Was actually dictated by President Trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. With no mention of dirt on Hillary Clinton. It wasnt until the New York Times was going to break the story that trump junior was promised damaging information on clinton back in july of last year. That was the New York Times reporting. At the time, trump junior and the trump team started changing their tune, saying the promise of damaging information turned into mainly an adoption conversation. They get into the meeting, and it quickly turns a pretext for Russian Adoption, according to his statement. The comments are about any type of information on Hillary Clinton were vague, meaningless. As you can see from the emails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. There was some small talk. I dont even remember what it was. It was sort of nonsensical. Then it quickly went on to, you know, a story about Russian Adoption and how we could po
was actually dictated by president trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. with no mention of dirt on hillary clinton. it wasn t until the new york times was going to break the story that trump junior was promised damaging information on clinton back in july of last year. that was the new york times reporting. at the time, trump junior and the trump team started changing their tune, saying the promise of damaging information turned into mainly an adoption conversation. they get into the meeting, and it quickly turns a pretext for russian adoption, according to his statement. the comments are about any type of information on hillary clinton were vague, meaningless. as you can see from the e-mails, the pretext of the meeting was, hey, we have information. there was some small talk. i don t even remember what it was. it was sort of nonsensical.
adoption conversation, remember, had a lot to do with the sanctions themselves. so that might be a little bit of an out for trump, that in fact discussing the adoption issue was in fact talking about sanctions, because remember, putin s government put a ban on american adoptions of russian kids as a way to get the sanctions lifted. so the two things are a little bit related. the stuff with kislyak was just a lot of that stuff was reported in realtime, by the way, not by the american press. we were not allowed in the room. there was not an american photographer in the room, but by the russian press. right. so i think all all of those things add up. but chris, in terms of the obstruction of justice question, you know, it s funny. we re talking about subpoenas and we re talking about mueller. for me thus far the most compelling data point was his on the record conversation with lester holt in which he essentially blew up his own cover story about comey and hillary clinton and said