Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Campaign discussed Hillary Clinton but there was no meaningful information shared. A month later in Senate Testimony he says i did not tell my father about the Trump Tower Meeting. Then giuliani says today trump jr. Didnt participate in the meeting. Trump sr. , the candidate at the time. We werent alleging he was in that meeting so im puzzled by why he was going down that road. Is he saying that cohen says donald trump was in a meeting with the russians or is he just messing the spaghetti around the plate. Im not sure i heard cohen is saying that. As chris hayes posted on twitter, giuliani says donald trump did not participate in the russia transaction. Hayes says, who said anything about a transaction . Imagine a world in which a normal subject of a criminal investigation didnt talk about this at all and just went about
their business. We wouldnt be having any fun. But this meeting is consuming so much oxygen and
out of the oval office and presents things to the president and explains them to him when it s time to sign them, signing statements, executive orders, drafts of speeches and so forth. grassley is saying, we ll go for the first files, the lawyer files, but we re not interested in those files from 03 to 06. we re not going to ask the national archives to turn them over because we think that that person essentially is a traffic cop for other people s documents. it wouldn t illuminate their own thinking, that s the argument. democrats say, no, we need to see those, too. in part, because they say republicans are under selling the importance of those documents, especially when there is a dispute among the president s advisors. the staff secretary has to explain that to the president, say, your advisor a thinks this, advisor b thinks that. analyze it so the president understands what s happening before he signs something. those are the papers democrats want to see and the republicans are t