesn't make any sense, said donald trump, because he believed that hillary clinton would have been better for vladimir putin than donald trump. and i'm just going to read you a quote. he said, "we are the most powerful country in the world, and we are getting more and more powerful because i'm a big military person. as an example, if hillary had won, our military would be decimated. our energy would be much more expensive. that's what putin doesn't like about me. and that's why i say, why would he want me? because from day one, i wanted a strong military. he doesn't want to see that." again, this is a quote coming from the christian broadcasting network about what the president just told pat robertson in an interview. so there you have an example, the most recent example, today

robert: the russia probe widens, shifting the white house into crisis mode, again. i'm robert costa. we get the back story on the new revelations involving the president's son, son-in-law, and a former russian spy, tonight on "washington week." president trump: i have a son who's a great young man, took a meeting with a lawyer from russia. nothing came of the meeting. robert: president trump defends his son's decision to talk with a russian attorney who offered damaging information about hillary clinton. >> for me, this was opposition research, they had something, maybe concrete evidence to all the stories i have been hearing about that were underreported for years, not just during the campaign. robert: and the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, also under fire, for attendance at that meeting, and for failing to list dozens of foreign contacts on his security application. >> his security clearance must be revoked immediately. robert: we look at the latest revelations involving the president's inner circle. plus, bleak prognosis. republican lawmaker roll out a revised healthcare

person. he took a meeting with a lawyer from russia. it lasted for a short period, nothing came of the meeting. i think it is a meeting most people in politics probably would have taken. mr. president? president macron: yes, to answer your question, i think it is inays good not to interfere domestic life. president trump: what is the answer then? [laughter] host: the president and french president there. your thoughts on that expedition from president trump. guest: it is wholly inadequate and ignores the facts of what we know and what his son has admitted. this was not just a short meeting. this was a meeting set up after donald trump jr. garden email saying that this lawyer -- got in the mail saying this russian lawyer had information, based on their attempts to help the trump campaign. going into this meeting, they knew where they thought they were going to get information that would help them in the election. it was information gathered by the russian government. the idea most anyone would take that meeting is false. i think most political people in washington and lawyers, when

was asked today in his confirmation hearing about whether he believes russia was a friend other ar a foe. he said he believes russia is a country that should answer warily. i asked this question monday, and i did not get an answer from you. i believe the same question was asked of you yesterday. you said you would get back to us. i think it's a pretty basic question as to whether or not the president views russia as a friend, partner, an ally or an adversary. do you have an answer yet on that question? >> i don't, but john, i do assure you i will certainly work to make sure i get that answer to you. >> another question as it relates to the russian sanctions deal. you had mark short out here the other day talking about the need to run a waiver on that bill. that's what the administration would like to see. if there is no waiver attached to the bill and it comes before the president's desk, would the president veto this legislation? >> right now we haven't made a determination because we don't think that this is an all or nothing process, nor should it be. in the current form, the lej

russia. today adown played donald trump jr. recently revealed meeting last year during the campaign season. at the same time it is dealing with the fallout from president trump's dweets of working with moscow to improve cyber security. despite another tweet backtracking on idea both situations with raising eyebrows in mist of all investigations whether trump campaign coludeed with russia. >>> president trump floored lawmakers and tech exrt a tweet on sunday. he wrote putin and i discussed forming impen trabl hacking unit so that elects and other things will be guarded and sea safe and bartnership with the country accused of medaling drew quick response on both side of the aisle aisle. >> i'm sure he could be of enormous assistance since he's doing ak hacking. >> president did back p paedaling with another sweet saying just because he and putin discaused cyber security doesn't mean he thinks it can happen that was not enough to save lawmakers. >> when it comes to russia i'm dumb pounded and disappointed and at the end of the day he's hurting president dncy by not embracing fact putin

house is under siege with infighting in the west wing over how to respond to the russia revelations. joining us is republican congressman steve king of iowa, member of the house judiciary committee. good morning, congressman. >> good morning, alisyn. >> how do you characterize what don junior did in taking the meeting? >> i listened to the media on both sides of it and i try to put myself in the position of donald trump senior and donald trump jr. i thought if that information came to me, i would want a firewall. this fell to donald trump jr. he should have had a firewall. you would have pushed that as far down the chain as you could to get reliable information and feed it back up if it were valid and something that was legitimate. >> i want to be clear on what you mean by a firewall. if you got an e-mail saying the crown prosecutor of russia offered to provide the trump campaign with official documents and information that would incriminate hillary, this is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of russia and its government's support for mr. king, if that c

president's pick to lead the fbi saying the russia probe is not a witch hunt, although just hours earlier president trump tweeted and said, "it is indeed a witch hunt." this is from today's white house briefing. >> why he calls it a witch hunt? >> because the president knows very specifically any action or inaction that he's taken, and so i think that's pretty clear. >> sarah huckabee sanders also saying the president has spoken with his son in the last few days and clearly, his tv interview he watched last night because he also tweeted, "my son donald did a good job. he was open, transparent and innocent." but remember his initial statement on that meeting? never mentioned russia, and the "new york times" reports that the president signed off on that statement, which, of course, had to be revised or updated four times as new information comes out. could there be even more coming? well, here's donald trump jr. on that. >> i'm more than happy to be transparent about it and i'm more than happy to cooperate with everyone. >> so as far as you know, as far as this incident is concerned

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on the russia investigation. >> if hillary had won, our military would be decimated. our energy would be much more expensive. that's what putin doesn't like about me. >> to breaking news overnight, in a major update in the search for four missing pennsylvania men. >>> president trump's choice for fbi director facing fire and many questions to loyalty to his new boss. >>> incredible images out of china of a massive car-crushing mud slide caught on cap camera. >>> and the cringe worthy moment of the espys "early today" starts now. good to be y with you. president trump has just arrive ed in paris for a major mote, u be first a new development over donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer. the e-mail claimed the russian government claimed his support. >> if hillary had won our military would be decimated. our energy would be much more expensiv expensive. so when i keep hearing he would have rather had trump, i think probably not. >> peter alexander r has more on the latest twist in the russian controversy. >> reporter: this video shot exclusively by nbc shows donald trump i

connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting ms. clinton. this happened two weeks after donald trump clinched the nomination. donald trump jr. said in that statement the meeting lasted 20 to 30 minutes. again, this morning, an hour ago in another attempt to clarify, donald trump jr. took to twitter to say this, he said, no inconsistency in these statements. meeting ended up primarily about adoptions and response to further qs or questions, i simply provided more detail. donald trump there, donald trump jr. issuing several statements. the president's top counselor, kellyanne conway was on "new day" this morning to explain further. >> don jr. has stated he didn't know the name of the person with whom he was meeting. he agreed to the meeting based on a contact from the miss universe pageant to get into the meeting. it quickly turns into a pretext for russian adoption, according to the statements. the comments this woman was making about any type of information on hillary clinton were vague, meaningless. others exited the meeting quickly. the meeting

the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreign-policy to influence an american election. today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. members of congress take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the united states with what our responsibility is. the president also takes that both. speaker ryan has avoided any response by the republicans, any positive action to uphold the constitution of the united states. in terms of our electoral system, our democracy. earlier this week, i called upon him to give us a vote on this independent commission. outside independent commission to investigate the ties to russia. what do the russians have politically or financially and any personally on donald trump? that he fonds over putin, questions sanctions, is reckless when it comes to article five of nato, the list goes on and on. people have a right to know. maybe it will clear the air. maybe it won't. we know one thing for sure, we have a responsibility to make sure that russia does not meddle in

russia or china or most likely nobody at all and that will not be a friendly place for america or american prosperity. >> you wrote about the u.s. pulling out of the transpacific partnership, and one of the things you said about the chinese is that essentially they have taken the temperature of donald trump and that for all the talk about him being a great negotiator and a tough guy, you say, you've just been traveling throughout asia, is that trump basically is nicknamed chump in china. >> that's my nickname. if you look at how bebe manipulated him in israel, how putin just manipulated him at the g20, how the chinese have played him, he's a chump. the reason he's a chump is because he doesn't do his homework. he hasn't thought things through. let's look at tpp, the transpacific partnership. what was that? that was a 12-nation free trade zone that was created by the united states based on our values and our interests. it had more protections for workers environment. it was negotiated by obama, a liberal, than any trade agreement in history. it was what hillary clinton said about i

man behind the story that is rocking the news, what russia wanted from donald trump jr. was to end the so called sanctions. what are those and why does putincare about them? >> our two nations are forever joined by the spirit of revolution. >> the special election to bastille day. >>> but first, here is my take. the latest revolutions about return shan and donald trump campaign are useful because they might help unfl, which is why has donald trump had such a benign attitude twoords putin. it begs for some kind of explanation. on foreign policy he has had clear and consistent views for three decades. in 1987 in his first major statement he took out an ad in several newspapers that began. for decades japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the united states this is trump's world view and he has never waivered from it. he added on the former he wrote in his campaign book there are people who wish i wouldn't refer to china as our enemy but that's exactly what that are. someone deeply skeptical towards other nations and their leaders who believes in a fortres america that

vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee says it's now black and white that russia tried to help donald trump. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want his son to testify, one suggesting it may even be an issue of treason. >>> transparency. president trump has kept quiet with his son's involvement in russia, and issuing transparency even as donald trump jr. has changed his story in recent days. >>> the regime has been celebrating its new long range missile. there are no signs it might not be successful as claimed. how great is the north korean threat to the united states? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking news. a bombshell revelation today draws the most direct line yet between the trump campaign and russia and it comes in the form of e-mails released by none other than donald trump jr. the e-mails set up the june 2016 meeting between a russian lawyer with trump jr., a trump campaign manager, paul manafort, and trump's son-in-law jared kushner. in the first e-mail an intermediary relayed a message that

overseen by jared kushner helped guide russia's voter targeting and fake news attacks on hillary clinton in 2016. did the campaign point russian cyber operatives and bots to specific areas in specific states. for the report, mcclatchy spoke to a former pentagon official who just left the department of defense in january and that senior official said, quote, there appears to have been significant cooperation between russia's online propaganda machine and individuals in the united states who were knowledgeable about where to target the disinformation. last night rachel maddow spoke with that former senior pentagon official, michael carpenter, and he explained why russia may have needed people on u.s. soil. >> there was probably some degree of tailored messaging, in fact, down to the very precinct level, targeting swing voters in certain midwestern states. in order to do that, the russian intelligence services, a, don't possess the internal capacity to able to do that on their own in a very sophisticated way but, b, it is their m.o. and i've seen this in a number of other countries

meeting was june of 2016. the woman stated she had that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national supporting mrs. clinton. her statements were vague, no sense, no made details or supporting nformation was provided or offered, quickly became clear she had no meaningful information, she changed subjects and began to discuss russian children and to me, this was the true claims of the information was pretext of the meeting. he meeting was 20 to 30 minutes, my father knew nothing of the meeting or events. the e is next on independent line. caller: yes, sir. don't understand why -- by what they do and nobody don't try to do anything about it. years old and i've never se -- as trump and the people him. defend and then they want people, if ou don't agree, there is something wrong with you. i s is really something that never would hope that we have to. nobody doing anything about it. california, republican line. caller: hi. thank you for taking my call. host: uh-huh. caller: i think that donald businessman, 's a he's got to do business. the media is doing and i bomb

mcnit skooe act, which is directly connected to a lawyer, this woman from russia, who met with the trump family. you know, all this obviously bringing lots of questions about why didn't donald trump jr., why didn't kushner reveal these other people who were in this meeting. >> all right, shimon, we'll know you are continuing to dig and we'll bring you back in. i want to bring in our panel for now. cnn analyst and national security analyst, former fbi special agent and now associate dean at yale law school and joining her is john, former general counsel to the cia, also the author of "company man." this breaking news, cnn reporting more people in that room than had been previously disclosed, including rinat, a russian-american lobbyist with apparent ties to russian intelligence. your reaction? >> yes, this is the case of the multiplying russians. what this tells me is that somebody might have been at that meeting that has an intelligence and specifically a counterintelligence background is that even the russians expected that don junior might have called the fbi. this is someone who

russia investigation in the wake of what some are calling the smoking gun e-mail involving donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer, and the president sending a flurry of tweets and putting his lawyer out on all of the sunday shows to push back against that story and a delay in the health care battle and senator john mccain means no vote on the gop bill this week. how will the extra time affect the republican effort to repeal obamacare and the next hour, you don't want to miss it. "trump at 6 months." we'll look at what donald trump has done, the good, the bad and the downright crazy and an in-depth look about how trump voters feel about him now and would they or would they not change their vote? >>> an investigation in the white house launching a new more aggressive counter campaign after a week of explanations, team trump is punching back hard to keep the president out of the story. take a listen. >> no, i don't represent donald trump jr., and i don't know for sure who was at that meeting. >> i don't think the denials are suspect. and i don't think the denial by the pres

statement saying it was a woman where the individuals connected to russia with information, damaging information that it was supporting hillary clinton. said that it was nonsense, ambiguous. now, we are hearing from donald trump jr., this morning, tweeting, several times, this is the latest one saying there is no inconsistency in statements. meeting ended up being primarily about adoptions. i simply provided more details. clearly, there are people hitting back on that particular stand. we have heard from democrats and republicans from the various federal investigations and committee that is are investigating whether there is collusion between the trump campaign and russian officials, but the white house, this morning, putting out kellyanne conway, a trump top adviser to hit back and hit back hard. here is how she responded to our own chris cuomo moe. >> he stated he didn't know the name of the person he was meeting. he agreed to the meeting based on a contact to the miss universe pageant. get into the meeting and it turns into a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statemen

investigating this russia issue, do, they both want to talk to paul manafort. they've exchanged documents with him. he provided documents to the committee, but he doesn't want to talk to them, but he's wanted to talk to them in a classified session, so the question is if he does come before congress in a public session, next week, that could lead to a lot of questions about his role in -- during the campaign, meetings that he had with russian officials, these questions that he -- about whether he was involved in any collusion. of course, something that he has strongly denied. as well as the fact that he participated in that meeting with donald trump jr. and the lawyer from -- who had apparently had ties to the kremlin, that he participated in that july 2016 meeting and what happened in that meeting. all would be subject to questions by senators in this session if manafort does, in fact, appear and does not invoke his fifth amendment rights not to testify. now, the fact that they are willing to subpoena him also very, very significant. it shows a level that they're willing to go

to maintaining the existing sanctions against russia until moscow reverses the aggressive actions against ukraine that triggered the sanctions, and president trump reaffirmed this position at the g20 last friday. but this is more about foreign policy and having the flexibility to negotiate with other countries, and this includes working with allies and partners to present a united front to common foes, and we remain committed to working with congress on those issues. >> with the -- >> can you call on me next, sarah. >> sure. >> okay, thank you. >> with mosul now in iraqi hands, is there a -- does the president have a strategy for the future of iraq? or u.s. involvement in iraq? >> you know, those are continued conversations, and as we have announcements on it, we'll let you guys know. >> sarah, i'm going to take this one. >> i promised i'd come to him next. >> is president trump now aware of a russian government effort to influence the campaign in his favor? >> i'm sorry? >> is the president now aware of the russian government effort to influence the campaign in his favor? >> agai

back at that moment in time, this whole russia discussion wasn't even going on, you know? so he gets this e-mail. he wants to hear what they have to say. he's sat there for a little while. he said nothing really came of it. it was something they didn't think of after that. it's hard to put yourself back in that moment when this russia thing was not so omni present. i think senator leahy who talked ab russia being our sworn enemy. i thought to myself, really? 'cause wasn't the way the obama administration looked at russia at all. really have to sort of put this thing in perspective. obviously, we have to follow it where it leads. >> harris: the democrats are having their own issues with russia, via hillary clinton and questions with the clinton foundation. it wasn't just that it wasn't on the landscape for democrats. they were actually pushing it off the landscape. so interesting for him to actually talk about that, donald trump jr. before we move on, how do you think he's doing in terms of the messaging? we all watched it last night. >> in terms of what? >> harris: the messaging. >>

europe research at the atlantic council. she is here to discuss russia's lobbying efforts, historically and against today's sanctions opposed against them. thank you for joining us. guest:. thank you for having me host: let's get your reaction to the latest is that a former russian counterintelligence personl was the eighth in the room and the meeting conducted with donald trump jr. and jared kushner, paul manafort last june. what do you think the implications of that revelation are? guest: as far as i know about the specific individuals we are discussing, he was someone who became a lobbyist and was engaged in this effort for quite some time in the united states. he had dual citizenship, russia and u.s. that not that surprising somebody of the nature would've joined the meeting because the russian attorney who he will be hearings a lot about, the person who asked for the meeting supposedly, was a lobbyist herself and likely worked closely with this other individual and other lobbying efforts on behalf of russian business interests and the russian government. we have to un

. >> this is dw new, live from berlin. tonight, what did his son know about russia and his father. donald trump jr. releases a chain of emails in order to be transparent but will it help quell questions about the trump campaign's ties with russia. we will be live in russia with washington. also, the guns and raqqa. the final stronghold in syria is the next target. as once the case in muscle, thousands of civilians are trapped. germany calls on beijing to allow this man to be treated abroad. the play has fallen on deaf ears. -- the plea has fallen on deaf ears. brent: i am brent goff. it is good to have you with us. donald trump's oldest son, donald trump junior took a meeting with a russian lawyer who claimed to have damaging information about hillary clinton. pressure has been building on donald trump jr. at the reports emerged that he met with a russian lawyer as a part of it in one effort -- kremlin effort oto help his father when the u.s. presidency. to talk about this, i am joined by alexander at the white house. -- alexandra at the white house. what has come out of this chai

korea and russia's election interview -- interference. this is 25 minutes. >> the presidents of united states of america and poland. >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to welcome to warsaw, to welcome to poland, the president of the united states of america, mr. donald trump. i am delighted with his visit. this is it in warsaw, which is one of the international visits first paid by mr. president trump. it stresses our bond and high-quality of our alliance between poland and the united states. it also demonstrates that we are and that we mutually assess each other as loyal partners of those who cooperate on many different areas, including the area of security within the nato alliance. today, this was one of the topics of our discussion that we had during the meeting with the president followed by a preliminary session of our delegations. we talked about the presence of american soldiers in poland and talked about strengthening the security, including the eastern flank of nato. we discussed security in europe. apart from that, we mentioned the situation in ukraine. we talke

questioning he did not believe the russia probe is not a witch hunt if is important that the american people hear that from senior positions. the president of the united states who has been an unprecedented assault on the independent justice department privately through his actions, questioning the department, and publicly by attacking the fairness of it's investigations. at the time when there is a loss of faith in a number of institutions, it is important that they hear it is not pursuing witch hunts in this case. they will pursue it fairly, and will follow the facts and nothing else, so if they decide to bring charges, people have the faith they did that for a good reason. if they decide not to, they have faith in that as well. >> a lot of the questioning to your earlier point, test. test test. >>> good afternoon, we begin on capitol hill where we will get to that grassley news in junction a moment, but pthd trump's nominee for the fbi sent his day before the. that hearing was dominated by a story of a source by the "washington post" as a category 5 hurricane. trump and hi

and other allegations. that this whole thing about trump campaign in russia as a witch hunt. is that a fair description of what we're all dealing with an american. well senator i can't speak to the basis for those comments i can tell you that my experience with direct i'm asking you as the future fbi director you consider this endeavor which i. i do not consider director muller to be on a witch hun. what are you think he in an interview with the christian broadcasting network today president trump try to refocus attention back on to his legislative agenda? and away from the questions about russia so preoccupied his administration. kevin hit there just a short time ago i spoke to gavin who is at the white house. alvin this controversy is getting closer and closer to the man in the building behind you. is there any sense that the white house is actually changing its approach to how we can contain old place. well jane there is said to be huge frustration and indeed some fury over the publication of the emails yesterday over russia. the fury comes about because the trump administration b

republican health care bill floundering in the senate. the president also made clear it's russia that's on the top of his mind, tweeting earlier today most politicians would have gone to a meeting that don jr. attended in order to get info on an opponent. that's politics. but that's not what christopher wray, the president's nominee to lead the fbi, said last week at his confirmation hearing when he told senators the meeting with russians should have raised alarm. >> any threat or effort to interfere with our elections from any nation state or any non-state actor is the kind of thing the fbi would want to know. >> reporter: the president insisting there was nothing wrong with the trump tower meeting in june of 2016 when his oldest son, donald trump jr., senate adviser jared kushner and campaign adviser paul manafort met with a russian lawyer promising damaging information on hillary clinton. the latest news poll shows 36% approve of donald trump while 58% do not. it's the lowest rating at this point in polls going back 70 years. at the same point of their presidencies, barack obama and

level and sensitive information, but it's part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. trump junior replying, if it is what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. >> someone sent me an e-mail. i can't help what someone sends me. this is 13 months before i think the rest of the world was talking about that, trying to build up this narrative about russia. so i don't even think my sirens went up or the antennas went up. >> reporter: the president's son and his attorney insisting president trump was not aware of the meeting or the e-mails. >> it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. >> the president, by the way, never saw an e-mail, did not see the e-mail until it was seen today. >> reporter: cnn learned the e-mails were discovered as jared kushner and his legal team were preparing for his upcoming congressional testimony after being unusually reserved on twitter the president returning to a familiar line of attack this morning tweeting, my son donald did a good job last ni

president himself, the trump campaign now admits that it knew that russia was meddling in our election to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. they now admit that they were informed of that fact early on, even before the first news reports to that effect. and learning that that was happening, the trump campaign's response at the highest level, was that that tried to help the russians in achieving their goals. now that that has been conceded, what happens next? i mean, as of this time last night, "the new york times" is reporting that its reporters had seen documentation that indicated that the trump campaign knowingly took a meeting with a representative of the russian government during the campaign in an effort to try to get damaging information on hillary clinton from the russians. since then, "the times" itself and a senior trump campaign adviser, namely the president's eldest son, they have published that documentation. the meeting in question happened last june. it previously had been a secret meeting. that secret meeting has now been made public, along with the ci

talking about russian adoptions which really are a proxy for sanctions against russia over human rights violations, but he said he was not the right person. because of the presence of this e-mail, and mr. goldstone was not clear on how he knew this, he appeared to be relaying information that he had heard from other people, it's not clear that he knew this firsthand, but it is clear that this information at best came with an asterisk. >> yeah. couple questions for you. this e-mail, do you think it will ever come to light publicly? >> i -- i don't know, but at the rate we're going, it's certainly possible. >> okay. let me read some of your reporting, maggie. and, again, this is the story, again, leading "the new york times" tonight. "before arranging" -- from maggie's meeting "before arranging a meeting with a lawyer he believed would offer compromising information about hillary clinton, donald trump jr. was informed in an e-mail the material was part of a russian effort to aid his father's presidency. mr. goldstone's message as described to "the new york times" by the three peopl