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right. the bigger question is did anything come of this meeting? we have yet to see anything like that. angela, is that the question? did anything come of this meeting? i think the question is, why did he have this meeting? it s very clear from what s in the actual e-mails why he intended to have the meeting. the question goes to intent. and that is the importance for the senate investigating as well as the house committee investigating and, of course, the special prosecutor. i also would agree with jack, i worked on the homeland security committee. it absolutely is the physical safety of the president and those immediately around him. it was ridiculous for jay sekulow to bring up. that s not the first ridiculous thing he said. congressman, what about intent? angela rye brought up the issue of intent. don junior went into that meeting after he was told that the people he would be meeting with had information from the russian government that would be harmful to hillary cli
jack kingston. i want to start with you and play some sound from the president s private attorney this weekend, jay sekulow, saying, look, if the meeting don junior had was so bad, why didn t the secret service step in? listen. i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these people in? the president had secret service people at this point. that s what he wonders. i wonder why he s bringing up the secret service when they say it wasn t their job to protect don junior at the time they put out a statement, which is unusual. don junior was not a protectee of the secret service therefore we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. did the president s lawyer do a disservice as making the statement that he did? there s been some question about where was the secret service. by whom? i actually i ve heard some
government effort. he wrote most politicians would have gone to a meeting like don jr. did. that s politics. is it? we have the congressional reporter from the washington post and correspondent for the washington examiner and susan paige for usa today. thank you all for being here. i wasn t going to start the panel like this but now i am because of what the president wrote. looking at the abc news/ washington post poll that came out, 68% think russia tried to influence the elections. the president says it was appropriate and any politician would have done it. well, any politician wouldn t have done it. most professionals that i have covered over the years said they wouldn t have taken the meeting, they would have called the fbi and put them on alert. what s interesting about the tweet, the president defending
there is nothing that rises to the level of it s vet same thing. if you broke the law, you broke the law. absolutely. and if, indeed, that is the case on the ukrainian side i will stand with you and say no one should be receiving information to overthrow or to thwart election results. absolutely. right now we re talking about your president. that s the problem. two things from one of your last answers i want to get more information on right now. you said that critics are pointing to the willingness of don junior to have this meeting, to get information from the russian government as being problematic. you re not a critic of don junior, a support of the trump campaign, trump administration. have you no problem with don junior going in under the promise of russian government information to hurt hillary clinton? you have no problem with that? i think it was naive. i think what he s saying is okay but i would have had a huge problem if they would would have had some big