Carried political and potentially legal peril. The strategy, the advisers agreed, should be for donald trump jr. To release a statement to get ahead of the story. They wanted to be truthful, so their account Couldnt Be Repudiated later if the full details emerged. But within hours, at the president s direction, the plan changed. Flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. Said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. When they met in june 2016, according to multiple people, with knowledge of the deliberations, the statement, issued to the New York Times, as it prepared a story, emphasized that the subject of the meeting was, quote, not a Campaign Issue at the time. The claims were later shown to be misleading. Further down in the washingtwa post story, quote, as special Counsel Robert Mueller investigates potential obstruction as part of his broader probe o
Anderson cooper is live in baltimore. Anderson today we saw troop transport trucks packed with National Guardsmen rolling into the city. Looks like one of them is behind you there in the city hall area. Whats the mood on the ground in baltimore right now . Reporter its without a doubt tense, as you would imagine. Its different in a lot of different communities. As you have said we have seen peaceful protests today, we have seen standoffs with the police. We have seen arrests in some cases. Were starting to see the Police Strategy now that we have more police from different areas as well as National Guard here in the city. Were seeing the evolutionary of tactics as you saw when you were on the ground in ferguson jake. The police maintaining their lines and identifying one or two individuals who they believe are causing trouble or throwing things at police. They will then move into the crowd, aggressively arrest that person and then go back to their lines. Weve seen that throughout the d
Bipartisan plan to rework it instead and donald trump. So theres a lot to get to in this hour. We begin with new news about one of the biggest stories about the trump russia investigation that concerns the meeting that donald trump jr. Had with russian nationals in trump tower during the campaign in june of 2016. That immediate meeting included Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner and multiple russians with ties to the kremlin. When that story broke on july 8th the report contained a email from donald trump jr. We discuss a program about the adoption of russian children that was ended by the russian government but it was not a Campaign Issue at the time and there was no follow up. We learned the meeting was more than an introduction and that trumps inner circle did not go to the meeting expecting to hear more about adoption. Donald trump jr. Showed the back and forth he had with the person who appears to have set the meetling up. Rob goldstone wrote that the russian prosecutor offered to pr
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