Campaign issues. This is according to the story in the Washington Post from last night. We know that later on that came to not be true, this meeting was more about that donald trump jr. Was under the impression that he was meeting with a russian government attorney who had incriminating information about hillary clinton. The subject line of the emails was literally russia, clinton, private and confidential. We later found out that was not true. The trump lawyer, jay sekulow is saying this revelation as the president personally dictated this statement is not relevant. Lets put his statement on the screen saying, apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate and not pertinent. This is the lawyer that went on Television Two times after this came out to strongly deny the president had any role in drafting this donald jr. Statement. All right. I think we have one question we want to get to you about general john kelly and his role inside the white hou
Discovered. The Washington Post is reporting President Trump dictated the misleading statement about the purpose for the meeting, even though the president s attorney made very clear before that that the president played no role in crafting the response. Dont forget, folks, first the line from don trump, donald trump jr. , the meeting was about russian adoptions and sanctions. Then he released emails revealing the motive was to get dirt from the russian government on hillary clinton. The post now reports the president s advisers wants don jr. To admit the true motive from the start for the sake of transparency, but the president overruled them all. We are at the white house with more on this. What is is there a white house response to this right now . We do not have a statement from the white house on this right now. Since the post report came out, they have only referred us to outside council on this matter. Look at what the white house said about the crafting of the statement so far.
To wake them back up again and thats the report from the 20some people who got a hold of us, and we have a problem and this doctor has a problem with handing out prescriptions and they call him the candy man. Kaitlan, what are you hearing from the white house today . Reporter the white house is pushing back against that line there specifically saying it is unfair. We just heard from the White House Legislative Affairs director who is gaggling with reporters on the north lawn and he was asked about that name specifically from senator tester and heres what he had to say about that. It was absolutely to drop that line. I think there have been multiple, every year they come in and they do a review of the White House Physicians Office on prescriptions and every year they said hes totally in compliance with what hes been prescribing. The white house is rallying behind dr. Ronny jackson as you saw there from one official and citing president Barack Obamas words yesterday, sending that out to
Lets go to cnns Shimon Prokupecz live in washington. The notion of a subpoena the notion of a subpoena floated in a meeting between the investigators and the president s lawyers. Thats right, john. This meeting was about whether or not the special counsel would get an opportunity to question the president , his investigators and the fbi agents want to question the president. That is very apparent in all of our reporting and the idea of a subpoena certainly as you guys have been saying all morning would definitely escalate things here, and it would lead to a big legal showdown, all of the way up to the Supreme Court. The president s attorneys really do believe that they have a shot at preventing this. The president seemingly thinks that he does not have to sit down with the special counsel and it appears based on all of our reporting that he is less likely, at least at this point, to voluntarily submit to questions. The idea of a subpoena would certainly, certainly escalate. He would, p
President issues an interview, it could be before the grand jury and minutes ago, another attack by the president on the Justice Department. Then theres the question, what is the president going to do about his doctor. The president s physician of 35 years, the apparent author of the infamous clean bill of health that trump received during the campaign now says he didnt write that at all and accuses the white house of raiding his office. Plus then theres the question of what the president is going to do about the iran deal. Any moment, President Trump will be at the state department for the very first time and to swear in his new secretary of state mike pompeo, the president s remarks will be parsed here for any clues of whether hes in or out. Lets begin with the state department. Michelle kosinski is joining us now. Mike pompeo has said that he promises to bring the swagger back to the state department. What does that look like . This is a mega swearing in with President Trump on his