and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump jr. reporter: the statement was drafted aboard air force i on july 8 as the president flew back frto washington from the g summit in germany. his statement was like this. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow up. it became clear when donald trump jr. showed e-mails that said it was about russian government support for mr. trump. he replied, if it s what you say, i love it. tonight it s a waiting case of conflicting schedules as the white house tries to move beyond the cloud of the russian investigation. but president trump is put back on defense. the statement was true and there were no inaccuracies in the statement. i think what the biggest question is, everybody wants to try to make this story about