A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Later we learned exactly the opposite. President trumps legal team wrote in a memo to the special Counsel Robert Mueller and i quote have you received all the notes, communications and testimony indicating that the president dictate add short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son donald trump jr. He dictated it sanders did not answer questions about how that could be that districted her original statement, which it did. Instead she referred reporters to outside counsel. President trumps admission on twitter comes as legal team and special Counsel Robert Mueller negotiate the terms of a possible sitdown between mueller and President Trump our chief house correspondent john roberts is live this afternoon on the north lawn. Hi, john. Good afternoon to you. The president and white house staff keeps saying they like this Mueller Investigation to wrap up as quickly as possible preside
the new york times ran an article detailing that in june of 2016 donald trump jr. had met with the people that you talked about very first statement we got on that july the 8th said quote it was a short introductory meeting i asked jared and paul to stop by. we primarily program russian children active and popular with american families. then as the time line moves along the next day the explanation shifted a bit. after pleasantries were exchanged. the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were funding the democratic national committee and supporting ms. clinton. her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. then two days later, another evolution the information they suggested they had about hillary clinton, i thought, was political opposition research. as you pointed out in that press conference with emmanuel macron in early july, the president acknowledge dollars that the meetined that themeeting was abn research. most politicians woul