by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children, a program that was active and popular with families years ago and was since ended by the government but it wasn t a campaign issue, and there was no followup. that statement was not true. that was not a true statement about what happened at that meeting or how it came about. but the president himself reportedly supervised the creation of that statement and that is what was september out sent out to the new york times to try to make this story go away. here s important part. the next morning there was reportedly a conference call, this is what was first reported by the new york times a month ago today. on that conference call are mark carallo and the president and hope hicks. what transpired on the call is a matter of dispute. in mr. corralo s report, he told
resign. if all the people who he confided in can back him up, that incident with that statement about trump tower, that ended up being really important for a couple of reasons. first of all, s the plot and press drama that derived from this incident. it was a matter of like a day before donald trump jr. s e-mails setting up that meeting in order to get dirt on hillary clinton, it was only a matter of a day before those e-mails in fact came out, revealing that the president s dumb adoption statement was an overt lie. so obviously, that s in the media, that whole story. but more importantly, there is a very serious legal problem here. the president is widely believed to be the subject of a special
meeting and discussed what was in that meeting and one of the people who went to that meeting, what did they think was going to be discussed there? the times reporter submitted a list of 14 questions about the meeting to the white house and the lawyers of the trump campaign aides who attended that meeting. that list of questions was reportedly received mid flight on air force one at president and his staff were flying home from a trip to europe. president trump s aides received the questions on the way back from the summit meeting and began writing a response. in the front cabin, president trump huddled with hope hicks. she was sending frequent texts to donald trump jr. who was in new york. a lawyer for donald trump jr. was also messaging with white house advisers aboard the plain. plane. the president himself supervised the writing of the statement, according to three people familiar with the episode. a fierce debate erupted over how much information should be included. the presid
president trump and hope hicks that the statement they drafted aboard air force one would backfire, because it would show that that meeting was set up not to talk about adoption policy but for the explicit purpose of the trump campaign getting political dirt on hillary clinton. hope hicks responded that the e-mails setting up the trump tower meeting for that purpose will quote never get out. those e-mails will never get out. because only a few people have access to them. mark corralo was alarmed that she had made this comment about the e-mails never getting out in front of the president, without a lawyer on the phone, which means that conversation could never be protected by attorney-compliaattorney attorney-client privilege, and that is what led mark corallo to
and press drama that derived from this incident. it was a matter of like a day before donald trump jr. s e-mails setting up that meeting in order to get dirt on hillary clinton, it was only a matter of a day before those e-mails in fact came out, revealing that the president s dumb adoption statement was an overt lie. so obviously, that s in the media, that whole story. but more importantly, there is a very serious legal problem here. the president is widely believed to be the subject of a special counsel investigation into whether or not he has obstructed justice by trying to impede or block or pervert the russia investigation through various means. at the time that that air force one discussion happened last july where they re trying to cook up an explanation for the trump tower meeting and the president and everybody were well aware that the russian interference was being investigated, they knew this was a matter under investigation when they were trying to come up with an explanati