The lawyer for donald trump jr. Says this is much ado about nothing. Several key officials will speak to them in the coming days. I want to begin with Jason Carroll at the white house. No denial this email exists. Reporter no denial and no sign the stories are going away. Senator john mccain, john, weighing in on this this morning calling the report very serious, saying its just another shoe thats dropping in the controversy. This white house, this administration, very frustrated that once again, theres another russia story dominating the news. The administration, for its part saying theres no there there with this story, no evidence of collusion, they say. The Deputy Press Secretary saying yesterday, basically the only thing that was inappropriate about that meeting last june, june of 2016, was the fact that someone leaked information about it. Lets talk more about that meeting, once again, happened last june at trump tower with trump jr. Also in attendance, paul manafort, the preside
And now since the shut down we have not yet heard directly from the president. However the white house did release this statement. Kicking off the blame game. Ill read it here. It says Senate Democrats own the assum schumer shut down. They put politics before national sdurt. Military family, Vulnerable Children. We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. This marks the first shut down in history where one party holds the white house, the house and senate. After the vote was final, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer took to the floor. What we have just witnessed on the floor was a cynical decision by Senate Democrats to shove aside millions of americans for the sake of irresponsible political games. The government shut down was 100 avoidable. Completely avoidable. Now it is imminent. All because Senate Democrats chose to filibuster a noncontroversial funding bill that contain
The summit. How this could change the president s approach to that meeting. Also the fallout from the presidency marks the nato summit and whether this could be part of a delivery strategy. And what the president got wrong during his visit with the queen of england. But new reaction since the first time of the announcement, the stories you heard about the russians yesterday, why didnt they do something about it especially when it was reported that president obama was informed by the fbi in september before the election. We are also getting new reaction from roger stone saying he could very well be the unnamed person in the indictment. Heres what stone said about his twitter ex chaeng. Any objective person who will read that exchange will see that based on content, context and timing, its benign. Its innocuous. So i think i probably am the person referred to. The reason im not charging this indictment is because i zefzedding from from the defendants i passed nothing on from the deaths a
Louder and were also learning tonight from the wall street journal that the fbi is investigating the Controversial Company where whitaker was an Advisory Board member. Given all that, what does the president say about whitaker . Well, listen. Well, Matt Whitaker, i dont know Matt Whitaker. Matt whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions. I didnt know Matt Whitaker. He worked for attorney general sessions. I didnt speak to Matt Whitaker about it. I dont know Matt Whitaker. Now, in all fairness to Matt Whitaker, who, again, i didnt know, Matt Whitaker is a highly respected man but i didnt know Matt Whitaker. Do you get the sense he doesnt know the guy or at least he doesnt want to . Theres only a slight problem there. He does know Matt Whitaker. He said so himself just last month. I can tell you, Matt Whitakers a great guy. I mean, i know Matt Whitaker. So now that that is settled, theres also this. Cnn and the New York Times reporting that whitaker has served as the president s ears and eyes, ey
Besos in writing . I have the letter. Ill read it for you. Friday adjacent. What do you say . Lets get after it. All right. So this comes directly from the office of the special counsel. They say that Paul Manaforts 2016 meeting while he was Campaign Chair with an alleged russian operative named constantine kilimnik. They say its not a throw away. Its not a detail. Its at the heart of their investigation. And there is new evidence emerging tonight. Muellers team says it has proof that the president s former chair continued doing work related to ukraine in 2018 after he was indicted. Think about that. He continued to keep in touch with kilimnik and discuss ukrainian politics through last year. Ukrainian politics means russian politics because that was the context of the discussion. How to do things through ukraine that would be good for russia. Where does this come from . A transcript of a closed door hearing on monday. The big question, did the president know about the manafort meeting