it s one of the most enduring mysteries of this episode, is did donald trump know about it. he has said over and over again that he did not know that this took place. and donald trump jr. has said the same, including essentially under oath to congress. an e-mail exchange in which donald trump jr. infamously responded, if it s what you say, i love it. the question has always been, did candidate donald trump know about that meeting before it happened? it s hard for me to believe that donald trump jr., in that seven o clock, would not communicate with his father and say, dad, look what i got. so the mueller team appears to be looking at this in terms of attempted collusion. why did they agree to accept the meeting, what was the state of mind of the trump team, and they re also looking at it through the lens of obstructed justice. if the president had a hand, and it appears he did n, in drafting a false statement as to
to be a russians asset. that s all it could be. maya? building on also joyce and barbara s really important points about the financial implications of campaign finance crimes is exactly going back to this point that malcolm is making because the what is clear from the filings is the interrelationship between, if you take the fact that michael cohen is actively trying to create the trump tower deal. phillip seder, one reason he did not follow that deal is because he already had one. it s not because he had a problem with a synergy of a political operative from russia offering to make a deal, it s because he had he had the e-mail exchange in the spring of
good to see you. good to see you, chris. why is it okay for the president to say, if you shut your mouth, you re strong? well, that s not what roger said he was going to do. he said he was not going to lie. he said he wasn t going to bear false witness against the president well, who s asking him to? well, i believe that we re looking at jerry corsi saying that they were asking him to do that. i think people who see what s going on with manafort now, paul manafort. we re going to find out soon but you know jerry corsi, looking through the pleadings, corsi lied to them. it s in there. he ll say, well, i thought right, but jerry corsi doing the best at the time. that s on him. i don t know how you cannot remember what he didn t remember. i m not here to defend jerry corsi. i know that jerry corsi says he didn t recall an e-mail exchange yeah, guy asked you to go to julian assange, you pass it on and you forget? something that s at the center of this?
welcome back to prime time. good to see you. good to see you, chris. why is it okay for the president to say, if you shut your mouth, you re strong? well, that s not what roger said he was going to do. he said he was not going to lie. he said he wasn t going to bear false witness against the president well, who s asking him to? well, i believe that we re looking at jerry corsi saying that they were asking him to do that. i think people who see what s going on with manafort now, paul manafort. we re going to find out soon but you know jerry corsi, looking through the pleadings, corsi lied to them. it s in there. he ll say, well, i thought right, but jerry corsi doing the best at the time. that s on him. i don t know how you cannot remember what he didn t remember. i m not here to defend jerry corsi. i know that jerry corsi says he didn t recall an e-mail exchange yeah, guy asked you to go to julian assange, you pass it on and you forget? something that s
federal prosecutor, joyce vance. what does it mean? when there s smoke, there s not necessarily fire. here there are flames licking at donald trump s feet, he needs to start jumping. those flames are clear. this is the first time we have publicly a publicly a direct link between donald trump and motive for conspiracy for fraud against the united states, it looks like it is there, goes into june 2016, and clear knowledge, direct involvement of donald trump in trying to organize the business transaction. remember and backtrack, felix sodder, who michael cohen had an e-mail exchange with spring of 2016 saying we can get this meeting and we can engineer our guy getting elected. when you put all of that