Besides jnt jrdonald trump jr. Soninlaw Jared Kushner also attended that meeting held over at trump tower in new york city on june 9th of last year. First reported by the netanyahu. T New York Times. And damaging information about Hillary Clinton before the meeting. And bring in cnns jeff zeleny. Were learning more about the setup to the meeting. Reporter wolf, were learning who set up the meeting, scheduled this meeting, an entertainment executive by the name of Rob Goldstone who set up this meeting to happen last june, a year ago in june at trump tower in new york city. Now, Rob Goldstone is someone who was working on the Miss Universe pageant, familiar with the trump family and donald trump jr. Indeed. He arranged to set up a meeting he tells in a statement to cnn confirming the report this morning in the New York Times as well as the Washington Post that he facilitated the meeting between the president s oldest son and this russian lawyer about some type of knelltive informati nega
A discovery. This is earth shaking. Its far bigger than watergate. More troubling than the underlying crime in watergate. Whats the classic phrase . Fire in the hole. Fire in the hole we had no real idea what we would find inside. As it turns out, we havent found very much. I actually dont think it has any impact on the russia probe. This memo has frankly nothing at all to do with the special counsel. It seems, at least up to now, that weve struck out with the vault. Im disappointed about that, as im sure you are. Wow. Is the new republic put it, quote, it would be easy to compare nunes memo to opening al capones vault. Lets talk about that first of all. Poor geraldo. Youve got to have like Great Respect for a guy that would do that. I mean, on national television. Fire in the hole. Geraldo goes there, you know what i mean . Thats what we tell our kids to do, take a chance. Step out. Go big or go home. No. How often . Go big or go home. Just looking back at that footage, geraldo went f
Judiciary member, congressman ted liu. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to every an perez and murray. What are you learning . This came between discussions of rick yates and Robert Mueller. This is months before rick gates pleaded guilty to charges in the special counsels investigation. According to sources who talked to the court writer, mueller told gates that he had plenty of evidence against Paul Manafort, the former Campaign Chairman of the Trump Campaign, as well as gates former Business Partner. He said he had plenty of evidence against manafort. What he needed gates help with was the core mission of the special counsel which is the ties between the Trump Campaign alleged ties between the Trump Campaign and the russians. What this means is that the special counsel is looking specifically at making the case of russian collusion, that it has not gone away, despite what you hear from President Trump and from his allies. From republican members of the house i
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Also tonight less than a week after trumps new ag was confirmed reports that muellers investigation could be coming to an end next week. Wow . Exclusive reaction there. Plus what do john wayne and barack obama have in common . Theyre both part of a cant miss seen and unseen with Raymond Arroyo. But we begin with a breaking news alert out of chicago. The cook county states attorney has just filed a felony charge against smollett with felony Disorderly Conduct for filing a false police report. Mike tobin with all the details you stole a little bit of my lead p Jussie Smollett star, singing and suspect charged with Disorderly Conduct, a felony in this case. Weve got a release from his legal team reading as follows the osundairo brothers once considered potential suspects testified for two andahalf hours before a grand jury today. Their Attorney Says they were paid in the alleged hoax but the payment doesnt fit the narrative that we know. She says the brothers are speaking to investigators