Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. 2017, quote, the president was not involved and did not issue the statement. In june of this year, trumps lawyers conceded to muellers team and dictated a short but accurate response. Now to our panel, aaron blake, a Criminal Defense Attorney and danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. I want to read a little bit more of what don jr. Said. It is sort of the cycle media narrative. The other stuff is not stick sog they are back and tomorrow theyll be back on the 25th amendment. Nothings changed and it is ridiculous. They dont talk about this and half of congresses on both sides and i mean basically, she did not do that to us. She didnt tell us that was going on. There is really nothing beyond that. Aaron, nothing is beyond that and factcheck that for us. The idea that the russian lawyer who was tied to the creme len who was presenting the information to the Trump Campaign is doing this all the time is going at the capi
of state to bill clinton. in other words, no records, no evidence. is there a widespread belief that president trump is being manipulated by president putin? certainly a number of critics and members of the media believe that president trump is being manipulate by putin. a lot of his actual policy and implementations with respect to imposing sanctions on russia, albeit hesitantly, initially, but imposing sanctions nonetheless on russia seem to be at odds with this idea that trump is, quote/unquote, a agent of the russian government, an agent of the creme len. ridiculous to think a sitting president of the united states is doing russia s bidding and we are still having these discussions about it. i haven t seen any evidence, at this moment, to convince me that president trump is working on
there is really nothing beyond that. aaron, nothing is beyond that and fact-check that for us. the idea that the russian lawyer who was tied to the creme len who was presenting the information to the trump campaign is doing this all the time is going at the capital hill, yes, she has lobbied on capitol hill before. that s not the same as somebody giving them a campaign contribution and offering them information from the campaign. tl there is a fine line when it comes to electing people in the united states, you can t accept or allow help from a foreign country. the other is the idea that this is the kind of thing that s done all the time in politics. this is just opposition research. you can certainly get opposition research from a lot of different sources and campaign money from a lot of different sources. other party in that transaction is somebody working for a