project they were working lockstep. as far as i could tell, he was the die in the cords of power so it completely makes sense that he would have been at that meeting. reporter: dana rohrbacker you re trying to make it look like only the two of them, come on. reporter: he tells cnn in may he s someone with an ulterior motive. involved with people who have an agenda. alex marquardt, cnn, new york. and all of this political drama in the u.s. was taking place while donald trump was actually far from home. just a week after the g20 summit in germany, the u.s. president was back in europe this time as the guest of honor at bastille day here in paris. mr. trump and the first lady were invited by president
know, russian intelligence, right now, feels like a built of a stretch. because after all, he was a soldier in afghanistan, you know, it could be that he s an undercover agent, who the hell knows but this is something that robert mueller, the special investigator will be looking into. and the senate and house will be looking into. it smells really bad. and as usual, it may have been that the meeting was not very important. but it s the effort to lie and lie and cover up about who was there, what was discussed, why it happened that caused the damage. it s the self-created drip, drip, drip that s so harmful. steven, journalist to journalist, i want to raise the issue of transappearance. donald trump jr. has been praised by some for being transparent as been described for putting out this e-mail
mind-set of the society. of course, there s a kind of chemistry. they want to get some results. and they re logical. they want to have some deals both in a different way. i think it s good the visit by president trump here good because international contacts good for for president macron. and with prime minister may, a problem with brexit, there are not european leaders that can engage with the u.s. president. and i think on the topics, he may get results. in a way, isn t it easier for the european leaders to deal with donald trump as opposed to barack obama. because barack obama was revered here with people in germany and france. it was very difficult for a western europe lien leader, french president, german chancellor to say no to anything that barack obama proposed.
fuming that kushner was given security clearance at all. anybody else applying for clearance with these facts would be denied that clearance. thank you for that report. still ahead now, two world leaders are far apart in age and politics, but they form a strong bond in a short time. we take a closer look at the budding friendship of emmanuel macron and donald trump. hey you ve gotta see this. c mon.
for two days, that controversial meeting between his eldest son and a russian lawyer has taken an unexpected turn. cnn has now learned there were others in the room besides those previously reported. some of their identities remain a mystery. donald trump jr. helped coordinate the meeting with e-mail with expectation that the trump campaign might get damaging information on hillary clinton. a former trump adviser is also talking to u.s. lawmakers. michael caputo testified before the house intelligence committee in a closed-door session on friday. as part of multiple investigations into alleged russian meddling into last year s election. following his testimony, caputo told reporters he never once hurts anyone discuss russia during the campaign. listen. i had no contact with russians. and i never heard of anyone in the trump campaign talking with russians. and i never was asked questions about my time in russia. and i never even spoke to anyone