allowing this to happen? congress was much more responsible during the nixon years but it was a democratically controlled congress but not totally in the sense that southern democrats were conservatives and not unsympathetic with the nixon white house. what happened is the president wasn t ready for the job. he is not still ready for the job. he s remarkably put together a staff that is not as strong as it should be. he s got some good people but that place isn t running the way it it s understaffed still. it is just not running the way it can and should. you heard me float my half-baked idea to david chalian in the last segment that this can t be the author of this op-ed s end game. that this has to be one step of it that they would i would assume the author has thought out more than one step as a whistle-blower. do you think the author of this
when the new york times broke the story last year about the secret meeting, don jr. didn t initially disclose the intended purpose of the meeting. instead he said the purpose was to discuss the adoption of russian children. but the very next day when the times broke the news that the president s son was promised damaging information about hillary clinton, don jr. issued a statement saying the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to russia were supporting mrs. l clinton. he also said the lawyer changed the subject to adoption. two days after the story broke, white house press secretary sarah sanders denied the president had any prior knowledge of the meeting. when did the president learn that meeting had taken place? i believe in the last couple of days is my understanding. reporter: the next day on fox new, don jr. said his father was unaware of the meeting. did you tell your father anything about this?
it that president trump so fiercely has said that he was not aware of that meeting until long after the fact and that he wasn t that he certainly didn t sanction it going forward, why has he held to that line, why is he trying to cover up. and it obviously raises a very serious question about collusion. but i think the other perhaps even more significant question surrounding this is the one of politics. we re heading up to a midterm election and there is a question of at what point will or whether it will ever really shift how trump s base feel about this, how republicans more broadly feel about the president. at the moment, the investigation and much that surrounds it is being seen outside of washington as something that is a distraction, that is taking up too much energy and too much time. we aren t seeing a lot of attitudes shift amongst the public with respect to whether they do or don t support the president, at least not advisably. if this comes out, it might
no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never heard about it. i wouldn t even have remembered it. it was a wasted 20 minutes, which is a shame. this meeting took place almost two years ago. it is easy to forget how the whole story unfolded and also how the trump camp has repeatedly changed its story about what happened that day. for more, here is our randi kaye. reporter: on june 3, 2016, in an e-mail from publicist rob goldstone, donald trump jr. is promised incriminating information about hillary clinton. his response, if it is what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. six days later, don junior met with the russian lawyer at trump tower. joining him, paul manafort and his son-in-law jared kushner.
republicans only 51 votes in the senate and a number of moderates who perhaps don t support the president s current legislation lose two votes in the senate and i don t tell i don t know that they have unified support. i think it s an opportunity for the president to get meaningful border security and border immigration progress made here. but is he using children and using the separation as a means of doing it? it s not just about the children. there are many other components of why we need to fix immigration system and it s disgusting. the democrats are stonewalling and using the children and saying we are not going to be no. this is no, we are not going to vote for this immigration practice because it has wall funding. why don t you compromise? 25 billion dollars for wall funding at this time? let me let me ask you a question about the influence on president trump. the steven miller. in the new york times is quoted.