A precursor to Fox Newss morning show, featuring the news and first looks at the other stories of the day. Nowhere, i did not know about it. The tweet contradicts statements made by the attorney who had this to say. I had Bad Information at that time. I made a mistake in the statement, i talked about that before, that happens when you have cases like this. I think its very important to point out that in a situation like this you have over time facts develop, thats what investigations do. Griff across the aisle democrats continue to accuse the president of collusion. As long as the russians interfered on Donald Trumps side, Vladimir Putin can count on the president never calling him out. Theres plenty of evidence of collusion and conspiracy in plain sight. The president is in bedminister in what the white house is calling working vacation, the negotiations continue, so this will, i guess, eventually give us an answer but it aint coming right now, rob,
jillian. Rob okay, griff, thank you
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Several other top campaign officials, and with russians who had ties to the kremlin. On sunday, this tweet describing in the clearest terms yet what this meeting was about. This was a meeting, the president tweeted, to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. Adding lastly, i did not know about it. Now remember, when the New York Times was first breaking news of this meeting, the president Helped Don Junior Draft a statement that claimed it was about adoption policy. After that was proven to be a lie, the president s story began evolving, to use a polite term. This is a year ago in paris. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. Ive had many people ive only been in politics for two years, but ive had many people call up, we have information on this factor or th
Tantrum. Hes contradicting his sons original story about the Trump Tower Meeting with russians saying the purpose was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Well, if trumps lied about the purpose of the meeting once it became public, and just over a year ago the president himself dictated the statement to his son saying we primarily discussed the program of adoption of russian children that was popular and active with American Families years ago. But emails from donald trump, jr. Show the premises of the meeting from the get go was to get dirt on clinton. Now, the president admits the meeting was for Opposition Research and admits its no big deal. Hes wrong. Its a violation of federal law. Dana bash reporting that trumps advisers want him to stop tweeting about the meeting. Lots to discuss now. Cnn contributor frank bruiny and Global Affairs analyst max booth, a senior fellow on the affairs of foreign relations. A recap of the days news. Took the stand today incriminating really his former bo
Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountant. Rick gates is the witness thats up next. Many of thes attorney said that in court. This all came about as one of manaforts attorneys sort of dropped a bombshell alleging that rick gates embezzleled millions of dollars from Paul Manafort. He asked the accountant would that have been something she would have looikd to have known. She said she would. He teed all of it up by making
it appear that rick gates was the main person he dealt with. And he tried to suggest through his questioning of her
Haystack. Did the issue of adoption, its near and dear to my heart because i have two adopt edisons. Did that come up . Yes. In the meeting . Like i said, it was the primary thing we had spoken about in the meeting. You know, thats not the premise that got them in the room, and then they started it was essentially a baitandswitch to talk about that, and everyone has basically said that in testimony already. So this is nothing new, but, you know, like i said, im now understanding it is an important issue to you and near and dear to many peoples hearts, but this was nothing that was a Campaign Issue to us. This wasnt relevant to us, and it wasnt something we were going to do anything with. Except thats not what the president said over the weekend. Trump jr. Was not pushed to explain the shifting explanations behind the story. Meanwhile, vanity fair has reporting on former Communications Director hope hicks reappearance at the president s side over the weekend, just hours before he tweete