mode, and the president and his advisers huddling on air force one to craft some sort of explanation. what emergedu'll remember, was a statement purportedly from don jr. saying the meeting had been primarily about russian adoptions and making no mention the real al of tting dirt on hillary clinton. trump's lawyer insisted that don jr. on his own had written that sleading statement. the white house later said dad might have helped out, tt the ent was largely don jr.'s work. >> i do want to be clear the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump jr. >> the president weighed in, as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. he certainly didn't dictate, but, you knoe -- like i said, he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do. >> like any father would do in a wildly incriminating e-mail surfaces about his son's activity. even don jr. himself tried to cover for his dad, telling congress, and that is under oath, i will note, that he did