Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Don jr. And it goes on to say this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. It is done frequently in politics when everyone involved is an american citizen. It is much more treacherous if there are any foreign nationals who are part of a meeting like that because there are violations of the law if foreign nationals contribute anything of value to a campaign. Money, information, anything of value. So thats where it gets a bit tricky. Now, one of the issues, we know, is that donald trump jr. , through his testimony and the emails that he released, did acknowledge that it was a meeting to get information, dirt as it was described on Hillary Clinton. We also know that another attendee of that meeting, jared kushner, who is the president s soninlaw and senior
hodge podge of the record here may complicate this. it doesn t look good for sure, but the question sekulow and the legal team is asking is what specifically is a violation of law here? that s the part we don t know because the special counsel is not talking. they tend to do their work completely in secret and we don t know the results of what they ve done until they present it through an indictment if one ever comes in a case like this, as we ve seen in other figures who have been a part of the russia investigation. richard? nbc white house correspondent, great to have you to lay it all out for us there. kelly o donnell, thank you. let s go to manu puza, msnbc contributor. matt, in the last 12 hours, we were highlighting what might have been of interest, and that is the admit tatanceadmittance, that the president was of the understanding there was a meeting to get information on an opponent. kelly is giving me ptsd here,