Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. Im Jonathan Cape haurt in for joy reid. Rudy giuliani offering his convoluted take on the shifting explanations for why donald trump jr. Met with russians in 2016. In a letter sent to special Counsel Robert Mueller back in january, trumps attorneys for the first time admit that trump dictated a Statement Issued by his son to the New York Times about the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr. And russians offering to provide dirt on Hillary Clinton. Now the statement claimed that the meeting was about adoption issues. Trump atrneys john dowd and jay sekulow wrote in that january confidential letter that quote, the president dictated a short, but accurate response to the New York Timess article on behalf of his son donald trump jr. A sentence that directly contradicts sekulows own denials that trump had no part in the statement. I do want to be clear, the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not