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

. 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

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

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

-- russia, north korea, dealing with terrorism. he takes outward thinking. we need to continue looking at partnerships with other countries in those areas to deal .ith it host: what about afghanistan and making decisions on this? times -- new york times the other day -- in afghanistan? guest: i served in 2008 what -- under president bush. it is the longest war in our nation pauses history. it is something where we cannot just leave the country. no doubt. do, there will be a vacuum created in the noise will be filled mostly by an entity we don't want. we are guiding the country along ensuring that only their safety but our safety. that is an issue and i believe the white house does need to be involved in the decision-making process. we are fortunate to have someone in that position as part of this stash whenunderstand commanding general and general manager, as secretary of defense, i'm sure the children -- the general will invide necessary strategy how to deal with the future of afghanistan and our presence there. call it what you want. to put for that amount of troops, let's listen to it

house investigation into russia and the 2016 elections. this is about 15 minutes. trump made for the russians to hack and released hillary information. we now know the response that the president's son gave to the russians is that he would love it if they gave damaging information about hillary clinton, rather than report this overture to provide damaging information to intervene in the presidential election to help his father, neither the president's nor the campaign reported this information to the fbi. when it became obvious the emails were being dumped, when it was obvious this was being done by the russian government, when our own intelligence committee issued a statement in october of firming this was being done by the russians, did the trump campaign than disclose they had received an overture to receive damaging information. the answer is, no they did not. significant, deeply disturbing new public information about direct contacts between the russian government and its verymediaries in the center of the trump family, campaign, organization. obviously, we need to get to the bo

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

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

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

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

committee and the american people russia's interference in the european elections. we hope to gain understanding of russian efforts to undermine democratic institutions worldwide as the committee continues its inquiry. the intelligence committee assessed in january that moscow will apply lessons learned from his campaign aimed at the united states presidential election to further influence efforts worldwide. to further assess that russia has influenced elections across -- they echoed those worlds when he testified before the senate that russia seeking to influence elections in europe including france, germany, and the united kingdom. the intelligence community assesses that there russian messaging strategy wins covert activities with overt by state-funded media, third-party intermediaries and paid social media users or trolls. russia's employment government approach to undermining democratic institutions globally. facing down russia's activity is no longer just a bipartisan issue. to successfully protector institutions and the integrity of the electoral systems we must work as a gl

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

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

some of. us from russia brokered cease fire comes into force inside syria people there are enjoying their first peaceful day after six years of fighting. in the ability to. watch t.v. . the week's top stories have a come falls in hamburg is anti g twenty riots blight the german city leaving hundreds of police and protesters injured. i. c n n is accused of blackmailing the creator of the president wrestling clips threatening to reveal his identity if he does something similar again. hello welcome the latest developments and a look back at what's been happening over the last seven days you're watching a weekly here on our. just a few hours ago a cease fire brokered by the u.s. and russia came into force in southwest syria after six years of relentless fighting people across three provinces have finally enjoyed a relatively peaceful. no i know. that maybe i will never get. it done and. you. know what that's all. well the syrian cease fire came as an unexpected breakthrough following a meeting between president putin and donald trump on the sidelines of the g twenty summit being held in

sanction russia and be a roadblock to lifting the sanctions because the president will not be tough with mr. putin as he should be. they come up with excuses to move forward on the bill and at the same time we know that the administration and oil companies are lobbying them to water down the bill. enough is enough to pass the bill now. senator menendez. >> the problem with the medicare act is it isn't better care. it's worse. millions continue to lose their insurance under their plan and everyone else pays more for less. freedom is a concept that we all cherish, the freedom to buy junk insurance into the cost of its exorbitant and you cannot avoid it, that isn't freedom. if i get sick come at the end of the day i will have the entrance to help me get well again and that is what we attempted to do in the affordable care act. i am on the finance committee and i was there when we created the affordable care act today i am proud of that nine out of ten americans have health insurance as a result of our work at for not one moment did i or any of my colleagues on the committee or in their

tweeting five minutes ago, chuck sure just stated democrats should blame ourselves, not russia. the president talk about chuck schumer who has been making the round as democrats announced a new policy agenda, rolling it out today. that's the question we will have for democrats in about 25 minutes when we talk about that policy agenda. it will be a democrats only segment there. for the first half-hour, republicans only based on the president's tweet from yesterday at about four. he tweeted the republicans do very little to protect their president. you think elected republican should do more to protect the president. what does he need protection from? catherine is in almonte. go ahead. >> this is melissa, but that's all right. >> host: melissa, stop listening to the tv, just talk through your phone. >> caller: i agree with the president. it's ridiculous and sad. i'm so disappointed with the republican party. the betrayal of the voters, those who voted for trump and put him in office, for them, it's like they are cowards and their taking a dive. they never stand up for him. they are ne

anger. is on the rise. of. the u.s. and russia brokered cease fire comes into force in southwest syria people there are enjoying their first peaceful day after six years of fighting. the week's top stories have a come folds in. the g twenty rights apply to the german city leaving hundreds of police and protesters injured. i think c.n.n. is accused of blackmailing the creator of the present trump wrestling clip threatening to reveal his identity if he does something similar again. they're welcome the latest developments and a look back at the last seven days to you watching the weekly here on r.t. international now just a few hours ago a cease fire brokered by the u.s. and russia came into force in southwest syria after six years of relentless fighting people across three provinces have finally enjoyed a relatively peaceful. you know. i'm not a newbie to deliberately. watch t.v. . well you have to work with the whole world because of all the. other syrian ceasefire came as an unexpected breakthrough following a meeting between president putin and donald trump on the sidelines of t

the us. a u.s. and russia brokered cease fire comes into force in southwest syria people have been enjoying their first peaceful day almost six years of fighting. in the top stories of the week conflict unfolds in hamburg and twenty riots blights the german city leaving hundreds of police and protesters in egypt. i and c.n.n. is accused of blackmailing the crate the president trying wrestling clips threatening to reveal his identity if he does something similar again. hello you're watching on t.v. international with me rosano good live from moscow thank you for joining us. now on sunday a ceasefire brokered by the u.s. and russia came into force in southwest syria after six years of relentless fighting people across three provinces have finally enjoyed a relatively peaceful day. now. that maybe i will need to give it a. little time in the. bahamas plus all. the syrian cease fire came as an unexpected breakthrough following a meeting between president putin and donald trump on the sidelines of the g. twenty summit in hamburg emily sue has the details following the first face to face

russia and the 2016 elections. this is about 15 minutes. mr. schiff: good afternoon, i mr. schiff: good afternoon, i wanted to make comments about the emails at a been released today. in the summer of last year, the russians were in possession of information they believed would be damaging to secretary clinton and helpful to the trump campaign. some of this information they stole from the computers at the dnc and elsewhere. in june, we now know that through intermediaries to the russian government sought to approach the trump campaign to see if they were interested in damaging information about hillary clinton. presidently, the quite out in the open, then-candidate trump urged the russians to hack hillary clinton's emails and said they would be richly rewarded. during the course of our investigation, one of the questions we have sought to answer is, was there private activity by the campaign in parallel with the very public request that now president trump, then-candidate trump made for the russians to hack and release hillary clinton information? because we now know the response

about the ties to trump campaign from russia. >> and as you can see on the rundown this is a hot story we're talking about tonight at 630 as usual you're invited to skoyn the conversation use the # 5@630. let get to. it. >> donald trump had a better message and ran a smarter campaign and that is why he won. >> president's son-in-law claimed neither here nor anyone else in the trump campaign he's aware of coluded with russia. russia but none were improper. tom fitzgerald brought this up irrelevantier today. it was interesting. this was the first time i think i heard jared kushner's voice. we always see him in video walking behind the scenes. this is the first time we see him out front like that. >> there was an event he was at and not speaking to anything that's has to do with campaign. it was strike at first to hear him. let's talk about the substance of what he said. tomsome is talking about this. this was not under oath but the whitehouse is trying to discredit the russia probe and this was the chance to follow that strategy. >> well you know new wanted to get attention and you

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

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

jeff sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the russia investigation fall from the first change of heart by the u.s. president however the trump has never hidden the fact he wants to be unpredictable i want to be unpredictable unpredictable i used the word unpredictable but i like to be unpredictable you want to be unpredictable and going like our country where we're totally predictable a some find it increasingly difficult to follow the presence. of more can hit the streets of new york to find out if americans really know what time stands on key issues. donald trump is a man whose policy positions can be quite hard to pin down we decided to talk to americans and find out how well they know their commander in chief and where he stands donald trump says it was a good idea to pick jeff sessions i think what he said is. that if he knew jeff sessions would recuse himself he never would have chosen him regrets put in jeff sessions of his eternity general i think would down jump it's all about business so he my. president donald trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions d

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

director for russia at the national security council for years, senior person at the pentagon on russia for years. he has stuff to tell us and he is going to be here tonight for the interview. i'm really looking forward to that. but there is, there's a bunch going on tonight. a lot of news has broken in the last 24 hours. let's get right to it. the 2014 winter olympics were held in sochi, that was controversial of course because all of of the things controversial about russia. you might remember right before the sochi olympics, just a few weeks before the opening ceremonies, vladimir putin made a concession to his human rights critics trying to take sam some of the heat off of russia for hosting the olympics, people were upset about their human rights, international aggression, trying to take the heat off of that. just a few weeks before the olympics started, putin released some of the political prisoners who he was holding in russia prisons. and among the most high profile prisoners that putin released before the sochi olympics was a feminist punk band called pussy riot. i am su

investigation looking into possible ties between russia and the trump administration >> a report claims jeff sessions had conversations with the russian ambassador contributing had us original testimony. >> those allegations come as donald trump junior and paul manafort face the senate judiciary committee later this week >> allison barber has the details. >> reporter: the russian ambassador to washington told his bosses he talked about campaign related matters with the now attorney general of the united states. that, according to a new "washington post" report. the conversations allegedly took place during the 2016 campaign. ambassadors conversations with his bosses were u.s. spy agencieses. seeming the contradicts a number of statements sessions made >> i never had meetings with russian operatives or run intermediate years about the trump campaign >> to the best of your memory, you had no conversations with kislyak >> a spokesperson told fox news she could not comment on the reliability of what anonymous sources describe in the article, but quote, the attorney general stands by his testimon

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

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

influence me with jago r.t. . putin says the time has come for russia show that it will not leave the u.s. sanctions unanswered explained moscow's response to washington's latest restrictions in an interview. with more than a thousand people both diplomatic and technical staff currently working in russia with seven hundred fifty five of them will have to stop their activities and that's painful. because then that america has taken a step to jeopardize u.s. russia relations and the important thing is that that step wasn't triggered by anything because this is a move to impose a legal restrictions to attempt to influence other countries including u.s. allies here which are interested in developing ties with russia. but don't forget that we've been waiting for quite a long time so that maybe something would change for the better we had hoped that the situation would change but it looks like even if it does change then it won't be in the near future quarter i decided it is time for us to show you we will not leave anything unanswered he's alone there will be a political. of course we have mor

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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

do you do after you conquer poland? try your luck with russia. >> trump and putin, the two leaders finally come face to face at the g20. the president confronting putin on russia's hacking but both sides putting their own spin on what happened in that marathon meeting. >> russia's foreign minister says president trump accepted the denial. >> i strongly pressed putin twice about russian meddling in our election, he denied it. i've given my opinion. >> trevor: president trump handled russia's threat to democracy the way a lazy daddies plins his kid. hey, man, you smoking weed? no! your mom said she meld weed. no! that's what i said. you know how your mom is. come on down, dinner's ready, let's go. ( laughter ) that's how trump is. he's about the mistakes of the future, not the past. >> the president says he's acting to prevent future election hacks tweeting he discussed with putin, "forming an impenetrable cyber security unit with the russians." >> trevor: you know what donald trump did here was basically like someone going, hey, guys, this is joey. joey stole my wallet and phone las

his father's campaign well it's apparently originated. from a crime prosecutor of russia also done job titles raised rolled in a few eyebrows in the media now speak us there's no such official position in russia as the country isn't a moment and there are other confusing aspects to the story to scale explains the story is like a rorschach test meaning that everyone sees a different picture and most of the media sees a picture of collusion and treason double trumps i think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin this is looking more and more like treason intent to collude with the russian government all these strange behavior from the president it's all explains now that's not how trump jr sees it he says that nothing of substance was discussed at the meeting which he described as a name nonsense it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. no i wouldn't even remember that until we start scouring through the stuff it was literally just a wasted twenty minutes which was a shame whatever the content was the characters involved with the meeting are

. >> 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

will be able to restore relations between the u.s. and russia and bring cooperation between our countries to a new level two different donald trump's you heard it right that's how the washing president puts it but mr putin met only one donald trump in that blue room on friday and as we found out from right still or should there was some positive chemistry between these two men there was so much to talk about all these issues. just about everything got touched on to one degree or another and i think there was just such a level of engagement and exchange neither one of them wanted to stop several times i had to remind the president people are sticking their heads in the door and i think even this in the first lady at one point to see if she could get us out of there and i didn't work either well if that blood man who spent more than two hours talking to a lot of more potent was the real donald trump then there is potential for the lot awaited political thaw says a lot of our approach going back to the many issues that the two presidents discussed of course they spent a while talki

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

there's this whole cloud of suspicion administration and russia. things that might otherwise be seen as innocent where the president might be given benefit of the doubt >> isn't there also concern from people that he did this meeting with no other u.s. official present and the only other person besides vladimir putin was vladimir putin's trans literary. nobody knows what really was said except for the translator. >> that's exactly right, shawn. it's a major issue because of the lack of trust. but also an issue because typically at these meetings, an official record will be produced. it's then sent around to the other agencies and other senior people in government who need to know what our president may or may not have agreed to and whether they need to take action on that. so the absence of that kind of official record is a troublesome thing on a number of levels? there was so much attention paid when we saw james comey testify. do you expect to see that intense focus across dc on capitol hill when we have manafort and donald trump junior testify >> certainly, i'm assuming they are test

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

companies that has pushed her russia trump collusion or conspiracy storyline since january. these have been built almost exclusively around anonymous sources who promise major scandal but continually failed to deliver. in some cases, the anonymous sources are not to be trusted in any way, shape, or form. such as those who are familiar with former fbi director comey's thinking. they told cnn journalist that comey would testify under oath that he never told donald trump he is not under investigation, much less three times. in fact, that is precisely what, testified under oath. a week or two after that story disaster, the cable outlet had to retract a story, publish an apology and three employees reside after yet another of these red scare stories based exclusively on anonymous sources turned out not to be true. the next week we saw that cnn chose to use his power and might to go after border borderline blackmail, guy who may have been fired or originally created a video idea that present donald trump tweeted out, that video was showing a fake donald trump fake beating up a guy with a cnn

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

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

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

p.d.s.a. and russia. any complaints we have a very solid alliance for russia in the oil and gas sector a corporation is evolving quickly it also includes russian investments in the arena kobolds or just rich in oil and gas during the second half of this year when i say stay company in russian oil and gas companies will sign a number of major deal is to increase the amount of gas mint. and the u.s. doesn't like this so they don't know must have seen all the russophobia unfortunately there is a mentality of patronage that is coming by and you know me among the people in washington who are calling the shots off i mean they can't stand it that russia a country with huge pounds is doing so well on this if they cannot allow president putin to become a leader of this new image one world out of the girls and that it's all there today we salute unprecedented in history and because these people are not like the only. reason they do not strive for global domination of leaders such as president putin and xi jinping following the path of incorporation the path of. the fergie has been spread