carried political and potentially legal peril. the strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful, so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. when they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the new york times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a campaign issue at the time. the claims were later shown to be misleading. further down in the washingt wa post story, quote, as special counsel robert mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broader
presumption that general kelly was somehow better than what we ve seen in the white house already. he s had a terrible, very bad month, but then again, most of this administration has been a series of unfortunate and absolutely avoidable mistakes. i think the greatest problem that we saw with the attack on the member of congress is, this was not a tit for tat, this was not a back and forth. this was a member of congress expressing her concerns about how the president spoke to a constituent of hers who gave his life for this country, and she was attacked for that, and john kelly lied, and trump lied, and it perpetuated their tendency to attack black women, whether it s jemele hill, susan rice or ryan, and that reflects the administration. it s a terrible month, but it s a reflection of a terrible administration. i m not surprised to see this behavior continue. meanwhile, we have to get more details about what happened in niger, and we now that we have the congresswoman saying that t
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when a meeting of that nature, would it constitute a violation of the law? you have to look at what laws, rules, regulation statutes are violated here. when did you learn that the denial wasn t true? well, let me tell you two things on that. i was on the case a couple of weeks, and there was a lot of information gathering and as rudy giuliani said, i had bad information at that point. in a situation like this, you have over time, facts develop. that s what investigations do. let s start with nbc s white house correspondent, kelly o donnell who was covering the president in new jersey first. before we g to to to the rest o great panel this sunday. what are you hearing right now? the president is certainly going after the special counsel today, isn t he? reporter: well, good to be with you, richard, and the president is really hitting a number of his major frequent targets, the special c