but donald trump himself, when he was campaigning for luther strange last friday, he is on the stage. strange is about 10 feet away. and he muses to the crowd, talking about endorsing strange, he said maybe i made a mistake here. and that became a last-minute ad that the moore campaign ran. i think a devastating one. because it sounded to trump s base potentially like trump was kind of winking at them and saying you know what, guy, i got to do this, but i really want you to be on the other side of this thing. there you go. ray moore, i think democrats are going the take a look at this race in december. that s the general election. and we ll see what happens. steve, what does this tell washington about the value of a donald trump endorsement? well, look, donald trump, what we learned from this is trying to sell in an establishment candidate. and i think that s what luther strange functioned as here in this republican primary. donald trump going in and trying to sell his base on the
meetings and all the things we knew about on how that campaign ran, how likely is it that don jr. would have said, hey, i ve got this meeting, guys, come to my office. i m not going to tell you what it is. middle of the campaign. it s not totally impossible. even if you accept their version of the events, the fact that they had this meeting and failed to disclose it is phenomenal. it s possible that such a thing could occur the way they describe it, but unlikely. extraordinarily unlikely. this is not how they did business. one of the keys to the story in the times is the line that three advisers to the white house were briefed on the meeting, indicated to the times that the meeting did occur. that would seem to indicate that they feel that donald trump jr. has placed his father in some position of peril. at least his father is going to protect him.
want to get further ahead than what the reporting is, be very clear about what we know, don t know. as far as we know, there was not. what we know is what is contained in this story and what we know is contained in this e-ma e-mail, but it does take it to a different level than what we knew it to be over the weekend. and since you said that, led to a face-to-face meeting with jared kushner, also with paul manafort. now we know donald trump jr. and this lawyer, you know, this russian lawyer, does this give you any sense of how this was received in trump world? we don t have a broader sense at the moment of, you know, whether there was some bigger takeaway. you know, the people around the president have and don jr. have said pretty emphatically that, you know, the president was not aware of this, that is actually entirely possible. given the way this campaign ran. you know, we only know what we
know and don t know. it could have suggested that. there may have been. as far as we re concerned there is not. what we know is what is contained in this story and e-mail. it does take it to a different level than what we knew it to be over the weekend. since you said that, the e-ma e-mail led to a face-to-face meeting with jared kushner, also paul manafort, donald trump jr. and this russian lawyer. does this give you any sense how this was received in trump world? we don t have a broader sense at the moment, you know, whether there was some bigger take away. you know, the people around the president have and donald jr. has said the president was not aware of this, so it s entirely possible given the way this campaign ran. we only know what we know which is there was this meeting, that
referendum this, vote we re talking about is going to go ahead. difficult for the greek prime minister to turn around and go guys, i m going to do a youu-turn, call it off. he s been pushing the no europe vote. can he turn around and go actually guy, i m going to vote yes? there s lots of unknowns at this stage. the point mentioned, a far bigger issue going on here the greek people. what we ve seen is huge atms full of people trying to get pension money out. there s a real concern people are going to run out of money, not be able to get money out by the end of the week. with all this going on greek people continue to suffer. we ll have to wait and see if this is a credible deal. the campaign ran on measures