Put what on the president . This idea that you just said the the New York Times is reporting that the president approved either wrote or approved the that is not an outlandish suggesting. I take the the New York Times reporting on its face and why wouldnt a father thats president of the United States want to have a say in what his son was putting out that involves him and his presidency. Seems like a legitimate thing thats why i asked. 39yearold son whose running the Trump Corporation and the trump organization, so he doesnt need to be looked over the shoulder by his father. Heres what i think we need to really focus on and obviously i appreciate you having me on. I need to be clear about three things here. Number one, the president was not aware of the meeting, did not attend the meeting and was only made aware of the emails very recently by counsel and not seen the emails. In fact, you know, i didnt see the email until yesterday and im one of the lawyers. So there you have it. Okay.
hostile actor that was cited by our intelligence community for trying to interfere in our election, yes, ukraine is not known for that. do you think the meeting that donald trump jr. took, do you think that the meeting he took was the violation of the law? i don t know. it s not for me to say. the standard is tight. treason say very tight statute. you know it s not statute. chris, you know this isn t treason. it s not my call. by the way, jay, like i feel about running down the road of hillary clinton every time something is brought up about the president, i feel the same way about legal arlts leave it to the special counsel. my concern in this situation is this, forget about donald junior, however, this is proof of an alleged russian agent trying to infiltrate the campaign to the disadvantage and potential. you think she is a russian
people in the trump campaign who were open to talking about russia and talking with russia and trying to get helpful information from moscow. we re out of time. do you have anything to add to that in just a few seconds? i would just say, if you look at the balance, the former president of the united states spoke with in serious terms to the american people, sanction the russians, expel diplomats and close facilities, also approached the russian president. president trump spoke evidently with the russian president. if you balance the two, i can t figure out how the white house said what they did was light. the white house has done nothing. panel, thank you very much. great to get all of your take. donald trump jr. says he considered the meeting opposition research. should he have seen it that way? should he have agreed to it knowing it was from russia? we discussed with campaign insiders next. wait till you hear what they have to say next.
to break from the president. look, i think for republicans in congress the entire experience with donald trump from the moment he came down the escalator has included being put in the defending things they never imagined they would have to defend from the access hollywood video to hiring the fbi director in the middle of an ongoing investigation to judge cure el, made other things and what the lesson that president trump is taking i think correctly is that while they may grumble in the end, very few of them ever truly tried to impose consequences. they tried to look the other way and tried to rally back to the areas of the agenda where they agree. and if this is, in fact, different for them, if firing mueller particularly now that there is reason for him genuine reason for him to be investigating the president s son, his campaign manager, his son-in-law, if that is truly different for them, they have to make that very clear. phil, you keep hearing, we keep hearing from all sorts of
e-mail chain where somebody in the campaign in this case the president s son knew the person walking through the door or thought the person walking through the door represented official government circles from a hostile power. all this the rest of this is who knew what when, did don junior think this was a good idea, 13 months ago, i don t think that s the story. you cannot walk into a meeting with someone you thinks a representative of a hostile foreign power and accept information about a rival political party in the united states. you can t do it. julia pays, how is the white house dealing with all of this? we know their public persona and a couple of tweets that the president has sent out and then we read reports of what s going on internally? in talking to white house officials yesterday and also trump allies outside the building, there is a shift in the way that they were discussing this matter with the don junior e-mails versus other revelations that have come out