know, scrutinizing this e-mail exchange, this meeting at trump tower, and this is all going to be part of that. >> sounds like they may want more records than don jr. released yesterday. >> that's right. >> thank you very much. joining me now, joaquin castro of texas, member of both the intelligence and foreign affairs committees. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, jim. >> congressman, president trump defended his son today by saying his lawyer wasn't working for this -- or this lawyer wasn't working for the russian government and that most people would have take than same meeting. what is your reaction to that? that seems to be the comment that made the most news today. what is your take on that? >> well on the one hand r hand, it's not a surprise a father is going to defend his son. here it happens to be the president of the united states, but substantively, i completely disagree with his comment. yes, opposition research is common in politics, but meeting with officials of a foreign government, specifically an official of a country that is an adversary of the united states is not standard practice at all. and if you look at that e-mail