collusion. if you look at the poor judgment that has been exposed here. if you look at who knew about the june 16th trump tower meeting, the individuals at the campaign were well aware of the direct contact with russians that they were trying to hack into our system of elections. all of these questions are indicative of poor junction. one way to sni about this is if we were a prosecutorial team, we would find murder or arson, but found a long trail of people writing bad checks and other trims, we would not say it was
and others have pointed out that donald trump did not use e-mail, and while robert mueller has a lot of e-mail, he does not have a e-mail with donald trump, but he was in high level meetings with donald trump and other senior campaign official, and we can presume that he will be asked about that and including the famous june 16th, trump tower meeting, and manafort came to the campaign with russian connections already, and we know that while he was part of the trump campaign, he was offering to brief a russian oligarch on the private inner workings of the trump campaign, and also, the uner dealings with paul manafort and so there is a lot for him to talk about and does he have evidence of the senior officials cooperating, that is are remaining to be seen. and julia ansley, we have the question of the paul manafort would potentially walk out of
last time talking to, to staff from the senate judiciary committee. all of those things on the topic list for today and i m told by one of the members involved in some questions there was questions about the broader trump family business interests in areas that that might intersect with russia and with russian money. again, the committee a few floors below me in a secure room still working through this process, will be interested to talk to these members when they come back up. garrett, keep on in touch with you on that. let us know if you get anything when they come out. garrick hake on capitol hill. talk more about that nbc exclusive on the trump tower meeting and donald trump jr. s request for dirt on the clinton foundation. nbc s ken delanian helped break the story and joins me. ken, this piles on top of the notion that most people have gleaned from the information leaked out of that meeting that the trump side of things, donald trump, jared kushner and paul manafort, took that
knowingly because they thought they might get stuff they could use against hillary clinton? right, ali. what the e-mail setting up the meeting was promising. it said this is a russian government lawyer coming to you with incriminating information about hillary clinton. that lawyer has told the senate judiciary committee in testimony we ve obtained that wasn t true. didn t have it. wasn t a russian lawyer and was one of the first things don junior asked her about. do you have information about illegal contributions to the clinton foundation? when she told them she doesn t, he apparently lost interest and the meeting faded. where does that leave people who are following this story? are we supposed to believe that the trump side was looking for dirt on hillary clinton and for whatever reason that s not true? that didn t, wasn t forth it coming? may not be true. growing indications getting from lawyers close to the case, this trump tower meeting may be exactly as described by the rus
that could potentially put republicans in a different position, ali. we ll stay on top of the story with you. kasie hunt, capitol hill. and up next, the president son goes to capitol hill again. new information emerges about his conversation with a russian lawyer at that june 16th trump tower meeting. what dirt he was hoping to get. your brain is an amazing thing. but as you get older, it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall.