recuse himself from the russian investigation. and now today, a new report that president trump is considering replacing jeff sessions with another familiar face from the campaign. former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani. this could turn out to be something serious or maybe the white house is simply floating the idea to see how the media and the public respond to the idea of an attorney general, rudy giuliani. we do not know you. these are all questions that will be likely asked of the new white house press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders when she meets with the press on air force one en route to west virginia today. that briefing will not be on camera. future briefings may be. the new communication instructor said on twitter, the tv cameras are back on. julie, read into that what you will. julie: he wants him back on camera. we will now have to wait as to when that will happen. it has been a few weeks since we
last thing before we go here tonight, every day this week we learn more about that meeting, trump tower, june 9, 2016. here is how the story progressed one day at a time. just for our recollection here, in donald trump jr. s first statement, we were made to believe the primary purpose of the meeting with the russian lawyer was about the adoption of russian children. on monday, we learned there was more. don junior enthusiastically took the meeting believing he would gain derogatory information about hillary clinton. on tuesday, don junior himself tweeted the e-mail chain that set up the meeting. the subject line, almost comically direct, russia, clinton, private and confidential. that s when we learned the wloel thing had been forwarded to paul manafort and jared kushner, who attended. on wednesday, the president left for paris. he also defended his son, tweeting, he was open, transparent, and innocent. this is the greatest witch hunt in political history. sad. on air force one en rout
that s when we learned the whole thing had been forwarded to paul manafort and jared kushner, who attended. on wednesday, the president left for paris. he also defended his son, tweeting, he was open, transparent, and innocent. this is the greatest witch hunt in political history. sad. on air force one en route, he calls his son a good boy. then yesterday the president continues to defend don junior saying in a press conference with the newly elected french president, who by the way is the same age as don junior, that most people would have taken that same meeting. and as we ve been reporting tonight, so much for transparency. we ve learned of the presence of a russian-american lobbyist in that same meeting, a man with prior ties to the soviet intelligence apparatus along with another russian who was there to translate. the question is who knows what we ll be covering by this time on monday night. but for now, that is our broadcast for tonight and for this week. thank you for being her
government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. minutes ago the president boarded air force one en route to france where he ll meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. the last time the president was on air force one was a few days ago. it was at the g-20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. during that trip the president was involved in producing the false statement given to the new york times about the previously held meeting last summer. a small cadre of president s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president s eldest son explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the russian government. ultimately, the times reports, the president himself signed off
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