and it came out and that altered my priors about what i m expecting to come out. but you add to that e-mail exactly the explanation that donald trump wrote for his son, which is so antiseptic they lied. they lied and they put in a statement by kushner, which also dovetails with junior s statement. it s like classic investigation. you get two guys who come in, they give you a totally nonsense story. and then you ve got the opportunity to chip away at it. right. i think there is this psychological issue, though, for a lot of regular americans, and those of us political junkies who are watching this and watching these headlines and being surprised, oh, my god, did we get him? is that it? that s it? right? we now know this happened? which is, is there going to be a point where anybody can say, okay, now a mechanism is going to kick into place. and that s a question, with i don t know, did people ask that throughout watergate and suddenly there was a mechanism whereby this kicks
somebody was representing them in this meeting. rob goldstone, publicist for the son. sewed agalarov family is a family that i m sure that the special council as well as the congressional committees are going to be looking to, particularly given don junior s e-mail in which rob goldstone said, you know, we have the stuff to deliver the connection, and between hillary clinton and russia and we re going to give that to you and don junior, of course, responded, love it. i think this is just another link in the chain here to this family, and this family between to the trump family. how do you see the late developments? we re learning a lot more about a meeting that initially was supposed to be about adoptions and all of a sudden it s a lot more than that. and was dismissed as a 20-minute nothing burger. my words, not don junior s. essentially, nothing happened. i agree with everything gloria
campaign to ask what that is. that s what simply he did. the president has made it clear through his tweet, and there was nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for a discussion about adoption and the magnitsky act. but i would refer you back to counsel on that one. all right. so that s what you were talking about, hans. interesting about how that always ends, i will refer you back to counsel on that, the president s coins or done junior s counsel. and that s sort of are become a bit of a pattern for both the on and off camera breefgds when reporters ask a great deal with the russia probe. that has got to be difficult for either the president s personal lawyers or done junior s or jared kushner s because the president continues to tweet things and then the white house refuses to go any further with many of these issues. and ali, spicer suggested there that he didn t know for certain that ty cobb did not review president s tweet th
that s my fate. this. welcome back to the 11th hour . scandals, controversies bombshell headlines. this white house has faced its share of challenges. none of it seems to put a dent in the president s support among republicans. latest quinnipiac university poll shows 84% of republicans approving the job the president is doing. 12% disapproval. let s talk about this had. with us to talk about how this russia scandal is resonating in the heartland, we have a trio of pulitzer prize winners with us tonight. washington post columnist eugene robinson whose latest column is headlines donned junior s meeting is a legal game-changer. presidential historian, author of jefferson jackson fdr church il and most recently bush 41. jon meacham. we continue to welcome to the broadcast connie schultz, nationally syndicated columnist who joins us from her hometown of cleveland, ohio.
eugene robinson whose latest column is headlines donned junior s meeting is a legal game-changer. presidential historian, author of jefferson jackson fdr church il and most recently bush 41. jon meacham. we continue to welcome to the broadcast connie schultz, nationally syndicated columnist who joins us from her hometown of cleveland, ohio. normally they don t let pleat pulitzer winners appear together. because they re geographically separated they allowed it just this once. connie, you get to start off in a state with interesting politics and interesting republican governor, a no show at the gop convention that cleveland hosted, a never trumper who is pushing his own agenda and very involved in health care. how deep, how resilient as you see it is the trump base in ohio? well, it depends on in my experience, my recent experience it depends how to talk to trump